Comments on: Hacking Google: Retro Links Revives Old Google Feature

By: Alethea

Alethea — Fri, 22 May 2009 20:03:46 +0000

That was a nice feature. It predated the popular search widget features we have on browsers today.

By: Mike Clark

Mike Clark — Mon, 04 May 2009 13:21:16 +0000

Hey Matt

This may be a bit off-topic, but it is the only way I know to express myself to movers and shakers at Google. Obviously, the G ranking systems that value link popularity have created huge industries of linking and blah, blah, blogging. I notice recently that sites which mention a keyword in a blog with a link to another blog which links to another, etc., rank HIGHER than the actual content that matches the keyphrase.

Isn’t this becoming a house of cards? That is, isn’t the notion of link popularity (to filter and improve the G index) actually diminishing the value of the index? Not to mention stimulating so much inane drivel in all the blogs….

Personally I am going to continue working on content that is USEFUL, and if people want to link to it, fine. I don’t have the time or inclination to build links or blog.

By: Tarun

Tarun — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:45:09 +0000

Will Google close Googlepages forever or redirect Link only for short Period , reaso i am asking this is that i have hosted my app on googlepages and i hv more then 20 lakh users and i dont wana lose all such users .
I have mailed many members create toipic but fails to get suitable answer , atlast i am trying with you . hope to get a response from your side.

By: Gridlock

Gridlock — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:06:53 +0000

“Hmmm, you guys been busy planting this on users PCs?”

Yes, yes they have – Google have a number of agreements with PC distributors to pre-flash PCs with Toolbar and Chrome, much like the ubiquitous AOL diallers.

By: Gary

Gary — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:00:57 +0000

I tried adding Craigslist.org and eventually was successful, but the default search engine goes to SF. I want to leave it nationwide, which is what I do when searching on Google and then using the additional step of limiting my search to a specific domain. Can anyone help with the proper restriction I should use in my search string for RetroLinks? Thanks.

By: Morris Rosenthal

Morris Rosenthal — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 17:22:28 +0000

Matt,

In the spirit of the day, I’ve made my own bid for recognition as an architect of modern search, by proposing the indroduction of an ALT LITerary tag for literature that may otherwise go unnoticed in search:

http://www.fonerbooks.com/2009/04/literary-writers-need-alt-lit-tags.html

Who knows, maybe we’ll end up on a panel together at some future event:-)

Morris

By: Aqeel Bilal Malik

Aqeel Bilal Malik — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:23:38 +0000

Hey Matt,

A nice move again for trying something different. Waiting for Google Toolbar, plugins and extensions for Chrome.

By: angilina

angilina — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 10:14:22 +0000

Hello Matt,

Retro Links sounds like a good script but Matt, I personally feel no need for it. As I get all the required results in Google Search Results. One option that we see in the picture is of Wikipedia: Google already shows a link to this site in the top few results.

One use of this script: I check my site for one or two keywords to determine its overall ranking. I check in Google, Yahoo and MSN. But I do that via using Google Toolbar plus in Firefox, I have another search box on the top right corner that let me check in Yahoo and MSN.

I have set 100 results per page to be shown in Google Search Results, so I guess, Retro Links is not for me.

Thanks for this info
Regards

By: panzermike

panzermike — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:03:20 +0000

Hey what happened to the Page Rank Toolbar today? Every site is at PR0!!

By: Nick Stamoulis

Nick Stamoulis — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:04:13 +0000

This is a very cool script, I like the retro customization feature…