fonzo.biz

So the
other day I got pretty bored, and, since my website has been up and running for
almost two weeks, I decided to see if it had been indexed yet (yes, I was
really really bored). For those who do not know, when a site is “indexed”, it
is listed as a result when a relevant search is performed. I had a little bit
of time to kill, so off searching I went. The search terms I used were “fonzo webhop”
and “fonzo.webhop.net”.

I personally happen to be a Google
man, so, that was the first place I pointed my browser. The results were disappointing,
very disappointing. I first searched for “fonzo.webhop.net”, which turned up absolutely
no results. I figured maybe my site had not been indexed yet, but decided to conduct
a search for “fonzo webhop” anyway, just to double-check. Sure enough there was
one listing. It was not to the front-page of my website, but to an article that
was linked to by another website. The part I did not understand was that the result
clearly said “fonzo.webhop.net” in the result. So, why can it find “fonzo webhop”
but not “fonzo.webhop.net”, when the later is exactly what it lists as a
result? For those who are thinking something along the lines of my site being
filtered…nope, I went into Google preferences and checked to have no filtering
when displaying search results, and, the results were still the same. Not good
Google, not good at all, especially given that other sites have already indexed
my site.

One such site, which some folks may
use, is Yahoo!. I personally do not like Yahoo! very much, but it had my site
listed before the great Google, so it gets some props for that. The worst part
though, is that Yahoo! was not the only one. Both AskJeeves and Excite also had
already indexed my site. Well, Excite should not count, as it basically just
conducts a search of whatever you were looking for on various sites (Google, Yahoo!,
AskJeeves, and a few others which I had not previously heard of) and displays the
results on one page. It is not as pretty, or as fast as the above mentioned,
but it is a nice trick that is put together well. So well, that I have
momentarily decided to use Excite as my default search engine. I just figure why
search through one when you can search through just about all of them?

Oh, and I did not forget to mention
the new and improved MSN search. It is just that MSN search, very similarly to Google,
provided absolutely no results. I am not surprised by this though, as MSN
search never seems to offer very worthy results for anything I search for. It
has the potential to be good, but unfortunately it just is not.