Anyone have any guesses for the cause of the reletive positioning of English Wikipedia in the following google searches?
BLAS wikipedia
BLAS
Results may differ: you're seeing the same effect I am if the first doesn't return english wikipedia anywhere in the first ten pages, but the second has it as the third hit. Obviously, throwing wikipedia in as a keyword isn't the right way to bring wikipedia up in a result, but a lot of people do it, and it's usually very effective. I've found some cases where it has stopped being effective and I'm not sure why.
Three words: Google is evil. You aren't gonna find out unless they publish their algorithms. Which they aren't.
On Jan 12, 2008 12:53 PM, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
Anyone have any guesses for the cause of the reletive positioning of English Wikipedia in the following google searches?
BLAS wikipedia
BLAS
Results may differ: you're seeing the same effect I am if the first doesn't return english wikipedia anywhere in the first ten pages, but the second has it as the third hit. Obviously, throwing wikipedia in as a keyword isn't the right way to bring wikipedia up in a result, but a lot of people do it, and it's usually very effective. I've found some cases where it has stopped being effective and I'm not sure why.
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Gregory Maxwell wrote:
Anyone have any guesses for the cause of the reletive positioning of English Wikipedia in the following google searches?
BLAS wikipedia
BLAS
... I've heard reports before of differing Google search results, depending upon your country (this was from England) and even upon the time of day (approximately 04:00 UTC). The first search gave
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Blas en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruy_Blas gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blas gd.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blas_(dualchainnt) de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blas es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epi_y_Blas
and other results in the first 10 were from the Dutch, Polish and Italian Wikipedia. Searching for BLAS alone gave
www.netlib.org/blas/ www.netlib.org/blas/faq.html www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/irish/blas/ www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/irish/blas/learners/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLAS www.blas-festival.com/
Hope that helps you