From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 2 03:05:13 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C1E916A418 for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2008 03:05:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oceanare@pacific.net.sg) Received: from smtpgate2.pacific.net.sg (smtpgate2.pacific.net.sg [203.120.90.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D724113C45B for ; Sat, 2 Feb 2008 03:05:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from oceanare@pacific.net.sg) Received: (qmail 4013 invoked from network); 2 Feb 2008 03:05:10 -0000 Received: from adsl181.dyn229.pacific.net.sg (HELO P2120.somewherefaraway.com) (oceanare@210.24.229.181) by smtpgate2.pacific.net.sg with ESMTPA; 2 Feb 2008 03:05:07 -0000 Message-ID: <47A3DDDC.9020302@pacific.net.sg> Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 11:05:00 +0800 From: Erich Dollansky User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070826) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: jerry@syslog.org References: <47A30E1D.4030609@pacific.net.sg> <47A3B9A3.9080505@pacific.net.sg> <47A3D108.109@pacific.net.sg> <4384.76.20.240.110.1201919306.squirrel@www.stelesys.com> In-Reply-To: <4384.76.20.240.110.1201919306.squirrel@www.stelesys.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: chat@freebsd.org, KAYVEN RIESE Subject: Re: Microsoft buys Yahoo X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:05:13 -0000 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