Search Engines || Information Architecture
For quite a long time I have noticed on Yahoo Blog a link to Google’s Official Blog. I thought it was quite a nice thing to do and a rare thing in this business where links have the value they have.
Now is Google’s time to make their step.
Congratulations. Better later than never
Edit
That’s fun they even listed Jeremy’s blog 
I like the guy for his unconventional style to write bout Google’s mistakes
Search Engine Optimization Companies, Search Engine Marketing Specialists and Webmasters Invited to Rate Google, Yahoo Search, MSN Search and Ask Jeeves
Toronto, ON (PRWEB) May 4, 2005 — To identify the best search engine for relevance, RustyBrick today announced the Search Engine Relevancy Challenge at the Search Engine Strategies 2005 Conference & Expo. Search engine optimization companies, search engine marketing specialists and webmasters are invited use RustySearch, a white-labeled search engine, to rate the top search engines.
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Nice SEO Tool (or SEO search engine) spotted by Fantomaster
Features:
In fact is a tool that combines Google API with different sources of informations about a certain site. Kind of a Swiss Army Knife for Search Engines
Just finished reading a …nice analysis of Google’s new patent from Search Engine Journal.
There are some valid points and some gibberish. When I reached the end of the article I was curious who wrote it. Ahem…would you trust opinions from a guy like that?
A image worths a thousand words :)…..
Other Coverage from FantoMaster:
Search Engine Roundtable just announced that Google will offer impression-based pricing for Ad Words. That’s just another sign of Google’s greed. PPC fraud already is a problem and they want to create another one before solving the first. I don’t think that a normal person will buy this service. On the end publishers and advertisers are loosing money while Google encreases their revenues.
Blah…and once I loved Google
Rustybrick writes about a new occurrence at Google Web Search.
In short. When you do some queries with the the word “directories” included, you will have some additional results on top of the natural ones.
Since now the following have been spotted:
What all this results have in common beside being financial related? All have Tatet directories. With Tatet I have come across a year ago when doing a link building campaign. Their directory is shared with others just like DMOZ. Then I found out that an inclusion on Tattet leads too many other backlinks.
This could mean that Google is looking for other directories besides DMOZ too build up its index? Just an ideea. But I think that it won’t hurt to get an inclusion there 
Resources:
Adi announced me that a Google PR update is running now.
I see it on a few sites of mine so I can confirm it.
Edit:
of course the PR update is doubled by a linkback update
Google fails again. If you use more than 1 keyword Google’s spellchecker gives you no results and no spelling suggestions, while Yahoo does a pretty good job.
Try for example:
Google: mambo cms show page totle
Yahoo: mambo cms show page totle
Saturday evening will be the time for the weekly analysis of Yahoo’s 360 indexability.
On the first post things weren’t so good but that was quite normal due to the fact that was immediately after launch. What was curious then was the domination of MSN search in the number of the indexed pages.
Let’s see scores for today:
Google: 3860 pages
Yahoo: 9370 pages (WOW)
MSN: 130 pages
What is interesting today is the clear supremacy of Yahoo over Google. In a previous post I was dissapointed of Yahoo on not indexing properly their services. In a way is logical to do that. Who wants to search within their profiles should use their search. But that’s not a reason enough though. Now they learnt something and even better they applied it.
Now. What those number tell us:
1. Already there is a large number of active users
2. 360 is findable and in the next period we will see it more on results
3. Being visible, quality content will get feedback and will motivate the users on being active
Edit: While writing this post I was thinking when this serial analysis will stop. Well 2 Kents later (damn there is no Kent page…makes u wonder) I figured it out. I will stop it when the number will be double than those:
Google: 8.110.000
Yahoo: 35,700,000 (hey I wasn’t expecting this one. Are they taking steroids or something else???)
MSN: 26,657 (yeah yeah great job Microsoft. Hope that Longhorn will not be as “good”)
Anybody feeling lucky to figure out what I am speaking about?
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