Search Engines || Information Architecture
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
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
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
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.
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.
Maybe I was expecting too much…but hey…ICE CREAM? I understand it’s a nice symbolic gesture…but…ICE CREAM? Where are the blogs guys? And When do you make public My Search feature?
I woke up up this morning at 7 AM hoping to see a different Yahoo or at least a redesign aspect of the forgotten features…but nothing beside an ICE CREAM.
I’ll look through today maybe I missed something but beside a Mail Tutorials link (that by the way could be there for a time) I don’t see anything new/changed
Maybe I need another coffee
On short the change implies not only the names but offering the following services:
Yahoo! Search Marketing Solutions’ suite of offerings will include the following products:
* Sponsored Search Listings, the flagship search advertising product
* Content Match™, Yahoo!’s contextual advertising listings
* Local Match™, Yahoo!’s local sponsored search offering
* Site Match™ Self Serve and Site Match Xchange™, Yahoo!’s search URL submission products
* Yahoo! Product Submit™, the Yahoo! Shopping URL submission program
* Yahoo! Express™, the Yahoo! Directory URL submission program
* Marketing Console™, which enables advertisers to track campaign performance across multiple online channels
* Search Optimizer™, which allows advertisers to improve their campaign performance and reduce the amount of time spent managing their listings
Sunday 27 I have activated the domain, setup Wordpress, and started posting. Good. Than:
- put the RSS on My Yahoo! for indexing
- setup a Technorati account
- submit to Google using the free submit
Results?
Spider Hits Bandwidth Date
Googlebot 13 33.78 KB 27 Feb 2005 - 21:22
Inktomi Slurp 2 10.28 KB 28 Feb 2005 - 22:43
Well I was idiot enough to do both Technorati and Google submit, but if I was to put my money on something…that would be Technorati. I mean is the Technorati the caused the googlebot visit.
Since now the domain shows up only on Yahoo though…let’s see how long is Googlebot digestion period
Online Marketing Blog: Yahoo Inc. turns 10 and gives out ice cream.
God damn I hope that’s not all
There are only 9 hours left till the big launch announced by Yahoo with the ocassion caused by their 10 years celebration.
The goodies started today with APIs but apparently there is something important for the endusers. In my opinion some things will be:
- ending the beta for My Search and integrating it with the regular search
- official launch of blogs (the 2Gs will cause some important migration wave)
- Firefox goodies
Even though those are great news….I think we are talking about something bigger that will put Google in its corner for quite a while. And unfortunately beside official launch of Gmail, Google has no aces in Beta so….
Getting ready for the big birthday tommorow, Yahoo launches on Yahoo! Next a set of APIs for developers.
And there are only a few hours left till the offensive…
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