Metrics — Weighting the Metrics
October 20, 2005
Metrics weeks continues with a review of how to weight metrics. So far, I’ve looked into who, in a company could benefit from metrics. I then delved into two different types of metrics: hard metrics, which can easily be measured, and soft metrics, which cannot. Today, I’m going to try to figure out how this all weights out. […]
Google has 24 billion items index, considers MSN search nearest competitor
September 27, 2005
From John Battelle’s site comes the news that Google has decided to drop the number of documents it listed on its front page. The company now claims its index is three times larger than its nearest competitor. Let’s look at the number. Google vs. Yahoo A few weeks ago, Yahoo! claimed that its index was over […]
Money in the archives
September 23, 2005
Following a recent article in Wired News about the viability of blogging as a revenue generating model, I started thinking about the value of archival material to a blogger. As readers of this site might have noticed when using the web interface, I am using the Google Ad service called AdSense. As I am not at freedom to reveal the terms […]
Google Introduces Blog Search
September 13, 2005
Overnight, Google has made the blog search space a little more competitive with their introduction of a new blog search engine. New ones are also coming soon from Yahoo!, Microsoft, and AskJeeves (that last one being the main reason behind their acquisition of bloglines.) At first look, it seems to work fine. Blogs are easily findable, although […]
Links and Search Engines: The MSN edition
July 30, 2005
I’ve been promising for a while to complete this series with results relating to MSN (and, for the record, this has nothing to do with Scoble begging for it). I finally got around to cleaning up the HTML output of Excel and can now present the third (and probably final) installment in my analysis of search engine […]
RSS and Media: Can’t we all just get along?
June 29, 2005
I keep trying to work on an entry to close the loop on the search engine and links research but RSS news is getting in the way. Last week, it was Microsoft’s welcome endorsement and a new set of extensions and this week, it’s Apple and its announcement of a new specification to add more data to […]
Technorati Yahoo and Google Too
June 20, 2005
In the last entry on the subject, we took a look at how Technorati and Google compared. From there, we discovered that Technorati was getting roughly a fourth of the links Google could locate. Which brought up some interesting questions: could we rely on the Google numbers? Were they so much larger than any other search engine […]
Secrets of the A-list bloggers: Technorati vs. Google
June 13, 2005
Looking at data about the A-list, first in and of its own, and later as part of a wider scope made me wonder about the initial data set I was using. What does it mean to be on the Technorati 100? Is Technorati presenting an accurate representation of the world? And how does it compare against the […]
Secrets of the A-List Bloggers: Lots of short entries
May 24, 2005
A couple of weeks ago, when working on the entry about salaries for bloggers, I did a quick analysis of the entries in a day slice. Many people pointed out that this was a small slice and was not representative of what other blogs where doing. From there, I ended up with two questions basically bugging me: first, how many […]
Google Accelerates Search
May 6, 2005
Google introduced a new tool called Web Accelerator. While much will be made of the fears about the privacy implications of that move, I personally believe that this move is one that is deeply rooted in the search mission of the company and will be seen as a gambit of the same size as the one taken by […]
