Comments on: Rollyo and Swicki feel the giant’s breath http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/10/23/rollyo-and-swicki-feel-the-giants-breath/ ... at the intersection of media, technology, business and the web Tue, 04 Oct 2011 13:01:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Rollyo and Swicki feel the giant’s breath » Mathew Ingram: mathewingram.com/work http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/10/23/rollyo-and-swicki-feel-the-giants-breath/comment-page-1/#comment-89814 Rollyo and Swicki feel the giant’s breath » Mathew Ingram: mathewingram.com/work Tue, 21 Nov 2006 23:01:37 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/10/23/rollyo-and-swicki-feel-the-giants-breath/#comment-89814 <!--%kramer-ref-pre%-->[...] WordPress Will Apple pay you to share your headphones? » « Nick Carr is right this time (cringe) Rollyo and Swicki feel the giant’s breath [...]<!--%kramer-ref-post%--> [...] WordPress Will Apple pay you to share your headphones? » « Nick Carr is right this time (cringe) Rollyo and Swicki feel the giant’s breath [...]

]]> By: Been nice knowing you, Rollyo at Sparkplug 9 >> bizhack http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/10/23/rollyo-and-swicki-feel-the-giants-breath/comment-page-1/#comment-71286 Been nice knowing you, Rollyo at Sparkplug 9 >> bizhack Tue, 24 Oct 2006 19:20:04 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/10/23/rollyo-and-swicki-feel-the-giants-breath/#comment-71286 [...] Update: Mathew Ingram got in on this one before me. See also Matt Cutts and Om Malik. [...] [...] Update: Mathew Ingram got in on this one before me. See also Matt Cutts and Om Malik. [...]

]]> By: Google Custom Search Engines « //engtech http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/10/23/rollyo-and-swicki-feel-the-giants-breath/comment-page-1/#comment-71197 Google Custom Search Engines « //engtech Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:34:51 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/10/23/rollyo-and-swicki-feel-the-giants-breath/#comment-71197 [...] (FT, Search Engine Journal, Search Engine Watch Blog, TechCrunch, Matthew Ingram, Google OS, Blogoscope, Problogger, Slashdot) [...] [...] (FT, Search Engine Journal, Search Engine Watch Blog, TechCrunch, Matthew Ingram, Google OS, Blogoscope, Problogger, Slashdot) [...]

]]> By: Starked SF, Unforgiving News from the Bay » Blog Archive » Talk of the Town: Tuesday http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/10/23/rollyo-and-swicki-feel-the-giants-breath/comment-page-1/#comment-71130 Starked SF, Unforgiving News from the Bay » Blog Archive » Talk of the Town: Tuesday Tue, 24 Oct 2006 13:11:17 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/10/23/rollyo-and-swicki-feel-the-giants-breath/#comment-71130 [...] Ingram thinks Google’s soon to be released custom search tool will masticate Rollyo and Swicki. Chomp or hype?. [...] [...] Ingram thinks Google’s soon to be released custom search tool will masticate Rollyo and Swicki. Chomp or hype?. [...]

]]> By: Putch http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/10/23/rollyo-and-swicki-feel-the-giants-breath/comment-page-1/#comment-71080 Putch Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:56:09 +0000 http://www.mathewingram.com/work/2006/10/23/rollyo-and-swicki-feel-the-giants-breath/#comment-71080 Upon checking this out, three features stood out: 1) You can exclude sites that you do not want in the results 2) You can easily do so using the Google Marker 3) Anyone can volunteer to help So we decided to throw up an experiment to encourage everyone to mark spam sites to be excluded from search results. Working together as a community we may be able to radically improve the quality of the search results (or perhaps just get in a blacklisting war?) The result is Putch - http://www.putch.com Upon checking this out, three features stood out:
1) You can exclude sites that you do not want in the results
2) You can easily do so using the Google Marker
3) Anyone can volunteer to help

So we decided to throw up an experiment to encourage everyone to mark spam sites to be excluded from search results.

Working together as a community we may be able to radically improve the quality of the search results (or perhaps just get in a blacklisting war?)

The result is Putch – http://www.putch.com

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