Comments on: Context-Sensitive Search Via Blogs http://gigaom.com/2008/08/06/context-sensitive-search-via-blogs/ Trusted Insights and Conversations on the Next Wave of Technology Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:17:12 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Harshad Joshi http://gigaom.com/2008/08/06/context-sensitive-search-via-blogs/#comment-898252 Harshad Joshi Sun, 07 Sep 2008 15:56:55 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=16121#comment-898252 <p>Blogs are a better way of context related search, but theres a problem. How does a crawler come to know when a blogs is updated? What would be the frequency at which the crawler will have to go to the blog to get the latest information?? Will blog owners feel that crawlers are eating their bandwidth??</p> Blogs are a better way of context related search, but theres a problem. How does a crawler come to know when a blogs is updated? What would be the frequency at which the crawler will have to go to the blog to get the latest information?? Will blog owners feel that crawlers are eating their bandwidth??

]]> By: Gabe Garcia http://gigaom.com/2008/08/06/context-sensitive-search-via-blogs/#comment-892605 Gabe Garcia Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:49:08 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=16121#comment-892605 <p>Hey Mike,</p> <p>Can you verify that Google doesn't look at meta keywords? I've heard that meta tags are not effective, but I've also heard that nobody really knows for certain. So why not use them? If you have evidence that meta tags are an ineffective method of seo, then please let me know.</p> Hey Mike,

Can you verify that Google doesn’t look at meta keywords? I’ve heard that meta tags are not effective, but I’ve also heard that nobody really knows for certain. So why not use them? If you have evidence that meta tags are an ineffective method of seo, then please let me know.

]]> By: Mike Volpe - HubSpot http://gigaom.com/2008/08/06/context-sensitive-search-via-blogs/#comment-892466 Mike Volpe - HubSpot Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:55:24 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=16121#comment-892466 <p>Cool idea, but I am not sure it will work. Most search engines (especially Google) don't look at meta keywords as being important at all. In fact Google almost entirely ignores them. The reason is because they are too easy to use for spamming search results. Anytime you have information that is displayed to search engines and not users, it is open to abuse and search engine spam. Unfortunetly, because everyone in the world is not 100% honest I am not sure this will work that well.</p> Cool idea, but I am not sure it will work. Most search engines (especially Google) don’t look at meta keywords as being important at all. In fact Google almost entirely ignores them. The reason is because they are too easy to use for spamming search results. Anytime you have information that is displayed to search engines and not users, it is open to abuse and search engine spam. Unfortunetly, because everyone in the world is not 100% honest I am not sure this will work that well.

]]> By: Niraj http://gigaom.com/2008/08/06/context-sensitive-search-via-blogs/#comment-892465 Niraj Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:52:47 +0000 http://gigaom.com/?p=16121#comment-892465 <p>I thought spam was a major problem and the reason the major search engines all started ignoring such tags in the first place. Even if you limit the number of tags, a blog can still broadcast it is about something that it is not. It seems like a more effective approach, but one that involves more work for the search engine, is to extract that kind of information from the content of the pages it crawls. It could then deduce what a website's overall category is, without a far reduced risk of gaming, SEO, etc.</p> I thought spam was a major problem and the reason the major search engines all started ignoring such tags in the first place. Even if you limit the number of tags, a blog can still broadcast it is about something that it is not. It seems like a more effective approach, but one that involves more work for the search engine, is to extract that kind of information from the content of the pages it crawls. It could then deduce what a website’s overall category is, without a far reduced risk of gaming, SEO, etc.

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