Kai Mai's Blog - Take Back the Web - Nodes for search

Google Experiment - Alternate View For Search Result

Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:31:21 -0800

Once you sign in your Google account, you can check out Google Experiment for potential upcoming features. I've tried alternate views for search results and really liked the timeline view and the map view.

Timeline view Example: postgresql vs mysql I just want to see the recent comparison between postgresql and mysql. so I can limit the timeline to show only pages from 2008 to 2009. But Google's first result is definitely wrong as the article was written back in 2003.

Tags: google search timeline

Yahoo! Search BOSS API FAQs

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:35:19 -0800

I am a big fan of Yahoo! Search BOSS API as it empowers users to leverage Yahoo's search's crawler and indexes to develop applications without spending a huge amount of money on infrastructure/bandwidth! Google, do you know what I mean?

As an observer on the active Yahoo! Search BOSS API mailing list, I document the Yahoo BOSS API's limitations which I over-hear on the mailing list:

API fees and Monetization
- Yahoo is going to charge fees on API usages beyond a certain limit.

Tags: api search yahoo_boss_api

Microsoft Has Nothing to Lose on MSN's Live Search Cashback Program

Mon, 26 May 2008 18:34:57 -0700

Microsoft(MS) recently introduced cashback on your purchases through participating merchants if you find your items through MSN's Live search. Given that Google has been gaining search shares again and again, it's not surprising that people view Microsoft's move as desperate. Well, they are trying something that have been proven to work by Ebates, Fatwallet.

Basically, MS has nothing much to lose in this cashback program. They are betting that price-sensitive consumers in this recession period will want to save a few more bucks via cashback. With a CPA-based pricing model, MS hopes E-commerce retailers will increase their spend on advertising through Live when they see more leads through Live and good conversion rates/ROI(return on investment). MS is just giving up a little bit of income to potentially increase their search market share and e-commerce's advertising spend.

Tags: google live search msn cashback

Google is Evil: Your PPC Campaigns opt in Mobile Search Network by Default starting November 19, 2007

Mon, 15 Oct 2007 12:46:03 -0700

According to Clikz's post Google Ports AdWords Listings to Its Mobile Search Product: "Google will run listings free on Google Mobile Search pages through November 18. As of November 19, SEM buyers will have to opt out through the campaign summary page or pay for mobile clicks. While it is said ads will run across both the Web and mobile platforms, an e-mail sent to AdWords customers indicated that only ads with landing pages adaptable to mobile handsets will qualify for disbursement to the mobile search product." Here's the FAQ from Google.

Tags: google adwords mobile search ppc analytics tracking