What makes Google more popular than other search engines?
Webman asked:
You know how you hear “Google it” and never “Yahoo it”.
What makes Google more popular in performance than Yahoo?
7 Responses to 'What makes Google more popular than other search engines?'
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Niets wordt veel enkel reclame en bevordering mensen opgeheven op google dit en google dat maar yahoo is de meest gebruikte e-maildienst
siryapsalot17
19 Dec 08 at 5:55 pm
Si usted quiere un rápido, simple, la búsqueda libre del anuncio, Google es la manera de ir. Creo que ésta es la gente de la razón principal prefiere Google. Si usted quiere descubrir una cierta información rápida mientras que su hacer su búsqueda tal como noticias, wheather, deportes etc, usted linado consigue mucho mejor que Yahoo!
Moosh
20 Dec 08 at 5:38 am
I would have to say that Google offers the most powerful and fast searches. Whenever I need something, I check Google out, and usually, it finds what I’m looking for. Other search engines like Yahoo, Ask, Dogpile, and others do not have the same power as Google has. It’s fast, clutter free and has thousands of great resources. I can upload my excel files, analyse my website, browse the World maps, create a blog the list is endless.
DaveC
22 Dec 08 at 8:14 pm
Basicly google was one of the first search engines. People were using it more frequently and spread it and ads. But yeah google kicks bootay. best answer =D
kenneth d
23 Dec 08 at 3:01 am
Google has been the most aggressive search engine, in terms of defeating web spam. When you get into the technicalities of how search engines work, there are two big categories – on-page factors and off-page factors.
On-page factors are things that the webmaster can control (ie, manipulate) – as a for-instance, there’s what is called a “keywords meta tag.” It was designed for webmasters to help tell the search engines what their content is about.
As you can imagine, this was greatly abused by spammers, causing them to rank for searches that they had nothing to do with. From the onset, Google has NEVER relied on the keywords meta tag because of this reason.
Google relies heavily on off-page factors – aka, incoming links. Instead of the webmaster telling Google what their page is about, they rely on what the incoming links for a page have to say.
As an example, if you try to optimize a page to rank for “weight loss diet,” but there’s a bunch of incoming links pointing to your page that say “cookie diet,” Google’s likely going to rank you for “cookie diet” and not “weight loss diet.”
This technique is called “crowdsourcing” – it’s relying on the hundreds of millions of other webpages around the world to accurately represent what different pages are about, by what words they use in the link.
Now the other guys (Yahoo! and MSN) did pick up on this, but Google has further evolved. The old school spam tricks still work on MSN, and Yahoo! does look at incoming links, but Yahoo! works on a “quantity” system, whereas Google has moved into “quality.”
As you can imagine, once incoming links were found to greatly increase ranking ability, spammers set across the web to create as many incoming links as possible (this is about the time that your Myspace comments started getting hammered with spam, etc).
Since then, Google now looks at trust factors of the sites that are linking to a certain page. They heavily discount (or eliminate) links from low-value sites, and focus on the links from “trustworthy” domains.
As you can imagine, even that is prone to abuse (I can buy links from some good, high PageRank sites), and so Google has moved out to off-web factors. This deals with how the consumers interact with content – Google Toolbar monitors your web behavior, and through this, they can get an idea of the quality of a website – if a bunch of users visit and quickly leave a certain site, then that site can be assumed to have low quality.
Also, they are watching it from within the SERPs (search engine result page – the thing you see when you do a search in Google). If you click on a result, and then come back (especially if you come back quickly), then again, it can be assumed that the result is either of low quality, or not relevant for your search.
That’s kind of a broad sweep as to why, but gives you a good idea. Google’s biggest advantage is that they have 200 PhD’s working for them, as well as tens of thousands of grad students submitting free work to them, trying to get a job.
Chris
Chris K.
25 Dec 08 at 8:41 pm
google has the most search results in the world, but yahoo is no.1 for everything else
Mithra S
27 Dec 08 at 8:56 pm
Google has better algorithm then the result in searching is more relevance for the user. User friendly interface makes google more famous also there are many of useful service available.
Mike Price
28 Dec 08 at 6:45 pm