I know this is a little like rooting for the Yankees (which I do), but ....

By necessity, I'm the webmaster (and most everything else) of my little company. I have been updating the website pretty much daily in the last month. Just now I checked how quickly Google has caught up to my changes.

They last cached my homepage on Monday. They are showing over 20,000 links to my site. I tried 8 other search engines, and the most anyone else had was 2800 links. MSN Search had cached yesterday, and nobody else reveals when they cached the home page, as far as I can tell.

I know most of the 20,000 Google links are garbage (as are everyone else's), but their computing power (and dominance) amazes me. Anyone here use anything else when searching?

I know we got a lot of people here who challenge conventional wisdom.

If you really want to be impressed try installing Google Analytics on your website. It's free, easy and VERY powerful.

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I only use Google. Try Googling a part number off of something, chances are you'll find a match to what your looking for.

As an occasional eBay seller, I'm very pleased that someone can type in the part number or a few descriptive keywords for some fairly esoteric bit of industrial surplus, and have one of my eBay store listings turn up on the first page of Google hits - sometimes at the very top.

That's pretty good exposure for a listing that, aside from the basic fees to keep the store open, only costs me $0.11 per month!

I think Google and Ebay have some sort of partnership going.... Or some major payments by Ebay to Google.

The Ebay listings come up too often on Google, IMO.

This news isn't really new. Google has been the best search engine for 10+ years now.
I heard dogpile is good but I never use it.

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For one particular, rather uncommon item, I tried just the part number (no other keywords) in a couple of other searches in their default modes:

Yahoo returns only one hit - my store listing.

Dogpile returns 4 hits - my listing is #2, that section of my store is #3, and my store proper is #4. (No surprise that it's there, as they're drawing results from other engines.)

Google returns a total of 36 hits, 24 of which they don't initially show as they consider them to be so similar to hits already displayed. 34 of the hits are for my listing, subsection, store, etc.