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Why, when one is looking for this site on Google, does one get the following message?
Sorry, no information is available for the URL thepeoplescube.com
They'd like to know, too.
Posted by Rand Simberg at March 13, 2006 05:34 AM
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I went to Google, typed in "thepeoplescube", and got 16,100 hits. Indeed, none were from the site www.thepeoplescube.com.
Google can not even ban sites properly, which is probably a good thing for the free world.
Over a decade ago, I remember the search engine of choice was infoseek. Yahoo was there, but it was corporate (like a yellow pages), while infoseek was true keyword. Then Disney bought out infoseek and turned it into the "Go Network", and it became useless. Fortunately Google came up, and people quickly became reliant on it. Soon, Google will go the way of Infoseek, and hopefully we will find its replacement soon.
Posted by Leland at March 13, 2006 06:14 AM
It may not be the top search engine, but I'm going back to Dogpile. Google is shooting themselves in the monetary foot. I don't own any stock, so I dont care.
Posted by Steve at March 13, 2006 06:32 AM
Rand, you may want to check with the author of vcrisis.com to see if they're still having google difficulties too.
Posted by Phil Fraering at March 13, 2006 06:46 AM
I'm using Dogpile now too, though I'm also testing something called accoona.
I was using Teoma, until Ask Jeeves assimilated it. Somebody followed an Ask Jeeves search engine hit to my site and I saw it in my referrals. Not one of the hits came close to answering the question, but Teoma did, quite nicely. Now Teoma is part of Ask.com and I have no confidence in it anymore.
Posted by McGehee at March 13, 2006 06:46 AM
I just found accoona too. Let's see what happens to Google if we ALL go to something else.
Posted by Steve at March 13, 2006 06:56 AM
Anyone have additional information on this?
Bill Clinton helps launch search engine
China-backed Accoona claims better results than Google
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6666890/
Posted by Tom at March 13, 2006 07:39 AM
So much for putting to lie their motto of "Don't be Evil".
Posted by Mike Puckett at March 13, 2006 08:05 AM
I did a couple of searches on Yahoo, Google, Accoona and Dogpile. Dogpile returned the least results each time, by a lot. Only 76 for "Category Theory" and only 75 for "lambda calculus". But a few hours earlier the result sets were only 38 and 20-something respectively.
Right now Accoona looks usable. I am going to try that out for a while.
Google always returned the most. I was suprised that yahoo and google returned different results each time because I thought yahoo used google.
Posted by Ed Colletta at March 13, 2006 01:44 PM
Maybe if they put up a valid http://thepeoplescube.com/robots.txt file, perhaps?
Posted by Bryan Price at March 13, 2006 09:24 PM
More likely, they need to stop keyword-spamming their own homepage.
Posted by Rick C at March 14, 2006 02:24 PM
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