The New INK?

Recent movements explained or rearranging deckchairs?

[PageCount]

Does this explain the slight variations in SERPs we've been seeing of late or is it a case of shuffling deckchairs around the decks of a floundering ship?

"Inktomi Corp. (Nasdaq:INKT - news), developer of scalable network infrastructure software, today announced significant enhancements to the InktomiŽ Web Search service, delivering advanced technologies for highly relevant, comprehensive Web search worldwide. Inktomi has incorporated new regional identification and blending technologies as well as enhanced language analysis into its Web search platform, providing geographic context to international search results."

See here [biz.yahoo.com] for what is ostensibly the full story.

It's going to be interesting to see how it affects all of us regionally, internationally, on the major portals (especially MSN), and on INK's other mega buyers.

[toolman]

>>>enhanced language analysis

That means they can take your money now in Euro's, Rupees, Yen, Drachmas.....

[PageCount]

I have it on good authority they'll take whatever they can get. The way the ZA Rand is going, local punters will soon be offering them live chickens and hijacked motor vehicles...:)

[mattb]

I have a bunch of unpaid pages that just showed up in MSN. Funny that most of them are above my paid Ink pages. Never mind though I'll take it.

AOL is showing non releveant results. Perhaps that are in the middle of an update too?

[mark_roach]

>>AOL is showing non releveant results. Perhaps that are in the middle of an update too?

Just pressed refresh on a search term and got a different set of (irrelevant) results each time.

Yesterday I also had a large number of referals in my logs from people using the AOL directory search (links at the bottom of the regular search results). This suggests that AOL irrelevant results have been occuring for a while.

[Robert Charlton]

Pinch me if I'm dreaming, but I'm seeing some of my deeper pages now indexed... not just the home pages... and I'm also seeing these pages ranking well on their target phrases, just as they were designed to do. :) :) :) :)

[Beezer]

For the sites I've created over the last 3 months, it looks like my non-paid and paid listings are showing up in MSN, but only my paid ones in AOL.....

[NFFC]

"it is critical that Internet users across the globe can find the most timely and relevant information about the millions of items listed on eBay"

roflmao, yeah critcal.

Two observations; the title of the pages linking to you seems to be playing a significant role, sites which use more complex HTML than Ink used to favour seem to be rising¹.

¹They say they have been human reviewing the SERP's, sort of an in house Google smile/frown toobar, maybe we are starting to see some of this filter into the algo.

[stcrim]

Did you see what toolman said in post #2? (he is right on it) INK is selling pages and they want you to pay for it next year and the year after that.

Can you see the boys in the backroom at INK saying "well, we have millions of dollars coming on on search results now let's change our algo and knock them all out." They use to have the best search results - now they have the second best accountants. GOTO holds the #1 position...

-s-

[Terrier]

Ebay working their way though the dictionary it does not seem to matter to them if they have an item for sale for a search term or not, just slap it in anyway.

[stcrim]

Terrier,

Welcome to WMW and the INK forum...

-s-