From outta the ghetto
Using the power of RSS, I’m able to keep on top of a few things, despite my problems, and despite living behind the Great Firewall of China. One thing I try to keep an eye on is the battle over searching the internet waged by titans: Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft. They are also involved in the war over instant messaging funnily enough, with AOL thrown in for good measure. But what is going on in the Ghetto? Muschamp.ca is proudly well off the thoroughfare that is the information super highway. Although not quite living under an overpass, my site has largely flown under the radar for ten years.
Danna thinks I should do more to promote it, but I’m not like everyone else. I… …digress.
Apparently there are some people who are fed up with search results being dominated by a few big commercial sites and they’ve decided to do something about it. Ghetosearch and Tailrank are two such attempts. This scoop courtesy of Marketingshift.com and Jason Dowdell. There was a similar though less sophisticated attempt to recognize less popular sites that I took part in, it was called Bottom 95% of the Web. This was juxtaposed to the Top 5% of the web that was ranked by Point (not Alexa), though the memory is hazy. This was before Altavista and way before Google was on the scene. That was silly attempt whereas Ghetosearch and Tailrank seem to be more serious.
I’ll just take a wait and see approach, but I did try to sign up for Tailrank’s beta program and I’m giving them at least three referrals worth of PR.
This entry was posted on Friday, October 14th, 2005 at 10:00 am filed under: Blogging, China, Internet, Search Engines and tagged: Alexa, Altavista, AOL, Google, Microsoft, Point, Tailrank, Yahoo. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
