I have done a search on different browsers on google ,but they return different set of results?? Is this because of the web history or some other reason??
All Google searches depends of several parameters, to offer to the user the best answers possibles.
Various parameters can influence the returned query :
- if you're logged in or not (see the top bar)
- if your browser can store your search preferences (chrome is very well aware of your interrested are !) but IE if very poor to send data to Google search engine
These 2 parameters are the main that can influence differencies between the results. I've never heard of sending the history of the visited pages directly
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I am developing an Opera extension. At some moment it allows the user to perform search. Now I use chrome.tabs.update with { url: `https://google.com/search?q=${encodeURIComponent(query)}`}. This is not user friendly. The better approach is to maintain a user-editable list of URLs like https://google.com/search?q= or https://ca.search.yahoo.com/search?p= in the extension's options page and allow the user to choose between them, but I really don't want to reinvent the wheel.
Chromium-based browsers all have user-configurable search engines/providers, and I want to allow the user to choose between them or just use the default. To make that possible, I basically need two API functions:
a function to get the list of all configured search engines;
a function to get the default engine.
I didn't find anything similar to my problem in the API docs.
BTW, Opera also has an undocumented chrome.search function (Chromium has none), but it always searches via Google regardless of the user's default search engine setting.
Thanks.
PS. If there is a more appropriate place to ask this question, please tell me.
I didn't find anything similar to my problem in the API docs.
Because there isn't one, unfortunately.
There is a relevant old feature request with no real activity.
can I use a parsing code in my Chrome Extension? It parse the google.images search and display a result to user.
Is it legal?
With Google search you have the following situation:
If the search is opened in a regular tab, nothing stops you from modifying / parsing the result with a content script. Nothing stops you from opening the tab for your user either.
Then again, I'm not a lawyer, treat this advice accordingly.
Google will actively prevent you from querying it in a context other than a regular page, for example an iframe or through XHR. Trying to circumvent that is is a ToS violation and in general will cause Google to stop queries from the machine / subnet.
There are legal, but paid, options to query Google search.
I want to submit my site to Google. How much time does it take to crawl a new post on the website?
Also, is there a way to feed this post to Google crawler as soon as a post is created?
Google has three modes of entering a website into its results - discover, crawl, index.
In order to 'discover' your site, it must be made aware of it's existence - normally through back-links. If you're site is brand new you can use the submit URL form - but this isn't really a trusted method. You're better off signing up for a Google Webmaster Tools account and submitting your site. An additional step is to submit an XML sitemap of your site. If you are publishing to your site in a blogging/posting way - you can always consider PubSubHubbub.
From there on, crawl frequency is normally based on site popularity (as measured by ye olde PageRank). Depth of crawl (crawl-budget) is also determined by PR.
There are a couple ways to help "feed" the Google Crawler a URL.
The first way is to go here and submit a URL ---> www.google.com/webmasters/tools/submit-url/
The second way is to go to your Google Webmasters Tools and clicking "Fetch as GoogleBot"
And then inputting the URL you want to add:
http://i.stack.imgur.com/Q3Iva.png
The URL will then appear similar to this:
http:\\example.site Web Success URL submitted to index 1/22/12 2:51 AM
As for how long it takes for a question on here to appear on google, there are many factors that are put in to this.
If the owners of the site use Google Webmasters Tools, the following setting is available:
http://i.stack.imgur.com/RqvOi.png
For fast crawl you should submit your xml sitemap in google web master and manually crawled and index your web pages url through google webmaster fetch.
I also used google crawled and index method and after that this practices give me best result.
This is a great resource that really breaks down all the factors that affect a crawl budget and how to optimize your website to increase it. Cleaning up your broken links and removing outdated content, for example, can work wonders. https://prerender.io/crawl-budget-seo/
I acknowledged error in my response by adding a comment to original question a long time ago. Now, I am updating this post in interest of keeping future readers from being misguided as I was. Please see notes from other users below - they are correct. Google does not make use of the revisit-after meta tag. I am still keeping the original response text here to make sure that anyone else looking for similar answer will find it here along with this note confirming that this meta tag IS NOT VALID! Hope this helps someone.
You may use HTML meta tag as follows:
<meta name="revisit-after" content="1 day">
Adjust time period as necessary. There is no guarantee that robots will return in given time frame but this is how you are telling robots about how often a given page is likely to change.
The Revisit Meta Tag is used to tell search engines when to come back next.
I've noticed that a lot of the time when i search something on Google, Google automatically uses the search function of relevant websites and return the result of the website search as if it was just another URL.
How do i let Google and other search engines know what is the search box on my own website and does Open Search has anything to do with it?
do you maybe mean the site search function via the google chrome omnibar?
to get there you just need to have a
form with method type GET
input type text element
submit button
on the root page of your domain
if users go directly to your root page and search something there, google learns of this form and adds it to the search engines accessible via the omnibar (the google chrome address bar).
did you mean this?
Google doesn't use anyones search forms - it just finds a link to search results, you need to
Use GET for your search parameters to make this possible
Create links to common/useful search results pages
Make sure google finds those links
Google makes it look like just another URL because that is exactly what it is.
Most of the time though Google will do a better job than your search engine so actually doing this could lower the quality of results from your site...
I don't think it does. It's impossible to spider sites in real time.
It's just a SEO technique some sites use to improve their ranking by spamming Google with fake results. They feed the Google bot with an endless stream of links to bogus pages:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spamdexing
Comparing google analytics results to one&one hosting monthly statics shows a huge discrepancy.
For last month:
Google shows 1046 visits.
One&one stats show 15304 unique visits.
The google code is in the footer which appears on every page.
I'm aware ga only works with js enabled but to assume that many non js users???
Google Analytics is a good indicator of how many humans are visiting your website.
Here are some things to check:
how many bots are in your monthly stats? You can usually find something that says User-Agent in your stats page. GoogleBot, Slurp, msnbot & others will be visiting every page on your site.
that you've read Google Analytics' definition of a visit.
that you have read what your statistics provider means by unique visit. Does that mean unique visitor, page view or something else?
Raw hits on servers can be misleading for a number of reasons..
If you have external style sheets & JavaScript etc, they could be counted as a hit in the webserver log
RSS feed readers will periodically update without being asked to by a human
Check the page views in Google Analytics - it's possible that 1&1 is tracking unique page views instead of the actual visits.
Google Analytics works for almost all users (I believe less than 5% have JS disabled). I have had the same discrepancy, in my case the difference was zeroed out when I took into account the bots (which server-side statistics often take into account, as they produce http-requests). You probably have the same "problem".
Neither stats are wrong, they just count different things. Google Analytics is the more "accurate", i.e. the numbers you want to take a look at. The hosting stats, which look only at http requests, often without filtering, are less interesting.
Blogger, and probably other sites, serve a different page template or skin to mobile visitors. In my case, that template didn't contain the google analytics snippet of code and so those hits were uncounted, until I noticed and fixed it.