Comments on: All Google, All the Time (Yikes!) http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/05/27/all-google-all-the-time-yikes/ Insight and Analysis from North of the Border Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:56:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Jeremy Hylton http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/05/27/all-google-all-the-time-yikes/#comment-5558 Jeremy Hylton Wed, 06 Jun 2007 02:44:02 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/2007/05/27/all-google-all-the-time-yikes/#comment-5558 Mark, I'm an engineer on the blogsearch team at Google. We looked into the problem you mentioned here and did find a bug. We fixed a bug in the part of our backend that computes pagerank. As a result of the bug, you were getting a very low pagerank. The blog was in the index, but was unlikely to rank well for most queries. The bug is fixed now. As I write this, your post http://www.allaboutnortel.com/2007/06/05/a-win-for-nortel/ is the top result for the query nortel. If there are other blogs you are having trouble finding, please let me know. Jeremy Mark, I’m an engineer on the blogsearch team at Google. We looked into the problem you mentioned here and did find a bug. We fixed a bug in the part of our backend that computes pagerank. As a result of the bug, you were getting a very low pagerank. The blog was in the index, but was unlikely to rank well for most queries.

The bug is fixed now. As I write this, your post http://www.allaboutnortel.com/2007/06/05/a-win-for-nortel/ is the top result for the query nortel.

If there are other blogs you are having trouble finding, please let me know.

Jeremy

]]> By: Arvind http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/05/27/all-google-all-the-time-yikes/#comment-5491 Arvind Mon, 28 May 2007 15:22:18 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/2007/05/27/all-google-all-the-time-yikes/#comment-5491 >> As someone who likes to support the little guy, is it time to explore some non-Google services? Try <a href="http://zoho.com" rel="nofollow">Zoho</a>, Mark :-) >> As someone who likes to support the little guy, is it time to explore some non-Google services?

Try Zoho, Mark :-)

]]> By: Vanessa Williams http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/05/27/all-google-all-the-time-yikes/#comment-5490 Vanessa Williams Mon, 28 May 2007 15:04:55 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/2007/05/27/all-google-all-the-time-yikes/#comment-5490 "I’ve used a number of photo-editors, and really been impressed by Picasa. One quibble is it’s tied to other Google services so you can’t use it to link with a blog unless you’re a Blogger user." Yes, that is a drag. A colleague and I actually discovered a way to hack Picassa to allow the posting of images to other places. Whether it's legal or not, is another story. Hey, if enough people want this feature, maybe we'll create a HOW-TO and a service around it! As for Google taking over too much of your life, I agree that's becoming a danger for many people. I'm not too badly off myself, having abandoned Blogger a while ago (it was just way too buggy.) I use gmail, but only to catch spam to my blog. The only thing I can't really do without is Google search. For better or worse, I still use Safari, and I don't know how (or even if) you can change the search box to use a different engine (how is it Apple gets away with stuff like this when *nobody* else would?) And even if I could... would I? It's become a little too addictive. A problem with "supporting the little guy" is that often that little guy gets bought up by one of the big ones and then you have to abandon the thing or learn to live with the new management. How long before BlogDigger gets bought by Yahoo! or something, for example? Flickr, Blogger, MyBlogLog... the list of former little guys is growing every day (and good on their founders, I suppose.) “I’ve used a number of photo-editors, and really been impressed by Picasa. One quibble is it’s tied to other Google services so you can’t use it to link with a blog unless you’re a Blogger user.”

Yes, that is a drag. A colleague and I actually discovered a way to hack Picassa to allow the posting of images to other places. Whether it’s legal or not, is another story. Hey, if enough people want this feature, maybe we’ll create a HOW-TO and a service around it!

As for Google taking over too much of your life, I agree that’s becoming a danger for many people. I’m not too badly off myself, having abandoned Blogger a while ago (it was just way too buggy.) I use gmail, but only to catch spam to my blog. The only thing I can’t really do without is Google search. For better or worse, I still use Safari, and I don’t know how (or even if) you can change the search box to use a different engine (how is it Apple gets away with stuff like this when *nobody* else would?) And even if I could… would I? It’s become a little too addictive.

A problem with “supporting the little guy” is that often that little guy gets bought up by one of the big ones and then you have to abandon the thing or learn to live with the new management. How long before BlogDigger gets bought by Yahoo! or something, for example? Flickr, Blogger, MyBlogLog… the list of former little guys is growing every day (and good on their founders, I suppose.)

