August 9, 2004 Archives

We have been hearing about local search over the past year or two. The search engines like Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves and even MSN have been promising and providing enhanced local search options. The next revolution in local is by a new shopping search engine named StepUp.com. You enter in a zip code and then conduct a search on the product you are looking for. It takes a few seconds and then products start coming up. Not only does this site provide detailed information on the products (provided by the merchant) but it also shows you the closest places with driving directions to the store. In addition, they have fields such as "Quantity On Hand", "Product Listed", and "Product Updated" to help with your purchase decision.

Forum discussion at Search Engine Watch.

Ok, I am still in the SES mode. Tomorrow I should be back 100%. Over at HighRankings there is a thread that discusses the postings of photos from the conference. HighRankings has given people the ability to upload their images.

You can view them at SES San Jose 2004 Photos. Keep checking it out, people are uploading as we speak.

An excellent post by Orion on the topic he named Who bombs Whom?, which he admits he should of named "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Queries". Here is does some queries on keyword phrases at the various search engines.

A search for "bad search engine" without quotes shows that
1. In Google, Yahoo.com is #2 out of 4,650,000 results
2. In Yahoo!, MSN.com is #1 out of 6,330,000 results
3. In MSN, MSN.com is #1 out of 1,323,674 results.
4. In Teoma, GO.com is #2 and Search.com is #3 out of 3,178,000 results.

A search for "good search engine" without quotes shows that
1. In Google, DogPile.com (a metaengine) is #1 out of 8,520,000 results.
2. In Yahoo!, DogPile.com (a metaengine) is #1 out of 15,000,000 results
3. In MSN, DogPile.com (a metaengine) is #1 out of 3,112,205 results.
4. In Teoma, Yahoo.com is #1 and Teoma is #3 out of 9,448,000 results.

Check out the thread.