Better Search Results Than Google?
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Better search results than Google?
Better search results than Google?
01/05/2004 12:19 PMCNN Jan 5 2004 10:58AM ET
Visualizing Google Search Results
Visualizing Google Search Results
08/30/2004 01:46 PMSource: SearchDay - MoreGoogle is a simple utility that enhances
Google result pages with thumbnail images and other useful links....
Google: An explanation of our search
results
Google: An explanation of our search
results
04/15/2004 03:47 AMAn explanation of our search results .. Google has officially
responded .. Please read our note here ..
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google.com/explanation.html
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Yahoo set to drop Google search results
Yahoo set to drop Google search results
01/06/2004 10:29 AMSearch Engine Lowdown Jan 6 2004 9:11AM ET
Google Explains Jew Watch Search Results
Google Explains Jew Watch Search Results
05/12/2004 11:09 PMSearch Engine Journal May 13 2004 3:18AM GMT
Google Fights Lawsuit Over Search
Results
Google Fights Lawsuit Over Search
Results
01/14/2003 12:26 PMIn a case that underscores the increasing importance search rankings
have on business, Google Technologies is fighting to dismiss a lawsuit
claiming that it ...
Google Says It Doesn't Plan To Change
Search Results
Google Says It Doesn't Plan To Change
Search Results
04/12/2004 11:30 PMGoogle has no plans to alter its search results despite complaints
that the first listing on a search for the word "Jew" directs people
to an anti-Semitic Web site.
Google - Yahoo Comparison: Compare
Search Results
Google - Yahoo Comparison: Compare
Search Results
08/28/2004 02:59 PMGoogle - Yahoo Comparison Compare the Search Results .. (new
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Google Says It Doesn't Plan to Change
Search Results (via NY Times)
Google Says It Doesn't Plan to Change
Search Results (via NY Times)
04/15/2004 03:47 AMthis New York Times article ..
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'Butler' enhances Google search results
in Firefox
'Butler' enhances Google search results
in Firefox
03/24/2005 08:43 AMremoving ads from google pages .. mark pilgrim zeigt wie es geht ..
Butler [dive into mark] .. seines User Scripts .. Butler 0.1 ..
Butler
diveintomark.org/projects/butler
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Google Revisited: Comparing Search
Engine Results
Google Revisited: Comparing Search
Engine Results
10/08/2002 09:33 PMGoogle Revisited: Comparing Search Engine Results
With the recent change in Google's ranking (and, in apologies to Mark
Pilgrim, I now think Google has some real errors in the new ranking
when I didn't think so before, but it's still not as bad as some are
making it out to be), I thought it might be interesting to look at how
Google compares for a specitic search with other engines. And I
picked a query that has relevance to me -- Scott Johnson. No quotes,
no phrases, just those two words (except for AllTheWeb which gets a
special mention for automatically adding quotes). All I'm measuring
is not which page comes up first but where a page that is related to
me comes up. Sometimes it's a page from my website, sometimes it's a
blog page and sometimes it's my O'Reilly book catalog entry.
Google -- # 1
All the Web -- No Quotes -- #9
All the Web -- With Auto Inserted Quotes -- #3
HotBot -- #15
Lycos -- #6
Teoma -- #1
LookSmart (inktomi powered results) -- #31
Wisenut -- #1
Alta Vista -- #1
What's really interesting here is that almost all of this is almost
certainly related to my blog. I didn't have anywhere near these kind
of results before I was a blogger. It's also extremely interesting to
me the similarities between Google, Teoma, Wisenut and Alta Vista.
That's just plain shocking to me. True the comparison isn't entirely
valid since they result in different pages at times but these searches
all give results related to me.
Lessons From All This
There are two easy lessons from all this:
Right now the single best search engine optimization technique? A
simple weblog. And I know that Google seems to treat
radio.weblogs.com as a highly valid source of input so I recommend
Radio. But I think it really matters that you blog regularly and
somewhat consistently.
Don't spend exorbitant fees on search engine optimization. As ranking
algorithms have gotten much more complex without explicit, inside
knowledge of how the engines work it is very unclear to me that it
works at all anymore. I suspect that you'll get dramatically better
results by becoming a blogger.
Google offers search and sponsored
results to Disney
Google offers search and sponsored
results to Disney
03/14/2003 02:13 PMInternet search engine Google has signed a deal with Walt Disney to
provide its online search engine and targeted sponsored links across
its websites. ...
