Size Wars? Perhaps an end to the size wars, as Google finally drops the index count off its home page. Wars: Battle Of The Search Superpowers: Everyone's been arming themselves to take on Google. Of The Relevancy Figure: Long look at the...
However, dropping the home page count is a positive move that I think helps defuse the entire size wars situation. End Of Size Wars? Microsoft Quashes Search Relevancy Report - New Search Engine From Microsoft Gets Cool Welcome from the Wall Street...
However, dropping the home page count is a positive move that I think helps defuse the entire size wars situation. Why have the size wars persisted? The latest size wars broke out last month, when Yahoo said on its blog that it now provided access...
Aside from the relevancy quashing, the story also looks at how Microsoft doesn't seem to be gaining in the search wars despite the technological investment in build its own search engine and backing it with marketing money.
I Dare Google & Yahoo To Report On Relevancy looks at why in my opinion, the current dispute over index size between Google and Yahoo is yet another waste of time that avoids focusing on the figure everyone really wants, a relevancy figure.
Search Engine Size Wars & Google's Supplemental Results, Search Engine Watch, Sept. This is Search Engine Size Wars VI, by my count. Search Engine Size Wars V Erupts covers the self-reported figures and battle we had between Google and MSN last...
Search Engine Size Wars who's biggest" in August 2003. This is Search Engine Size Wars VI, by my count. Search Engine Size Wars V Erupts covers the self-reported figures and battle we had between Google and
More on this in my past article, Search Engine Size Wars V Erupts. Search Engine Size Wars V Erupts from last November and some historic articles on the Finally, as we've repeatedly said, size should not be taken as a surrogate for relevancy.
As Chris blogged, Google has raised the stakes in the search engine size wars by claiming an index of 8 billion pages. We've been through these size wars before. I love the idea of not getting into the size wars again, which are never that...
As a result, Google should quickly gain new desktop search converts in this latest battleground of the search engine wars -- and on territory that some had assumed Microsoft would win on. How's relevancy determined?
As a result, Google should quickly gain new desktop search converts in this latest battleground of the search engine wars -- and on territory that some had assumed Microsoft would win on. How's relevancy determined?
The Search Engine Wars NPR, April 12-16, 2004 Search Wars: Battle Of The Search Superpowers SearchDay, April 29, 2004 We've long had competition in search, so why are we hearing so much about the search wars now?
It's Microsoft's first real weapon of its own in the ongoing search wars. The result is to help more editorial results rise to the top of the results, which MSN says they've found improves perceived relevancy.
It's Microsoft's first real weapon of its own in the ongoing search wars. Relevancy is an extremely difficult task to assess, as I've written about before. It lacks some key features that mature search engines offer that impact relevancy, which...
Search Wars: Battle Of The Search Superpowers SearchDay, April 29, 2004 http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3347181 We've long had competition in search, so why are we hearing so much about the search wars now?
Many assume that Microsoft will eventually "win" the current search wars by rolling out tight integration of search within its operating system. We're looking at test we just ran and looking at the results and trying to determine the relevancy story.
Instead, I'm filled with Andrew Goodman-style rage (and that's a compliment to Andrew) that the search engine size wars may erupt once again. I especially hate when the periodic size wars erupt because examining the latest claims takes time away...
I especially hate when the periodic size wars erupt because examining the latest claims takes time away from other more important things to write about. Instead, I'm filled with Andrew Goodman-style rage (and that's a compliment to Andrew) that the...
Big numbers don't mean relevancy," a reference to recent bragging wars between the engines as to the size of their databases. One hopes that in the meantime, the engines will continue their quest for perfect-score relevancy.
The other item is that Inktomi recently moved its index up to the 2 billion page range, putting us firmly into the middle of "Size Wars III," where all the crawlers start coming up to parity in their index sizes.
