Ah, the joys of trying to convince Google that there is something wrong…  For the past two months my site traffic has been way off, which, of course, leads to less ad revenue.  I mean, upwards of 75% less than normal.  In logging into Webmaster Tools, I quickly see the problem.  My main pages that [...]

I just logged into my Google Docs account to fill out a report and was met with:

Lovely.  I guess I will tell my boss that I can’t get my report done in time because the cloud was unavailable.  Is that the modern day equivalent of “The dog ate my homework”?

Just got this about my Lucene blog:

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Dear site owner or webmaster of lucene.grantingersoll.com,
While we were indexing your webpages, we detected that some of your pages were using techniques that are outside our quality guidelines, which can be found here: http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769&hl=en. This appears to be because your site has been modified by a third party. Typically, [...]

Is it just me, or is Yahoo! search as good as GoogleMeister MeisterGoogle these days?
I’ve defaulted to Google for a long time, but lately I don’t like how “big” they’ve gotten and I think it is wise to spread my searches around.  At any rate, up until 6 mos. ago I never felt Y! was [...]

OK, let me just start by saying my confidence in what I am about to say is just over 50%, say 50.1%, but I’m going to say it anyway:
I can’t help but wonder if all these execs leaving Y! is a good thing.  Seriously.  Where have they gotten Y! to date?  Time for some fresh [...]

User Participation Drives Retooled Wikia Search Engine – Yahoo! News
One concern with a community-based system is that users will try to “game the system,” deleting references to competitors or engaging in trash talk in the comments. “We should see some fierce edit wars on this one,” noted Erick Schonfeld on the TechCrunch blog.
As if no [...]