Every character counts: Google secures new URL shortener domain, YT.be – The Next WebGoogle might be switching from youtu.be to yt.be for shortened links soon. Google launches beta test allowing creators to connect Google+ pages to YouTube channels...
How many minutes did those same users spend on YouTube, Blogger, in Google Analytics, using Google’s core offering to search the web, or on one of the other 60 or so services to be combined under their new privacy policy?
PageRank is a numeric score that counts how important a page is based on analyzing the links pointing to it. PageRank Technology: PageRank performs an objective measurement of the importance of web pages by solving an equation of more than...
Web Search Counts! I've written before about Google giving strange results counts and why maybe it's time for them to go. I explained how Google had stated that the counts reported for a spam site that were removed were much inflated by a...
This week's fiasco with the "5 billion spam pages" in Google only underscores that those counts really are a big issue that can be noticed by more than a few tech heads. Google, Kill The Web Search Counts!
This week's fiasco with the "5 billion spam pages" in Google only underscores that those counts really are a big issue that can be noticed by more than a few tech heads. Number one on my 25 Things I Hate About Google list from March was "web...
This week's fiasco with the "5 billion spam pages" in Google only underscores that those counts really are a big issue that can be noticed by more than a few tech heads. Number one on my 25 Things I Hate About Google list from March was "web...
This week's fiasco with the "5 billion spam pages" in Google only underscores that those counts really are a big issue that can be noticed by more than a few tech heads. About Google list from March was "web search counts that make no sense.
Vista Size Controversy: The Google-Yahoo spat over index size in 2005 was only the latest in long standing issues over page counts. Ethically, the content of most web pages ought to be enough for search engines to determine relevancy without...
Web search counts that make no sense. Google's Counts, It's a bug, or search counts are hard to do, or they do say "about. has Robert Scoble recently poking at this, on how the reported counts don't always match reality.
You can't trust search engine counts to prove anything. Forums is another example of the fallacy of citing search counts to prove points. Fox News & Danger Of Citing Search Counts over at our Search Engine Watch
In pondering the various arguments and statements, I was ultimately left feeling how little counting pages, either self-reported index counts or those seen in response to actual queries, mean in terms of whether a search engine is comprehensive.
I can't get the same, but it's just another sign that the counts aren't adding up in the many ways you want to slice them. More important, as I've written before and will come back to again, having higher counts won't mean you're more comprehensive.
Visit our forum thread, Ridiculous Increase In Yahoo Backlink Counts & Is Bigger Index Real? New Estimate Puts Web Size At 11.5 Billion Pages & Compares Search Engine Coverage has an estimate of what search engines cover compared to self-reported...
Visit our forum thread, Ridiculous Increase In Yahoo Backlink Counts & Is Bigger Index Real? New Estimate Puts Web Size At 11.5 Billion Pages Ideally, I want to see the major search engines come together to develop a unified, accepted way to...
To get total page counts you're going to have to literally count each and every result and now how each engine handles the variables listed above (and others). What about mirrored pages? Since both companies include links on results page that don't...
However, they have announced a total image and audio file counts in the past. The number is a combination of total web pages and total images. The number Yahoo is announcing is 20 billion "web objects.
Sure volume counts but in the case of search indexes, they may count against sites: if one is less likely to appear in Google than it is to appear in Yahoo! Revisiting Google's Counts britney spears" any better.
This is beginning to remind me of the jockeying that took place with web index size counts a few years ago. Second, up to four images will now be displayed inline on web search results pages if certain words (aka shortcuts) are included in the query.
A possible scenario is that the real index used by Google is considerably smaller than the counts officially announced. For more background on Google counts and oddities, also be sure to see my recent post, Questioning Google's
