Tag Archives: Search

Is Google artificially increasing ranking for Knol?

July 30, 2008 – 2:20 pm | By Gatt | Posted in Internet | Also tagged , , | Comments (0)

After few days of launching Knol, Google is being criticized for artificially increasing ranking of Knol articles. I decided to take a look at Yahoo ranking for these keywords.

There are few examples shared. Search Engine Land test picked 30 knols from homepage and 10 out of these showed up on first page. Let’s compare these on Yahoo. I am going to check Google again as Search rankings in Google might have changed since the time, article was written. Read More »

Problogger is not top resource for Blogging for Money - Cuil

July 28, 2008 – 1:41 pm | By Gatt | Posted in Internet | Also tagged , , | Comments (0)

Cuil, a New Search Engine, launched today claiming to be better and more comprehensive than Google. Cuil is taking a different and refreshing approach to search. Search results are displayed in columns with more summaries of search results (downside being fewer results per page). Related searches are shown in tabs. Categories are also shown to fine tune results. Cuil has arguably found a way to index web for lower cost and that way they can index more pages faster than current search engines. Read More »

Search US Election video content with Google gadget

July 17, 2008 – 8:17 pm | By Gatt | Posted in Internet | Also tagged , , , | Comments (0)

us-election-video-search-google-gadget-148x150 Search US Election video content with Google gadget imageGoogle extended search capabilities to video with speech to text. Now we can search not only title or description of videos, but spoken content also. This is limited to only few 2008 US election videos in Youtube at this time and will be extended. Using Speech to text capabilities, audio part of the video is converted into text and indexed. Read More »

Power of Google Custom Search Engine

June 5, 2008 – 11:18 am | By Gatt | Posted in Internet | Also tagged , | Comments (0)

Custom Search Engine (CSE) is the core technology for the entire Google’s customized search initiatives. This technology is used with some modifications in Google Site Search and Google Adsense for Search and will probably be used for any new initiatives Google undertakes in Customized search area. Read More »

Improve your Sales with Google Site Search for Business

June 3, 2008 – 8:57 pm | By Gatt | Posted in Enterprise apps | Also tagged , , | Comments (0)

You have created a wonderful sticky site and have worked really hard to make sure customers and users can navigate thru the site to find information and products they are looking for. But users prefer search to find information. Consider adding Google Site Search (previously called Custom Search Business Edition) to help your users find information they are looking for quickly and easily. Read More »