Notes from West London

Saturday, April 22, 2006

Oddness in Google Video

Why does searching for 'bbc micro' (without quotes) return the 5h39m Google Factory Tour video? "bbc micro" (with quotes) doesn't find it, nor just 'bbc' or 'micro'.

Still, who cares when the stock's at $437. Says the New York Times:

Pointing to particulars behind its successful quarter, the company said its share of the search market continued to grow around the world, as did the money it earned from advertising for each search result displayed. Eric E. Schmidt, Google's chief executive, said the market share increase might be related to the use of some of the company's new products, like Google Video, Google Earth and Google Maps, as well as the introduction of Google News in several countries.


"might be"? It's not like Eric can't track the web logs. Let's have some proper analysis. I buy that someone searching for news or locations is likely to broaden their search via the main engine, but isn't there a teensy bit of "Our web site is the kewlest!" about all this?

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