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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.

Search Wars

Mwongozi — Fri, 12 Nov 2004 08:34:27 -0800

Search Wars The BBC reviews five search engines, including Google and the new MSN beta

Fishing for Information? Try Better Bait

Blake — Fri, 22 Aug 2003 05:18:25 -0800

Fishing for Information? Try Better Bait. [NYT] It's nice to see the NY Times take a stab at helping normal folk become better at searching the web. They point to Gary Price's resourceshelf.com, Greg R. Notess's searchengineshowdown.com and Danny Sullivan's searchenginewatch.com and Tara Calishain's researchbuzz.com.
It's just nice to see a story that's not All About Google for a change. Somewhat related articles: One over at O'Reilly On How To Build Your Own, and one at CNET on Nutch, an open-source web search engine.
Anyone have any favorite search engine tricks to share?

This just in! Search Engines help find people, too!

ilsa — Thu, 13 Mar 2003 10:07:41 -0800

This just in! Search Engines help find people, too! Reuters has apparently just figured out that you can google up old acquaintances. As for myself, I find that google has become less useful than these guys for people-searches. So, what is the most obscure thing/person you have searched for, and how did you find it?

c3o — Tue, 21 May 2002 14:06:14 -0800

Google Labs is a public beta testing area for some pretty cool things they are currently working on: an amazing glossary, voice search by telephone, search results navigated without the mouse and finding additional items to sets defined by words you enter.
With every new feature, they seem to be getting even further beyond the competition. Even though Google is very likable company: is a monopoly on web search a good thing?

Steven Den Beste — Sat, 23 Dec 2000 18:27:26 -0800

At 21,000 gigabytes of HTML, the web isn't all that large. (?) Is there anything which you can't find somewhere on the web? An entire Yahoo category for Potato cannons?

James Bachman — Mon, 16 Oct 2000 05:14:55 -0800

Somebody found my blog while searching for a 'doctor's surgery webpage'. AltaVista, Yahoo, Lycos -- has anyone ever found anything useful from any search engine ever? Really? I don't believe you. Never ever has any search engine -- not even lovely, nifty little Google -- given me what I want in any useful way whatsoever. You would not believe how long it took me to find a sodding picture of Steve McQueen smoking the other day. And for God's sake don't get me onto the utterly pointless localised versions or the abyssmal AltaVista picture search.

owillis — Thu, 05 Oct 2000 17:51:24 -0800

Yahoo! Buzz See what everyone on Yahoo is looking for (excluding porn)