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Search Engine Masturbation = Google Search + Live Search + Yahoo Search + RSS
Concept
Instead of daily vanity/ego search, create a Yahoo Pipe to search simultaneously using Google, Live and Yahoo and turn them into an RSS feed. In other words, instead of turning yourself into a bot to monitor the bots' activities, spend your time to create relevant content be indexed instead!
3. SML Flickr: SEM: Run Pipe: See-ming Lee
SML Pro Blog: Yahoo Pipes: Search Engine Masturbation
Related SML Universe
SML GYM = SML + Google + Yahoo + MSN
SML Pro Blog: Domain names = My one-line poetry
SML Pro Blog: SML SEO = See-ming Lee + Search Engine Optimization
SML Copyright Notice
Copyright 2007 See-ming Lee 李思明 SML / Search Engine Masturbation.
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Data is important to me. Some humans commented that I have a lot of tags. If you have no data, sure, you don’t need tags. But if you have 10,000+ media items on Flickr like I do, you tag, you organize, you make sure that everything you do is searchable so that when someone asked you for a photo, you are able to find it under 10 seconds. I can do that. Can you?
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1. I use Adobe Lightroom, because it has tight integration with the EXIF metadata storage scheme implemented by Flickr.
2. When I enter information in the title / description area of Lightroom, it automatically populates the relevant fields on Flickr. www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8429087032/
3. When I assign keywords inside Lightroom, they get populated as Flickr tags. Lightroom has an awesome feature which allows you to create synonyms for tags, and is what I currently do for Chinese tags. I am bilingual, Flickr is not. So assigning synonyms inside Lightroom, I tag once but then Flickr shows both Chinese and English on the page. www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8429087032/
4. The JPEG format stores metadata information in the form of EXIF. Add /meta to the Flickr URL and you see it instantly. JPEG EXIF on Flickr is text only, making it very indexable by search engines. All that info you spend time organizing in Lightroom is reflected automatically. www.flickr.com/photos/seeminglee/8429087032/meta
Some people said that they have no idea where I find the time to popular these fields. I don’t. Everything is automatic. Things just get smartly embedded everywhere. With a few scripts anything is possible.
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SML Opinions:
Yahoo has had a good year. I reason that it largely has to do with the economy of China. Although in Google is the defacto search engine in the US, when you move around the world you will notice that different parts of the world’s primary search engine differs greatly.
For example, in Hong Kong, the number 1 search engine that people reference (just by casual conversation) is Yahoo. In the UK, it seems that people reference Bing often. This is unusual to me. But if you think deeply, Google has many properties which are blocked by China’s Great Firewall. Google could not survive in China so if China is slowly becoming the creditor of the world, then it would make sense for companies which are able to survive in China to do well.
One must also not forget Baidu. There are a ton of amazing content available in Chinese. Just because you cannot read it does not mean that data is not available. This is often the number 1 thing I noticed about technology companies based in the US—they ignore the audience in other parts of the world while trying to be a global products and services company. You can’t force your language and culture onto others. Learn from history regarding world peace and diplomacy. Then you will go far.
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Search Engine Masturbation = Google Search + Live Search + Yahoo Search + RSS
Concept
Instead of daily vanity/ego search, create a Yahoo Pipe to search simultaneously using Google, Live and Yahoo and turn them into an RSS feed. In other words, instead of turning yourself into a bot to monitor the bots' activities, spend your time to create relevant content be indexed instead!
3. SML Flickr: SEM: Run Pipe: See-ming Lee
SML Pro Blog: Yahoo Pipes: Search Engine Masturbation
Related SML Universe
SML GYM = SML + Google + Yahoo + MSN
SML Pro Blog: Domain names = My one-line poetry
SML Pro Blog: SML SEO = See-ming Lee + Search Engine Optimization
SML Copyright Notice
Copyright 2007 See-ming Lee 李思明 SML / Search Engine Masturbation.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
1. Searching on my initials on Google puts me on page one again. Not too shabby.
2. Also see Google: Google SML for even more interesting results. :)
3. And note how Google: SML Google renders different results.
More analysis
SML Pro Blog: Thoughts on Google Personalized Search
Related SML Universe
+ SML Data
SML Copyright Notice
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