Blog Search WTF
Posted on July 12th, 2007by Michael Gray in Google
Hey Google blog search how come I can’t blog search for domain.com? What if I wanted to know who mentioned [techcrunch.com] do you automatically think I meant to search for [link:techcrunch.com] ? Why is that important? Maybe I want to know who blogged about [sneakers.com] and not the word [sneakers]. The link command would work if you didn’t send it through the data obfuscation wonkivator, randomly showing me some sub section of links … sigh …
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July 12th, 2007 at 11:18 am
Yeah, that’s a pretty frustrating “feature”. You can work around it by putting quotes around the domain name.
July 12th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
I really do not like the way blog search works on Google nor the way serps are ranked when you search for a topic. I know that the results are suppose to be indexed according to Google algorithm but I think the algorithm falls short when it comes to blogs.
July 13th, 2007 at 10:13 am
yep, just search for “techcrunch.com” instead of for techcrunch.com and you’ll see a totally different set of results.
July 26th, 2007 at 1:09 am
Interesting idea on the quotes. I also has this problem when using the google search. Thanks for this info.
Oh ya, got to know you from the SEO video about wordpress, google bot thing. Thanks. I will use the video in my later posting. If you do not mind i share it with my visitors. Thanks in advance
July 26th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
Use quotes or put a + before the domain: +techcrunch.com
August 5th, 2007 at 2:26 am
On a related note …why can’t Google differentiate between upper and lower case? If text is enclosed in quotes, for example, the conventions of search should force a search restricted to the exact characters entered.
But Google, foe all their PhDism thinks that “GPS = “GPs”. Did anyone who works search ever have to turn in term papers at school? doesn’t seem so.
“New GPS satellite launched …” is _not_ equal to “British GPs complain about salaries …”, but Google believes it is.
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