Google Integrating Stock Quote
Information Into Search Results
Google Integrating Stock Quote
Information Into Search Results
04/08/2005 08:30 PMGoogle has long had pointers to stock information in its search
results. However it's now integrating stock quotes directly at the top
of their search results -- you won't have...
Tech question about results of Google
image search for "Abu Ghraib"
Tech question about results of Google
image search for "Abu Ghraib"
05/26/2004 10:20 AMBoingboing reader Greg asks,
I find it interesting to note that Google image search doesn't have
any of the pics of the Abu Ghraib abuse that are floating everywhere
else on the net. A search for "Abu Ghraib" does bring up photos, but
none of the ones that we all saw on CNN and in the Wall Street
Journal. I had searched there not long after the story broke and found
none of them, but I figured it was just too new. Now, after weeks of
spidering time, they still aren't there. Anyone have an idea why?
LinkGoogle is offering more contextual
search results, including package
tracking options
Google is offering more contextual
search results, including package
tracking options
12/13/2003 04:50 AMGoogle now tracks packages .. direct from the help page .. Search By
Number
google.com/help/features.html#number
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Feedster Powers RSS and Blog Search
Results for Eurekster - News Search
Expands the Scope of Search Engine
Powered by Social Networking Technology
Feedster Powers RSS and Blog Search
Results for Eurekster - News Search
Expands the Scope of Search Engine
Powered by Social Networking Technology
09/16/2004 03:28 AMFeedster, Inc., the first company to utilize RSS feeds and weblog
content to enhance broad web search, today announced that it will
power RSS and blog search results for Eurekster, the first and only
Internet search engine powered by social networking technology. By
integrating Feedster’s news search technology and RSS feeds, Eurekster
now provides its users and subscribers with an expanded search
solution containing new sources of information and data beyond
traditional Web search. [PRWEB Sep 16, 2004]
great web searching tool, free download,
cool search web, search the web, google
web search, web search engine
great web searching tool, free download,
cool search web, search the web, google
web search, web search engine
06/20/2004 03:27 AMRe-Search is a new product that you can load it on your desktop. Of
course it is totally free. Search the web became easy, fast and
effectively! [PRWEB Jun 20, 2004]
Access 90 Search Engines’ Results With
Firefox’s Search Box
Access 90 Search Engines’ Results With
Firefox’s Search Box
03/17/2005 03:02 AMTurboScout.com launches a Firefox extension which empowers over 27
million Firefox users to access original results from more than 90
search engines with just a click. [PRWEB Mar 17, 2005]
Over 2 Million Results on Google for
Google Stock News
Over 2 Million Results on Google for
Google Stock News
06/22/2004 02:47 AMGoogle Stock and Google IPO is a very high profile issue in both the
finance and online world. There are millions of information pages
about Google Stock with no real answers to key questions. A new site,
Google-Stock (www.google-stock.net), launched today a free service to
bring the hot headlines on Google to your own inbox, saving time
searching through millions of results. [PRWEB Jun 22, 2004]
Google works in Google Glossary to
Results
Google works in Google Glossary to
Results
07/15/2004 05:27 PMGoogle starts to display actual content in SERPs.
In Search of Good Results
In Search of Good Results
07/05/2004 07:46 AMIn Search of Good Resultshttp://www.emarketer.com/Article.aspx?1002877 A
recent survey by FIND/SVP found that 84% of business executives
queried thought Web searches using commercial search engines took
longer than they should because they tended to deliver too many
irrelevant results, resulting in an estimated loss of $31 billion in
lost productivity. In addition, 74% expressed doubts that the results
were reliable and 39% felt that information found online is outdated.
Despite their reservations, 67% indicated it would be difficult or
impossible to do their jobs without Web-based search tools, with 28%
reporting they spend between 6 and 10 hours a week researching online.
The most sought after information was financial information and
reports, followed by information on competitors. "The commercial
search market is dominated by search engines that must target the
broadest consumer audience possible, with the broadest scope of
content, in order to sell advertisements for any and every product and
service possible," says a META Group VP. "The commercial search market
has barely begun to address the untapped demand for highly specialized
and screened content and we believe this market is poised for growth
in the next three to five years."
The Inevitability of Search Results as
RSS
The Inevitability of Search Results as
RSS
09/10/2004 02:12 AMTim Bray, in reporting on a visit to an Intelligence Technology
gathering said: They’ve also done something way cool with their
Google appliance; one of the bright geeks there has set up a thing
where you can subscribe to a search and get an RSS feed. Well, duh.
