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Yahoo to Google: Stuff It!

December 2nd 2006 19:12

Google likes to step on toes. The leading search engine has been known some time now as the new "evil" company, and a recent attempt to bitch slap Yahoo, Amazon, and Microsoft leaves little room for question on the level of evil the company portrays.

As Google prepares to head into a high profile copyright infringement suit over its mission to index copyrighted material, the company is planning, or at least it wanted to try to drag rivals into the battle with it.

As a side note, if I ever switch search engines this is the kind of thing that will make me do it.

Anyway, As Google gathers evidence for its case, the company has subpoenaed Amazon.com, Yahoo and Microsoft, among others.

Last month Amazon.com gave Google the bird, claiming they were after Amazon's company trade secrets. Now Yahoo has followed that vibe and has rebuffed Google with a big "hell no".

It's good to see companies like Amazon and Yahoo stand up to Google. Someone has to do it.

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Posted By: Eric - Category: General Web Search

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Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft Now Working Together?

November 16th 2006 21:16

I almost had to read it twice to believe what I was seeing. Today when I fired up my RSS aggregator I was slapped with a jaw dropping headline.

"Yahoo, Google and Microsoft join forces (really !!) behind Sitemaps"

WOW! How cool is this? I really like the way Priyank Garg, Product Manager for Yahoo! Search, gives us the good news on the Yahoo Blog.

"The best part about to-do lists is when you get to cross something off, and today we can cross one more from the list of feedback we have collected from webmasters. You have asked us to support a single format for submission and today we want to talk about how we are teaming up with Google and Microsoft to support Sitemaps 0.90."

That's what I like to hear. Sitemaps have done wonders for my Wordpress blogs and I've been curious to see how this thing would unfold between the three big dogs of the search world. I'm just surprised that Microsoft gave in like this. I didn't see that one coming.

Garg goes on...

"Together we're announcing www.sitemaps.org, which provides details of the current release of the Sitemaps protocol and will include future updates as we continue to collaborate on this common protocol. By offering an open standard for web sites, webmasters can use a single format to create a catalog of their site URLs and to notify changes to the major search engines. This should make is easier for web sites to provide search engines with content and metadata. And in turn, search engines can spend less time crawling unchanged pages and can update indexes faster as new content is discovered. This will help us reflect the changes more quickly, and improve our ability to provide more timely and relevant search results for users. Sitemaps is available to any site owner who wishes to communicate more easily with participating search engines. Simply create and upload an XML Sitemap and submit the URL of the file to search engines.

You can submit Sitemaps to Yahoo! Search through Site Explorer, just like you could add RSS feeds up to now. Just add the site to which the feed belongs, to your list of sites, and then add the feed for that site. We will retrieve the sitemap and use the data you provide us.

We are open to feedback and ideas on what more we can do with Site Explorer and Sitemaps. Share your thoughts in our forum, we’d love to hear from you."

Call me a nerd, but I'm feeling like a ten year old on Christmas morning right now. This should make the getting pages indexed process a lot more streamlined for all three search engines. I'm looking forward to it.

Now back to that question... will M$ buy Yahoo?

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Posted By: Eric - Category: General Web Search

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New Search Engine With a Social Twist

November 16th 2006 19:03

Social bookmarking and community based network is really hot these days. As I predicted earlier, I think we've only just seen the beginning of the Tsunami of traffic and internet users waiting just around the corner. It's all a matter of being aware that the communities exist, and with the speed of todays communication it shouldn't take long for the social internet message to go completely global.

Now we get to taste a social networking by-product, URL.com. URL is a fairly big search project that pulls data from the three biggest search engines (MSN, Yahoo, and Google) and then provides the user edited results. So basically it aggregates results from the top search engines, and then allows the community to decide what should stay and what should go.

Personally, I think human interaction is EXACTLY what search engines need. My only concern is that these new sites will be exploited by those wishing to be ranked #1 with little or no care for what they might be doing to the quality of the Internet. Hopefully the folks over at URL.com are thinking about that and will be able to come up with solutions to help address the threat.

Either way, I dig this search engine and hope we see more similar projects soon.

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