16
Apr
The Current State of Search
The other night I went to a fascinating panel discussion at the Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center, famous for the mouse and other technological breakthroughs) hosted by BayCHI. There were 5 panelists, representing the cream of today's Search Engines (conspicuously absent was MSN):
Peter Norvig, Director of Search Quality at Google
Ken Norton, Director of Product …
26
Mar
How to find out if your site is listed in the Search Engines
There's an easy way to find out which pages of your site that have been indexed by the big 3 Search Engines (Google, Yahoo and MSN). Search for site:www.yoursite.com. If the number of search results don't match your website's total number of pages, it means some pages may not be listed. Some pages are invisible …
21
Mar
Comparing the big 3 Search Engines
I read a post the other day on Slashdot (News for Geeks, Stuff that Matters), still the web's most popular blog as of March 2005. Slashdot is about technology news, and they had a discussion about whether Google was still clearly superior to Yahoo and MSN as a Search Engine.
Inspired by that thread …
16
Mar
Why only 3 Search Engines matter
You may have seen spam email or ads on the web promising to submit your site to hundreds, if not thousands of search engines. That may be very well, but 3 search engines have 96% of the market (as of December 2004): Google, Yahoo and MSN.
Search Engines: the Big Three
AOL, which comprised 9% of all …