If you run a search company…

March 17, 2007 By

Note to self. If you run an advertising campaign for a search company make sure that the search engine picks up the campaign’s Web site. Otherwise Google’s Matt Cutts will notice it and give you major negative PR. Even funnier? Live.com hasn’t gotten to it either. Yahoo has it, but was a lot slower than Google at coming up with the result.

And we wonder why Google keeps getting more market share?

UPDATE: looks like Ask.com did index the site, but that it doesn’t support the “site:” operator.

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  • http://www.bynkii.com/ John C. Welch

    Google is doing the right thing. It takes care of its core, and is very, VERY careful about expansion.

    Microsoft could learn much from that. Once it decides that “everything” is not in fact a core business.

  • http://www.bynkii.com/ John C. Welch

    Google is doing the right thing. It takes care of its core, and is very, VERY careful about expansion.

    Microsoft could learn much from that. Once it decides that “everything” is not in fact a core business.

  • Brad

    OK, it is fair to say that MS could focus its business, but ludicrous to say that Google is careful about its expansion. Please.

  • Brad

    OK, it is fair to say that MS could focus its business, but ludicrous to say that Google is careful about its expansion. Please.

  • http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd John Dowdell

    It looks like Matt got the facts wrong. He ran a domain-restricted search with the “site:” operator, which Ask does not offer.

    (Rephrased, that site is indeed indexed by Ask.com.)

    The lesson here seems to be a different one than the lesson originally proffered.

  • http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd John Dowdell

    It looks like Matt got the facts wrong. He ran a domain-restricted search with the “site:” operator, which Ask does not offer.

    (Rephrased, that site is indeed indexed by Ask.com.)

    The lesson here seems to be a different one than the lesson originally proffered.

  • http://searchengines.wordpress.com/ Search EnginesWeb

    ASK takes longer to update their database and add new submissions to their SERPs than Google or Yahoo does.

    They certainly have LESS to spend than the big three – and considering everything – it is impressive that overall their SERPs are about as relevamt as Yahoo’s.

  • http://searchengines.wordpress.com/ Search EnginesWeb

    ASK takes longer to update their database and add new submissions to their SERPs than Google or Yahoo does.

    They certainly have LESS to spend than the big three – and considering everything – it is impressive that overall their SERPs are about as relevamt as Yahoo’s.

  • http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd John Dowdell

    Thanks for the “UPDATE:”, Robert.

    I had an error in my comment here, though… ask.com *does* offer a domain-restricted search via a “site:” operator, but it looks like it doesn’t return any results if it’s the only term.
    http://help.ask.com/en/docs/about/adv_search_tips.shtml

    Compare:
    http://uk.ask.com/web?q=site%3Aadobe.com
    http://uk.ask.com/web?q=site%3Aadobe.com+flash

    jd

  • http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd John Dowdell

    Thanks for the “UPDATE:”, Robert.

    I had an error in my comment here, though… ask.com *does* offer a domain-restricted search via a “site:” operator, but it looks like it doesn’t return any results if it’s the only term.
    http://help.ask.com/en/docs/about/adv_search_tips.shtml

    Compare:
    http://uk.ask.com/web?q=site%3Aadobe.com
    http://uk.ask.com/web?q=site%3Aadobe.com+flash

    jd

  • http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/ Jeremy Zawodny

    “And we wonder why Google keeps getting more market share?”

    Really? Who wonders that?

  • http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/ Jeremy Zawodny

    “And we wonder why Google keeps getting more market share?”

    Really? Who wonders that?

  • http://scobleizer.com/ Robert Scoble

    Steve Ballmer sure seems to wonder that a lot.

    Oh, wait, he’s wondering what Google’s doing by expanding so fast at the moment.

  • http://scobleizer.com/ Robert Scoble

    Steve Ballmer sure seems to wonder that a lot.

    Oh, wait, he’s wondering what Google’s doing by expanding so fast at the moment.

  • http://fraudwasteabuse.wordpress.com/ FraudWasteAbuse

    Google is doing the right thing. It takes care of its core, and is very, VERY careful about expansion.

    I would hardly call releasing hundreds of “beta” products being careful about expansion.

  • http://fraudwasteabuse.wordpress.com/ FraudWasteAbuse

    Google is doing the right thing. It takes care of its core, and is very, VERY careful about expansion.

    I would hardly call releasing hundreds of “beta” products being careful about expansion.

  • http://www.chinesegenderchart.info/ Leo

    Google is google!

  • http://www.chinesegenderchart.info Leo

    Google is google!