Silly-season

Johannes Beus
I am not sure if it is the spacial remoteness from the German SEO-(news)-scene or if there is really nothing happening – anyway while I was purging my RSS-reader, I was not able to find one message that warranted its own posting, therefore here a short roundup of a few things.

Query for the supplemental-index – after Google closed the possibility to find sites that were in the supplemental-index, new ways to query this information are coming to light. One of them, now public thanks to Webmasterworld, which will likely be discontinued soon is “site:sistrix.com&”.

Wikia purchases Grub – The searchengine-mirage belonging to Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia – fittingly answering to the name “Wikia” - seems to be finally assuming a shape. Wales has taken over the code for the, by now, nearly dead distributed-crawling-searchengine Grub. The principle behind it was that users could download a client and then crawl a part of the searchengine-index through their Internet-connection. I am still unable to find many positives in this thought, since for one the administrative burden for the needed clients is quite large and for the other is the fact that the needed bandwidth should not be a limiting expense factor anymore for the construction of a searchengine. While Grub was still riding on the Open-Source-mentality it will probably not be so easy for Wales to convince people to allocate computing power and bandwidth to him for free so that he can construct a commercial searchengine out of it.

Google Trends with more data, or not really? – Daniel discovered that Google is apparently arming its “Google Trends” service with more, better and more up to date data. While in the past only larger keywords or searchqueries were available, it seems that now nearly all searchqueries from Google can be queried. At first glance this looks quite interesting, however it seems there are still some performance problems; let's see how this turns out.
Johannes Beus - on Tue (07/31/2007) at 02:44 AM

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