Here's a word from the horse's mouth, and now I think we should cut the thread. --doug
Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 20:08:19 -0700 From: Rex
Subject: Re: [Mw] search engines Sender: microwave-admin@lists.valinet.com To: microwave@lists.valinet.com X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American) X-BeenThere: microwave@lists.valinet.com Delivered-to: microwave@lists.valinet.com X-Original-To: microwave@lists.valinet.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 List-Post: mailto:microwave@lists.valinet.com List-Subscribe: http://www.valinet.com/mailman/listinfo/microwave, mailto:microwave-request@lists.valinet.com?subject=subscribe List-Unsubscribe: http://www.valinet.com/mailman/listinfo/microwave, mailto:microwave-request@lists.valinet.com?subject=unsubscribe List-Archive: http://www.valinet.com/mailman/private/microwave/ List-Help: mailto:microwave-request@lists.valinet.com?subject=help List-Id: Amateur Radio Microwave non-commercial Original-recipient: rfc822;dmcgarrett@optonline.net On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 19:54:37 -0400, Doug McGarrett
wrote: I forwarded KK6MK's email to the SuSE Linux mailing list for their comments, which were mixed. One appears below, and below that, a useful trick to bring recent data to the top of a Google search. (Another poster had pointed out that Google normally sorts by the number of hits to certain pages, and brings those with the most hits to the top, regardless of date.) Be aware that you cannot post to the Linux list unless you are a member.
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Doug, thanks for taking the time and effort to look at the situation. I don't think it changes anything for me. I'm concerned about other people doing simple searches for my stuff and finding me.
My web pages have had two previous homes. The first, dnai.com, went away several years back because rcn bought them. I then left rcn about 2 years ago. When I first searched on google a couple weeks ago, I got a bunch of hits on both of these old, dead places. After two tries to get google to clean these up, I think I finally got rid of the searches that point directly to these dead pages.
I got my own domain, xertech.net, now, so this problem should not happen again in the future. I don't plan on moving the pages off of the new domain.
My point was, though, that if I search for kk6mk using Yahoo, MSN or Altavista, my new pages at xertech.net come up as top hits. On google, the first hits are old from pages in 1999 or earlier. There were more bad hits on google to my old pages before I recently made the effort to ask google to clean them up.
I have changed the structure of the html on my pages. Maybe that will soon help google figure out how to make the good hits to my stuff come up higher. If not, so be it. I've done all I plan to do.
In my view, google sucks because the other engines have somehow figured out where the real best hits are without any special tricks, money or arm twisting. I'll be using the other 3 engines I mentioned a lot more now that I see the difference.
-Rex, KK6MK
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