Archive for May, 2007
Want to know where the search engines vulnerabilities are? What bugs one could expect from search engine? Well, guys from Ukrainian Websecurity promise to reveal the bugs of most popular search engines. At least one bug a day during the whole June is announced to be reported to the publicity.
I couldn’t keep myself from raising the topic of URL canonicalization as the impact a non-canonical URL may have to your site is considerable.
So what is called canonical URL? Should you canonicalize the URLs of your site? According to Wikipedia
Canonicalization is the process of converting data that has more than one possible representation into a “standard” href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canonical">canonical representation.
So in its turn if to cite Webopedia
Canonical name, also referred to as a CNAME record, a record in a DNS database that indicates the true, or canonical, host name of a computer that its aliases are associated with.
May
Yahoo Reveals A Secret of Making the Search Results Summaries Appealing to Users
Have you ever thought what makes you and other search engines users to choose one site from the search results or another? Well, even if you haven’t focused your attention on this before Yahoo has made it for you. Conducting a survey which became a patent application, Summary Attributes and Perceived Search Quality, Yahoo has determined some rules and clues to what parameters of the summary retrieved from the site make user choose it from among the other results and follow the link.
The experiment run by Yahoo included a number of summary quality estimation parameters such as Text Choppiness, Snippet Truncation, Query Term Presence, Query Term Density, Abstract Length and Genre.
A pretty nice image search function was discovered by WebmaseterWord participants in Japanese version of Yahoo! When clicking an image in Yahoo Japan Image Search results it is opened in a larger view and a flash player arises which rotates the images one by one.
With the player you can choose whether to go further or backward through the pictures, stop viewing them or get to more detailed info about the image.
