Comments on: Search Engines Know More Than You Think

By: wwb_99

wwb_99 — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

I have a really simple SEO strategy:

1) Use clean, semantic markup.
2) Add good, important content.
3) Spread word about good content.
4) Wait a few months.

By: DanThies

DanThies — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Good advice for anyone, even without search engines.

By: artemis

artemis — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

I think the Mindset tool is brilliant. My only major gripe about Google is about getting commercial sites when I want information and vice versa. I hope that soon Yahoo or Google might create an additional option to filter comparrison shopping sites and review sites that lack reviews.

By: fatnewt

fatnewt — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Bring it on, indeed. In a sense, I’d like to see the death of SEO as it exists today. As Search Engines get a more and more sophisticated, more of these basic ‘tricks of the trade’ become obsolete, and more Web site owners need to start thinking more about content.

By: MG315

MG315 — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

i really liked 37signals’ take on yahoo’s mindset:
http://37signals.com/svn/archives2/just_one_slider_but_not_so_simple.php

“The slider is 300px wide with a continous motion from one side to the other. That means there are 300 settings to choose from. And what does 27% from the left mean anyway?”

its interesting that the search engines have this capability, but most people won’t know how to fully utilize it (how far to the left to I push it?).

By: DanThies

DanThies — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

The user interface could be an issue, but even without a slider operated by a user, the search engines can deliver different types of sites for a lot of search queries, based on analyzing the query.

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000

Simplifying things helps to be practical in implementation. But at the same time one needs to be aware of the details to keep the simple version up to date.

Search Engine like Google are starting to touch real information retrieval. I am so much looking forward to the future. :)