Anyone could fix up one of those using the Google API, I wonder why
Google isn’t supporting this already? I can't help but to laugh
because at this point we all know...
Merging search results
Merging search results
04/09/2004 04:13 PMTemplate snippet showing how to merge seearch results from several
Movable Type blogs into one ordered list and create friendly
suggestions when a search returns zero results.
"Put these search results on your site]"
"Put these search results on your site]"
09/22/2004 08:23 AMSave search results in 10.3
Save search results in 10.3
04/08/2005 11:58 AMI don't know if everyone knows this, but it wasn't documented as a
shortcut in the Finder menu bar ... pressing Command-T while doing a
search from the Finder's toolbar, or after finishing a search, the
Finder will create a f...
Why you should be ignoring your search
results
Why you should be ignoring your search
results
06/22/2005 02:06 AMToday I’m attending a search engine research workshop run by
Brad Fallon in Atlanta, Georgia, and am fascinated by the people here
who obsessively track their SERPs (search engine results placement,
jargon for what match number you are on Google for a given search
term). My part of this workshop is to talk about how blogging can help
your search engine placement, but what I’m actually talking
about is whether SERP is a meaningful measure…
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Using PHP Includes for MT Search Results
Using PHP Includes for MT Search Results
07/04/2004 03:28 PMA lot of people want to roll their own search with Movable Type. Us, for instance
— Gadgetopia has a two-tiered search system based on whether the
search term appears in the title, keywords, or body of the entry (see
this post for more information).
Our search is done in with SQL and PHP, abandoning the MT search
system completely. The probem with this method is rendering the
search results. If you don't use MT, then you lose two things:
(1) Auto-creation of the permalink. The URL isn't stored
anywhere in the database, so you have to recreate it. If your URLs
are just based on the entry ID, then it's not hard. However, look at
our URLs — they're a conglomoration of the date and the entry
title. We'd have to create a PHP function to recreate this scheme
— and if we ever changed the URL structure from within MT, we'd
have to change the PHP function separately.
(2) Text filters. If you're just converting line breaks,
the text filter is not so hard to re-produce. However, if you're
using Textile or some other plug-in to
filter your text, you're going to have to reproduce that in PHP as
well so the previews render correctly.
You can avoid all this, however, by simply using PHP includes and
an extra Individual Entry Archive. The result is an elegant solution
that blends PHP and MT to eliminate the tedium of recreating MT
functionality in PHP.
To do this, create a new Individual Entry Archive in MT called
"search_fragment." This template should contain the just HTML to
present a single search result. Like this:
<tr class="title">
<td class="title">
<a
href="<MTEntryPermalink>"><MTEntryTitle></a>
</td>
<td class="date">
<MTEntryDate format="%m/%d/%Y">
</td>
</tr>
<tr
class="excerpt">
<td colspan="2">
<MTEntryExcerpt>
</td>
</td>
Configure this template to generate a file in a "search_fragments"
directory named for the entry ID only. You don't even have to add an
extention, though you can if you like (if so, you'll need the change
the PHP code listed below). So the entry in the archiving
configuration would be something like:
search_fragments/<MTEntryID>
Now when an entry rebuilds, it will create two files: (1) its
normal archive file, and (2) a search result fragment file called "1",
"2", "348", etc. in the search_fragments directory. Notice that since
we're using standard MT templates to create the fragment, the
permalink will be created by MT, and the excerpt text will be
formatted according to the text filter the entry is using.
Now, when you use your SQL to get your search results, just SELECT
the entry ID, then spin through those and use PHP to include the
matching search fragment file. Like this:
<table>
<?php
while ($r =
mysql_fetch_assoc($keywordResults)) {
@include "search_fragments/" .
$r['entry_id'];
}
?>
</table>
This will dump the contents of each search fragment file in the
table. Since each file contained two rows, the resulting table will
be valid HTML. Notice we're surpressing any errors on the inclusion
line just in case a file is missing for some reason.
We've be using this system here for months, and it works
great.
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Yahoo! Tests New Look for Search Results
Yahoo! Tests New Look for Search Results
07/07/2004 04:09 PMSource: Search Engine Guide - Following on the heels of an updated
look from rival Microsoft, popular search engine Yahoo! is also
testing some updates to their search results....
