Sivakatirswami- Saturday, October 21, 2006, 2:58:48 AM, you wrote:
> Can anyone confirm this perception? I would love to be proved wrong: it > goes to strategy, a) depend on a Google search link on your site, for > your own site, b) set up you own search engine (HT DIG). c) pay Google > the big bucks to index your site completely. > OK this is now *way* OT... if you have thoughts or hard information on > this area... email me off list. I'll put this on the list since, as you know, your mail server software doesn't like me. <g> This isn't OT: my ArchiveSearch plugin uses Google as one of the options for backend searching of the list archives, and it's been returning fewer and fewer hits. Switching the search preference to Gmane or Nabble or Mail-archive does a better job. There are areas where some search engines do a better job than others. And while there's some overlap, you will also get hits on one engine and not on another. And vice versa. Another big problem for me with Google searches (at least as far as listserv searches go) is that Google's interpretation of "within the last three months" or a similar search is any page that has been *updated* within that time period, no matter when it was originally published. Thus searching for "externals" and "within the last three months" on the runrev listserv using Google may turn up articles posted two years ago, as long as the web page they reside on was recently updated by the mailing list archival software. On a semi-related topic (and moving somewhat OT) Alexa has started a program to allow you to create your own search engines that run on their servers. You can program them to do whatever you want: return data more or less filtered than the major engines; create specialized filters of your own; search for data posted within the last six hours; aggregate data from multiple searches; etc. And very reasonably priced, as well. http://websearch.alexa.com -- -Mark Wieder [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
