MetaFilter posts tagged with searchengines

Fo Shizzle My Nizzle

gman — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 17:12:44 -0800

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.

I've Just Seen a Face Search Interface

Knappster — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:56:40 -0800

facesaerch uses Google Image Search's &imgtype=face parameter to ~~saerch~~ search for faces. via

Search Engine Law

monju_bosatsu — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 07:51:54 -0800

The Structure of Search Engine Law, by James Grimmelmann. [abstract inside]

There are 300,000,000 people in the U.S. How many have your name?

aerotive — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 19:41:12 -0800

How many me's are there?

Your blog is their market research

jonson — Sun, 11 Sep 2005 22:47:11 -0800

Ice Rocket is a blog spidering search engine that seems designed to allow users to track trends over time (mentions, say, of "pepsi blue" vs "coke zero" over the last 60 days). It's an interesting, if highly unscientific, use of bloggers writings as informal market research. No word on how many blogs are in their index, nor whether they're collecting any available demographic data on the bloggers (where such information is even available, that is).

Blackhat Search Engine Optimization

nlindstrom — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 11:54:57 -0800

Blackhat Search Engine Optimization Techniques. Through the use of a DMCA (Digital Millennium Copyright Act) complaint, you can have competing web sites thrown out of Yahoo's search index. If you file a DMCA report against a site, Yahoo will quickly remove the "offending" site, leaving no trace of the site in its index. This has led to a rise in so-called "Blackhat SEO," wherein one seeks to become the leading search result not by improving one's own site, but by having competing sites removed through the DMCA.

Can't Find On Google . Com

RonZ — Sun, 10 Jul 2005 20:46:26 -0800

Can't Find On Google . Com While many people seem to think that Google can find anything (and knows everything), experienced web surfers know the results are often a bit lacking. So this site allows you to post what you are really looking for and what you punched in to the "Big G" to try to find it. The owner claims to know someone who works at Google that is "always interested in what people can't find on Google" - doubtful IMHO if they will really change anything based on this site. But semi-interesting stuff that highlights the inadaquacy of search engine technology.

Tougher Road Ahead for Google?

merc — Thu, 30 Jun 2005 10:06:14 -0800

Next Act Won't Be as Easy as the First. Gates once conceded: "Google is still perfect, the bubble is floating and they can do everything. You should buy their stock at any price.” And just this week they affirmed this statement with their release of Google Earth, showing the world that their scope is beyond just websites. But is google growing too ambitious? is this desire to "search all of the world's information" signaling doom?

ArticleBot Broohaha

shoppingforsanity — Tue, 26 Apr 2005 23:35:58 -0800

I clicked this link today while perusing this MSNBC blog (which is occasionally amusing). It seems that ArticleBot's hackles have been raised, and they are on the defensive against mainstream media (aka MSM). I'm not exactly sure what their point is, but I really hate it when people "overuse" the "quotation" marks in their "unique content". I would have totally left it alone if they had not called attention to themselves by responding in this manner. Plus the assistance they are offering reminds me a little of these MIT geniuses (previously discussed on MeFi here and here) except designed to spider search engines. I'm sure it's completely legal, but the ethics are questionable to say the least.

Googlewhack is so, like, whenever

Sparx — Mon, 04 Apr 2005 21:36:55 -0800

What's hot in technogeekery? Match your predictions with Yahoo's ongoing search stats using $10,000 fake dollars as investment capital. Is this how Yahoo is going to steal Google's mindshare - or just another pointless thing to do with search engines?

Tag me as

NickDouglas — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 07:35:46 -0800

Rebirth of the Semantic Web. On the heels of the Technorati taggregator, the Oddiophile bookmarklet, the tag search (new today!) and much ensuing buzz, Jeff Jarvis brings up people tagging. This concept drove Friendster and FOAF, both of which petered out. But with Technorati's elegant synthesis of photo, link, and post tagging, the web may once again tap into networked individualism.

Yahoo! Video Search

tranquileye — Thu, 16 Dec 2004 09:27:18 -0800

Search Wars Part XXIV: Yahoo! Video Search.

googleFilter

Mick — Fri, 10 Dec 2004 07:07:14 -0800

A large number of people really don't know the finer points of search. For those people, Google has a suggestion.

Open the gates!

Smart Dalek — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 05:03:14 -0800

Lexis-Nexis...AlaCarte? Yes, it's true. The giant archive of news, corporate and legal information is now providing a pay as you go service. Queries can be entered for free, without subscription; charges are affixed to downloaded material on a per-document basis. (via Poynter)

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

Googlespeak

steef — Sun, 07 Nov 2004 07:38:46 -0800

Speegle: search results read aloud. News, too! [Via.]

ConservativeAlgorithm

srboisvert — Fri, 24 Sep 2004 04:17:06 -0800

Google News Bias. How second tier websites are gaming the Google News Enging.

Hackers == Terrorists?

mrgrimm — Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:00:42 -0800

Google, Yahoo, Alta Vista, others under attack? Despite all the big IPO news about Google, the bigger news today is that it doesn't work. Slap on an age-discrimination suit while we're at it, and potential trouble for the IPO. Have Larry and Sergei finally pissed off the wrong people?

Is Google to be trusted?

o2b — Thu, 10 Jun 2004 13:36:09 -0800

Gmail is too Creepy "Dear Gmail user: Due to privacy considerations, we cannot respond unless you resend your email from a different account."

The world's second biggest supercomputer?

clevershark — Fri, 30 Apr 2004 15:00:04 -0800

How many systems does Google have? It depends on how you look at their S-1 filing and estimate their buying patterns... any way you look at it there's some serious computing power there.

Researchers have created a 3D search engine.

geeknik — Thu, 15 Apr 2004 22:17:10 -0800

Researchers have created a 3D search engine. Sketch the object you're looking for and the search engine will attempt to find it.

News Classification System

cpfeifer — Tue, 13 Jan 2004 10:41:45 -0800

From the creators of the OpenDirectory Project comes their new effort: a classifying news crawler : Topix.net. They've got some cool text processing that allows them to classify each story in terms of content and geographic location. Very cool ideas in agreggation!

Googlearchy

SandeepKrishnamurthy — Thu, 08 Jan 2004 07:25:54 -0800

Googlearchy: How a few heavily-linked sites dominate politics on the Web. [pdf file] Political communities exhibit winner-take-all properties. Surprising?

Spears Reigns Again on Internet

Blake — Sun, 21 Dec 2003 18:22:46 -0800

Spears Reigns Again on Internet . Lycos, America Online and Yahoo! all have their top ten of '03 lists out. Google Zeitgeist wasn't mentioned in the Hollywood Reporter Article, but it's always worth a look.