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THE GREAT GOOGLE EXPERIMENT – 400 FINDS ON THIS WEBLOG IN THE LAST WEEK – GOOGLE V’s THE REST – NOTHING COMES CLOSE

I’ve done an experiment this evening. This blog gets hundreds of hits every day, and it records where those hits have come from. I have sat this evening and stripped out the code for the last 400 searches from search engines which have pointed at this weblog.

You can see, from the past 400 hits, that the majority of hits have come from Google, this is no surprise really, but it demonstrates strongly that the likes of Yahoo! and A9 really have their work cut out if that want to stay in the search engine game. And as for TV advertisment regulars….Ask Jeeves….shameful with a zero result too…. Out of 400 web searches, an unsurprising, 374 came from Google. Nothing came close, well NTL World got 10 results, and NTL World’s search power is provided by Google! (and is full of adverts hindering the search a bit). What about AOL then? They got 13 results, not very good really is it.

You can actually click the below links, and see what previous searches people have done to find content on my weblog! Of course, I’ve not written here what each link’s key words actually are, because Google’s spider will come along and link them all up for all the wrong reasons!

Conclusion: Google wins, use Google, the end.

Here is the last 400 search engine results that found content on this weblog:

NTL Return 1

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So why are we all using Google? Personally, I think these are the reasons are…

  • It looks simple, and is simple to use
  • No picture adverts, no overpowering banners
  • Fast return of results
  • No flipping Pop-Ups!!
  • The advertisers links are clearly up the side of the page rather than returned in the results
  • The advertiser links are actually relevant to the results, and can be a useful search result in their own right
  • There is a safe search facility, which restricts unsuitable returns from unwanted sites
  • Google actually finds what you are looking for

Don’t forget to leave your comments below….

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4 thoughts on “THE GREAT GOOGLE EXPERIMENT – 400 FINDS ON THIS WEBLOG IN THE LAST WEEK – GOOGLE V’s THE REST – NOTHING COMES CLOSE”

  • mattheweaves
    November 2, 2006 at 11:11 am

    The technology behind Google
    Submitted by visitor on Wed, 01/05/2005 – 23:07.
    Quite simply put, from the start, Google were technologically ahead of the game. They still are. They probably always will be.

    For an insight in to just how the greatest search engine on the net work check out these three links:

    http://www.google.com/technology/
    http://www.google.com/bot.html
    http://www.google.com/help/features.html
    http://www.google.com/technology/pigeonrank.html

    Hope this is of some use to someone.

    Gareth

  • mattheweaves
    November 2, 2006 at 11:11 am

    Google: safe? I don’t think so
    Submitted by visitor on Fri, 12/24/2004 – 18:17.
    Much discussion in the Naace community* about Google image searches and how they are far from safe to use. Picsearch (part of Ask jeeves) is being used increasingly as a result, and many local education authorities are, or are considering, banning access to Google (either just the images search or the whole site)…

    *Naace is the UK community of people invovled in “advancing education through ICT”

    Pete Bradshaw

  • mattheweaves
    November 2, 2006 at 11:11 am

    interpretation
    Submitted by Andy on Mon, 12/20/2004 – 23:25.
    Hi Matt, I’m not totally convinced this proves google’s superiority as such. It may prove that google gives far too much weight to blogs, delivering people who are realy looking for something else. It’s all to do with the page rank algorithm, which favours all the links in and between blogs. They may have to adjust that to compensate one day. It’s always fun to see what people are searching for though, isn’t it.

  • mattheweaves
    November 2, 2006 at 11:12 am

    I agree, and I disagree….
    Submitted by Matthew Eaves on Tue, 12/21/2004 – 09:44.
    Hi Andy. Personally I think the web is going in the right direction…..user generated content for a user driven world….I’m impressed by Google’s returns, I’m not calling Google superior, I simply think the others need to catch up…….there is a lot of money still to be made from advertising revenue via the Internet……So many people use Google, and I guess we all need to pose ‘why is that?’ I simply think that Google works, and if it did not work, people would not use it. I’m not sure Google needs to adjust to compensate for the page rank algorithm, I find much richer content from bloggers and people writing about real life experiences….thanks for the thought provoking reflections….I guess the next thing to do on this research study is to evaluate each visit, to find out how long people look at the pages they find via Google, and if they are useful for what the original researcher actually wanted to discover, research or explore.

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