Sean — yup… and on the same day that Google made an upgrade, too. [3] Still, if Google is preparing a “Pearl Habor” for Microsoft [4], I hope it succeeds. Whether Microsoft or Google wins doesn't matter so much. Whether consumers — and openness — wins matters a great deal.

Mike — we'll do our best to move Spooky Action [5] up to #1

Aaron — For an example of the difference in behavior for the search engines, take the search “are americans hyperactive neanderthals? site:tdaxp.com” Live search [6] brings you to the right page [7] immediately, while Google takes you to the bloated category page. [8] Live saves me time and effort: I like it!

[1] http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2006/08/10/ask-com-s-asymmetric-strategy-attack-bloggers-butters-up-mag.html
[2] http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2006/05/20/ask-com-blacklists-catholicgauze.html
[3] http://seanmeade.blogspot.com/2006/09/catching-up.html
[4] http://platformwars.blogspot.com/2006/03/writely-microsofts-pearl-harbor.html
[5] http://spookyaction.blogspot.com/
[6] http://beta.search.live.com/results.aspx?q=are+americans+hyperactive+neanderthals%3F+site%3Atdaxp.com&sourceid=Mozilla-search
[7] http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2006/08/20/are-americans-hyperactive-neanderthals.html
[8] http://www.google.com/search?q=are+americans+hyperactive+neanderthals%3F+site%3Atdaxp.com&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official

That would undoubtably solve a lot of personal issues for me, but it's not exactly what I was after. The two sites that outrank me at Google and MS are very different in nature. With Google it's an article by physics professor Gary Felder. With MS, it's the home page for the Spooky Action theater. Each of them appears at about #5 when the other is the first entry.

I'm just doing my Rodney Dangerfield routine!

Mike

In that case, I am going to create a search engine that returns your website no matter the search query. Then you can tout it here

Thanks for the tip, Dan!

For a real taste of what I can do, read Variations of the OODA Loop. [1] The whole thing is one footnote after another! :-p

[1] http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2006/05/30/variations-of-the-ooda-loop-1-introduction.html

I would have a hard time judging either technically superior. I suppose it just comes down to taste. Again, you prefer to avoid mental exhaustion ( ala iTunes giant folder of unorganized chaos ) whereas I prefer structure to my searching.

Now, if only Live or Google would figure out that they should hash search results so they don't return 800 asshole college students posting the entire contents of the UNIX 'man' pages on their website, then everyone will be happy.

It's not quite an issue of taste — story pages are often not included at all by google — but both engines do return their results in a quick and speedy matter. I have to give them both that. (Having once written a site search engine, I'm astounded by what these companies can do.)

I absolutely agree with your comments on the plagiarized man pages. These are indexed, but not tdaxp story pages? Incredible!

PS: All the cool kids are using iTunes with Cover Flip

[1] http://www.technorati.com/search/http://www.tdaxp.com
[2] http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2006/09/13/short-review-of-itunes-7-with-cover-flow.html