Comments on: Search Engine Olympics - a Gold Medal for ?

By: Bruce Anderson

Bruce Anderson — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 04:21:31 +0000

I agree with Web Comp Analyst. We totally focus on optimizing for Google. However if you are putting out content in a broad basis, links will naturally help your ranking in the other search engines as well. We find that Live is very easy, Yahoo not bad, but changed their algorithm recently that impacted some of our rankings.

In my opinion Google is so far ahead of the competion, it would be very difficult to knock them off.

By: Scott Roberts

Scott Roberts — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:23:35 +0000

While I use Google exclusively, I never forget developing (SEO-wise) for Yahoo and MSN. Why throw away 30+% of a site’s potential audience? That could be a lot of $$ thrown down the drain if visitors can’t reach your sites.

By: cuocthiseo

cuocthiseo — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 06:12:14 +0000

Very hard to rank these SEs, depend on searchers’ purposes, they will choose which is the best.

By: Salsa Boy's Clean Red Widgets

Salsa Boy's Clean Red Widgets — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 08:49:12 +0000

Whether Yahoo beats Google in a contest, Google is still the #1 search engine in the world. Anyone involved in any kind of internet marketing will still want to rank near the top of the Google serps if they expect to make any money.

By: Web Designer

Web Designer — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 07:55:45 +0000

One thing I got form this post is a new searching option clusty, thanks. I had tried other search engines a part from Google like alta vista and yahoo. There is some kind of satisfaction attached to Google may be because it is advertised in such a manner. Yahoo has recently approved as it also gives help regarding the search criteria. Almost all my clients even for web design or optimization wants me to work for Google and hardly for any other engine.

By: WebComp Analyst

WebComp Analyst — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 21:55:05 +0000

Interesting article, but Google has so much of a lead, I can’t see anyone catching up.

On my own sites, Google accounts for 90%+ of traffic … naybe I am wrong, but I don’t optimise for anyone else.

By: Lee Roper

Lee Roper — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:47:31 +0000

In relation to FF v Crome, Crome is great but in its infancy, I will have to use FF until crome has as many supported plug-ins.
I recently wrote a post about Google going from strength to strength and how Yahoo being unable to compete (http://leeroper.com/Southampton-Hampshire/google-going-from-strength-to-strength/), its monopolistic but quick rises can often lead to quick downfalls.
Yahoo is in a great position, it has made all the groundwork and has the foundations set. Although Yahoo needs to seriously change its whole business model and provide customer centred solutions that don’t overwhelm people with too many options.

By: SEO optimization

SEO optimization — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 16:50:06 +0000

In our experience, only trial-and-error works. Google - the six-ton gorilla - sometimes produces fewer hits for a particular keyword than, say, Ask. It just depends. We at Crown SEO, Ltd. have seen blogs and sites skyrocket overnight into number one Google position through the use of white hat SEO tools so the concepts of this blog are correct.

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By: PPC Search Engine Marketing

PPC Search Engine Marketing — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 03:35:04 +0000

Some people are mentioning Cuil…cuil doesn’t even get a gold in the internet special olympics…

By: Top-10SEO

Top-10SEO — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 16:40:53 +0000

It never ceases to amaze me that Google will display a 404 from sites in the top five ranks.

Oh sure — their server could be down, and yes a glitch or up date might be happening on the remote site, oh, and I suppose men from Mars could be holding php programmers hostage.

But that notwithstanding, the number of 404’s I come across in a week is amazing. I really respect Google but if a site is in the top 5, it must be getting spidered more often than most so, why isn’t the domain relegated to the sandbox?

Huh?!

By: Herb

Herb — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 16:41:51 +0000

That’s interesting. I would thing that the opposite would be true and Google would dominate the Olympic search marathon.

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:37:11 +0000

I do believe with the right marketing, google could be beat by a new engine one day. There are a lot of new ideas coming out but not much marketing. Google you hear about every day which is why they have such a tight grip on the market.

By: Adwords Management

Adwords Management — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:43:07 +0000

This was an interesting read, I would have never guessed that Yahoo would have such a strong showing.

On another note, I tried Chrome as soon as it was available and wasn’t that impressed, it’s FF for me.

Best!

By: Paralympics

Paralympics — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:21:48 +0000

Personally, I feel Chrome is faster than firefox. But i'm sticking with ff as i need my extensions.

By: Watch Death Note Episodes

Watch Death Note Episodes — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:43:39 +0000

Cuil was huge for the first few weeks of it's launch; and then it just dropped all of a sudden. Also, Google has come out with a new browser Chrome. Currently on BETA but looks promising.

By: Isabella

Isabella — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:23:35 +0000

Excellent post as well as video. The article is very informative and to the point. good work and keep on doing such a nice posts

By: Frank Levert

Frank Levert — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:44:30 +0000

Clusty seems pretty good but it appears to be giving an edge to older websites, making some search results not that relevant.

By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 14:24:27 +0000

some interesting information there. as for http://www.cuil.com, haven’t heard their name much after their launch…

By: mike

mike — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 18:09:45 +0000

hmmm.. so there will be an upcoming google killer.. there’s this search engine site that was developed by some former elite engineers from google, i’m talking about http://www.cuil.com …. there’s lots of search engine sites coming up to compete with google, but i doubt if they can outrun google.