Comments on: Google Copies RollyO, Amazon

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:26:30 +0000

Almost one year on from the last comment by Shannon little has changed. Google’s CSE is still not finding pages that are found by the main google search. Sometimes CSE only finds 10% of the pages that main Google search finds on the same (obviously specified, with correct subdomain) site

By: Shannon

Shannon — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 02:29:05 +0000

I'm finding that the results are somewhat hinky. It's documented that subdomains have to be specified, but it seems also to be failing to find pages in top-level domains, pages that are found when doing a search on the main Google page.
Some nice features, but I wish it, you know, worked more like Google.

By: Nas Raja

Nas Raja — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 19:20:29 +0000

"Google CSE adds the benefit of allowing users to roll an unlimited number of sites together..."

John, are you sure about the unlimited bit? Annotations per co-op account on Google seem to be limited to 5000 annotations across all CSE's one has - but I haven't yet seen any evidence of there being NO CAP on the maximum number of annotations *across* all contributions to a CSE.

If that is indeed the case, then well, more power to Google CSE users.

Regards,
-Nas

By: Google SEO Tips

Google SEO Tips — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 12:58:59 +0000

It’s definitely a great news from Google. Will it be a big blow to search engine companies like Trulia.com or Guruji.com that tacke specific verticals ? They have invested lot of money and research in building such engines but now anyone can make similar engines free using the Google co-op custom search engine.

By: Kamal Jain

Kamal Jain — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 06:07:49 +0000

Joseph Hunkins, you should go and check out Live Search Macros. We have some really powerful constructs available. We have a construct called, "prefer", and there are other constructs also to sort of emphasize a set of websites, "link**" constructs. Now go to Google's custom search engine site. Compare the available constructs and their working yourself.

If you are at it, then also, check out our advanced search feature.

By: Gerard

Gerard — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 01:40:40 +0000

Google sucks….I think folks are getting so sick of these guys. They are like the evil empire. Remeber folks, no matter how much money Google spends on PR trying to convice you and journalists that they are different, new, innovative, thoughtful and smart….they have carefully planned and executed a strategy to dominate the web to make BILLIONS. Congrats google….Sorry rollyo

By: Joseph Hunkins

Joseph Hunkins — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 22:30:04 +0000

Two features seem to make this vastly superior to LIVE and Yahoo (on which Rollyo is based): allowing hundreds of URLs and allowing you to "boost", rather than "only include" your chosen URLs.

Still, I find it interesting how HUGE the "NEW Google thing" buzz is for a search product that, although better that the predecessors is not really new at all.

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 21:17:25 +0000

I just made three different search engines as an experiment. What I found out was that Google COOP can't search subdomains of sites, such as fas.harvard.edu, unless speficially mentioned.

I am definitely disappointed with the service as is.

But my Web 2.0 Blog Search Engine had a little more success as most of the sites did not rely on subdomains.

By: Kamal Jain

Kamal Jain — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:51:39 +0000

Good that we (Microsoft) already have such great followers! Keep it up Marissa:)

By: tim finin

tim finin — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:56:14 +0000

I wish there were something between “anyone” and “invited individuals” for collaboration. The former opens the door to web spam, which will soon come in. The latter is too simple a model for building a large community.