MetaFilter posts tagged with Google and searchengine

My favorite was Altavista, because of the Babelfish.

sugarfish — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:01:26 -0800

Google x Google

Zarkonnen — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 03:13:05 -0800

Google has released an experimental search tool, Google Squared, that presents search results in the form of a table. Each column represents some attribute or dimension of the things returned - for example, searching for US presidents yields a column for date of birth, and rows for Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, etc. Being experimental, Squared does well on some things but (perhaps amusingly) less well on others. (The precise results keep on changing due to curation and whatnot, so things may have changed by the time you read this.) The idea of returning structured search results is hardly new or unique to Google, of course.

Search like it's 2001...

HaloMan — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:35:47 -0800

To celebrate their 10th birthday Google have brought back their oldest available index dating back to 2001.

Google Search Engine Ranking Factors v2

Soup — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:37:23 -0800

Google Search Engine Ranking Factors v2 "represents the collective wisdom of 37 leaders in the world of organic search engine optimization. Together, they have voted on the various factors that are estimated to comprise Google's ranking algorithm." The highest ranked factor is Keyword Use in Title Tag.

cuil kids?

Ynoxas — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:24:24 -0800

Cuil is a new search engine developed by former Google employees, and claims to index 3x more pages than Google. CNN Money story has the basics. My attempts were met with timeouts. Other reports (Slashdot) show that others are having trouble with access as well. Surely the people behind this have enough experience at Google to realize you have to have orders of magnitude of capacity above what you think you need to make sure all search is fast, accurate, and error free. I can't take this seriously if they can't even handle first day traffic. Techcrunch has a different take on breadth. And all black vs all white background. Really?

Search engine battle heats up

SharQ — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:52:09 -0800

According to ComScore, Google takes 59.8% of search traffic in the US, leaving Yahoo, MSN and smaller players to fight for the scraps. Pretty pie-chart here. Slightly different numbers are available from Compete and Hitwise, but Google still rules the roost.

Google for Google's Sake

armoured-ant — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:55:14 -0800

If Google was designed for Google.

DMOZ Payola?

FlamingBore — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 07:23:57 -0800

DMOZ Editor(s) seeking extortion for continued inclusion is putting further smudge on the "volunteer" directory. Seems lots of folks have had their hands out over inclusion in the DMOZ, so why hasn't a business been built out of it? Is Best of the Web positioning itself as Google Bait?

Google takes on Paypal

p3t3 — Thu, 29 Jun 2006 06:29:32 -0800

Google Checkout is officially unveiled today; the latest service to join the Google arsenal in their race to control the entire www. It has been suggested in the news that the Google payment service was also a big factor in the recent Yahoo and eBay partnership, since eBay's Paypal service might finally have some real competition. More info on the service here.

Google Images Censored in China

FeldBum — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 17:11:06 -0800

Google Images Censored in China A picture says 1000 words, and Google.cn is censoring them all. Check out the side-by-side screens of a search for "tiananmen+square" in Google.com and Google.cn images. Looks like a nice place, with little historical significance. You can try the search yourself. The text on the bottom left is the censorship disclaimer. Very different than our results. A far cry from Google's claim that they do not censor results. Nice to know that they stand up to the government here but not abroad.

A good spoof of the whole thing.

Google Music Search

sarajflemming — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 09:45:36 -0800

Google music search... It had to happen sooner or later, right? Drop in a phrase, you get artist, album, and song title matches to choose from. Choose an artist, you get a list of their albums and on the album page you get a tracklisting and links to buy the album online, as well as links to do other artist/album/song-related Google searches.

Cuban vs. Google: It's On!

Ufez Jones — Tue, 03 Aug 2004 11:09:52 -0800

Mark Cuban, who obviously just has too much time on his hands, is teaming up with Icerocket in an attempt to thwart Google for search engine dominance.

Mining the Deep Web

badstone — Tue, 02 Mar 2004 16:56:00 -0800

Mining the Deep Web. Google indexes 4 billion pages, but there are hundreds of billions of documents out there in the Deep Web that are effectively unreachable by search engines because they are locked in databases or are unsearchable media. It looks like Yahoo is going to start giving us a peek by providing unified access to a wide variety of sites that are ordinarily only searchable by their own custom search engines.

Next thing you know, they'll be going after Boggle.

paulrockNJ — Thu, 29 Jan 2004 12:06:54 -0800

Adult search engine, Booble.com has received a cease and desist order from Google on the grounds of trademark infringement. Read Google's letter and Booble's response. all links are work safe.

