I search "Thomas P.M. Barnett" on Google news and get this one in The Korea Times for last weeks' "global family" column:
But I don't get the two where I know it appears: Knoxville and Scripps.
Then I search "Thomas Barnett" and get none of those but come up with this one Times Daily from northern Alabama, where they apparently don't approve of my middle initials. This one is my Chinese male/female ratio column from the week before.
Then I search "Ngewa" on news and just get the Korea Times one again.
Then I search "Ngewa" on the blogs and get Deseret News.
Plus this Inside China News technology-focused site (this takes you just to site, because to see article requires laborious registration process).
Plus another one that's ag-focused but comes from the same China News site.
Plus one from a Kenya News blog aggregator site.
Plus a News Boob site I never got to open.
Then I search "Thomas P.M. Barnett" on blogs and get a Press of Atlantic City hit (although link doesn't work).
And so on and so on.
Isn't it sort of sad and weird that this is the best I can do on flagship Google?
Am I just stupid on how to search better or is this just the state of the art. I mean, even Scripps says they can't give me a decent read, and they distribute it!
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Try: knoxnews column thomas pm barnett.
Your latest column appears third in google. However with Howard Scripps I don't get these results...which is indeed sloppy from google.
Posted by Erwin van der Rijnst | March 25, 2007 2:11 PM
And you should definitely read this article:
Will social networks and vertical search combine to challenge Google?
at: http://www.netimperative.com/2007/03/05/social_networks_google/view
Posted by Erwin van der Rijnst | March 25, 2007 3:16 PM
And you might even want to consider incorporating this new google service inside your website, called google co-op.
It allows you to create a highly specialized Custom Search Engine that reflects your knowledge and interests... and you can even make some extra bucks on the byside :) Go check it here: http://www.google.com/coop/cse/overview
Posted by Erwin van der Rijnst | March 25, 2007 3:52 PM
Google can only do so much in the vastness of the internet. You have to massage it a little to help it show what you want it to show. Here's the way Google suggests doing it:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769
but there are whole companies whose sole business plan is how to get a page ranked.
Knoxville and Scripps should be doing something like that already - but if they're not all their articles are destined to be lost in the noise of the net.
Posted by Eric Hansen | March 25, 2007 6:18 PM
Erwin: OBE ;-)
Fun with Google's new Custom Search
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