Miscellany: Babies, Design, Search Engine Wars

A couple of things worth seeing – I’ll try to bring a bit of these every day or two, to keep you entertained:

Also, some musings on the search engine wars: Google is better at indexing blogs/forums, but Yahoo! seems to be doing better on the static page front.

Try searching for “HTTP” in both; Google returns companies like Microsoft, Yahoo! returns useful information regarding the Hyper Text Transport Protocol. If you search for me, using either “Nathan Simpson” or “Nathaniel Simpson,” I’ll come up sooner on Yahoo! than Google. However, if you search for something I’ve written about, like “NG Resonance,” Yahoo! doesn’t return any results from my site at all.

I know that Yahoo!’s search is “beta” stage, so maybe they haven’t gotten around to indexing blogs/forums yet. It’ll be interesting to see where this goes. If Yahoo! does as well once it’s fully indexing (assuming they intend to), it might convert me away from Google. Nothing sucks like a bunch of irrelevant results:-)

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