Archive for the ‘Google’ Category
Friday, April 1st, 2005 |
Good examples of marketing:
1. Keeping 360 alive. On the friends list, the order is given by the content shared. K. What means that. Let’s say you are on a public person friend list. By sharing content you will always be on his homepage among the visible friends. By the rule of association you become tied with his image. Vanity is Al Pacino’s favourite sin….and apparently of Yahoo’s also.
Details on friends ranking
2. Gmail had 1G. Yahoo will have 1G. Apparently the size does matter and not the quality. Gmail is better because of its free pop3 and they could have stayed at 1G without problems. But the crowd wants size and not quality. It was logic that they will raise at 2G BUT doing it without some trick would have been just a lame reaction to Yahoo’s move. The result? Instead of poping-up in your face 2G they showed you a gradually filling of the amount. On the front page they show you a fast moving counter with megs flowing into the users accounts. Result? A nice trick. More attention. The impression of fluidity. The felling of a dynamic company (which they lack lately with their use of long beta periods)
Good jobs PR guys 
Sponsored links:
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Friday, April 1st, 2005 |
K. First was 360 . Than they tried catching up with Gmail…but the main battle between Yahoo and Google is taking place in fact on search engine users. And tonight is the first big offensive
We’re releasing a new index tonight. You should see a lot of new content in the index as well as fluctuations in the rankings of results from previous searches. If you have any feedback for us about the new index please email: ystfeedback@yahoo.com.
Now, grab a beer, popcorn and let the games begin 
Sponsored Links:
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Friday, April 1st, 2005 |
Check this great product from Yahoo.
Hope that Google can handle a litlle irony 
For those like me that have to google for slacker here is the definition:
slack1 (slăk) pronunciation
adj., slack·er, slack·est.
1. Moving slowly; sluggish: a slack pace.
2. Lacking in activity; not busy: a slack season for the travel business.
3. Not tense or taut; loose: a slack rope; slack muscles. See synonyms at loose.
4. Lacking firmness; flaccid: a slack grip.
5. Lacking in diligence or due care or concern; negligent: a slack worker. See synonyms at negligent.
6. Flowing or blowing with little speed: a slack current; slack winds.
7. Linguistics. Pronounced with the muscles of the tongue and jaw relatively relaxed; lax.
Sponsored links:
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Friday, April 1st, 2005 |
As bender’s evil twin half brother pointed out in a mail this morning, Gmail plans to react to Yahoo’s plans to increase stoarge with 2G. I really don’t see that necessary because Gmail power point is the free POP3 access that makes those 2G useless for power users. The rest of the users will never fill up 1G soon.
Instead of increasing the storage, it would have been better for Gmail to increase the attachaments size.
Anyway great job at Gmail with rich formmating for messages. It works perfect on Firefox
Almost forgot here is the article from CNET
Edit: just checked Gmail…it says You are currently using 199 MB (18%) of your 1118 MB. Various users report various quota. I think it depends on how much space you are using and it will be a step by step upgrade
Edit 2: it’s increasing constantly …now it’s 1158
Sponsored links:
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Thursday, March 31st, 2005 |
Even though Yahoo 3600 is not suposed to be just another another blogging service, they have this component. And a bloogging component is attractive if it is indexable. I am going to track weekly how it scores on the 3 major major* players on this aspect. 24 hours after official beta launch we have:
Google: 6 pages
Yahoo: 13 pages
MSN: 23 pages (HEY! That is a surprise. I was expecting 5 pages or less and I was already thinking what evil things to say about MSN….that’s weird….very weird)
Let’s see after a week. Anyone feeling an urge for betting?
*Yes THREE major players. Just because Ask Jeeves comes 4th doesn’t make him a player. Nothing personal guys
Posted in General, Google, Search Engines News, Yahoo | 3 Comments »
Monday, March 28th, 2005 |
What? They got into that area too???
