Category Archives: search

Twitter and Google are both responsible for you not being able to search tweets

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Rakesh Agrawal

Chris Dixon ignited a firestorm on his blog when he said it was Twitter’s fault that Google doesn’t index tweets. It’s the fault of both parties, really. Neither has the moral high ground. Twitter does not block Google from crawling … Continue reading →

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Google and antitrust: looking at the good and bad effects of monopolies

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Rakesh Agrawal

This is the last in a multi-part series on Google and antitrust. Part 1: Competing in Web search against Google would be extremely hard Part 2: How Google favors its own products Part 3: Looking at the good and bad effects of monopolies Disclosures: I … Continue reading →

Posted in google, search | 3 Comments

Google and antitrust: How Google favors its own products

Posted on September 22, 2011 by Rakesh Agrawal

This is the second in a multi-part series on Google and antitrust. Part 1 looked at how difficult it would be for a new player to start in Web search today. Part 1: Competing in Web search against Google would be … Continue reading →

Posted in google, search | 6 Comments

Google and antitrust: competing in Web search against Google would be extremely hard

Posted on September 21, 2011 by Rakesh Agrawal

This is the first in a multi-part series on Google and antitrust.  Part 1: Competing in Web search against Google would be extremely hard Part 2: How Google favors its own products Part 3: Looking at the good and bad effects of monopolies … Continue reading →

Posted in google, search | 8 Comments

Watson vs. Google

Posted on February 16, 2011 by Rakesh Agrawal

Jeopardy! contestants Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter got a spanking the likes of which they’ve never seen by Watson, an IBM supercomputer, last night. How would Watson do against that other font of knowledge — Google? Watson is optimized to … Continue reading →

Posted in google, search | 7 Comments

Bing, Yahoo! try to capitalize on Google’s Michael Jackson traffic surge

Posted on June 30, 2009 by Rakesh Agrawal

Seen over the weekend: ads for bing and Yahoo! on Google search results for “Michael Jackson”. The bing ad led to bing’s xRank page for Michael Jackson. The Yahoo! ad bizarrely led to a Yahoo! shopping results page for Michael … Continue reading →

Posted in advertising, aol, bing, google, search, yahoo | 1 Comment

9 ways to improve the Facebook news feed

Posted on April 15, 2009 by Rakesh Agrawal

As any designer knows, making a big change to a site with as many users as Facebook has is going to cause a lot of complaining. With that in mind, I’ve tried to get used to the new feed over … Continue reading →

Posted in facebook, search, social networking | 3 Comments

Facebook drives 6MM people to Friendster!

Posted on March 19, 2009 by Rakesh Agrawal

That headline is kinda, sorta true. If you buy shoddy analysis from misinterpreted data. Like a recent piece from Henry Blodget, mass inflator of the Web 1.0 bubble. He is at it again with a piece on Facebook being a … Continue reading →

Posted in facebook, google, search, social networking, statistics | 1 Comment

Realtime Twitter search is not a Google killer, part 2

Posted on March 13, 2009 by Rakesh Agrawal

In the first part, I wrote about the fallacy of using people with thousands of followers to illustrate how you can get great results if you ask questions on Twitter. In this part, I’ll focus on why the conversational nature … Continue reading →

Posted in facebook, google, search, seo, twitter | 3 Comments

Realtime Twitter search is not a Google killer

Posted on March 8, 2009 by Rakesh Agrawal

There’s been a lot of hype lately about “realtime search” using Twitter being a Google Killer. John Battelle talked about it in searchblog. Mike Arrington talked about it in TechCrunch. There are two scenarios that have been talked about with … Continue reading →

Posted in google, search, seo, social networking, twitter | 3 Comments