Samurai Archives.com search standings

[kitsuno]

Just out of curiosity I ran "samurai" through some search engines to see where samurai archives.com falls, and this is what I came up with:

Google: #2
cuil: #1
MSN: #2
Yahoo: #3
ask: #3
dogpile: #6
Altavista: #3
Lycos: #3
webcrawler: #4
ixquick: #4


In most cases wikipedia comes up first essentially because it acts as global spam, but a few search engines seem to block wikipedia, which is commendable, since logically if anyone wants a wikipedia result, they'll go straight to wikipedia. Anyway, still (nearly) on top after all these years.
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[Tornadoes28]

Congratulations.
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[lordameth]

Awesome.

I've also noticed the SA Wiki come up pretty high in the search results if you search for the names of many of the articles.

To take just one example, I just Googled "Takeda Shingen":

3rd result is www.samurai-archives.com/shingen.html

5th result is the S-A Wiki entry.

Cool beans.
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[leakbrewergator]

I don't know if you've ever tried Google fights. It's a fun little site that I sometimes like to waste time on. Anyway, Samurai Archives is doing pretty good against some famous arch nemesis.

v. Stephen Turnbull - http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=samurai+archives&word2=stepen+turnbull

v. Kato Kiyomasa - http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=samurai+archives&word2=stepen+turnbull

Just for fun - http://www.googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=obenjo+kusanosuke&word2=tatsunoshi
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[Tatsunoshi]

Yezzzzzzzz! I are da man!


...or would be, if most of the results weren't Tatsunoshis other than my forum ID.

And sometimes it's more fun to humble ones self.

Another interesting fact I learned goofing around on the net today is that Kenneth Swope's power animal is the Nigerian Dwarf Goat. Yes, seriously. Shoulda been a Robber Dwarf Goat.