Archive for the ‘Search Engines News’ Category
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:
Posted in General, Google | 2 Comments »
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 »
Tuesday, March 29th, 2005 |
I got an 360 account thanks to Alex. I have 50 invites to share. Who wants let a comment with your email adress. All I ask in return is that once you activate your account to start sharing them also.
Tags: yahoo, yahoo 360, 360
Posted in General, Yahoo | 22 Comments »
Tuesday, March 29th, 2005 |
A post on Ysearchblog, points to a more detailed preview of 360. New features are available and they seem ready fot tommorow launch….only a few hors left
Here is the preview
Tags: Yahoo 360, Yahoo
Posted in General, Yahoo | No 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 »
Sunday, March 27th, 2005 |
How Not To Blog - Check out Yahoo! 360 NOW. Here’s How…
Here you can have a look at how Yahoo! 360 looks like. Well at least a part of it. Beside that page, any other menu link will get you to a login screen.
Many thanks to the guys that made this available
Tags: yahoo, yahoo 360, blogs
Sponsored links:
Posted in General, Yahoo | No Comments »
Friday, March 25th, 2005 |
If you want fresh infos on Yahoo 360 you should check out this first hand articles:
The Flickr Analogy
Initial impression of Yahoo 360
It seems great …and 29th march is closer
I just hope to get in the beta tester group
Tags: yahoo,yahoo 360
Sponsored links:
Posted in General, Yahoo | No Comments »
Thursday, March 17th, 2005 |
Yahoo! 360, Yahoo’s blogging/social networking service. More details here
Official press release
Signup for beta
Yahoo! 360 details it looks great
Posted in General, Yahoo | No 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 »
