From Abacus, Ada and Archie, to the World Wide Web Wanderer, Yahoo, AllTheWeb & Google: the Google Blogoscoped Search Engine History.
In Google News, first will be last, writes The Inquirer:
“One interesting feature of the Google news aggregation service is that if you’re first with the news, you might find your story is last on the list, because of the way the beta service lists its results. (...)
But what the Google ranking does mean, is that if you time your story right that is to say you delay it until the rest of the rat pack starts running, you’re likely to get a much higher exposure on the news pages, just because you’re late with the news.”
– By Esther Tigre, In Google News, first will be last, June 8 2003
Let Theorybot lecture you.
Thanks to everybody for voting in the 50 Google features poll. To recapsulate, among other (more or less all non-gimmicky things) people want more flexibility and accuracy in the search query.
Almost everyone would like optional case-sensitive search, or flexible sub-string wildcards, or “unlimited words” phrase wildcards. Also, fuzzy “OR” search was popular.
HTML features are not as important (like searching for a source code phrase).
Some would find it useful to search by image comparison, whereas almost no one would like to have music comparison algorithms.
Many people (almost everyone) would like to see a premium search with a monthly fee.
Also, easy-to-use date delimiters (“show only pages that changed yesterday”) where a big favorite.
One of AllTheWeb’s features, FTP-indexing, didn’t manage to take off. Neither did “grouping search result into categories”, which some search engines try to specialize in.
Developer’s features, like more request to the Google Web API, also weren’t hot.
Comparing the cache history to see page changes was popular.
>> More posts
Advertisement
This site unofficially covers Google™ and more with some rights reserved. Join our forum!