http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/tags/search/ Sharing My Experience... en Weiqi Gao Fri, 11 May 2012 12:48:36 GMT Pebble (http://pebble.sourceforge.net) http://backend.userland.com/rss http://pebble.sourceforge.net/common/images/powered-by-pebble.gif http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/ http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/2006/03/08/whatever_happened_to_google_search.html <p>"Weiqi, try google 'IIOP.NET' and 'TAO'." Dan shouted at me as I entered OCI North one day last week. (Or was it this Monday? I don't remember exactly.)</p> <p>I knew why. I did a <a href= "http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/2006/02/28/c_c_interoperability_via_iiop_net_and_tao.html" >live blog</a> of one of Dan's talks about <a href= "" >IIOP.NET</a> and <a href= "http://www.theaceorb.com/" >TAO</a> a few days earlier.</p> <p>So I sat down and did the search. As I expected, the blog showed up on the first screenful of results. It ranked the fifth or sixth. "It was number one when I did the search," said Dan, a little bit disappointed that I did not get to see my own blog as the "I'm Feeling Lucky" result.</p> <p>I said to Dan, "Let's try MSN." I installed the <a href= "http://www.customizegoogle.com/" >CustomizeGoogle</a> Firefox extension, which gives me the ability to search some of the other engines with a single click from Google's results page.</p> <center> <img src="http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/images/customizegoogle.png" title="Customize Google" border="1"/> </center> <p>MSN did better. The blog is ranked number two there, right below the IIOP.NET home page. "That's fair." I said.</p> <p>Well, it's another few days now. Being the curious kind, I kept an eye on the rankings of that blog entry on Google as well as MSN. And the result surprised me: my blog entry has dropped off Google's radar screen, while it has reached number one on MSN:</p> <center> <img src="http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/images/msn-search-iiop-net.png" title="Customize Google" border="1"/> </center> <p>This is not the first time that I've noticed MSN Search seems to return more relevant results than Google Search. And I find myself clicking on the "MSN" link on the customized Google search screen more often lately.</p> <p>What is your experience?</p> http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/2006/03/08/whatever_happened_to_google_search.html#comments http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/2006/03/08/whatever_happened_to_google_search.html Wed, 08 Mar 2006 06:16:47 GMT http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/2005/09/14/google_blog_search_a_winner.html <p>Heard the buzz over there in blogland about Google's new <a href= "http://www.google.com/blogsearch" >Blog Search</a> beta.</p> <p>And you know I have to try it out. The result is impressive (I wonder how they ranked the blogs):</p> <center> <a href= "./images/google-blog-search.png" > <img src= "./images/google-blog-search.png" width="388" height="266" border="0" hspace="12" vspace="12" title = "Google Blog Search Beta" /> </a> <a href= "./images/google-blog-search-weiqi.png" > <img src= "./images/google-blog-search-weiqi.png" width="388" height="436" border="0" hspace="12" title = "Google Blog Search: Weiqi" /> </a> </center> http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/2005/09/14/google_blog_search_a_winner.html#comments http://www.weiqigao.com/blog/2005/09/14/google_blog_search_a_winner.html Wed, 14 Sep 2005 12:58:31 GMT