Happen to read on Google CEO Eric Schmidt vision of Internet in the next five years, from readwriteweb. It is good read. My feeling is that, when there is no distinction between internet, TV and radio.

The search would be based on Video content. What I meant was, people will have to say the words and the search engine would have already converted/ extracted the text information from the video and that will be made search-able.

That is what I believe Google and Microsoft will have to think about for the next step in search engine. I believe that is how the future will be.

Laut einen aktuellen Artikel im Webstandardblog, hat nun auch Yahoo! offiziell bestätigt das man zukünftig dem Keyword Meta-Tag keine Beachtung mehr schenken wird. Da bisher auch Google und Bing (ehemals Live) bekanntermaßen diesen ebenfalls ignorieren, kann man ihn wohl nun getrost vergessen.

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My company, De Leon Ltd, is involved in online personal reputation management (PRM). Unlike most reputation management companies on the Internet, we work almost entirely on promoting the positive – rather than taking the “defend your reputation” stance assumed by most other PRM companies.

Therefore, we spend most of our time releasing information on the Internet, on behalf of our clients, for the search engines to find and rank highly in relevant search responses.

Wrong Bing. Click image for source.

The nature of our work is that we are looking to achieve high rankings with respect to web sites, profiles, articles, releases, presentations, videos, photographs and so on, in response to a personal name search on a client. As most of us do not have unique names, we then look at other additional “identifiers” that the searcher might add to produce more targeted results. Typically these will be things like the name of the company they work for, their job function, location, etc.

Yesterday, I happened to read something about the www.bing-vs-google.com site. I went to the site and, as you do, I entered Philip Westerman De Leon.

The responses were very surprising.

Bing did not return one single response for any Philip Westerman (and there are quite a few of us) on their first page – whereas Google had me (specifically me at De Leon) in the first five responses.

In addition, Google showed details of other Philip Westermans after my entries. Looking at the results a little more closely, I could see that Bing had produced responses on all permutations of my search terms (i.e. Westerman De Leon, Westerman De, Westerman Leon, Philip Leon, etc) – but not one for the first two words i.e. Philip Westerman.

Wrong Google. Click image for source.

So, in response to a search on Philip Westerman De Leon, Bing didn’t find anything incorporating all four search terms. Google did.

On Bing, if I search Philip Westerman on its own, then it finds us all – but in no combination of all four words (i.e. Leon, De, Westerman and Philip) does it offer any Philip Westerman responses. Google does.

Of course, Google has been around a lot longer than Bing, and given that Bing has the Microsoft muscle behind it then we should be keeping one eye on it at least. But, while this very personal piece of research is clearly not a definitive answer to the question “How good is Bing compared to Google”, it does make you realise that Bing has a lot of catching up to do.

Voor onze informatievaardigheden-aanhangers: een nieuw soort searchengine Deeperweb. Een toevoeging op Google in feite ,waarmee je meer gerichte selecties van je zoekresultaten kan bekomen dank zij de zogenaamde ‘zoomies’. Je krijgt nog steeds de vertrouwde lijst zoekresultaten, maar aan de rechterkant zie je verschillende zoomies die geselecteerde zoekresultaten bevatten. Je bent bijvoorbeeld geïnteresseerd in meer researchgerichte webpagina’s of pagina’s die een goeie bron kunnen zijn, dan kijk je bij de Resources Search. Ben je op zoek naar statistisch materiaal over je zoekterm, dan kan de Metrics Search misschien wel helpen. Een antwoord op een vraag vind je misschien wel in de Answers Search die zoekresultaten in discussiegroepen toont. Blogposts over je zoekterm kan je in de Blogs Search vinden (ja ok, zoeken in blogs kan ook op een andere manier, maar toch is het handig).  Verder is er DeeperCloud die een tagwolk toont van termen die vaak samen met je zoekterm voorkomen en die toelaat door een tag aan te klikken een nieuwe gecombineerde zoekactie te laten uitvoeren op je oorspronkelijke term samen met de aangeklikte tag, of net een zoekactie waardoor die tag uitgesloten wordt.

Er is een zeer handige quick tutorial waardoor je binnen de vijf minuten een zicht hebt op wat Deeperweb kan en hoe je het gebruikt.

Wow.

WolframAlpha bakal menjadi search engine yang sangat disukai para ilmuwan dan pelajar. Coba cek overview video WolframAlpha. Cool.

Meski demikian, sedikit berhati-hatilah. Era Skynet akan segera tiba.

Hey,  I am sure veryone seen it already.  Twitter has changed their login screen.  Looks good to me.   See what happens when you miss just a few hours of the Twitter Verse?

And in other news, I read a post on SEOMOZ today about a sneaky script that got a ‘viagra’ website ranking on the first page of Google.  Yup, it seems Google slipped up and missed the fact that this site got 1000’s of links through completely unrelated blog sites where they managed to hide a link.

The link is invisible to humans, but seems to have been picked up by the search engine and was ranked for them.

Crafty little Black Hat there….