Archive for August, 2005

29
Aug
2005

Is Google Search getting even better?

Google introduces new services weekly these days, but they have not changed the basic form of their search results in a while. Yesterday I noticed some subtle improvements in the search results. I was looking for the Caltrain schedule, and typed in caltrain for my search.
At the bottom of the description of the result were …

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23
Aug
2005

If Websites had Personalities

already MSN and AOL are out of the pictureA war game was held last April by Fuld & Company where student teams from MIT and Harvard impersonated the big four web properties in a “Battle for Clicks”. As the Economist reports, this is how the teams introduced themselves:
Yahoo!: “We don’t have to be the …

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15
Aug
2005

Why only 3 Search Engines matter Part II

Back in March '05 I wrote an entry about the 3 most important Search Engines, Google, Yahoo and MSN. The gist of the piece was that you should not put any effort ranking in any other Search Engine – concentrate your efforts on the big 3.
This morning the New York Times had an article about …

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