Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 11:05:00 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky <oceanare@pacific.net.sg> To: jerry@syslog.org Cc: chat@freebsd.org, KAYVEN RIESE <kayve@sfsu.edu> Subject: Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo Message-ID: <47A3DDDC.9020302@pacific.net.sg> In-Reply-To: <4384.76.20.240.110.1201919306.squirrel@www.stelesys.com> References: <47A30E1D.4030609@pacific.net.sg> <Pine.SOC.4.64.0802011058160.26188@libra.sfsu.edu> <47A3B9A3.9080505@pacific.net.sg> <Pine.SOC.4.64.0802011755351.8976@libra.sfsu.edu> <47A3D108.109@pacific.net.sg> <4384.76.20.240.110.1201919306.squirrel@www.stelesys.com>
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Hi, jerry@syslog.org wrote: > Erich said: >> I also wonder how Google earns so much monez with its search engine. Is >> it just the adds? Is it reallz this simple? >> >> On the other side, Google must be so much better than other search >> engines to get so much more hits to earn money with this free service >> via the adds. >> >> The problem I see is how the search results are influenced bz the search >> engine in use. >> >> Erich > > Google earns nearly all of it's money from advertisements. Google has the > defacto standard advertising platform on the Internet. Most people do not > understand how large the Internet economy based on AD revenue really is. > Read a bit through http://forums.digitalpoint.com - it's enlightening and > frightening. > I know.. So it is really just the advertisement money they are getting. > Now, Google absolutely dominates the search market, with more than half of > all searches. I think part of the reason is the simplicity and strength I was doing some ISP work when I have heard the name for the first time. The result could not keep up with the other except for verz simple things. So, I dumped it and continued to use Alta Vista, Yahoo and the others. I can't even remember their names. > that they entered the market and the current venacular - when you search > for something or someone, you Google it or Google him. You don't Yahoo I have had the feeling they got a lot of Venture Capital those days which helped them to coin their name. > it. The other part is the algorithm. They have historically had the most > relevant results for a term. I would say that in many ways, both MS and > Yahoo! give better results that google for most of the searches that I > try. I believe the major reason for that is that *everyone* and his > grandmother is trying to game Google to get their splog to the top of the > google rankings. This helped them at the start as it gave them a good overview of what people are doing. Keeping all those things in the database made them actually access only 1% of the Internet but 99% of the users were happy with the result. Meanwhile, they are better in the searches I do. I have verz often at least two search engines looking for the same thing to get verz rare information. Erich
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