Friday, August 12, 2005

PointenSlutten Race and Race ... into interesting things about different search engines...

Yes yes yes they are neck and neck as of this date and time - my pointenslutten pages on MSN and Google are at #8 and #9 on both, but the two pages from iSN News are at 16 and 48 (!) for Yahoo...

Oh Well, that goes to show... what? Well, some interesting discrepancies in the search engines. Whatever their criteria, we might say judging by pointenslutten results that since MSN recently tried - successfully, I'd say - to go head to head with Google, it actually seems to calculate things similarly to Google.

But not so. Yahoo and Google are actually more similar, and infinitely more advanced in the secondary image-search category, than MSN, which actually seems to be more crawling out of its Beta phase than emerging from it smoother, cleaner, smarter.

This blog on the other hand actually holds the top two positions on MSN - whereas on Google it's only #17 and on Yahoo not even in the top 100!

What is odd is that Yahoo has a spot for the page that represents the Thumbshots Ranking for PointenSlutten.

That to mee is something weirder than weird, like a freaky Escher print or those hoary old classics of standing in front of a mirror with a mirror, or drawing a picture of yourself drawing a picture of yourself, ad infinitum...

I mean thumbshots has a link of thumbshots showing the results - is that bombing? Will pointenslutten be banned from the web for this?

Time to publish and ping.

Thursday, August 11, 2005

Ok Time To Stimulate The Thing Again...

I don't know why I do this. I'll never have time to sit down and turn this into an SEO blog. Though I'd like to.

There's been no update on the pointenslutten situation at NetPond yet, and even though I was #1 on Yahoo on the 20th of June, when the contest results should have been announced... well, looks like there was a unexpected leave of absence by the moderator.

Remains to be seen if the results will be collated on the day of said Moderator's return, or simply give us another couple weeks to race our ways back to #1 of Google.

However I have become and remained at #1 on MSN for the term "PointenSlutten", so I'd have an edge there.

Now my #1 Yahoo ranking has slipped to 19, moving back up from an all-time low of 49, and Google at the time of posting was keeping the same page at around 7 or 8. So I don't know if there's a way of measuring where a page was on what day...

Soon hopefully we shall see. One thing I know is it wouldn't help to update so there we are, a little congenial typing exercise which hopefully can result in something, sometime, somewhere, over the SEO...

heh