How Google sees your Review

Gary Eckstein Internet 3 google webmaster tools, Microdata, microformats, online reviews, Rich Snippet, rich snippets, richsnippets, Search Engine Optimization, search engine results, Search engine results page, SERPs, vcard, Webmasters

Rich Snippets (the term Google uses for Microformats, RDFa and Microdata) is used by many larger organizations. Rich Snippets is essentially data that conforms to a specific standard so that machines may understand the data. For example, say that I want to write a review, then I may use the hreview Microformat standard to review [...]

May 18, 2009

Wolfram Alpha Fails

Gary Eckstein Internet 1 compare, google, google results, live, Microsoft, microsoft explorer, microsoft explorer 6, review, richsnippets, search comparison, search engine, search engines, wolfram, wolfram alpha, yahoo

Wolfram Alpha, the ‘Answer Engine’ is up and running. The media fanfare has been quite spectacular however it is interesting to note that while some commentators hail Wolfram Alpha as the greatest thing since, well Google, others aren’t as in-awe of the new Search Engine on the block. Is Wolfram Alpha Better than Google? I [...]