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Google’s products lack in Usability

Posted by Ravi on March 1st, 2007 filed in Ask, research, search engine wars, swicki, web 2.0 search engine, web usability, yahoo

Google’s stuff lacks the usability of Yahoo’s services, the “intimate connection in usability” Yahoo has with its users.
Comparing usage of Yahoo’s email and instant messaging versus those from Google. Yahoo has a big edge in email users, with 249 million. Gmail has picked up 60 million users.
On the Instant desktop messenger side, Yahoo’s 77.9 million [...]

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Yahoo, Google, Ask.com highlights keywords in Cache but not Live.com

Posted by Ravi on February 23rd, 2007 filed in Ask, Google, SEO, Search Engines, Uncategorized, keywords, research, search engine wars, search technology

You search any keyword in Yahoo,
You get the results, now go to cache link of the result and you will find the keyword getting highlighted on the page.
I ve seen it for the first time yesterday evening. Yahoo still not showing a cache date, but the words in the search term are now highlighted in [...]

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World’s First ” Web 2.0 Live Ask Engine” for Users – Jyve

Jyve, the world’s first “web 2.0 live ask engine,”(probably the first web2.0 search engine) is more targeted than Googling, and more interactive than Ask.com and more helpful than asking “guides” with no interest in a topic, Jyve creates live conversations between people with self-defined common interests for live help and technical peer support.
Jyve believes [...]

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Google’s “note this” feature in the search results

Posted by Ravi on February 13th, 2007 filed in Ask, Google, Search Engines, news, research, search engine wars, search technology

Google like Ask.com is giving a new option of note this option which enables the users, webmasters to note some important points about the sites they visit in the Google’s search engine ranking pages.
All the notes will be saved as snippets along with description, title, url in the Google Notebook.
The interesting feature is that all [...]

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How to assess free and paid directories.

Posted by Ravi on February 10th, 2007 filed in Ask, Google, SEO, research, web directories, yahoo

Some of the quality signals that are unlikely to be found in free directories as per the Industrial strength and survival, are listed below.
1. If the directory is a clone of other directories, forget it.
2. Is the directory a niche authority? – answer can be found by checking the quality of backlinks from the same [...]

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