]]> By: Jim Courtney http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/05/27/all-google-all-the-time-yikes/#comment-5487 Jim Courtney Mon, 28 May 2007 01:32:18 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/2007/05/27/all-google-all-the-time-yikes/#comment-5487 On your Blackberry go to http://mobile.google.com in the web browser and see what you get. (http://skypejournal.com/blog/2007/04/precursor_to_gphone_on_my_blac.html). Talk about being everywhere! They also have significant presence on the Nokia N800 with a Google Search widget and GTalk embedded. On your Blackberry go to http://mobile.google.com in the web browser and see what you get. (http://skypejournal.com/blog/2007/04/precursor_to_gphone_on_my_blac.html). Talk about being everywhere! They also have significant presence on the Nokia N800 with a Google Search widget and GTalk embedded.

]]> By: Jim Courtney http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/05/27/all-google-all-the-time-yikes/#comment-5486 Jim Courtney Sun, 27 May 2007 21:15:52 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/2007/05/27/all-google-all-the-time-yikes/#comment-5486 Seems like Tom Keating's posts were also not hitting Google Blog Search but then he got an email from a Google Blog Search engineer pointing out they had to fix a backend bug: http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/google/google-blog-search-doesnt-suck.asp. And he is now back on GBS. Seems like Tom Keating’s posts were also not hitting Google Blog Search but then he got an email from a Google Blog Search engineer pointing out they had to fix a backend bug: http://blog.tmcnet.com/blog/tom-keating/google/google-blog-search-doesnt-suck.asp. And he is now back on GBS.

]]> By: Aaron Brazell http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/05/27/all-google-all-the-time-yikes/#comment-5485 Aaron Brazell Sun, 27 May 2007 21:13:53 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/2007/05/27/all-google-all-the-time-yikes/#comment-5485 <p>Google Blog Search has been highly accurate and amazingly quick in being up to date, Mark. Your problem on your Nortel blog is that you aren't pinging a damn thing. Of course, Google or anyone else is going to know about your Nortel blog. Add ping servers to your wordpress admin and you'll see plenty more results.</p> Google Blog Search has been highly accurate and amazingly quick in being up to date, Mark. Your problem on your Nortel blog is that you aren’t pinging a damn thing. Of course, Google or anyone else is going to know about your Nortel blog. Add ping servers to your wordpress admin and you’ll see plenty more results.

]]> By: Darren http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/05/27/all-google-all-the-time-yikes/#comment-5484 Darren Sun, 27 May 2007 20:33:46 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/2007/05/27/all-google-all-the-time-yikes/#comment-5484 Funnily enough, I was just thinking about Google: http://flickr.com/photos/dbarefoot/514759657/ Funnily enough, I was just thinking about Google:

http://flickr.com/photos/dbarefoot/514759657/

]]> By: Ryan Coleman http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/05/27/all-google-all-the-time-yikes/#comment-5481 Ryan Coleman Sun, 27 May 2007 18:40:36 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/2007/05/27/all-google-all-the-time-yikes/#comment-5481 Mark, WRT Google's Blog Search - have you ever added your blog's "Sitemaps" to their tool? https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ You can either do a proper sitemap XML file or they also support just taking your RSS feed. Since I added it to my blog I noticed it gets indexed much more frequently and reliably. Often my posts will show in Blog Search within an hour or less of them being put up now - Ryan. Mark, WRT Google’s Blog Search - have you ever added your blog’s “Sitemaps” to their tool?

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/
You can either do a proper sitemap XML file or they also support just taking your RSS feed. Since I added it to my blog I noticed it gets indexed much more frequently and reliably.

Often my posts will show in Blog Search within an hour or less of them being put up now

- Ryan.

]]> By: Hsien Lei http://www.markevanstech.com/2007/05/27/all-google-all-the-time-yikes/#comment-5479 Hsien Lei Sun, 27 May 2007 18:15:17 +0000 http://markevanstech.com/2007/05/27/all-google-all-the-time-yikes/#comment-5479 What are you trying to do with Picasaweb and your blogs, Mark? There are a number of options for getting URL's for the images to copy and paste into blogs, etc. You can even add a slideshow of the pics in your Picasaweb albums to your sidebar. What are you trying to do with Picasaweb and your blogs, Mark? There are a number of options for getting URL’s for the images to copy and paste into blogs, etc. You can even add a slideshow of the pics in your Picasaweb albums to your sidebar.

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