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Re: Slideshow: Go Beyond Google: The Best Alternative Search Engines

Jack Yan — Fri, 09 Aug 2024 04:41:28 -0000

Mike, Mojeek seems to filter and sort better, and to answer the other half of your question, you are right. In the US Department of Justice antitrust lawsuit against Google, it was revealed in discovery that Google does indeed make its search results worse to keep you on the site for longer.

Re: Sunday Times Commercial: Parkinson | Catalogue | History of Advertising Trust

Jack Yan — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 06:47:51 -0000

The first thing that came to mind today on hearing of Parky’s passing. A wonderful commercial. And what a legend.

Re: Microsoft’s Bing Provides a Great Alternative to Google’s Site Search

Jack Yan — Sat, 07 Jan 2023 15:37:07 -0000

Hi Troy, I wonder how your site search is currently performing. We were using Duck Duck Go (which these days is Bing) on one of our sites, and the index plunged from thousands of pages to dozens during 2022. Ads weren’t the problem for us: the searches were coming up empty when I knew they shouldn’t be! I looked into some alternatives, but our site has both static and Wordpress pages so I couldn’t extend the latter’s search. We ultimately switched to Mojeek, which has the largest index outside of Google (at least in the west). Something weird happened to Bing (at least for us) during 2022.

Re: Slideshow: Go Beyond Google: The Best Alternative Search Engines

Jack Yan — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 17:53:43 -0000

In my tests, Mojeek has a much larger index than Bing. Try running a site: search for any given site, Microsoft’s excepting. Google leads, Mojeek is second, Bing is woefully behind—in fact, on our tests, around 40 per cent of Bing results are repeated from page to page. There are independent sites with thousands of pages where Google and Mojeek return plenty of results, while Bing gives you an error after 50 to 55 and can offer no more. (In fact, Google gives you an error after a few hundred, while Mojeek takes you to 1,000.)

Re: 11 Alternative Search Engines That Find What Google Can't

Jack Yan — Sat, 15 Oct 2022 21:25:49 -0000

Surely Mojeek should be on any such list in 2022?

Ecosia might have noble aims, but at the end of the day, it, and Qwant (and Yahoo and Duck Duck Go), are Bing proxies. All their results are from Bing, which has tanked this year and appears to exist only on life support.

Re: Yoast Founder: IndexNow Doesn't Lead To More Traffic Or Improved Crawl Efficiency

Jack Yan — Sun, 25 Sep 2022 05:42:26 -0000

We had IndexNow turned on in Cloudflare. It never sent through anything new. Looking through the pages sent, there was a bunch of PDFs and font files, usually dating from the first half of the 2000s. Maybe this is Cloudflare’s issue, but even without IndexNow, Bing seems to struggle to find anything we did after 2008.

Re: Bing Discovers 12s Of Billions Of URLs It's Never Seen Before Every Day

Jack Yan — Sun, 25 Sep 2022 05:36:09 -0000

Yep, one of our sites is 25 years old. Bing has managed to index a lot of 1999–2001 content, and a handful of pages from 2002–7. After that, I see two more pages, one from 2018 and one from 2019. I hope one day Bing gets round to indexing the pages we put up in 2008. Not holding my breath.

Re: Reveal: where’s my money?

Jack Yan — Sat, 20 Aug 2022 18:22:40 -0000

I have no idea. That’s the channel name Disqus gave to this post.

Re: Gala (1983) - Autocade

Jack Yan — Mon, 23 May 2022 20:03:01 -0000

There have been others, but possibly the only home-grown design on this site (for now).

Re: Camina - Autocade

Jack Yan — Mon, 23 May 2022 20:02:13 -0000

It sure was—if you click through to http://autocade.net/index.p... you’ll see the 1700 linked there (we tend not to list a model predecessor on a marque page).

Re: SAIPA Tiba - Autocade

Jack Yan — Mon, 23 May 2022 20:00:58 -0000

Thank you, Graham! I’ve not seen that one!

Re: downdetector.com/status/twitter

Jack Yan — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 12:45:35 -0000

Yep, exactly this.

Re: downdetector.com/status/twitter

Jack Yan — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 12:45:18 -0000

Twitter forced a log out, canʼt log back in.

Re: Lies Get You Laid: Lessons From THE BOYFRIEND SCHOOL, aka DON’T TELL HER IT’S ME

Jack Yan — Mon, 07 Feb 2022 05:26:06 -0000

I saw this when it was new, late one night on TV2 in New Zealand—and even by 1990 standards the Kiwi accent was abysmal. And where did they get the name Lobo Marunga from?!

Re: David MacGregor RIP

Jack Yan — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 23:24:02 -0000

So happy to read another tribute to David—a great friend who deserves to be remembered by his peers. There’s so much this guy packed into his life it’s hard for any obit to tell the complete story!

Re: Lucire: Getting on the electric ladder with the MG ZS EV

Jack Yan — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 07:52:05 -0000

I totally agree, Tim. Foreign exchange does not get brought up nearly enough. In the days of Think Big and the energy projects of the 1970s, it was important to our government to not use up our foreign exchange, a sentiment with which I still agree today. Energy independence should remain a worthy goal.

Re: Zhongguo Nanjing (China) - All Car Index

Jack Yan — Sat, 01 May 2021 21:34:23 -0000

The first SEAT Ibiza. At this point, it was still licensed. After 2004, there were some revisions to the design when the licence expired.

Re: Izh 2125 - Autocade

Jack Yan — Sat, 01 May 2021 21:32:35 -0000

Happy to be corrected on this by someone who grew up in the Soviet Bloc, but looking through the literature, they seemed to be fairly popular.

Re: Hindusthan - Autocade

Jack Yan — Sat, 01 May 2021 21:31:21 -0000

Not sure (the h was removed eventually). Probably someone pointed out that Hindustan was the more faithful Latinization.

Re: Suzuki Cultus (AA44S)

Jack Yan — Sat, 01 May 2021 21:29:35 -0000

Hi Graham, nice to see you. I’ve just gone and whitelisted you (did that a few years ago; maybe Disqus’s approvals don’t stick for years). Not quite the longest, the Fronte from 1984 holds that honour:

http://autocade.net/index.p...

Re: D-Link AX3000 WiFi 6 PCIe Adapter review

Jack Yan — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 05:51:49 -0000

Thanks, Mauricio. Would love one but my graphics card is so massive that if I installed this, it would nearly be touching. I’m glad you mentioned the heat this could generate—a very important point. The official instruction videos always show people installing these cards on to nearly-empty motherboards—which does not happen in real life!

Re: Mitsubishi To Kill Of The Aging i-MiEV After 11 Years

Jack Yan — Mon, 28 Dec 2020 03:34:34 -0000

Just over a tenth of that before PSA called time.

Re: The Fiat 600 Multipla Was the True Definition of a Minivan: Weird Car of the Week

Jack Yan — Sat, 02 May 2020 19:18:38 -0000

Talk about cab-forward! I originally thought the 600 was a follow-up to the 500, too, but a quick examination of the production dates suggests the opposite: 600 from 1955, 500 from 1957.

Re: 10 Car names that are older than you – Axon's Automotive Anorak

Jack Yan — Fri, 28 Feb 2020 02:34:15 -0000

Nice work, Gary! Being a fellow anorak I can’t dispute your findings as easily as I did with a recent Autocar story on long-lived cars, though may I suggest one more: the Mini?

Re: Buick Skylark (1968–72)

Jack Yan — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 01:49:03 -0000

When I saw it, I had a feeling we’d be close to your Dad’s Skylark colour-wise. I know it wasn’t a convertible but it was such a nice shot of the hardtop.