Highlights from the SEW Blog: Jun 20, 2005
Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary search headlines from around the web.
Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary search headlines from around the web.
Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary search headlines from around the web. If you’re not familiar with our blog, click on any of the links below, or visit the blog’s home page at http://blog.sewprod.wpenginepowered.com/.
Google MD? How Doctors Use Search
I’ve heard that doctors are often horrified that patients do a web search about problems, leading them to sometimes inaccurate information. Hey, I’ve done those types of searches myself. I’ve still felt better having some sense of what was going on. But the How Doctors Use Google blog post, spotted via Google Blogoscoped, was a refreshing twist covering how doctors make use of web search. How do I use Google? is referenced in that post and especially worth a further read on what one doctor does. More people consult Google over health is a recent article on the uptake in consulting Google (and probably other search engines, as well).
PageRank Decoder Offers Flash-Based Guestimates On Linking Impact
Want to understand how PageRank will build between pages you link? Only Google actually knows how that works. There’s been so much tinkering and tampering with what they do since the original PageRank formula was published years ago that using that equation to understand what happens today is like teaching sciences with a textbook that’s hundreds of years old.
Nevertheless, that’s all PageRank Decoder has to work with — the old formula. Spotted via Search Engine Roundtable, this Flash-based application lets you link between actual pages to guestimate (strong on the guess) how things might change. Further comments on the tool from Search Engine Roundtable and
For a nice, healthy and recent debate on how much we can really know about PageRank calculations, I recommend reading our Revisiting whether PR is lost when adding pages to a site thread on the Search Engine Watch Forums. For a reminder that it’s anchor text rather than PageRank to worry about, see the How Important Is Page Rank? thread. Other factors come into play, as well, as What Factors Other Than PR Determine Google Rank? covers.
C:> YubNub For “Command Line” Searching & Search Commands For the Majors
Honestly, I didn’t miss leaving behind the DOS command line and getting all GUI. But there are times when I’ll still dig out the command prompt window on Windows XP to do something quickly. New service YubNub harkens to give you a command line interface for search. Come up with your own command (it wasn’t working when I tried), and then anyone can make use of that on YubNub. For example:
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Time for another clickfraud round-up. What have we got? Here we go, newest to oldest, all in one breath!
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