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antdude Borg Ant Premium Member join:2001-03-25 US	antdude Premium Member 2015-Sep-26 1:46 am No more "BroadbandReports"? Hello! I just noticed »broadbandreports.com goes to »dslreports.com with DSLReports.com ... What happened to the Broadband name part which made more sense since not everyone can get DSL, and I think DSL is dying? Thank you in advance.
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justin ..needs sleep Mod join:1999-05-28 2031	justin Mod 2015-Sep-26 2:41 am It has been that way for several years. moving domain names for a site that gets most of its traffic from organic search, and most of that from google, and most of google from ranking of URLs in other sites, is difficult to do.
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antdude Borg Ant Premium Member join:2001-03-25 US	antdude Premium Member 2015-Sep-26 4:00 am said by justin: It has been that way for several years. moving domain names for a site that gets most of its traffic from organic search, and most of that from google, and most of google from ranking of URLs in other sites, is difficult to do. Ah. I always called this web site BRR.
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Mele20 Premium Member join:2001-06-05 Hilo, HI	Mele20 Premium Member 2015-Sep-26 5:57 am Re: No more "BroadbandReports"? The irony is that dslreports.com enjoys, and has for many years, extremely high ranking in Google search and that was true before BBR as an alternative address even existed. So, logically, you are right that "dsl" in the name is confusing but when Justin tried to move it to "bbr" Google didn't "co-operate" as "dslreports" already had a very high ranking at Google and "bbr" couldn't compete. So, in a sense, Justin found himself a "victim" of his own success and had to abandon the idea of moving to bbr exclusively. You can't fight the Google god!
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antdude Borg Ant Premium Member join:2001-03-25 US	antdude Premium Member 2015-Sep-26 6:18 am said by Mele20: The irony is that dslreports.com enjoys, and has for many years, extremely high ranking in Google search and that was true before BBR as an alternative address even existed. So, logically, you are right that "dsl" in the name is confusing but when Justin tried to move it to "bbr" Google didn't "co-operate" as "dslreports" already had a very high ranking at Google and "bbr" couldn't compete. So, in a sense, Justin found himself a "victim" of his own success and had to abandon the idea of moving to bbr exclusively. You can't fight the Google god! Heh. What about other search engines? Same results?
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Mele20 Premium Member join:2001-06-05 Hilo, HI	Mele20 to antdude Premium Member 2015-Sep-26 7:46 am to antdude said by antdude: Heh. What about other search engines? Same results? I don't know. For years, there really was just Google. Of course, now there is duckduckgo, bing and others that are getting good in terms of results compared to Google. I used Google 95% of the time as Proxo sent a fake cookie and gave me 100 results per page but with Google's move to ssl searches, I have been mostly using duckduckgo. I haven't done much searching though on subjects that would relate to this site. In the past years though, with Google search, I've been taken aback many times when doing a search that related to this site as right near the top of the results would be a post from here by me!
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tshirt Premium Member join:2004-07-11 Snohomish, WA	tshirt to Mele20 Premium Member 2015-Sep-26 4:32 pm to Mele20 said by Mele20: You can't fight the Google god! It is one of the dangers of so many relying so much on Google as THE SOURCE of all knowledge. The meme "it must be true, I saw it on the internet" becomes "Google says... therefore it must be so" I'm hoping more people multi source/search, while there still are other viable search choices available.
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justin ..needs sleep Mod join:1999-05-28 2031 Billion BiPAC 7800N Apple AirPort Extreme (2011)	justin to antdude Mod 2015-Sep-27 4:08 am to antdude said by antdude: What about other search engines? Same results? There are other search engines? I wish there were, but unfortunately nearly everything uses google and the other one (Bing) emulates it anyway.
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tshirt Premium Member join:2004-07-11 Snohomish, WA	tshirt Premium Member 2015-Sep-27 9:38 am Well, there's your next project the DSLR search bot 2020
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Zenit_IIfx The system is the solution Premium Member join:2012-05-07 Purcellville, VA	Zenit_IIfx to tshirt Premium Member 2015-Sep-29 2:31 pm to tshirt I hope I am not the only one who uses Bing. The rewards points are a nice bonus. Bing and Google have 1 major difference - Bing is designed for full sentence queries or questions. Google is designed to pick up on keywords. Honestly Google gives better results most of the time, but Bing has better image search. So it all depends on what your looking to search for.
