Search Freshness
I was curious to see how well some search engines deal with freshness. A perfect test for this task is the debut of a new company, so I'll use Zvents as my test subject. Zvents went live on October 4th, and today is 4 days later, 8pm October 8th, so let's see what we can find....
Technorati.com: 85 posts found
They claim to be able to index blog postings within 5 minutes of them going up, pretty impressive. And they try to index every blog site. The problem is coverage- they tend to miss blogs that are not part of a major blogging site.
Blogsearch.google.com: 97 posts found
Google's new blog search engine seems to have slightly more coverage than Technorati. One drawback, they currently only index the RSS feed data (and not the actual target pages themselves).
IceRocket.com: 85 posts found
IceRocket is Mark Cuban's blog search start-up. It does a reasonable job of matching Technorati.
DayPop.com: 3 pages found
DayPop is a news and blog search engine. Clearly they're lagging behind the competition in terms of coverage.
News.google.com: 9 pages found
Google's search engine for news sites.
News.yahoo.com: 9 pages found
Yahoo's news search.
Search Engines: I list the number of pages found as well as the number of pages reported because they differ. Pages found is much less than what they report, possibly due to many reasons, such as estimation algorithms, duplicate counting, etc).
Search.msn.com: 49 pages found (6,686 pages reported)
Microsoft's search engine is doing pretty well.
Google: 195 pages found (12,100 reported)
Google seems to have excellent coverage and freshness.
Yahoo: 224 pages found (1,160 pages reported)
Yahoo also has excellent freshness and coverage.
One final test, checking major search engines for links to Zvents, using the query link:http://www.zvents.com
Yahoo: 86 pages found (174 pages reported)
Quite good.
Google: 1 page found
Strange- google had tons of pages it found for the "zvents" query and yet only had 1 inlink. What's going on here?
Search.msn.com: 49 pages found (837 pages reported)
Microsoft's search is even beating google on link queries.
del.icio.us bookmarks - 80 user bookmarks
The bookmarks of del.icio.us users is interesting to see. This link comes from OnoTech (Ethan Stock).
Technorati.com: 85 posts found
They claim to be able to index blog postings within 5 minutes of them going up, pretty impressive. And they try to index every blog site. The problem is coverage- they tend to miss blogs that are not part of a major blogging site.
Blogsearch.google.com: 97 posts found
Google's new blog search engine seems to have slightly more coverage than Technorati. One drawback, they currently only index the RSS feed data (and not the actual target pages themselves).
IceRocket.com: 85 posts found
IceRocket is Mark Cuban's blog search start-up. It does a reasonable job of matching Technorati.
DayPop.com: 3 pages found
DayPop is a news and blog search engine. Clearly they're lagging behind the competition in terms of coverage.
News.google.com: 9 pages found
Google's search engine for news sites.
News.yahoo.com: 9 pages found
Yahoo's news search.
Search Engines: I list the number of pages found as well as the number of pages reported because they differ. Pages found is much less than what they report, possibly due to many reasons, such as estimation algorithms, duplicate counting, etc).
Search.msn.com: 49 pages found (6,686 pages reported)
Microsoft's search engine is doing pretty well.
Google: 195 pages found (12,100 reported)
Google seems to have excellent coverage and freshness.
Yahoo: 224 pages found (1,160 pages reported)
Yahoo also has excellent freshness and coverage.
One final test, checking major search engines for links to Zvents, using the query link:http://www.zvents.com
Yahoo: 86 pages found (174 pages reported)
Quite good.
Google: 1 page found
Strange- google had tons of pages it found for the "zvents" query and yet only had 1 inlink. What's going on here?
Search.msn.com: 49 pages found (837 pages reported)
Microsoft's search is even beating google on link queries.
del.icio.us bookmarks - 80 user bookmarks
The bookmarks of del.icio.us users is interesting to see. This link comes from OnoTech (Ethan Stock).
posted by jasonz at
8:11 PM
