Comments on: Competition in search

By: steve

steve — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:50:17 +0000

I don’t know what business school some of you people went to. Personally, if I put my own time and money into optimizing a site about blue widgets and it begins to receive traffic from (you know who) and I decide to redirect that traffic to another blue widget site that is willing to pay for it, well isn’t this still a capitalist country? And if that person decides not to pay for it anymore why should I not sell it to a competitor? This is Business 101
Would you do the same with a popular phone number?

By: Multi-Worded Adam

Multi-Worded Adam — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 04:43:54 +0000

So why is the limit by date function broken, and has been broken since I don’t know when? A search for “matt cutts” gives us 1,760,000 references. Updated in the last three months? 1,760,000. Updated in the last 6 months? 1,760,000. How is this right, or indeed helpful? It can be replicated across the board as well.

I’d like to know the answer to this as well. One place I’ve noticed it in particular is Google Alerts. I have the alerts come to my inbox daily, but they’re usually things that are 3-4 months old (e.g. forum discussions, blog posts.)

It would be really nice if it results could be from the previous day.

By: Cristian Mezei

Cristian Mezei — Wed, 11 Oct 2006 01:06:15 +0000

For a search engine to take notice of social aspects, it’s like Digg and the friends section. It’s SO trickable.

I want to stick with the Trustrank and Pagerank. Not go social. Social is all the way, friends helping friends. Not relevancy.

By: Flex Circuits

Flex Circuits — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 04:08:06 +0000

Different searches have their own vital parameter, so the results will be various. I like Google, the SR is most correct!

By: William

William — Sat, 07 Oct 2006 10:05:39 +0000

Matt said “There’s also a quote from me that I’d like to clarify:”

What he means is RE-STATE AND CORRECT, not clarify.

By: couponclub

couponclub — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 15:40:21 +0000

Interesting. I recenetly read an article call chaos at google, claiming that google employees spend alot of time on new ideas too.
So: it looks like you are revealing that there are in fact a nice number of Seos working for google. Got it!
Any how thanks for the great post.

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 12:20:23 +0000

So why is the limit by date function broken, and has been broken since I don’t know when? A search for “matt cutts” gives us 1,760,000 references. Updated in the last three months? 1,760,000. Updated in the last 6 months? 1,760,000. How is this right, or indeed helpful? It can be replicated across the board as well.

By: Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 05:38:39 +0000

Bill, thanks for mentioning the more accurate link. All hail the search patent master.

Joseph, it’s bad luck that Powerset missed this article, but I’m sure they’ll be in a future round-up.

By: Chris Kameir

Chris Kameir — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 02:04:47 +0000

Search is only 1% outside of YOU and 99% inside of YOU. – What I mean by that is that as long as the focus is on finding categories and not on the user there will be no significant progress in search. If the ’search engine’ knows YOU it can give an answer/result relevant to YOU. It’s more important to EXCLUDE all the stuff that is unimportant to YOU than providing you with 16,000,000 results. It starts with simple things like the languages you know but also what else do you already know. – Anyhow, jsut my five Cents

By: Joseph Hunkins

Joseph Hunkins — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 23:30:39 +0000

What about *Powerset*??

It’s going to be good – probably very good – but nobody outside knows just how good. Maybe you have an idea Matt?