Forbes on Google Vs. Miscrosoft

5,707 years

[quotations]

[biz.yahoo.com...]

Forbes Magazine
All Eyes on Google
Thursday May 15, 11:30 am ET

With luck and brains, the search service has won the hearts and minds of millions and built a booming business. Watch out: Microsoft wants in.

[div01]

For some reason Forbes had Yahoo remove that article. Link from Forbes.com:

[forbes.com...]

[annej]

Strange, I looked at it then went back a few minutes later and it's been removed.

edit - Looked again and a new similar article is up. Geez, things change fast on the net.

edit 2 - >>The forbes article is from next week ... man they're freshhh<<

I didn't think of looking at the date. I was really into the article and when I tried to move on to page 3 it was gone again.

[edited by: annej at 5:27 pm (utc) on May 15, 2003]

[jeremy goodrich]

Deja vu all over again :)

We had that about a week ago, (the first time):
[webmasterworld.com...]

Great article, though. Lots of interesting bits about the company, etc.

[Yidaki]

quotations, please repost next week. The forbes article is from next week ... man they're freshhh.

>Quentin Hardy, 05.26.03

;)

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> For some reason Forbes had Yahoo remove that article
reasons: duplicate content. ;)
</added>

[tedster]

I got a chuckle from this sentence:

Google is a strangely unadorned site:
37 words, four tabs and a blank space where
you type in a query of up to 10 words.

"Strangely unadorned" - sounds like the Forbes writer prefers clutter.

[jeremy goodrich]

tedster, it's easy to understand why a forbes.com writer would get confused by the 'lack of clutter' on Google.

Forbes is so confusing to me, I can barely stand to read the thing - even for such a good article. :)

Too many flashy, distracting, and outrageous banner ads for stuff I just don't need...

[Yidaki]

>Strangely unadorned" - sounds like the Forbes writer prefers clutter.

LOL shake LOL ...

[pleeker]

This is the line that interests me the most:

Google computers crawl through an index to those 3 billion pages, rank them with an equation that includes 500 million variables and spit out up to a few thousand listings.

500 million variables? What's that referring to? They're not saying that Google uses 500 million variables to determine how to rank sites, are they? I've only heard that number referred to in hundreds before ... as in "PageRank is one of several hundred variables that influence the SERPs".

[div01]

One of more interesting "Google" articles.

[mil2k]

Excellent article!