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tshirt Premium Member join:2004-07-11 Snohomish, WA	tshirt Premium Member 2015-Sep-29 3:10 pm said by Zenit_IIfx: Bing is designed for full sentence queries or questions. Which is different, but not necessarily an advantage. I was doing the trivia game yesterday (nascar) and it would not accept Daytona beach, FL or any other combo except Daytona Beach, Florida as an answer. being too picky about spelling and phrasing is as bad as too many results (and eliminates about 3/4 of the typical searches from every finding anything. still trying both google and bing is better than Yahoo, AOL, ask, etc. which are horrible polluted by adwords /"sponsored suggestions" one of the most important parts of the internet being totally dominated by Google and MS portends that the end is near.
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Zenit_IIfx The system is the solution Premium Member join:2012-05-07 Purcellville, VA	Zenit_IIfx Premium Member 2015-Sep-29 3:20 pm Yes the trivia question this week was bad. Normally its not nearly as picky. I think the search space is dominated by G or MS because those two are the only ones who have built a functional search engine. Yahoo no longer uses an in-house engine, its just a Bing frontend with more ads. AOL Search I think is a Google front end with more ads.
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tshirt Premium Member join:2004-07-11 Snohomish, WA	tshirt Premium Member 2015-Sep-29 3:32 pm said by Zenit_IIfx: AOL Search I think is a Google front end with more ads. AOL ads maybe The AOL ad biz is up there near google and probably the primary reason for the Verizon purchase and AOL USED to have excellent search from netscape among others. Sadly their first class development divisions were allowed to die
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JeremyB CVO join:2015-02-26 2031	JeremyB to Zenit_IIfx CVO 2015-Sep-29 8:51 pm to Zenit_IIfx »www.comscore.com/Insight ··· Rankings Based on "results powered by": Google = 65% Bing = 31% Others = 4% NB - these stats almost never correlate back to analytics packages.
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AltavistaFan @bell.ca	AltavistaFan Anon 2015-Oct-1 2:03 pm what happened to Altavista?
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tlbepson Premium Member join:2002-02-09 dc metro	tlbepson Premium Member 2015-Oct-1 7:26 pm Whoa! Blast from the past! I used to have an email account with Altavista...
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tshirt Premium Member join:2004-07-11 Snohomish, WA	tshirt to AltavistaFan Premium Member 2015-Oct-1 9:04 pm to AltavistaFan I think yahoo and jeeves ate them, and then jeeves passed (in the digestive sense) Ask.com trying to re-find a page I saw yesterday (but did not correctly save) that showed all the search engines - birth, lineage and demise/heritage
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nekkidtruth YISMM Premium Member join:2002-05-20 London, ON	nekkidtruth Premium Member 2015-Oct-2 8:36 am Was it this? »wordstream-web.s3.amazon ··· ines.jpg
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tshirt Premium Member join:2004-07-11 Snohomish, WA	tshirt Premium Member 2015-Oct-2 9:44 am it is similar, the more text-y one I saw had dozens if not hundreds of different startups some which only lasted/were absorbed after only a few months.
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tlbepson Premium Member join:2002-02-09 dc metro	tlbepson to tshirt Premium Member 2015-Oct-4 4:48 pm to tshirt *>>tshirt: I think yahoo and jeeves ate them* I do think it was Yahoo that ate Altavista which is why I ended up with a Yahoo email account and also why I created a mail.com account and shortly thereafter paid for the mail.com account to get rid of the ads. At the time, I only had my compuserve.com account which was sort of walled in, in that you needed to be signed into compuseve via their (non-web-based) software interface to use their email so AltaVista/Yahoo and then mail.com allowed me to have a more "global" email account accessible pretty much anywhere--read...at work... *>>and then jeeves passed (in the digestive sense) Ask.com* ROFL!!! Good one! '-}}
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JeremyB CVO join:2015-02-26 2031	JeremyB to AltavistaFan CVO 2015-Oct-5 9:46 pm to AltavistaFan I'm still looking for Lycos, but I think Magellan is lost for good.
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cramer Premium Member join:2007-04-10 Raleigh, NC Westell 6100 Cisco PIX 501	cramer to justin Premium Member 2015-Oct-23 4:55 pm to justin said by justin: There are other search engines? As I joke... google... given Bing ... if you're an idiot Yandex ... if you're Russian Baidu ... if you're Chinese I see other "bots" hitting my sites, but I cannot fathom how they can possibly be profitable. (ignoring the likelihood of them being spam sources)
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