OT - How do search engines work?

Jay Honeck wrote:
Besides, Google has the simplest, most elegant home page on the web.
It consists of 38 words. Go look: www.google.com


True, but I like having Yahoo as my home page, because of their
up-to-the-minute news coverage.

A throw-back to my newspaper days, I guess. I knew I'd have to add
newspapers to our order when I saw a big story hit in Yahoo!

also see
http://news.google.com/



WW

Jay Honeck wrote:
Besides, Google has the simplest, most elegant home page on the web.
It consists of 38 words. Go look: www.google.com


True, but I like having Yahoo as my home page, because of their
up-to-the-minute news coverage.



Google has news. And the "news" tab is much easier to find than yahoo's.

Cub Driver wrote:


Besides, Google has the simplest, most elegant home page on the web.
It consists of 38 words.


Absolutely!

Does google have pop-ups (on its home page or its returned list-pages)?
My system suppresses them, so I don't know if it has them or not. I
was pretty sure that Yahoo was awash in them, or is that not correct???

My system suppresses them, so I don't know if it has them or not. I
was pretty sure that Yahoo was awash in them, or is that not correct???

I see no pop-ups when I open Yahoo.com.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Let's not start Google-beater pilots now, ok?
Pat Thronson ( also "Google desk bar" comes in handy)

"Cub Driver" wrote in message
...

When I type in "Iowa City Airport" at the Yahoo search screen, our
"History
of the Iowa City Airport" webpage pops up second on the list -- which is
all
well and fine.

Google rules. Google is God. All else is a pale imitation of Google.

Google works this way: the more sites link to yours, the higher your
rating is. The higher a site's rating is, the more credit you get for
its being linked to you.

This works far better than even the guy who dreamed it up could have
hoped or expected or dreamed. It works wonderfully well. It is Adam
Smith's Invisible Hand turned loose on information.

If you don't have a Google tool-bar installed on your browser, your
life is slower, more complicated, and less rewarding than it might
otherwise be.

Besides, Google has the simplest, most elegant home page on the web.
It consists of 38 words. Go look: www.google.com


all the best -- Dan Ford
email: (put CUB in subject line)

see the Warbird's Forum at www.warbirdforum.com
and the Piper Cub Forum at www.pipercubforum.com

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Posting your question to a bunch of pilots? ;^)

Why not ask Google directly?

Google? Yuporamma! Waste all day in Google, or save time with Excite.

Have a great one!

Bush

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:18:12 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

When I type in "Iowa City Airport" at the Yahoo search screen, our "History
of the Iowa City Airport" webpage pops up second on the list -- which is all
well and fine.

When I type in "Iowa City Hotels" at the Yahoo search screen, however, our
hotel website doesn't appear at all. Well, maybe it's five pages in, but
who's going to bother to look there?

I've studied meta tags, and key words, and I believe I've got things set up
properly for the "robots" to see -- yet the stupid "Weather Underground" and
"Sheraton" sites pops up ahead of our hotel. (And they don't even appear to
be using meta tags...)

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

I personally have a page with all the search engines and if one
doesn't get me what I want I go to another.
http://pad39a.com/engines.html But if most people are using Google,
it's most important for his listing to show up on Google.
--
Gene Seibel
Hangar 131 - http://pad39a.com/gene/plane.html
Because I fly, I envy no one.



Google? Yuporamma! Waste all day in Google, or save time with Excite.

Have a great one!

Bush

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 14:18:12 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

When I type in "Iowa City Airport" at the Yahoo search screen, our "History
of the Iowa City Airport" webpage pops up second on the list -- which is all
well and fine.

When I type in "Iowa City Hotels" at the Yahoo search screen, however, our
hotel website doesn't appear at all. Well, maybe it's five pages in, but
who's going to bother to look there?

I've studied meta tags, and key words, and I believe I've got things set up
properly for the "robots" to see -- yet the stupid "Weather Underground" and
"Sheraton" sites pops up ahead of our hotel. (And they don't even appear to
be using meta tags...)

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

The search engines are run by some christian fundamentalists and know if you
have been naughty or nice. Clearly after the last thread you started about
bible smackers they are ****ed.


"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:EC2xb.313373$Fm2.328957@attbi_s04...
When I type in "Iowa City Airport" at the Yahoo search screen, our
"History
of the Iowa City Airport" webpage pops up second on the list -- which is
all
well and fine.

When I type in "Iowa City Hotels" at the Yahoo search screen, however, our
hotel website doesn't appear at all. Well, maybe it's five pages in, but
who's going to bother to look there?

I've studied meta tags, and key words, and I believe I've got things set
up
properly for the "robots" to see -- yet the stupid "Weather Underground"
and
"Sheraton" sites pops up ahead of our hotel. (And they don't even appear
to
be using meta tags...)

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

The search engines are run by some christian fundamentalists and know if
you
have been naughty or nice. Clearly after the last thread you started
about
bible smackers they are ****ed.

Well, it beats having Satan ****ed at me, I guess. ;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"