Geek Meets Girl
Bob, the short-lived Microsoft assistant, has met his match. Windows Live, Microsoft's search engine, now sports an edition anchored by Ms. Dewey. Bob, meet Ms. Dewey.
Before you start optimizing your websites for Ms. Dewey, know that the Ms. Dewey search engine is better suited for entertainment purposes rather than every day use. Like all other search engines, Ms. Dewey has a search field for you to enter your search terms. Click on the search button and Ms. Dewey retrieves the top three results along with a healthy dose of commentary.
For example, a search for "george bush" prompts Ms. Dewey to shout: "Solidfy the base. Stay the course. Leaders lead. There, now can I be president?" Since she rotates her comments, your mileage may vary during your search session. I'll leave it up to you to track down the other search terms that trigger relevant comments.
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New Google Blog Search and Finding a Lawyer Blawg with Google, MSN and Yahoo!
Searching for a law-oriented web log (or "blog") is not a straight-forward process. The standard search engines offer a number of different ways to locate a blog, which we will compare with the new Google Blog Search that came out today.
To show you how to track down a blog, let's continue from yesterday's post on the Supreme Court. I'll run a number of searches for blogs on the Supreme Court and compare the results.
Google / Yahoo! / MSN - Supreme Court Blog
First, I ran a search for supreme court blog on Google, Yahoo! and MSN. The two top contenders among the search results are SCOTUSblog and Supreme Court Blog.
I've summarized the results in the table below.
| Web Site | Google Rank | Yahoo! Rank | MSN Rank |
| SCOTUSblog | #1, #5, #6 | #2, #7 | #7, #10 |
| Supreme Court Blog | #2, #3 | #1, #4 | #1, #2 |
SCOTUSblog ranked higher on Google, while Supreme Court Blog ranked higher on Yahoo! and MSN. However, when reviewing the two web sites, I noticed that the posts on SCOTUSblog, which is sponsored by Goldstein & Howe, P.C., were more up-to-date and relevant. SCOTUSblog is currently covering the nomination hearings of Chief Justice nominee John Roberts, Jr.
Supreme Court Blog, on the other hand, includes only 2 posts from 2005, both on Supreme Court figurines and bobbleheads. The blog does include more substantive commentary, but these are from October of 2004. Overall, not quite befitting its #1 ranking on Yahoo! and MSN.
Google - RSS Search
Next, I ran a search for supreme court but limited the results to rss feeds by adding filetype:rss to the search term. The theory behind this is that blogs often offer an rss feed of their posts. However, the results from this search were not particularly fruitful.
MSN - Feed Search
MSN also offers a feed search. To specify a feed search, I added feed: before my search term (e.g., feed:"supreme court"). As you can see below, MSN returned a mix of news feeds and blog feeds.
Finally, I tested Google's recently unveiled Google Blog Search.
I ran a search for supreme court using Google Blog Search. As you can see from these results, Google Blog Search returns blog postings that match your search terms. You can also sort these results by relevance and by date. So, if you are looking for a blog on a particular topic, stick with the regular Google search. If you are looking for a blog posting on a particular topic, try out the new Google Blog Search.
A few notes about the Google Blog Search from Tim
- You can find Google Blog Search at http://blogsearch.google.com or for those who would like a blogger look and feel the url is: http://search.blogger.com/
- There is a Google Blog Search FAQ here: http://www.google.com/help/about_blogsearch.html
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Google Blog Search only searches the feeds, not the sites
If you want your full post indexed, you need to setup an RSS 2.0 or ATOM feed with the full post text (this is relatively easy to do, although many Blawgers are not currently doing it)// -
You can Ping your Blog post to Google using current services
If you want Google Blog Search to index your blog make sure to ping weblogs.com or blo.gs. You can set this up in your software, or
you can do it manually (or by way of a bookmark that is reloaded) at http://pingomatic.com/
and note: you can also automatically use pingomatic.com, which pings a bunch of sites, by adding in http://rpc.pingomatic.com/ as a URL to ping in your blog software - Not Just Blogs are Indexed Google Blog Search actually indexes more than blogs, it also indexes RSS and ATOM feeds from news papers and any other site that is updated regularly (eg non-blogs like http://auto-recalls.justia.com :).
- Read more information about Google's Google Blog Search at Search Engine Watch or the Google Blog, or just do a Google Blog Search on "Google Blog Search".
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Follow Your Search Engine Rankings with RSS Feeds from MSN
A multi-billion dollar technology company has unveiled the latest wrinkle in search engine functionality. However, this time, we're talking about Microsoft, not Google. Surprised?
Starting from MSN.com, I ran a search for law firm web design.
