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Search Competitions

(Via Search Engine Marketing and Search Engine Optimization News)...

Early this morning, right after the witching hour, Yahoo pulled the trigger and dropped Google search results from their Yahoo Search function. The move was expected by many in the search industry, especially after Yahoo bought out the Inktomi search engine and Overture Search Advertising last year. Around the same time, MSN expanded their new NewsBot across the International search borders, expanding their service to South America and Asia. Around the same time, Google announced that their index now includes 6 BILLION web pages and documents.

It’s been a busy 24 hours in the search engine world.

Now that's pretty heavy sutff. And I just checked Yahoo! new search results and their not bad at all... a search for my name shows not only my site but a link to my RSS feed. Cool!

I hope the proposed msn search engine has even better stuff when it's finally launched.

Posted in Web Dev on February 18, 2004 7:16 PM

Comments

Being a long time Google Fan, I still believe that new move by Yahoo (which was quite anticipated given their no. of statements made in this regard) would make things more ineteresting. The SE share of Google would drop from 53% and as MSNBOT spiders (and at my ezine, it crawls even more than GoogleBot) around the world, we should expect new tactics, technologies and strategies being deployed by thousands of corporations and webmasters around the world. A little competition should never hurt someone's ass even if it's Google.
Btw, Do you feel any considerable difference in recent results returned by Google since they changed their algorithm at the end of 2003? I just spotted few.

Posted by: Ejaz Asi at February 19, 2004 8:04 AM

Well, I don't even see MSNBot in my AWStats page... or may be the software doesn't recognize it yet. But MSs startegy regarding it's search engine is probably tied to the SQL-based file-system that Longhorn will come with. Now that might be another anti-trust case if pisses off people at Google or Yahoo!

Anyway, I didn't see much difference at google... but I do remember reading that PageRank is not effective anymore. And I rarely research placements anyway.

Posted by: Haydur at February 19, 2004 6:20 PM

Msn's bot name is MSNBot and should be recognised by Awstats coz mine is Awstats too and in first 20 days of Feb. there were 184 hits by MSNBot whereas Google had 156hits on EO. But there are other things that make me want to know more. Through 184hits, the bandwidth consumed by MSNBot was 1.91MB comparing with GoogleBot's 809Kb but the last visit by MSNBot was on 11th Feb and GoogleBot just spidered again yesterday. That means, MSNBot did have 1.91MB bandwidth consumed in first 11 days with 184 hits. So, it seems each Search Engine looks for his own destined paths and content within a site.
On new Yahoo's results, I can't find a lot of results of Honor Killings, previously pulled from Google as well as Nuclear Weapons of Mass Destruction have quite different results now as in the last week. Just like Google had a backlash by its new Algorithm based SE, Yahoo might find few bad mouths but we have to see whether Yahoo and MSN provides what Forrester say "demanding people still don't find what they look for at SEs".

Posted by: Ejaz Asi at February 20, 2004 3:39 AM

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