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Just a small note about sitesearch, Google are definitely not the market leader there. They don't seem to care much about this feature.
by antics 13y ago
Just a small note about sitesearch, Google are definitely not the market leader there. They don't seem to care much about this feature.
- wslh 13y agoI wrote an opinionated blog post exactly about that saying[1]: "When each site understands its own data better than Google, its internal search results will surpass Google’s. Google will no doubt continue to provide better global results, but the two-tiered search would decentralize efforts to improve algorithms." I see it as one of the Achilles' heel of Google. Even if what they are doing seem impossible to copy. - [1] Letters from the Future: Challenging Google’s Search Engine: http://blog.databigbang.com/letters-from-the-future-challenging-googles-search-engine/ http://blog.databigbang.com/letters-from-the-future-challeng...
- lazyjones 13y agoCurrently, it is very easy for websites to provide better search results (but still not good) compared to Google and other search engines like DDG due to the limited crawling, except perhaps for the top few 1000 websites with small enough number of pages/URLs so that at least Google can keep them fully indexed. This is also where dedicated "site search" providers can beat these search engines easily: they can offer a full crawl and depending on the size of the resulting index, they can bill the website owner (e.g. by storage used in GB or number of URLs).
- wslh 13y agoI don't think so. Google search gives more accurate results than StackOverflow itself.
- PaulHoule 13y agoSite search is an entirely different problem than searching the web, in fact, really good site search for 100-1000, 10,000-100,000 and 1,000,000+ are entirely different problems.