Yesterday, I conducted a little test to see where I pop up in search engines. I did make use of the list of major search engines from Search EngineWeb and checked for “Tagore settings”, a page on music set to or inspired by words of Rabindranath Tagore, the Indian poet and 1913 Nobel laureate.
Why do I want a high ranking? Well, I need input from others. While doing this little survey, I came across still further useful info!
| Search Engine | Results for 6 August 2002 |
| AllTheWeb | no.9 for Lindo’s blog |
| AltaVista | – |
| AOL Search | no.1 for Tagore page & no.2 for Lindo’s blog |
| Ask Jeeves | – |
| no.1 for Tagore page & no.2 for Lindo’s blog | |
| HotBot | – |
| Inktomi | N/A ? |
| LookSmart | – |
| Lycos | no.14 (page 2) for Lindo’s blog |
| MSN | – |
| Netscape | – |
| Open Directory | – |
| Yahoo! | – |
Some conclusions: I need to get listed in the Open Directory, and figure out why AltaVista and Yahoo! miss me completely. Further, I need to get listed in the Google’s directory. Work ahead.