i "heard" it would definitely be inktomi by january. how true it is i can't say. i haven't done very well in inktomi and i have a theory. in google i have a number of links from "off topic" sites. they help my rankings. in inktomi, i think you get penalized for the same thing.
So basically you'll have to weigh the ups and downs in the search engines on which does better.... Lets see.. for me it would be: My Search Engine Refferals: 58.1% for google VS 17.1% for Yahoo... I stand to loose quite a bit... but I'm better off focusing optimization for Google ... and hoping that it doesn't hurt me too bad in Yahoo...
I've heard about those rumors too. It is weird because google is about to start selling it's shares to public. It doesn't make sense for them to sell themselves right now. Unless...They are trying to raise the price :?:
Time to experiment with optimizing for Inktomi. It can't be that different than Google.
Hello everybody. I've been looking for inktomi optimization tips and here is a pretty good article: http://www.searchengineblog.com/columns/optimising_for_inktomi.htm
good article andrey! inktomi is more geared towards onpage factors than off. it might even be worth creating seperate pages for Ink than the ones you have for google.
Then wont you get in trouble with Google for "mirror" or duplicate pages? or do mean almost splitting a site with half google optimized half ink?
i wouldn't make them exact. i would use the Ink PFI and pay for one page: name of your choice and optimize it specifically for Inktomi. The page doesn't even have to be linked from your other pages. It could be an orphan as far as google is concerned. this is also assuming yahoo makes the switch. as it stands, yahoo only pays google $6 million a year for the free search results. they already use overture which the bought for the paid clicks. if the results of inktomi are worse than google they may not make the switch, or may just use inktomi for backfill.
Yahoo has already acquired Inktomi, but I'd like to say, nothing will change in Ink just because of Yahoo acquiring them. Did anything change when Yahoo got Google? When AOL got Google? When Alexa got Google? thats because Google doesn't need to change , its already got what people want. And Ink is nothing compared to Google if you ask me. My site there is what it was like about 3 months ago, where as in Google, my site is like its now.
their whole PFI is goofy. if you pay for inclusion they only put the one page in, but if you get spidered "naturally" more pages are included. they don't crawl very deep either. they have a lot less pages indexed than google.
maybe they do crawl deeper then we think.. but only index select pages meeting certain criteria... it is a way to lessen duplicate results to their searchers?!
That is possible. I'm sure they use a much different criteria than Google. Search promises to be a very interesting subject for the forseeable future.
Perhaps in the past it was necessary to optimize a page for a single search engine, but I don't believe that is necessary anymore. In order to become better than Google a search engine needs to give the most relevant results. Google is the master of giving the most relevant results for a number of reasons: 1) Google looks at on-the-page factors and can very well determine what a page is about. 2) It uses independent references and descriptions about that page (back links) to determine if what the on-the-page factors clain is true. 3) Popularity of a page determines if many people (mostly web masters) agree with the page and find it worth to link to (PageRank) 4) There results are not influenced by paid inclusion. (this gives a huge advantage to Google) 5) Many more reasons. What is so interesting is that Google seems to be best at creating an automated system that looks at a page like a visitor does. Any other search engine that wants to compete with Google needs to be at least as good, but probably better at this. This all leads to one conclusion: SEO is not so much about the search engines anymore, but much more about visitors. Give the visitor what it wants and make sure Search Engines can see the same as the visitor does, and you´re pretty much done with optimizing. A web site that is optimized for Google will rank good too in a search engine that delivers better or at least equally relevant results as Google. Inktomi may become better than Google (I doubt it) but has to use the same information as Google uses to create these relevant results. This information are the on-the-page factors and off-the-page factors. [quote:5573ca4e2d]in google i have a number of links from "off topic" sites. they help my rankings. in inktomi, i think you get penalized for the same thing.[/quote:5573ca4e2d] It is in no way possible that a back link can get you penalized in the SERPs of any search engine. If that would be possible, all a competitor has to do is create a couple of pages or sites with completely unrelated links to your site and you loose your position in the SERPs. If a search engine allows a company to put other sites down, then it will fail quickly in delivering relevant results. SEO is about making the best of your site, not about putting your competitors sites down. Search Engines know this and results can be relevant only by this logic. Regards, Peter
.... I'm not even listed on Inktomi, is there a link to submit to it? All three of my sites are missing...