google refining scoring with user input?

from <[email protected]>, Thu, 22 Mar 2001 13:46:48 +0100 (MET)

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Re: google refining scoring with user input?

from Hugo Haas <[email protected]>, Thu, 22 Mar 2001 08:15:34 -0500

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* [email protected] <[email protected]> [2001-03-22 13:46+0100]
> From time to time (and since yesterday, always), instead of going directly
> to the target site, google send you to links like that:
[..]

The behavior has not changed for me. It still happens occasionally,
but is not systematic.

On a somewhat related note, I noticed that Google has not updated its
index for more than a month now. I use a search box for larve.net[1]
and noted that recent pages, although fetched by Googlebot a month
ago, were not indexed. I noted the problem for the W3C site too for
more than a month.

They are not indexing URIs containing an '@' character, have done a
bad job IMO about the deja.com takeover, are now not updating their
indexes. Google is still the best search engine, but I am less
enthusiastic about it than before.

All The Web / FAST Search[2] OTOH looks better and better to me.

1. http://larve.net/#search
2. http://www.alltheweb.com/
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Re: google refining scoring with user input?

from Ian Jacobs <[email protected]>, Thu, 22 Mar 2001 10:48:12 -0500

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Hugo Haas wrote:
>
> All The Web / FAST Search[2] OTOH looks better and better to me.
>
> 1. http://larve.net/#search
> 2. http://www.alltheweb.com/

I was using mostly All The Web for a while, but switched to
Google because the results seemed so much better. Has All the
Web changed its indexing techniques?

_ Ian

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Re: google refining scoring with user input?

from Hugo Haas <[email protected]>, Thu, 22 Mar 2001 10:52:23 -0500

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* Ian Jacobs <[email protected]> [2001-03-22 10:48-0500]
> > All The Web / FAST Search[2] OTOH looks better and better to me.
[..]
> > 2. http://www.alltheweb.com/
>
> I was using mostly All The Web for a while, but switched to
> Google because the results seemed so much better. Has All the
> Web changed its indexing techniques?

I think that you meant its ranking techniques.

No, AFAIK it hasn't changed. However, the pages indexed are much more
up-to-date than Google's or Raging's.

Even though they do not have Google's cool ranking (BTW, there will be
several discussions about ranking at WWW10 - should be interesting),
the results are relevant enough when you are looking for something
recent.

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FAST Search (was Re: google refining scoring with user input?)

from Hugo Haas <[email protected]>, Tue, 27 Mar 2001 22:59:37 -0500

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* Hugo Haas <[email protected]> [2001-03-22 08:15-0500]
> On a somewhat related note, I noticed that Google has not updated its
> index for more than a month now. I use a search box for larve.net[1]
> and noted that recent pages, although fetched by Googlebot a month
> ago, were not indexed. I noted the problem for the W3C site too for
> more than a month.
>
> They are not indexing URIs containing an '@' character, have done a
> bad job IMO about the deja.com takeover, are now not updating their
> indexes. Google is still the best search engine, but I am less
> enthusiastic about it than before.
>
> All The Web / FAST Search[2] OTOH looks better and better to me.

So I finally got tired of Google and I now use FAST Search as the
search engine for larve.net (see [1]).

I have also made a search box[4] for the fogo archives.

Maybe I will switch completely to FAST Search soon.

1. http://larve.net/#search
2. http://www.alltheweb.com/
4. http://larve.net/2001/03/fogo_search
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