Archive for the ‘Search Engines News’ Category
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 »
Sunday, March 6th, 2005 |
A post on Google Blog by Ben Sigelman announces that a weather shortcut is now available on Google.
The syntax is:
weather city (ex. weather Chicago)
This shortcut is available for quite a time on Yahoo and it even does more than Google by showing weather for cities outside US
Ahem….earth to Google, outside US there are other countries…you know?
Tags: Yahoo , Google , weather ,
Posted in General, Google, Search Engines News, Yahoo | No Comments »
Sunday, March 6th, 2005 |
Since the search engines strated taking steps into the field of personalizations of their services I had become a fan of this.
From all the efforts since now, from my point of view only 2 are worth using: A9 and My Yahoo! Search.
Now Ask Jeeves brings up something similar through My Jeeves.
At first look it is very similar to My Yahoo Search but lacks some important features:
- you cannot output to RSS the stored results
- you cannot save to My Jeeves from browser (My Yahoo! Search has both Firefox and IE support in this case)
Still you can email the results and if you are an Ask Jeeves user you will find this very usefull for colaborative work.
Tags: Yahoo, Ask Jeeves,
Posted in General, Search Engines News, Yahoo | No Comments »
Thursday, March 3rd, 2005 |
Few more posts on Yahoo and ppl will start thinking that I am payed to do it (well that would be nice )
So. This morning I was complaining that I see no new things on Yahoo….well there are Yahoo Directory has a new professional look. Still text based but more colourfull
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2005 |
What’s cute? The Yahoo’s Netrospective
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2005 |
Obviously the big fight is between Google and Yahoo and the most evident moment for that was the almost simultaneous launch of the “Video Search”.
A few days ago Google launched a movie recommandation service and now it was Yahoo’s turn to make the step forward 
Check out the new movie recomandation service from Yahoo
It’s fun, it’s almost accurate and it’s fun
What I DON”T like? It’s a TOO commercial service. 
Still fun though
Tags: movies, Yahoo
Posted in General, Yahoo | 1 Comment »
Thursday, March 3rd, 2005 |
Perhaps many of you blog readers have heard that Yahoo Messenger 6.0 suports search shortcuts within IM conversations. But do you really know what’s all about? No. Is not about that search box is a SHORTCUT
type in your conversation s:keyword where keyword can be one or more keywords. Than wait for magic to happen
K. Let’s get back on the shallowness. You have heard about that shortcut but you haven’ t knew what was. Why? Because the bloggers have developed a conditional reflex called the “copy/paste complex”. When they see a nice piece of information they grab it without digesting it and put it quickly.
The shortcut mentioning is from the Yahoo press release …but there is no mention what is the shortcut
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Thursday, March 3rd, 2005 |
I found myself sometimes in the position to use “comment spam”. But looking through blogs these days I see that there are ethical ways to do it and stupid ways. The line between ethical and stupidity is given not by the purpose but by the means.
Let me explain you what than means:
The “ethical” way:
1. Identify your site topic
2. Look in blogs search engines for similar blogs
3. View in source if the blog you are targetting uses the nofollow tag
3. See in Google/Yahoo/MSN what pages have been indexed from the targeted blog using the site:www.targetedblog.com syntax
4. See on what posts you can have a VALID&ORIGINAL point of view and write. It doesn’t have to be a PhD disertation. 2 phrases that make sense and that are on the topic should be enough. That’s why are called comments
The stupid idiot way:
Steps 1-3 identical
Step 4 write some stupid idiotic 2 words phrase like “Great site” and add your lousy keyword than go out and spam every blog you met. If you do it automatically you are even “smarter”. You can candidate to the IDIOT of the year award
Why this post? Because one of my daily readings is spammed by an imbecil that duplicates the posts of the targeted blogs into his blog and than adds them to the comments of the targeted blogs…all that for some lousy 10USD/month from AdSense that will help him rent a second hand brain
Tags: spam, comment spam, blogs
Posted in Google, Search Engine Optimization, Yahoo | No Comments »
Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005 |
Well I use a lot the My Search from Yahoo and Firefox and I could’t found a search plugin. Because of that I have decided to modify the existing Yahoo plugin to suit my needs.
Click here to get it
You have to be logged in on Yahoo to use this at its full power
Usage:
Unpack the archive into searchplugins directory and restart the browser.
Posted in General, Yahoo | No Comments »