Deceptive Advertising in Search Results
Deceptive Advertising in Search Results
03/23/2005 08:11 PMA9 Offers Search Results From Five
Sources
A9 Offers Search Results From Five
Sources
09/16/2004 01:04 AMA9, the search engine from Amazon.com, has relaunched its search
engine. It now offers search results from several different sources,
including the IMDB and of course, Amazon.com. It's available at...
Personalizing Search Results After The
Fact
Personalizing Search Results After The
Fact
09/15/2004 04:23 AMI
haven't
been a huge fan of the concept most people talk about when they
discuss "personalized search" which usually seems more like giving up
a bunch of private info so that search engines can better target ads
for you. However, rather than focus on personalizing the searches
before they're done, a few recent announcements suggest there's
some potential in personalizing the search results
after
they've been done. Much of the tech world is focusing on the
latest launch
of a9, the Amazon.com owned startup that is working on ways to
make the
search interface better (it's worth noting they don't seem to be
doing anything to make
search itself better -- but just the
interface). One of the new features is that it lets users better
handle search results, keeping track of what sites they've clicked on,
taking notes, and even "organize" past searches. This sounds quite
similar to another (much quieter) announcement, earlier in the day,
from a small-time meta search engine named iZito whose meta-search
engine lets users
organize the
results -- "parking" certain results while deleting or minimizing
others. This seems like a different way to approach search. Rather
than focus on trying to better anticipate what a searcher really
wants, both of these moves show that sometimes it's best to let the
human doing the searches take control. Give them more of the raw data
and shape it into useful results. In a subtle way, it's almost
admitting that automated search really can't figure out what a person
really wants very easily -- something most people know, but many in
the search world don't like to admit.
Remixing Google's Search Results
Remixing Google's Search Results
06/02/2004 11:07 PMIt appears that there are a lot of folks out there who are trying to
"remix" Google's interface. The one that got the most press, of
course, was A9, who
built an
entirely new interface to searching Google. Then, there's
Prog (formerly
Proogle), which adds in PageRank info to Google search results. Now
comes the news of
an application called
MoreGoogle, which tries to add additional features to the Google
interface to make it more useful. I haven't tried it (and some folks
may be a bit wary to download a random app and let it hijack their
Google searches), but the article suggests that the author of the
program just wanted to make the Google interface more useful. Once
the program is installed, it basically watches over any Google
searches, and alters the results to make them more useful: adding in
thumbnail images of the website and adding an "open in new window
button." The application adds in some new text ads, that appear to be
part of AdSense (this isn't clearly explained) in order to get some
money back for altering the Google interface. Obviously it would be
pretty simple for Google to add these features themselves, and it's
unclear how legit this particular app really is, but it's still very
cool to see people trying to "remix" Google results to make them more
valuable. Of course, there's a pretty good chance that Google's
lawyers might not find it as cool.
Top 200 MSN popular search results IN
ORDER.
Top 200 MSN popular search results IN
ORDER.
12/19/2004 03:08 PMIt may be in flash, but that never stopped a SEO'er.
Visualizing Yahoo Search Results
Visualizing Yahoo Search Results
06/24/2005 03:05 PMLookSmart Search Results to Feature On
100.com
LookSmart Search Results to Feature On
100.com
07/15/2004 03:12 AMSearch engine newcomer 100.com has elected to align itself with
LookSmart to access it's directory listings and bid-for-placement
distribution network. [PRWEB Jul 15, 2004]
Next-generation search tools to refine
results
Next-generation search tools to refine
results
08/09/2004 07:19 AMThe vast corpus of human knowledge could soon be published on the
Internet. The problem now is how to wade through it.
AdSubtract to snip paid search results
AdSubtract to snip paid search results
12/08/2003 07:10 PMWhile some search engines, such as Google, do a good job of
segregating paid advertisements visually and spatially from legitimate
search results, other search ...
Amazon Calls for Open Search Results
Amazon Calls for Open Search Results
03/17/2005 04:22 AMAt the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego Tuesday,
Amazon.com CEO Jeff Bezos introduced a new initiative to standardize
search results. The goal, says Bezos, is to bring together thousands
of specialized search engines using an open format that can be easily
syndicated.
A Search Engine for Racing Information
and Results
A Search Engine for Racing Information
and Results
06/22/2004 06:08 AMA plain query box gives you the ability to search information on
12,000 races, 12,000 records, 30,000 drivers, and fifty championships.
The site is called CEEM@il and it's available at...
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