I got your SEO right here...

pineapple — Sun, 16 Nov 2003 13:03:11 -0800

Who gives, who gets... and surprise, Google is on top. I always figured that the search engines had a symbiotic relationship, but playing with this Search Engine Decoder to actually see it is far more entertaining. And, I'd never heard of Overture, but it seems like all the big boys pay them for content. The Decoder is hosted by Search This, which "[provides] search engine optimization and web marketing strategies for the everyday web designer." I guess that's a few of us...

grub - distibuted search engine

talos — Mon, 21 Apr 2003 05:44:06 -0800

Grub: The seti@home of search engines?
According to the New Scientist: "A distributed computing project called Grub, which harnesses individual users' spare computing power and internet bandwidth, began cataloguing millions of web pages this week."
Grub has thus launched before HyperBee, a similar distributed search project.
This link was previously posted on MeFi when it was still in the conceptual stage.
The project is being run by LookSmart (along with its own open directory project called zeal) but as the New Scientist article notes: "Website information collected by Grub is already being fed into one of LookSmart's search services, called WiseNut. But the collected data are also freely accessible to the public, so they can be incorporated into any web site or desktop application."
Possible Google competition or doomed from the start?

A warning shot in the dark.

beagle — Wed, 27 Nov 2002 09:41:34 -0800

A warning shot in the dark: For connoisseurs of clever turns of phrase: The phrase "a warning shot in the dark" popped out at me from a Google News preview panel as being a mixed metaphor. Indeed, a Google search reveals that the phrase has never before been used on the entire Web, which is rather amazing. Delving into the story, it appears by paragraph three that the mixed metaphors are appropriate, in this case.

mediareport — Fri, 30 Aug 2002 14:36:23 -0800

Is Google's use of cookies unnecessarily invasive? Daniel Brandt, described by Salon yesterday as Mr. Anti-Google, says Google "has inadequate justification for planting a cookie that expires in 2038 on every user, and also recording that user's search terms, IP number, and time-date." Brandt is the man behind the NameBase conspiracy database (previously discussed here), and also uncovered the CIA's illegal use of cookies last March. He insists that Google's use of cookies, combined with the Patriot Act, allows U.S. authorities to "do a 'sneak and peek' search of a Google user's hard drive when he isn't home, retrieve a Google cookie id, and then get a keyword search history" specific to the user's computer. Oh yeah, he also thinks PageRank is undemocratic.

insomnyuk — Wed, 21 Aug 2002 23:02:44 -0800

Google makes another killer app? Rackmounted servers devoted to googling your own intranet or website. Just look at those specs and features. Google is selling 1 server, retail $28,000, and they are marketing especially for corporate intranets. But imagine the power that would be at the fingertips of archivists, students, and researchers everywhere with a dedicated, customized Google for their own website. Imagine being able to do a detailed search that would literally comb the content of every page published by Project Gutenberg. In seconds, you could call upon thousands of years of writing for any and all information on any specific subject. What kind of implications will this technology have long-term for students, researchers, and archivists?

danec — Fri, 14 Dec 2001 07:56:52 -0800

Google Catalog Search uses Google technology to search thousands of scanned mail-order catalogs, from industrial adhesives to designer clothing and gourmet food.

anildash — Tue, 11 Sep 2001 22:16:02 -0800

Google Current Events: Always the innovator, Google's brains make it easier to find news (and archives of news) about all of today's events.

fullerine — Mon, 25 Jun 2001 06:45:33 -0800

For Sale. Pre-owned Search Engine $250,000,000 o.n.o

Google is hinting at an end of year IPO for a measley $250 million. Is this the beginning of the end of the dot-com crash?. Via The Register.

jkottke — Sat, 20 Jan 2001 18:25:19 -0800

There's a Japanese portal site named Goo (not to be confused with A Boy Named Goo). I wonder if Goo will merge with the GLE Concern to challenge a certain search engine we all know and love?

straight — Wed, 13 Sep 2000 10:06:09 -0800

Has Google finally sold out? You may have already seen this via Robot Wisdom - evidence that Google has monkeyed with their search engine to give preference to partner Yahoo!'s pages. I guess it had to happen sooner or later, but I'm sad. Anyone know of a better search engine on the horizon that still has integrity?

sylloge — Wed, 09 Aug 2000 17:18:23 -0800

Google: advanced search — this is new, no?