Comments on: Anarchy in search engine land: Google minus Google http://thenextweb.com/2008/08/14/anarchy-in-search-engine-land-google-minus-google/ International technology news, business & culture Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:23:52 +0100 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Microsoft buys Ciao.com’s mother company, will it plug its products? http://thenextweb.com/2008/08/14/anarchy-in-search-engine-land-google-minus-google/#comment-365767 Microsoft buys Ciao.com’s mother company, will it plug its products? Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:47:01 +0000 http://thenextweb.org/?p=3340#comment-365767 [...] of formerly trustworthy tools like search machines and comparisons sites becomes doubtful. I earlier reported about Google ranking its own content higher in the search results (i.e. Knol above Yahoo! Answers), [...] [...] of formerly trustworthy tools like search machines and comparisons sites becomes doubtful. I earlier reported about Google ranking its own content higher in the search results (i.e. Knol above Yahoo! Answers), [...]

]]> By: Robin http://thenextweb.com/2008/08/14/anarchy-in-search-engine-land-google-minus-google/#comment-365766 Robin Sat, 16 Aug 2008 12:34:10 +0000 http://thenextweb.org/?p=3340#comment-365766 And as a by-product Google pay him for all the Ads displayed next to the results! ;) And as a by-product Google pay him for all the Ads displayed next to the results! ;)

]]> By: Bob Boynton http://thenextweb.com/2008/08/14/anarchy-in-search-engine-land-google-minus-google/#comment-365765 Bob Boynton Fri, 15 Aug 2008 03:46:50 +0000 http://thenextweb.org/?p=3340#comment-365765 I am doing some 'serious' searching with google for the next several weeks. So I thought I should see how google and google-minus-google are different in my world [US video politics]. If the two are the same except google includes references to google that are left out by google-minus-google then google should find more but when you drop out the google finds that are connected to google what is found by the searches should be the same. That was almost true. I searched for an Obama video just placed on YouTube. I used the url in order to reduce the interpretation of whether it was or was not about the video. Google produced 16 results. Google-without-google produced 14 results. Google got four 'finds' that are directly related to google [as a media company): www.youtube.com, video.google.com, video.google.nl, and video.google.de. I think finding the video on YouTube was a plus. Next-webers might be interested that video.google.nl was on the list. Are you and your friends following the US campaign on YouTube? Google-without-google overlapped with the original google search except for: it produced 2 'copies' of the same post in one case, and it found a post that google did not find. So what? Well, commentary about the video seems to be light; these are not exactly big numbers. Since I was looking for a video on YouTube I think finding it there was good. Of course, not everybody is looking for videos on YouTube. I cannot tell how these results compare with the search for analytics since I cannot read the results of the search [the images are much too small for reading]. But what I found is about what one would expect. Google is adding some references to itself; and they were at the top of the search results. After that they are pretty much the same results. I am doing some ‘serious’ searching with google for the next several weeks. So I thought I should see how google and google-minus-google are different in my world [US video politics].

If the two are the same except google includes references to google that are left out by google-minus-google then google should find more but when you drop out the google finds that are connected to google what is found by the searches should be the same.

That was almost true.

I searched for an Obama video just placed on YouTube. I used the url in order to reduce the interpretation of whether it was or was not about the video.

Google produced 16 results. Google-without-google produced 14 results.

Google got four ‘finds’ that are directly related to google [as a media company): http://www.youtube.com, video.google.com, video.google.nl, and video.google.de. I think finding the video on YouTube was a plus. Next-webers might be interested that video.google.nl was on the list. Are you and your friends following the US campaign on YouTube?

Google-without-google overlapped with the original google search except for: it produced 2 'copies' of the same post in one case, and it found a post that google did not find.

So what? Well, commentary about the video seems to be light; these are not exactly big numbers. Since I was looking for a video on YouTube I think finding it there was good. Of course, not everybody is looking for videos on YouTube.

I cannot tell how these results compare with the search for analytics since I cannot read the results of the search [the images are much too small for reading]. But what I found is about what one would expect. Google is adding some references to itself; and they were at the top of the search results. After that they are pretty much the same results.

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