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The Search Industry Blog
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By Nathan Enns on Monday, January 11th, 2010 at 11:53 AM
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Wolfram|Alpha announced that they added physical activity data to their already large collection of indexes.
I wonder how many people regularly use it when searching for information? While it does save you the time of hunting through third party websites it still seems like it takes more work than using other search engines to just get a list of web pages...
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By Nathan Enns on Monday, December 28th, 2009 at 10:38 PM
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If a free for all page links to your site then it will not hurt your rankings in search engines (probably won't do much else either).
If your site links to a site that has been flagged as spam it may hurt your rankings in some search engines.
What is a free for all page/site? It is just a list of links ordered by the date that each link was submitted without a search feature and without any other content.
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By Nathan Enns on Sunday, December 20th, 2009 at 6:14 PM
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Google released a URL shortener that functions with other Google products.
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By Nathan Enns on Friday, December 11th, 2009 at 2:08 PM
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Social networking news feeds are short announcements that users publish to alert their acquaintances about recent updates (kind of like an easier to read real time version of the once a year holiday update some family members send to each other).
The only people who *may* read *some* of these updates are people who know the author or people who are fans of the author.
So.... who wants to read this??? And more importantly, who can decipher it?
I have been trying to search for a word that returns results that are legible, comprehendible and that anyone who isn't already visiting that person's social networking page regularly would want to comprehend.
Either there is nothing left for search engines to index, people don't know how to parse what they have not indexed or the priority is to write a lot of simple programs that can be promoted instead of fewer complex programs that are useful.
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By Nathan Enns on Monday, November 30th, 2009 at 7:36 AM
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The search engine Ask announced that they now have 400 million pairs of questions and answers.
It functioned well even when asked: How much does it cost to pull wisdom teeth? by returning a quote from Yahoo answers.
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By Nathan Enns on Monday, November 30th, 2009 at 7:28 AM
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Google announced that holiday shoppers can save money when they use Google's checkout service.
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By Nathan Enns on Monday, November 23rd, 2009 at 3:06 PM
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Google re-designed their Adsense interface with several reporting enhancements and the addition of options to customize them.
It is not the default design yet but is is accessible in the top right corner of accounts via a link that switches to the new version.
Not sure if it is available to every account holder yet or if they are just testing it on a few.
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By Nathan Enns on Sunday, November 22nd, 2009 at 7:10 AM
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I searched Google for "search" just now and noticed that Bing is #1 and Google is all the way down at #9. Then again, I did this search on Google and not Bing so I guess Google still wins.
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By Nathan Enns on Friday, November 20th, 2009 at 8:46 AM
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Google talks about their operating system extension of Chrome (Google's web browser). You can also watch a demo.
What is Google Chrome OS? It is Google's web browser (Chrome) with extra features and a direct integration to specific brands of computer hardware so that certain computers can be used without other operating systems like Microsoft Windows (wait, why did they do that???).
According to their video even the fastest computers could still take a whole 45 seconds to boot up. After I heard that shocking news I immediately re-formatted by computer and re-installed everything to save 5 seconds :-) jk.
Their video also states that over time your current operating system gets "rusty" and your once "fresh" computer gets "slow". Does anyone know why that happens........? Because you installed, re-installed and un-installed programs that are not exclusively online.
If you only used your current computer for accessing external devices (internet, usb, dvd, mp3, etc) you would notice it doesn't slow down as much over time. If you use Chrome OS on the same computer for a long time you might notice that your friends who buy new computers have "fresher" and less "rusty" technology.
If you only use computers to browse the web then Chrome OS is probably something to consider buying when released (next year?). Without including most features that existing operating systems offer it should have no problem being faster.
Too bad (for Google) that their marketing assumed that everyone who uses the Internet only uses the Internet... lol. If the videos I watched were not biased it would have been possible to learn from them instead of interpreting them.
Google seems like a search engine but they are obviously not exclusively a search engine technology company anymore... guess I will have to figure out if non-search industry developments released by a search engine classify as post worthy.
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By Nathan Enns on Thursday, November 19th, 2009 at 8:42 AM
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Google announced that they added a legal search option to Google Scholar.
People may now be waiting for Google to develop a "legal to English" translation service, a "summarize to <10 pages" tool and a "permission probability" calculator to compare case law and determine how close a specific action is to violating a rule.
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By Nathan Enns on Saturday, November 14th, 2009 at 2:12 AM
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The video search engine Clicker has announced that they are out of beta testing and officially launched.
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By Nathan Enns on Saturday, November 14th, 2009 at 2:08 AM
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Microsoft updated their search engine Bing to provide access to the computational information from Wolfram|Alpha.
There is always a trade off when developing products and services in this world: Use extra resources and risk failure to develop your own technology or become less flexible and more reliant on a third party to provide you with that technology?
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By Nathan Enns on Saturday, November 14th, 2009 at 1:51 AM
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A Google Bomb for Barack Obama places his profile page at whitehouse.gov #1 in Google's search results for "Who is failure?".
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By Nathan Enns on Monday, November 9th, 2009 at 7:01 AM
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People sometimes use search engines to find stuff.
Search engines use people to rank the same stuff and provide it to the same people.
Unless people stop using search engines or search engines stop using people to rank pages the accuracy and uniqueness of human thought will gradually spiral downward into inaccuracy and a lack of diversity.
However, the inaccuracy and sameness will go unnoticed due to the trust people have in the reliability of the stuff provided to them through search technology.
Just in case you don't understand....
1. Search engines use records of past search queries, records of clicked links and link/anchor text popularity to determine the rank of web pages.
2. The past search queries and clicked links come directly from people who are searching and therefore have not found. Many searcher's know all sorts of stuff but they are most likely to search for what they know the least about. Guess what data the search engine saves and ranks pages with....
3. The link/anchor text popularity comes from website owners who often use search engines to help them generate content for their sites. This results in the production of content that is based on third party sites. Then these sites that are based on third party content start showing up in search results for other website owners who are using search engines to help generate content... this could get repetitive.
4. So there is a gradual shift to use third parties as a basis for content production that are found through search engines that rank pages using a combination of those same sites, distinct sites and data saved from people who are most likely to search for what they know the least about.
You probably still think I am wrong don't you :-(
At least this is a nice, juicy, fresh, unique collection of text just waiting to be paraphrased and reproduced on your webiste, hehe.
Wait! Would I rather you use this post on your site and link back to this site or save human thought by doing the opposite???
Do you own a website? If so, FyberSearch has just released a manual designed to help you rank higher in search engine results.
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Check out this pic of Google's search results. At least they like themselves...
"I believe all the turmoil around Yahoo! (YHOO) following CEO Terry Semel's resignation fortifies the case for a merger with eBay (EBAY), which I defended before."
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It seems like June will be a month to review the bugs in search engines, according to this blogger.
Not sure why we need to pick a month to do this in... why not list the bugs as they are found?
Hopefully the plan is something other than gaining unauthorized access to search sites, downloading their user data and posting it for the world to see.
"Google today announced may be the most significant enhancement to the company’s core search engine in several years: Google is integrating search engines that so far have operated as separate entities into the main Google search. It also marks the first time that YouTube is closely embedded into Google search results."
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We have updated two of our free services for website owners. Please check them out and tell us what you think.
1. URL Breakdown
2. URL Inclusion Status
"A new feature for Google Inc.'s search engine lets users browse, retrieve and search web pages that they have previously visited, without having to open their web browser's history file."
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