Comments on: The Miscellaneous Section http://patorjk.com/blog/2008/01/22/the-miscellaneous-section/ web apps, programming talk, and random thoughts Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:22:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: patorjk http://patorjk.com/blog/2008/01/22/the-miscellaneous-section/comment-page-1/#comment-5076 patorjk Sun, 27 Jan 2008 23:32:52 +0000 http://patorjk.com/blog/2008/01/22/the-miscellaneous-section/#comment-5076 They're certainly the biggest, but I don't think they're 15 times bigger than Yahoo (85.5% vs 5.4%). Yahoo seems to fair pretty well on Google Trends: http://www.google.com/trends?q=google%2C+yahoo%2C+windows+live%2C+msn%2C+ask&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 Though that may just be people using the services they provide. I can't say I use Yahoo or MSN's Live Search very much, but I'd be shocked if they each only had around 5% of the search engine market. They’re certainly the biggest, but I don’t think they’re 15 times bigger than Yahoo (85.5% vs 5.4%). Yahoo seems to fair pretty well on Google Trends:

http://www.google.com/trends?q=google%2C+yahoo%2C+windows+live%2C+msn%2C+ask&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0

Though that may just be people using the services they provide. I can’t say I use Yahoo or MSN’s Live Search very much, but I’d be shocked if they each only had around 5% of the search engine market.

]]> By: Awesome AnDrEw http://patorjk.com/blog/2008/01/22/the-miscellaneous-section/comment-page-1/#comment-5075 Awesome AnDrEw Sun, 27 Jan 2008 21:43:22 +0000 http://patorjk.com/blog/2008/01/22/the-miscellaneous-section/#comment-5075 Most traffic I receive from search engines points to Google and its subsidiaries (such as Google U.K., Google China, et cetera). I tend to think this is due to the fact that Google has become the most well-known search engine on the entire internet far surpassing companies such as Yahoo! and Windows Live Search (formerly MSN). Realistically it is the most heavily advertised, it's talked about very frequently on the news, and it's been adapted into popular culture as a slang-term/verb ("I'll Google it later"). Does anyone ever say, "Let me Yahoo! them and I'll get back to you"? I don't believe so. Most traffic I receive from search engines points to Google and its subsidiaries (such as Google U.K., Google China, et cetera). I tend to think this is due to the fact that Google has become the most well-known search engine on the entire internet far surpassing companies such as Yahoo! and Windows Live Search (formerly MSN). Realistically it is the most heavily advertised, it’s talked about very frequently on the news, and it’s been adapted into popular culture as a slang-term/verb (“I’ll Google it later”). Does anyone ever say, “Let me Yahoo! them and I’ll get back to you”? I don’t believe so.

]]> By: patorjk http://patorjk.com/blog/2008/01/22/the-miscellaneous-section/comment-page-1/#comment-5070 patorjk Sat, 26 Jan 2008 19:01:31 +0000 http://patorjk.com/blog/2008/01/22/the-miscellaneous-section/#comment-5070 Thanks for the catch! I try to check all the links before I post them, sometimes something that like slips by though. I'll keep an eye out for "morgue2", though Yahoo only accounts for 5.4% of my search engine traffic so I'm not as concerned with them as I am with Google (which is the source of 85.5% of my search engine traffic). Some site owners tell me their traffic is neck and neck when it comes to Google and Yahoo, I'm not sure why I do so well on Google and not the others. Thanks for the catch! I try to check all the links before I post them, sometimes something that like slips by though.

I’ll keep an eye out for “morgue2″, though Yahoo only accounts for 5.4% of my search engine traffic so I’m not as concerned with them as I am with Google (which is the source of 85.5% of my search engine traffic). Some site owners tell me their traffic is neck and neck when it comes to Google and Yahoo, I’m not sure why I do so well on Google and not the others.

]]> By: Awesome AnDrEw http://patorjk.com/blog/2008/01/22/the-miscellaneous-section/comment-page-1/#comment-5067 Awesome AnDrEw Sat, 26 Jan 2008 10:07:57 +0000 http://patorjk.com/blog/2008/01/22/the-miscellaneous-section/#comment-5067 The VB array tutorial points to your Wordpress administration area :-[. Glad to hear that you weren't permanently kicked from Google seeing as how I don't believe you've done anything "illegal" by their standards. I don't know a whole lot about how Google operates in that respect, but from what I've read about Yahoo!'s services you only need to be weary when you see the "morgue2" subdomain as a referrer. The VB array tutorial points to your WordPress administration area :-[. Glad to hear that you weren’t permanently kicked from Google seeing as how I don’t believe you’ve done anything “illegal” by their standards. I don’t know a whole lot about how Google operates in that respect, but from what I’ve read about Yahoo!’s services you only need to be weary when you see the “morgue2″ subdomain as a referrer.

]]> By: patorjk http://patorjk.com/blog/2008/01/22/the-miscellaneous-section/comment-page-1/#comment-5055 patorjk Wed, 23 Jan 2008 23:52:56 +0000 http://patorjk.com/blog/2008/01/22/the-miscellaneous-section/#comment-5055 Sometimes they'll tell you about the penalty via the Google Webmaster Tools, sometimes (like in my case) they wont tell you about it. From what I've read, Google auto-penalties some sites based on what its Googlebot sees and also takes suggestions from users who can submit sites they think are spam or irrelevant for certain phrases. It's definitely good to know about. It sucks when you suddenly get on a roll for a certain phrase and then they take it away. Sometimes they’ll tell you about the penalty via the Google Webmaster Tools, sometimes (like in my case) they wont tell you about it. From what I’ve read, Google auto-penalties some sites based on what its Googlebot sees and also takes suggestions from users who can submit sites they think are spam or irrelevant for certain phrases.

It’s definitely good to know about. It sucks when you suddenly get on a roll for a certain phrase and then they take it away.

]]> By: sloat http://patorjk.com/blog/2008/01/22/the-miscellaneous-section/comment-page-1/#comment-5050 sloat Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:54:56 +0000 http://patorjk.com/blog/2008/01/22/the-miscellaneous-section/#comment-5050 Did they say why the penalty was issued in the first place? At first I was thinking, "Oh man, what if this happened to me." Then, two things occurred to me: 1. I don't get that many hits from google searches. and 2. I couldn't look at myself in the mirror if I knew that I'm afraid of a search engine. Did they say why the penalty was issued in the first place?

At first I was thinking, “Oh man, what if this happened to me.” Then, two things occurred to me:
1. I don’t get that many hits from google searches.

and
2. I couldn’t look at myself in the mirror if I knew that I’m afraid of a search engine.

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