The world needs a Geek-ONLY Search Engine that shows millions of results, not thousands, and isn’t easy to use!

Somebody out there has to be doing this! So get on it!

I regularly paste full URL’s into the google search bar (or should I say, used to).

The reason is that if you paste directly into the address bar, it leaves a history. Sometimes at work, or on someone else’s computer or even my own computer, I don’t want sites left in the history bar.

On my own computer, it’s because I use the drop down address bar like my bookmarks. And every time I paste something in the address bar directly, then it’s stuck in my “bookmarks”.

I’ve found a solution though, I just use yahoo now instead of google, since it still works with yahoo. This and a few other things have made me start using yahoo more frequently.

Bottom line is that I don’t understand the logic in removing features other than to appease advertisers. Which is a sad statement about such a profound and powerful tool. I almost see google as a tool for humanity. It kind of reminds me of how the media is so biased, because in the end, it’s not about news – it’s about money.

Google could have done all of the changes, but kept the same feature, with the description “if this REALLY is what you intended, here’s the link…” What good does displaying the non-clickable URL and saying “did not match any documents” do? If you’re going to display it, just make it a link??

And for the record I don’t buy the coddling “You guys are sooo much smarter than everyone else” bit. It’s just a lot more PC than saying “Well, we did it to make more money, even though it is less functional”.

Have a question for you (I don’t know if this is the place to ask, or if I should ask you this at all), but here I go, feel free to ignore it

I work for a pretty big company that has a pretty big website. Let’s call it Example, and the website is http://www.example.com.
Periodically they run a query in Google for all of their domains to check keyword density, the query is:

example site:example.com

and google returns

Results 1 – 10 of about 49,200 from example.com for example. (0.48 seconds)

The problem is, we have not made any changes that may affect those results in the last months, but take a look at those numbers:

3 August

Results 1 – 10 of about 49,200 from example.com for example. (0.48 seconds)
Results 1 – 10 of about 12,600 from example.fr for example. (0.48 seconds)
Results 1 – 10 of about 920 from example.co.uk for example. (0.50 seconds)

And now, 6 October

Results 1 – 10 of about 6,830 from example.com for example. (0.08 seconds)
Results 1 – 10 of about 1,580 from example.fr for example. (0.23 seconds)
Results 1 – 10 of about 1,270 from example.co.uk for example. (0.20 seconds)

Do you know if some of the google updates/changes could have affected those results? Also, the changes in the numbers coincide with the adding of google analytics to our website. Do you think google analytics may have something to do with this?

Regards and thanks!