Posts Tagged Google
Switching to Bing
by someone16 on Mar.28, 2010, under Computers
I’ve been searching with Google from the first day of using the Internet. It’s great search engine, I find everything I want and it always works. Sometimes there are some problems with loading front page of Google, but apart from that I haven’t encounter any problems with it so far.
However, recently I’m testing Bing and I decided to completely switch to it from Google. I’m also unhappy with Google’s policy on keeping my personal information. I’ll only be using Bing search engine and stay with Gmail because it has better UI and I don’t want to change my email address. Of course Google Analytics, Webmaster Tools and other tools have no Microsoft alternative and I’m happy with them, so there is no reason for me to switch.
It’s never bad to check alternatives, and see if they are better (I doubt, but Bing Maps really suprised me in a good way).
More about Google:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7yfV6RzE30
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However, recently I’m testing Bing and I decided to completely switch to it from Google. I’m also unhappy with Google’s policy on keeping my personal information. I’ll only be using Bing search engine and stay with Gmail because it has better UI and I don’t want to change my email address. Of course Google Analytics, Webmaster Tools and other tools have no Microsoft alternative and I’m happy with them, so there is no reason for me to switch.
It’s never bad to check alternatives, and see if they are better (I doubt, but Bing Maps really suprised me in a good way).
More about Google:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7yfV6RzE30
Webmaster Tools
by someone16 on Oct.28, 2009, under Life
Google usually makes good stuff, but I only had problems with it so far.
If I understand right, this is how it goes:
- I own a site or domain
- I add site to my Dashboard
- I verify site by uploading a file to the server or add A record in domain's DNS server
- I can do a lot of things with my domain, see search queries, who is linking me, etc.
Everything is simple to point, where I don't want a "disk space wasting" file. I just want everything tidy and clean, so I always delete unnecessary data/code/files. But if I delete this thing, then Google says that my website isn't verified. WTF??
Can't Google remember, that it had verified my site already? Cause I don't want to go trough all of these steps to verify my site again, every time I use webmaster tools.
Apart from this, Webmaster Tools have other problems too. For example, you cannot use "Change of address" feature with .eu domains. What's wrong with this TLD, Google?
Why the heck do I need to verify www and non-www address? Isn't that the same thing? I know that you can have different content on those two subdomains, but still ... who uses that? The best practice is to redirect it to one or another, this is good for SEO too.
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If I understand right, this is how it goes:
- I own a site or domain
- I add site to my Dashboard
- I verify site by uploading a file to the server or add A record in domain's DNS server
- I can do a lot of things with my domain, see search queries, who is linking me, etc.
Everything is simple to point, where I don't want a "disk space wasting" file. I just want everything tidy and clean, so I always delete unnecessary data/code/files. But if I delete this thing, then Google says that my website isn't verified. WTF??
Can't Google remember, that it had verified my site already? Cause I don't want to go trough all of these steps to verify my site again, every time I use webmaster tools.
Apart from this, Webmaster Tools have other problems too. For example, you cannot use "Change of address" feature with .eu domains. What's wrong with this TLD, Google?
Why the heck do I need to verify www and non-www address? Isn't that the same thing? I know that you can have different content on those two subdomains, but still ... who uses that? The best practice is to redirect it to one or another, this is good for SEO too.