Heh, relax…not yet…BUT use this on Google:
site:profiles.yahoo.com keyword keyword
What could you use instead of keywords. Well a few hints:
- location
- gender
- marital status
- interests
You may wonder why not doing that on Yahoo! Search. They support the site: command. The answer is plain stupid and simple
site:profiles.yahoo.com on Google brings up 631,000 results
site:profiles.yahoo.com on Yahoo brings up…175 results. And they own that service !!!!!
even MSN Search scores “better” with 17,941
Tags: google, Yahoo, personals
Posted in General, Google | 3 Comments »
Saturday, March 12th, 2005 |
On Joel’s blog there are some valid points of view regarding the Gbrowser. And as a proof to its arguments he gives also a link. I am very curious from where he got that.
Tags: Google , Gbrowser , Firefox , XUL
Posted in General, Google, Search Engines News | No Comments »
Saturday, March 12th, 2005 |
Beside blogging on various topics (mainly search engines and information architecture), another intention with this site/domain was to observe how spiders and search engines behave with new sites/domain.
First infos were about who’s the fastest spider. The data showed that getting indexed by the major players is quite easy and fast.
Now I will continue with some presumptions which must be regarded only as that.
5 days ago this domain dropped sudenly from Google. What were the symptoms:
- when doing the following query in google:
site:www.razvan-antonescu.info
the result showed ONLY the URL instead of title, no text snippet and no cache
- when searching for my name the page had dropped from first result to nothing and gave only garbage results (I think those garbages will be the topic of another post)
- the googlebot came on a daily basis
Those were clear signs of sandbox effect. But everybody says that sandbox lasts at least one month. Well after only 5 days everything is fine.
Presumptions
- with a new domain make all the necessary preparations to get indexed
- sit untill you get in the index
- continue yor job and avoid constructing too many external links (be it relevant or not, spam or not)
- wait for sandbox to install and DO NOTHING
- if I am correct if you are not caught with overoptimization the storm will end very quick
- after you get back do whatever you think is good for you but use common sense and respect the spiders and the others (that sounds like lame preaching but you got the ideea)
Tags: Google , Google Sandbox , SEO , Search engine optimization
Posted in General, Google, Search Engine Optimization | No Comments »
Tuesday, March 8th, 2005 |
Google Desktop is by now the fastest product on getting out of Google Labs . The beta stage was only 5 or 6 months. I will not talk about the product because more competent reviews can be found here and here.
What is interesting in this version are the plugins. Haven’t installed any yet but at least 2 will get a test drive in a few minutes:
Larry’s Help File Indexer
Larry’s Help File Indexer allows you to index CHM files, one of the most popular formats for Windows help files, manuals and ebooks. An alternative to the Help menu – just use Google Desktop Search to find the help information you need.
well …this one looks awsome….just imagine to have all your reference helps just one click away
Kongulo
This plugin is a web spider (”Kongulo” is Icelandic for spider) that crawls websites you specify and makes them searchable via GDS.
Kongulo follows links in HTML frame, image and anchor tags. It obeys robots.txt and knows basic and digest HTTP authentication. It can be run continuously, checking for updates to previously crawled pages, and uses the If-Modified-Since HTTP header to minimize transfers when doing so.
You can provide a regexp to limit crawls to e.g. your intranet domain.
This version does not have a graphical user interface and can be run from the command-line only.
Another one good for quick references. For example if you have a pair of sites that you check regullary for knowledge this plugin makes it easier to get ALL the proper results. Just like your own Google. Still I hope it doesn’t count the external links because your results will be messy than
Tags: Google, desktop search, Plugins
Posted in Desktop Customization, General, Google | 2 Comments »
Sunday, March 6th, 2005 |
Screw the sandbox filter. And for this remark I have 2 reasons behind:
1. As an end user I am depraved of new quality content and instead I see pages from the 90s. Try doing a research on new software/information and see pages dating back from the stone age.
2. As a SEO consultant…ahem should i continue with clients opinions on this?
Search Engines spam is a problem and even a big one. Yesterday I come across an idiot that was messing the results on a research I was doing BIG time but this is not the solution. They keep out new spam but the old spam is doing well
I think I”ll start a category on this blog called “Idiots Hall of Shame” with notorious cases of search engine spamming.
If Google continues to do this end users will turn to other engines that shows fresh and tasty results
Tags: SEO, Google, google sandbox
Posted in General, Google, Search Engine Optimization | No Comments »
