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Google Blog Search Changes How It Indexes Posts
Historically, Google Blog Search has indexed primarily via RSS feeds, which meant that for blogs that published partial feeds, Google Blog Search only indexed that partial portion. Any links or text in the rest of the post weren’t available through Blog Search. (The full posts were ...
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Google Blog Search indexa toda la web
Manual de Posicionamiento — ... indexaba a través de los feeds de cada sitio. El problema es que no siempre está toda la información de los feeds al completo, por lo que el equipo de este buscador ha decidido reaprovechar los resultados de Googlebot para que en los resultados no aparezcan los contenidos del feed sino el contenido real del sitio web. ...

Google Blog Search No Longer Indexes Feeds
Google Operating SystemVanessa Fox reports that Google's blog search engine changed the way it indexes blog posts. Until now, Google Blog Search only indexed feeds, so the results weren't very good for sites that offered partial feeds. The site started to offer a more comprehensive search by indexing the entire content of the page, including comments, navigation links and blogrolls. "We have changed the way we index blog posts to include the full content of the page. We've had occasional complaints about the use of the feed content, particularly the problem with partial feeds. The ...

Google Blog Search non indicizza più i feed
Motoricerca — ... ha modificato il metodo di indicizzazione non limitandosi più solo ai feed ma occupandosi di tutta la pagina, includendo quindi anche i commenti, i link nel blogroll e tutto il resto. ...

Google Still Working On Making Blog Search More Relevant
Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing — ... see what people are saying about my stories and help clarify my stories when necessary. I often do that by watching Google Blog Search for queries on names such as Barry Schwartz, Search Engine Land, Search Engine Roundtable or RustyBrick. I also use the link operator to find out who is linking to my stories on either Search Engine Land or the Search Engine Roundtable. And ever since November 2008 the link operator in blog search failed for me. Then it got worse when they tried fixing it and got somewhat better with their second attempt towards the end of ...

Google’s Additional Discovery Method: RSS and Atom Feeds
Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing — ... “discovery” but the post itself notes that they are able to “get these new pages into our index more quickly than traditional crawling methods” and to directly crawl feeds. If Google is using the feeds in place of crawling, this would be another argument in favor of full rather than partial feeds — you’d get more of a page’s content indexed more quickly. Google Blogsearch initially crawled feed content rather than the actual pages, which led to partial indexing in Blogsearch, but this changed late last year. The post notes that in order for Google to use a feed as a discovery ...

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