Similarly, I can run the same law firm web design search from MSN Search.
Here are the search results.
Now, at the bottom of the search results page, there is an RSS link.
Clicking the RSS link, leads you to the RSS Feed for MSN Search page.
You have the option of pasting the URL provided into your own RSS reader, or clicking on one of the three buttons to add the MSN search feed to one of the readers displayed. I clicked on the My Yahoo button, which took me to My Yahoo. I then clicked on the + Add To My Yahoo! button.
My Yahoo then reported that the feed had been added. Clicking on the Go to My Yahoo! link takes me to My Yahoo.
Here's how your feed will appear on My Yahoo—probably without the Lakers background though unless you're a fan too. Glad this season is over.
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Overture's Ted Meisel says MSN will probably not to renew deal with Overture for search ads
Hi Friends,
Ted Meisel, who runs Yahoo!'s Overture Services (as well as being a lawyer from Stanford :) told Adweek that he expects Microsoft not to renew their deal with Overture to supply search ads to MSN. The current deal runs through June 2006.
This is not really a surprise, as Microsoft has been hiring many people of late to focus on a paid search product for the new MSN Search. And in the brand arena, Yahoo!'s Overture, division is changing its name to Yahoo! Search Marketing Solutions. Having the Yahoo! brand selling paid search placement on MSN would not be good for Microsoft, although Yahoo! would probably have maintained the Overture brand longer had they been able to renew the Overture - MSN deal.
For those with a lot of $ to spend MSN is already selling search related ads directly to clients who spend more than $75,000 per year with their MSN Featured Sites product. And for a few million a year, you can probably get your link on the MSN home page (it looks like the lawyer directory link space has opened up).
In any case, for most firms it will just lead to one more setup of search terms for search advertisers, and one more system to track. Hopefully MSN will design their paid search fulfillment system to be like Google's AdWords, and not Overture's user unfriendly system. Better still would be for Overture to change their fulfillment system to be more like Google's AdWords. But more on that when I compare Google and Overture services in a later how-to post...
Peace - Tim
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Internet Explorer 7 beta is coming... this Summer
Hi Friends,
I got so excited about the new Google Toolbar for IE on Windows, that I for got to add the real exciting news for the Windows community... Internet Explorer 7 is coming out in beta this summer.
Bill Gates talked about it at the RSA conference (see the MSDN IEBlog Post). Here is what Microsoft Corporate PR Group had to say when interviewing Mike Nash, Corporate Vice President - Security Business & Technology Unit on the Microsoft PressPass site.
PressPass: What’s next for Internet Explorer?
Mike Nash: We’re very excited to announce at the RSA Conference today that this summer we’ll release a beta of Internet Explorer 7.0 for Windows XP with Service Pack 2, which will have even more enhancements to security and privacy protections. These enhancements align very closely with the three core tenets of Microsoft’s security approach that I mentioned earlier. Internet Explorer 7.0 will be the most secure browser we’ve ever released, building on and surpassing the success of the SP2-enhanced Internet Explorer 6.0. We don’t plan to ship it until it meets our quality bar, which we’ve set pretty high.
Of course what we are interested in is how prominent will the new MSN Search be in new IE7 (I know that everyone thinks this is all about Microsoft going after Firefox, but my belief is that the real target is Google (The Inquirer - CNET)).
You can get more exciting breaking Internet Explorer news on the IEBlog on the Microsoft Development Network Site.
Peace - Tim
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MSN Search Wiki - For Feedback on MSN Search
Hi Friends,
As noted by Sabrina Pacifici informed us (and me) last week on her blog BeSpacific, Microsoft took the beta off their MSN Search and went live with it on the MSN portal site last week.
This should greatly increase the use of MSN Search. For those who would like to give feedback to Microsoft, the developer communications site Channel 9 have set up MSN Search Feedback Wikis for user and developer feedback.
So far the MSN search is working well for us at Justia, we are number 1 for every term we optimized our Web site for! This is a Microsoft product I like (even though I primarily use a Mac... I do use Microsoft Office though :).
And of course with the release of MSN Search, Microsoft will now have a reason to update their browser beyond the competition form Mozilla's Firefox.... namely a new interface that focuses more on Web search. Maybe in a year or so, when the first part/version of Longhorn is released. And for blog readers, here is msnsearch's Weblog.
Peace - Tim
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Welcome to the Justia Legal Marketing Blog
Hi Friends,
Welcome to Justia's Legal SEO Blog. On this blog we will comment on the Internet and legal marketing industries, as well as introduce new Justia features and services.
We would like to thank Kevin O'Keefe of LexBlog for helping us set up our own Marketing Blog.
Have a great day!
Peace,
Tim
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