Could be an Opportunity
Steve Rubel notes that Ajax based sites are screwing with Google's indexing:
According to a report, the reader content that's being added to the new USAToday.com is not going not be indexed by Google or other search engines. That's because all of the new goodies, including reader blogs and other social-networking and bookmarking features, were built with Ajax. Man all that potential Google Juice is going to waste.
There's something mostly unsaid here: Google took advantage of the explosive growth of the internet with new and better crawling algorithms. With these changes afoot, that leaves the door open for some other smart guys to step up and do a better job. I don't know if it'll happen, but there is an opening.
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Comments
[] March 13, 2007 22:07:06.228
Google indexing, handling back/forward button navigation, and bookmarking are all 'challenges' for AJAX apps. Definitely all solveable, but ... it is more code.
Everything's for sale
[Arto Bendiken] March 14, 2007 16:35:55.532
There may be an opportunity, but this time around, the value of search is recognized. A search startup would have to be pretty steadfast to *not* sell out once Google (or Yahoo, or Microsoft) comes knocking. Hence, the big players in search are unlikely to change.