Archive for the ‘Search Engines News’ Category
Sunday, April 24th, 2005 |
Just found Dig People. Apparently this is a search engine looking on various records to find a person.
With this occasion I found out that Orkut’s databse is externally searchable. WTF? Since when?
Ah…and also with this occasion I also found out the meaning of my first name 
Meaning:Meaning unknown, possibly related to the name RADOVAN. Alternatively it may have been brought to Romania from India by Gypsies, and may mean something like “bringer of good news”. (now I really know why I have this blog )
Extra Info: The name Razvan creates the desire for harmony with others, but we point out that it causes a blunt expression that alienates others. This name, when combined with the last name, can frustrate happiness, contentment, and success, as well as cause health weaknesses in the fluid systems, and tension or accidents to the head. The name of Razvan gives you the desire to meet and mix socially and to create congenial circumstances for everyone. However, all too often, you express yourself in a matter-of-fact or awkward way that results in your good intentions being misunderstood. If you are in sales work, you could do well because of your friendly personality, interest in people, and desire to please. You prefer situations that allow a degree of independence, but are not too demanding in work-load or responsibility.
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Saturday, April 23rd, 2005 |
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:
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Friday, April 22nd, 2005 |
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
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Tuesday, April 19th, 2005 |
Apparently the announced 1G stoarge space for the free Yahoo Mail is delayed untill May:
Coming soon! 1GB of storage, free to all users
There’s more in store with Yahoo! Mail. By early May, all free Yahoo! Mail users will receive an email storage increase to a whopping 1GB. That’s enough space to keep thousands and thousands of emails — so you’ll never have to delete those important messages again!
Link
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Friday, April 15th, 2005 |
This morning found on RSS some talk about the next Yahoo News. A few moments ago Rusty Brick pointed out to the beta url. Here you have it:
http://beta.news.yahoo.com/
As for the comments…here are my 2 cents:
>>There’s something very sissy-looking about the tabs on that page.
Oh c’mon…they are cute
>>Those tabs suck.
Why? Very useful. Lot of info in a small place. Like them
>>They should be purple and yellow.
Again…why? I addmit the contrast is not so good
>> That’s a drastic change for yahoo…too drastic…
Drastic is a neutral term. I think the new sleak design fits them. The only problem …is a big one. They should keep the same lines or at least in part through all their services
My favourite option at first glance? IM this story. Of course only on Yahoo Messenger
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Tuesday, April 12th, 2005 |
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
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Sunday, April 3rd, 2005 |
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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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
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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
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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.
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