Comments on: Tiki Search in Rollyo

By: Humuhumu

Humuhumu — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 21:43:45 +0000

In my eyes, it’s not so much that Google has gone bad, as that it hasn’t kept up. Some of the things they’re doing have potential (Google Maps, Froogle), but Yahoo! and MSN have updated their search technology, and I just find that they do a better job of getting me what I’m looking for.

I’ve also got a more personal bone to pick — try searching on all three sites for “tiki bars” and compare the results. Critiki, which I happen to think is a not-entirely-crappy source of information on the subject, comes up near the top on Yahoo! and MSN, and doesn’t come up at all — after 28 pages of results! — on Google. It’s not that Critiki isn’t in Google, because if you search on “Tur Mai Kai,” a relavitely obscure tiki bar, Critiki comes right up. Gah. I’m just tired of worrying about SEO and Google, I’d rather that my sites got to the top of search results because they’d earned the position with relevant content.

By: MrBaliHai

MrBaliHai — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 11:26:33 +0000

Interesting. I’ll have to revisit Yahoo search and give Rollyo a roll. Google’s been pretty good to my ‘blog in terms of rankings, but their plethora of crappy beta products and unrepentant dotcom attitude rub me the wrong way sometimes…

…and I’ll never forgive them for Orkut.

By: steef

steef — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 03:00:23 +0000

Humuhumu's Tiki searchroll.

By: Humuhumu

Humuhumu — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 00:27:14 +0000

Looking at how the search works, it’s odd that Rollyo hasn’t set up their searchbox tool yet — if I decide I like the search enough to add it to the side bar, it’ll be trivial for me to make my own.

By: Swanky

Swanky — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 00:04:53 +0000

I’m with you on Yahoo over Google. Google has changed things around so much that they don’t work well. Sad. Yahoo is now far better. Too much paranoia at Google.