With the search engine wars picking up, I tried to nail down "How popular am I in the web?", just by measuring search rankings of my petty blog contributions.
Search Engines:
Yahoo
Preface:
I have been keeping this blog active with my own musings about the interesting stuff that I come across day in and day out. I haven't used any paid services or through other means of improving traffic to my blog. I have taken measures to popularize my blog only among a selected group of pals. I have added up Google Adsense to my blog which has started showing context sensitive ads very recently. Though I cannot confirm, google does seem to have a slight edge over other search engines in indexing my site.
With this setup, I used the same keywords in both google and yahoo search to analyze the search results. I have used both Web wide search and site specific search.
Keyword used:
rajakumar blogspot
Search Results:
Google Web wide search:
The first hit is a comment that I had posted in Govar's blog.
This blog came up in third place (Hurray, I am not doing bad in ranking it seems)
There were total 19 results, out of which just these two were related to me.
Yahoo Web side search:
The first hit is my bloglines subscription export xml url
The fourth hit is a comment that I had posted in Govar's blog
And on sixteenth hit is this blog
On the whole, the total results were 26 out of which 8 is related to me. To my surprise the index page of my blog has been indexed by Yahoo search and I could see my comments in Gops, Vig and Smart Senthil's blog.
Thanks to Vig for exposing my CGPA to world wide audience and I need not blow my own trumpet :-)
Google site specific search:
In Google's index there is just one entry related to my blog.
This proves that Google adsense doesn't have any relation with search index.
Yahoo site specific search:
Yahoo wins hands down here. There are 7 entries related to my blog
The analysis that I had done doesn't consider factors that influence any of the search engines facility. All I did is from layman perspective. With the results I do not denounce or appreciate google/yahoo. It is just an exercise to find the popularity of my blog with respect to search index.
Comments are welcome.
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