Then each went to his own home » Google

The Google world

Philipp Keller — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 12:01:08 +0000

Now I could come up with political statements but, no.. :-)

Btw: Google Maps is quite cool. I long for the day when they arrive switzerland.. Using google maps you can even take a sightseeing tour.

Ajax

Philipp Keller — Tue, 22 Feb 2005 12:15:05 +0000

No, neither
nor

I think that Ajax (Asynchronous Javascript and XML) as described on Adaptive Paths site sounds very promising. I was amazed when I tried out my gmail account at how smooth it runs. There are some other google betas that run on a similar technique. Well, I’m looking forward to see some neat web services growing. (Well, I’m thinking about putting into mine)

Link Spammers – history so far

Philipp Keller — Tue, 01 Feb 2005 08:46:02 +0000

Interesting things are going on. Since link spammers put comments on Blogs and get higher google rankings, google told us that you can put a rel=”nofollow” to the links posted in weblog comments. Well, Sixapart (producer of Movabletype) supports the idea among other companies that produce weblogs.
Sure, many people from the xhtml-front think that this isn’t a good idea (are you surprised of that?), but nontheless there are some quite good comments on that.
Well, I’ve got comment spam too (who has not) and I think that it is enought to just change the position of the comment script. Anyone has experience if that helps?

Web search battle – whats the goal?

Philipp Keller — Mon, 17 Jan 2005 10:54:43 +0000

Now we have three big web search sites:
MSN Search, Google, Yahoo, while Microsoft’s MSN Search is the latest competitor.

What is the big difference between the three search engines?
Sure, there are different page ranks, according to google-watch there is

on average only a 20 percent overlap between Yahoo’s first 100 results and Google’s first 100 results for the same search

And ok, there are different sites they are searching through.
But why is MSN doing more or less the same thing with huge efforts what google has already done? Yesterday I wanted to search all swiss companies that use/develop semantic web. I can’t search for that! (if you know a site doing that, let me know!). Now what they do is a giant race and some small search will come and eat them all. Why don’t they invent some new? Never heard of Semantic Web? Sure they have! So why are they are doing the same thing again and again? I don’t get it.