Google

[Joker Boy]

google is not even the first in their own search for "search" [google]search[/google] if that is a tag.

 

[Spartan Erik]

google is not even the first in their own search for "search" [google]search[/google] if that is a tag.

Saying "Google it" is much more common than saying "search it"

 

[Joker Boy]

so true, and I googled google and it told me google. :biggrin:

 

[Derek]

Lol nice they put msn 1st

 

[t2t2t]

50% OFFTOPIC, 50% TOPIC: tag is [noparse][google=Query]Text[/google][/noparse] , like this: [google=search]GOOGLE[/google]
PS. I used noparse tags to not parse google tags


Back2Topic: So... we can also know from it that MSN Search is more linked in webpages than google! Interesting.

 

[Trixter]

Off Topic: I still say use a superssearch engine like dogpile it uses google, ask jeaves, altavista, msn, yahoo and a whole lot more standerd engines.

on topic: Its considered bad practise and unprofessinal to make yourself come up as No1 search engine on your own search engine. so [google=query]Google[/google] has MSN, msn has search.com, dogpile has yahoo, yahoo has dogpile and so it goes but if you look at whos No2 its almost always the engine your using to do the search.

 

[Chris Z]

interesting...i never knew that about search engines and I've never tried it, but that's pretty interesting, Trixter

 

[YamiKaitou]

I did a search at ask.com with the query of "search" and the first result was this

Ask.com Search Engine - Better Web Search
Offers search for web sites, news, weather reports, pictures, stocks, maps and directions, people or products. Also has a dictionary search.
www.ask.com/ · Save

 

[Zenax]

I did a search on google, and I typed search engines

results:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=se...s=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a

Again, google are ranked second however AltaVista are top of this one!

 

[Joker Boy]

thats weird. I don't like Ask.com though. They make it seem as if they are the best and they even rank themselves as #1 in their searches. At least Google's searches actually search and don't just display themselves for more publicity to people who are allready searching them. Thats dumb.

 

[Zenax]

Yeah, I have more resepect to Google for showing that they are not always the best at everything.

However, knowing Microsoft, they are probably paying Google to put MSN at the top, LOL!

Regards,
Zenax

 

[t2t2t]

However, knowing Microsoft, they are probably paying Google to put MSN at the top

THATS the word of the god!

 

[Bonekhan]

thats weird. I don't like Ask.com though. They make it seem as if they are the best and they even rank themselves as #1 in their searches. At least Google's searches actually search and don't just display themselves for more publicity to people who are allready searching them. Thats dumb.

To be fair, I'd wager that they'd realize that, if you're already using their search engine, they wouldn't try to self promote themselves, because you're already using the very software they would promote. In other words, it might just be how the crawl pages or their search algorithm that indexes their own website first.