Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.
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Daily Search Forum Recap: July 13, 2009
Posted: July 13th, 2009, 11:00pm CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Search Forum Recap
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Is Bing's Algorithm Domain Name Heavy?
Posted: July 13th, 2009, 3:49pm CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Microsoft MSN Search
There is a large thread at the Bing Community on the topic of how Bing treats domain names. There are some people that feel that Bing's algorithm weighs too heavily on words in a domain name.
Cleo started the thread, which now has about 30 replies, even from Brett Young of Microsoft. Cleo said:
If I have one criticism of the Bing, it is that it puts WAY too much emphasis currently on keyword domain names. Like for example, if you made bread and had a website named www.bread.com, it would rank really high with Bing.
However, the actually quality and content or even code of the website may be terrible. It may not even be related to bread, but the people at Bing put way too much emphasis on just the names alone...In the past and present, it has been a major source of abuse/keyword stuffing.
Two things I find interesting in this thread.
(1) The topic of how valuable a domain name is in the eyes of Bing. Clearly this is up for debate and anything you see today, can change tomorrow.
(2) How a site was sent to the spam team for review after discussion in the thread. Yes, you may be able to expedite spam reviews if you complain about specific sites in the Bing community.
Forum discussion at Bing Community.
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Google Image Search Improves Filter?
Posted: July 13th, 2009, 3:39pm CEST by rustybrick
Tags: Google Search Engine
Whenever there is an image search change at any search engine, Zeus, a WebmasterWorld member, knows about it. He posted a thread at WebmasterWorld noting that he has seen a change to the moderate filter used by Google Image search.
Zeus said the change is a big improvement to what was there previously. Specifically, images often wrongly associated with being adult pictures are no longer classified as such. He said, and I quote:
Today I see big changes in search with "Moderate filter on" and I can say its to the way better, I have made my usual searches with some keywords which can not be mistaken as adults searches and some which could be mistaken both search gave me good results with more images presented, so as it seems now we are on a good way, but sometimes they make a few changes to the filter, so we have to wait a few days, but for now it looks good.
WebmasterWorld administrator, Tedster, also noted that Google Image Search's product manager, Peter Linsley was interviewed by Eric Enge last week. There are some good tidbits in there.
So if you noticed an spike or decline in Google image search referrals, this may be why.
Forum discussion at WebmasterWorld.