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Largest Search Engine in the world opens

in Taiwan

         

4crests

6:26 am on Jul 1, 2002 (gmt 0)

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"Openfind.com now is the world's largest search engine in terms of database."

[etaiwannews.com...]

not too bad once you get the language set to english, but it's got a long way to go to beat Google!

4crests

2:46 am on Jul 2, 2002 (gmt 0)

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tons and tons of outdated pages for my keywords. several of my competitors that went out of business long ago are listed.

It seems that Openfind wanted badly to be called the biggest, and just added everything possible over the past year or so. I wonder how they would compare with Google if all the dead / junk pages were removed?

However, I do like several of their innovative features. They could compete if they clean it up.

chiyo

3:21 am on Jul 2, 2002 (gmt 0)

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I think its a nice start. Lots of spam though. Came accross a site for the first time ever that was www.keyword2-keyword3-keyword1.com/keyword1key2key3.htm compared to our www.keyword1keyword2keyword3.com/index.htm

Looks like someone trying to grab our market with highly optimised domain name and file names! However when I clicked on it was site not found.

Maybe some funny cloaking stuff being picked up? The database probably needs more filtering and garbage pick-up. I suspect the size of the index reflects the amount of returns like this.

keyplyr

5:12 am on Jul 2, 2002 (gmt 0)

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I'm also curious about the "score" (he he)

For a long time I've had Openbot and Open Find as disalowed agents in my .htaccess and robots.txt... but they seem to have dozens of my pages. Anyone else think they may have imported part of their db?

xcandyman

8:01 am on Jul 2, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Strange its listed my site as an old description and title and dated: 20020504

But when I look at the cached copy it is the latest version ( to the day ) Are they using google cache ?

I think they might. Or they like my site :)

Steve

bird

10:56 am on Jul 2, 2002 (gmt 0)

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The default settings put too much weight on exact phrase matches in the page title for my taste.

What is also interesting are the results of the "[More Result]" link for those listings that have it. On the surface, it's simply a domain restricted search. But for my site, most pages are listed in two or three seperate copies there, as crawled on different dates during the last year. If that is the method how they reached those 3.5B pages in the index, then they still have some work ahead of them... ;)

physics

3:29 pm on Jul 2, 2002 (gmt 0)

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Found a little bug... Search for two words together like
laptop computer
and you will see that the 'description' in the SERP has the two words bunched like
laptopcomputer
All in all it needs some work like they said... we'll give them some time.

jaeden

4:05 pm on Jul 2, 2002 (gmt 0)

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One thing I don't like is that the description it is using for my site got picked up from my left hand navigation bar. It is just listing my categories, whereas Google is smart enough to only list descriptions it finds from the context on my front page. Or at least they could also offer the meta description as well.

Jaeden

srmpf

8:34 am on Jul 3, 2002 (gmt 0)

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has anybody found out how that "Daily Search" works? i can register and login, but no hint where/how to save my search terms :(
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