Web Search
Google Shows Additional Information for Forums
After for search results, Google experiments with showing more information about forum threads. Below the title, there’s a new line with the following format:
Discussion forum: number of posts - number of authors - date of the first post
The extended snippet categorizes the search result and indicates its potential usefulness: for example, a thread that has […]
The Importance of Being Included in Google’s Index
Last Friday, Google Analytics reported a surprisingly small number of visitors for this blog. According to .
Many sites receives most of the traffic from search engines (especially from Google). has been delisted from Google and he describes the consequences.
Yesterday was one of the scariest days I’ve had in a long time and it put […]
Yahoo Search’s Differential Features
Yahoo’s strategy to increase the search market share is to add features that can’t be found at Google or somewhere else. The problem is that these features need to be distinctive and useful enough to attract the attention and make people switch to Yahoo or at least use it a secondary search engine.
The first innovative […]
Finding the Right Signals to Rank Search Results
Udi Manber, VP for search quality at Google, talks in about search, personalization and the influence of social networks on finding the information you need.
Search has always been about people. It’s not an abstract thing. It’s not a formula. It’s about getting people what they need. The art of ranking is one of taking lots […]
Google Starts to Index the Invisible Web
has recently announced that Google started to index web pages hidden behind web forms. “In the past few months we have been exploring some HTML forms to try to discover new web pages and URLs that we otherwise couldn’t find and index for users who search on Google. Specifically, when we encounter a <FORM> […]
Google Detects a Web Page’s Published Date
found an interesting tidbit in Google’s international sites: in some cases, the snippets start with a date that is displayed in the same language as the Google interface. For example, Google France displays “9 juil 2006″, even if the page contains an English date: “July 09, 2006″.
What’s even more interesting is that Google doesn’t […]
