December 30th, 2008
Earlier this year Cuil (pronounced ‘Cool’) was believed to be a Google killer. A new search engine started by some industry veterans and well funded. I was personally amazed to see the amount of PR and buzz it managed to create early on. Though the day it launched we were disappointed (it didn’t index us), the quality was not upto the mark. And eventually, few months down the line it seems to have hit a dead end with no real traffic.
So what really caused this crash? Is Cuil really that bad? Maybe not
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December 5th, 2008
Google has updated the image search. The thumbnail that we see along with a frame displaying the webpage now has a search bar on the top. This really saves time for someone like me who opens up many thumbnails in differnet windows/tabs at once and then gets frustrated when he wants to go back and search a new image.
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November 5th, 2008
Some of them might look weird, but then the system reflects what people search for + What is published on the internet …
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November 1st, 2008
Google leads the search business, and every passing they they convince me that no one is even getting close to them. Just recently they announced that they can now crawl and understand text in Flash animations, they now have something even better! Apparently now Google uses a OCR technology to read scanned documents / images (within PDF files).
This Optical Character Recognition (OCR) technology lets us convert a picture (of a thousand words) into a thousand words — words that can be searched and indexed, so that these valuable documents are more easily found. This is a small but important step forward in our mission of making all the world’s information accessible and useful. [Google Blog]
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July 26th, 2008
An important factor in Google Search success was the PageRank (PR). PageRank gives importance to the pages depending on the number and quality of incoming links they have. Microsoft’s new technology BrowseRank intends to capitalize on PR’s shotcomings. Apparently Google PR is somewhat easy to Game with a technique called
Link Farms and it doesn’t take into consideration the amount of time a user spends on a given webpage.
“Experimental results show that BrowseRank can achieve better performance than existing methods, including PageRank…in important page finding, spam page fighting, and relevance ranking…”
But one thing is for sure, a single innovation won’t help Microsoft. Being the market leader takes constant innovation. PageRank isn’t the only thing that Goolge has innovated it. Their search results are influenced by over 200 factors. Google has tools like Google Trends, Google Analytics and Adsense, the data from all these together would provide better quality of results IMO.
So Browse Rank is just another new technology that Microsoft is playing with to compete on the web. And TechCrunch adds some spice to it. A
recent post at TechCrunch suggested that Google’s claim of having ‘the most comprehensive index of any search engine’ might not stand true next week! Some big announcement coming up?
Wait and watch! Ok it seems to be a new search engine
Cuil.
Via Cnet
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July 24th, 2008
Click image to enlargeRecently a friend of mine started to receive weird calls on his office number for Call Girls. At first we thought that someone is playing a prank, but as the number of calls started to increase we decided to investigate. So we held up a caller and inquired where he got the number from. Based on what the callers told us they got the phone number while searching GOOGLE! By this time we were sure that someone has played mischief. So while tracing the keywords given by one of the caller we managed to get the source.
Click image to enlargeThis person had actually placed an Ad on a classifieds site “Required: Girl candidate As office assistant …”, the listing also mentioned his office phone no for contact. Now it so happened that Google picked up a page from this classifieds site for the keywords “call girl mumbai”, and unfortunately the snippet on the Goolge search page showed his numbers (see screenshots). Though the page on the classifieds site is unavailable, anyone who searched for call girl mumbai got his number from the google search page snippet itself!
Weird for sure, but then it happends on the internet. Carefull everyone!
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July 1st, 2008
Having a full Flash based website is a taboo for most webmasters, It would mean a SEO disaster. For years WWW consultants have been advising corporates to avoid a full Flash based website. But things are about to change!
Techspot is reporting that Adobe is assisting google and yahoo search engines to crawl and index flash content (SWF) on the web. Apparently Adobe has provided Google and Yahoo an optimized version of the Flash Player that scans the content inside the SWF files. Google already has this system live and Yahoo plans to integrate it soon.
The
word from Google is that they are currently able to scan
“textual content in Flash files” but not Video and other animation (images etc).
Source
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