Category: Search Engines

  • Yahoo! tests blog search in Korea

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    Tom Raftery
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    I see News.com have a story showing that Yahoo! are beta testing a blog search application in their Korean Yahoo! site. Apparently Yahoo is planning to begin testing the same capabilities for its U.S. blog-publishing service in the coming weeks. This is all very timely considering Dave’s taking me to task for dismissing Yahoo! recently!…

  • Damien catches me Googleshaming!

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    Tom Raftery
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    I see Damien caught me Googleshaming (again) and he kindly helps out by linking to my Where to eat in Glengariff post using the link title “review of Casey’s Hotel Glengariff” – nice one Damien, Thanks.

  • Which Search Engine?

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    Tom Raftery
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    In the comments of a recent post comparing Microsoft’s Virtual Earth with Google maps, I was quite rightly taken to task by Dave for suggesting that Yahoo! are not a significant player in map search. Dave informed me that: Yahoo’s revenues are way way bigger than Google. Google are a tiny company compared to MS…

  • Technorati announcements

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    Tom Raftery
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    I see on Dave Sifry’s site that Technorati have made a couple of significant announcements. Firstly they have released new statistics on the size and rate of growth of the blogosphere: over 14 million blogs now indexed 80 000 new blogs per day – that’s about a new blog created every second! 900 000 posts…

  • Microsoft Virtual Earth vs Google Maps

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    Tom Raftery
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    Microsoft launched its Virtual Earth web application this morning – Virtual Earth is an attempt by Microsoft to take on Google’s Google Maps web application. After a couple of initial hiccups in the launch, the application is now live. If this were a report card, I would be writing on it “Must try harder”! –…

  • MSN Search gives RSS Feeds for Search Results!

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    Tom Raftery
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    MSN Search is now providing RSS feeds for search results (and has been for a few months now – who knew?). I gotta say, this is pretty cool – this broadens out the Technorati Watchlist idea to the wider Internet beyond blogs (yes, such an Internet exists!). To access the feed, do a search on…

  • Google Page Rank updated infrequently

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    Tom Raftery
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    Google (and the other major search engines) visits this site at least once a day and index the content. However, on the 12th of March this year I moved my blog from the old domain (tomandpilar.net) to this site and this domain. I put a 301 re-direct on the old site and immediately the new…

  • Google and world domination

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    Tom Raftery
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    Google has announced a new service which they are calling My Search History. Google says My Search History shows you all the searches you’ve done on Google and the search results you’ve clicked on” and further “you can use My Search History’s calendar feature to check the searches you did on a given day and…