From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Jan 21 1:18:44 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88D7537B401 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 01:18:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net (stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.188]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E207843ED8 for ; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 01:18:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from pool0033.cvx22-bradley.dialup.earthlink.net ([209.179.198.33] helo=mindspring.com) by stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18auYK-00020n-00; Tue, 21 Jan 2003 01:18:41 -0800 Message-ID: <3E2D101A.F5E0061F@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2003 01:17:14 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gregory Sutter Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Google (was: Re: GCC as a selling point for FreeBSD? (Not!)) References: <20030120141556.E1857@papagena.rockefeller.edu> <20030120160000.F1857@papagena.rockefeller.edu> <3E2CC016.54BDBA5F@mindspring.com> <20030121090133.GC29071@klapaucius.zer0.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a49d4db174e645dbe554a1743321528222350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Gregory Sutter wrote: > On 2003-01-20 19:35 -0800, Terry Lambert wrote: > > I've found that Google loses a lot of its relevent indexing, and > > has recently cut back on a lot of things that it used to index, > > but (apparently, from the search results) no longer does. It's > > quality has decliend significantly, since they started charging > > for placement (IMO). > > Google does not under any circumstances charge for placement in their > search results. The paid ads they do have are clearly displayed as > such. I meant ad placement, relevent to the search results, not for results placement. For the record, I'm well aware of the fact that google does not skew search results for money, like some search engines, and that was not what I meant to imply. Sorry if it came off like that. What I meant was, I tend to get less search results for a given set of search terms than I used to get, prior to the advertising on the right hand side of the results. I attributed that to the relevency-based search for the paid advertising detracting from the amount of CPU available that would otherwise be burned giving me the same number of results I was getting previously; maybe this is wrong, but regardless of rank order, you would not think you could lose 4000 results for a particular search phrase in only 3 months. Either they are indexing less content, or they have changed their inclusion (*not* rank order!) criteria significantly some time in the last several months. Some people search for themselves; I happen to have three terms sets that I tend to use to benchmark search engines, and just noticed the drop-off recently. For all I know, it just means they are now obeying the ".robots" file, and they weren't before... 8-) 8-). -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message