Saturday, August 18, 2007

A "Tag" a day keeps the Google™ away

How many times have we tried to search something in Google™ and got a relevant result? I guess the percentage of relevancy is a debatable topic here and this forms the very outline of this article. Though most of my search is very much confined within the contours of Google™ itself. Still at the end of the day I am not happy with my search results or there could have been better results to my search.

Now del.icio.us™ (pronounced as delicious- http://del.icio.us/, parent company being Yahoo™) is a new social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks where a tag (it is a relevant keyword or term associated with or assigned to a piece of information e.g. a picture, article, or video clip) is used to search.

Now what is the difference? The difference lies in the way both these websites search mechanism works. Google™ uses an algorithm where its spider crawler searches through its vast and extensive database to find the website. And del.icio.us™ uses tags that have been assigned with the links by this users and it also gives us a rating mechanism wherein we can see which page have been rated the highest in terms of usage.

But aren’t we looking for a specific webpage rather than website? That’s why I believe that search through del.icio.us™ is a better proposition altogether than google when the question is about finding relevant webpage.

And if people may ask why del.icio.us™ will be successful? I will say that now since the world has shifted to Web 2.0 where more and more portal is giving its customers more & more control, so why not in search?


As of now, Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee is simply googlified or del.icio.fied.


1 comment:

M.P.Singh said...

I beleive its not so easy task for yahoo to churn google search users. In 2006 its total market share was 51% while yahoo which is in web duniya from such a long time even tough it was unable to do well and now its shifting to net on mobile by yahoo 2 or sthing i forget its name which simply shows that yahoo is really worry about its market and intensified google simplier approaches..
yes another thing is major it company professionals are also using google search for their codes etc so its not so easy for delicious to churn google search share............

Saturday, August 18, 2007

A "Tag" a day keeps the Google™ away

How many times have we tried to search something in Google™ and got a relevant result? I guess the percentage of relevancy is a debatable topic here and this forms the very outline of this article. Though most of my search is very much confined within the contours of Google™ itself. Still at the end of the day I am not happy with my search results or there could have been better results to my search.

Now del.icio.us™ (pronounced as delicious- http://del.icio.us/, parent company being Yahoo™) is a new social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks where a tag (it is a relevant keyword or term associated with or assigned to a piece of information e.g. a picture, article, or video clip) is used to search.

Now what is the difference? The difference lies in the way both these websites search mechanism works. Google™ uses an algorithm where its spider crawler searches through its vast and extensive database to find the website. And del.icio.us™ uses tags that have been assigned with the links by this users and it also gives us a rating mechanism wherein we can see which page have been rated the highest in terms of usage.

But aren’t we looking for a specific webpage rather than website? That’s why I believe that search through del.icio.us™ is a better proposition altogether than google when the question is about finding relevant webpage.

And if people may ask why del.icio.us™ will be successful? I will say that now since the world has shifted to Web 2.0 where more and more portal is giving its customers more & more control, so why not in search?


As of now, Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee is simply googlified or del.icio.fied.


1 comment:

M.P.Singh said...

I beleive its not so easy task for yahoo to churn google search users. In 2006 its total market share was 51% while yahoo which is in web duniya from such a long time even tough it was unable to do well and now its shifting to net on mobile by yahoo 2 or sthing i forget its name which simply shows that yahoo is really worry about its market and intensified google simplier approaches..
yes another thing is major it company professionals are also using google search for their codes etc so its not so easy for delicious to churn google search share............

Saturday, August 18, 2007

A "Tag" a day keeps the Google™ away

How many times have we tried to search something in Google™ and got a relevant result? I guess the percentage of relevancy is a debatable topic here and this forms the very outline of this article. Though most of my search is very much confined within the contours of Google™ itself. Still at the end of the day I am not happy with my search results or there could have been better results to my search.

Now del.icio.us™ (pronounced as delicious- http://del.icio.us/, parent company being Yahoo™) is a new social bookmarking web service for storing, sharing, and discovering web bookmarks where a tag (it is a relevant keyword or term associated with or assigned to a piece of information e.g. a picture, article, or video clip) is used to search.

Now what is the difference? The difference lies in the way both these websites search mechanism works. Google™ uses an algorithm where its spider crawler searches through its vast and extensive database to find the website. And del.icio.us™ uses tags that have been assigned with the links by this users and it also gives us a rating mechanism wherein we can see which page have been rated the highest in terms of usage.

But aren’t we looking for a specific webpage rather than website? That’s why I believe that search through del.icio.us™ is a better proposition altogether than google when the question is about finding relevant webpage.

And if people may ask why del.icio.us™ will be successful? I will say that now since the world has shifted to Web 2.0 where more and more portal is giving its customers more & more control, so why not in search?


As of now, Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee is simply googlified or del.icio.fied.


1 comment:

M.P.Singh said...

I beleive its not so easy task for yahoo to churn google search users. In 2006 its total market share was 51% while yahoo which is in web duniya from such a long time even tough it was unable to do well and now its shifting to net on mobile by yahoo 2 or sthing i forget its name which simply shows that yahoo is really worry about its market and intensified google simplier approaches..
yes another thing is major it company professionals are also using google search for their codes etc so its not so easy for delicious to churn google search share............