How about 50,000 pages in less than 4 weeks! Yes, Google indexing is blazingly fast. It indexed more than 50,000 page of it’s competitor - the new Singapore local search engine Rednano.sg - in less than 4 weeks!
SPH-Search.com is a new domain name I registered on 30 Oct 2007 for the purpose of experimenting how quickly I can get it into the top 10 of Google for the search terms: sph search.
A simple page was put up and the links to all 3 SPH Search domains were placed right at top.
In doing so, I am actually helping www.sphsearch.com, www.sphsearch.com.sg and www.sphsearch.sg to be found since the folks at SPH Search Pte Ltd are not very good at SEO.
The new search engine backed by Singapore media giant Singapore Press Holding Ltd, SPH Search will be powered by techonology developed by Fast Search & Transfer ASA.
According to Wikipedia, “FAST focuses on enterprise real-time data search technologies. It originally owned the web search-engine AlltheWeb as which was later sold to Overture in 2003, now part of Yahoo!.”
So are we talking about a first generation search engine technology that got “eaten up” by Yahoo in 2003?
Now that FAST had changed and focused on enterprise real-time data search technologies, it was still not doing too well lately(Aug 2007) - at least not in the eyes of those 148 people who got retrenched by the company.
I read with interest an article in The Straits Times. It was about SPH Search, the much publicised but yet-to-be launched search engine that “promises to provide high relevant answers and Singapore-focused information to anyone anywhere in the world”.
I think that’s a very ambitious statement! And I really hope SPH will succeed - but it won’t be able to “supplant the big names of Google and Yahoo as the prime tool for sourcing local information”