The Eurekster search engine launched recently with fanfare on many of the search industry sites and a big article in Danny Sullivan’s Search Engine Watch.
Have you tried it yet? What do you think?
The buzz surrounds Eurekster’s method of delivering personalized search results. The whole concept revolves around groups of searchers – you and your office staff, for example. You and your team of search optimizers (that’s what you do, right?) all join the same group on Eurekster.
You search for “search optimization techniques” and click on the top link, searchengineforums.com. If the next time one of your team members searches for search optimization information and this site shows up in the results, there will be a little “e” next to that result to show that someone clicked it before. That site will also show up higher in the results.
The idea is that this will help raise the relevance of results for specific groups of people.
I think they should also have a little place where people can record notes about a site they’ve visited in case they think it’s a bad site. The “e” shows up whether the site has good content or not.
What Eurekster Delivers. Since Eurekster’s the big thing right now I thought it would be a good idea to learn about getting listed in their results.
You might be there already. First you should search to see if you’re already there or not. “” is, and that term delivers 247962 results. Since Google delivers 265,000 results for “,” this leads me to belive that if you’re in Google you’ll be in Eurekster too, though I’m not quite sure of the exact relationship.
Check on this and post here to expand or set me straight.
Eurekster delivers alltheweb. Danny’s article says that they’re delivering alltheweb results, and according to Bruce Clay’s search engine relationship chart Fast powers alltheweb.
Getting in Eurekster. I spoke with Jim Hedger of StepForth yesterday and he said that the best way to get in Fast is through lycos .
Feel free to post your thoughts about getting in, and if you’re in already, say so!
To learn more about how it works, from the Eureksters themselves, visit “how eurekster works.”
Google Definitions. I found a neat Google feature today while snooping around in the Google labs section of their site. It’s not new, just neat.
If you type “define search” the very top listing will say “Web Definition:” plus a definition of the word courtesy of Princeton.
The “More definitions” tab shows a number of other definitions from around the web.
Google Tremors. SEO hawks over at the SEOChat forum are reporting tremors in Google’s results. Some thought this might indicate an actual dance, but the changes seem to be limited to only a few (unnamed in the forum) search terms.
I called Daniel Brandt of Google-Watch.org and he hadn’t noticed anything, though had read similar reports on WebMasterWorld.
Garrett French + The murdok Team
Garrett French is the editor of Murdok’s eBusiness channel. You can talk to him directly at WebProWorld, the eBusiness Community Forum.
