Tuesday, January 11, 2005
Odd Search Engine Results for ScriptureIndex.com
I was surprised by the search engine results after ScriptureIndex.com has been up (for approx. two months). Odd, or surprising? Here are the results of the search engine analysis I talked about yesterday.
The sample query was: "romans 8:7" scripture index. The result was considered good if we can be found by the search engine, no matter what rank. If we can't be found at all by the search engine, the result is obviously considered bad.
So why is google ignoring these thousands of pages at ScriptureIndex.com ?? I have a few theories about this that I will be researching in coming weeks.
The sample query was: "romans 8:7" scripture index. The result was considered good if we can be found by the search engine, no matter what rank. If we can't be found at all by the search engine, the result is obviously considered bad.
| Search Engine | Good result | Rank (if any) |
| accoona.com | yes | |
| alltheweb.com | yes | #1 |
| altavista.com | yes | #4 |
| beta.search.msn.com | yes | |
| clusty.com | yes | #1 |
| dogpile.com | yes | #4 |
| google.com | no | |
| gigablast.com | no | |
| search.lycos.com | yes | #1 |
| search.msn.com | yes | #1 |
| search.yahoo.com | yes | #1 |
| teoma.com | no | |
| wisenut.com/search | no |
So why is google ignoring these thousands of pages at ScriptureIndex.com ?? I have a few theories about this that I will be researching in coming weeks.
Monday, January 10, 2005
Scripture Index Update
Back in November I began work on a large, multi-year project working with all the scriptures referenced on the world wide web. You can see the beginnings of the project over at ScriptureIndex.com
So far we have indexed the book of Romans, and done a few special studies with key words and phrases (like in Romans 8:7 where we are told that the sinful mind is hostile to God, hates God, is in rebellion to God, etc.)
There are several large problems that I must figure out and obstacles that I must overcome before going forward with indexing the rest of the Bible. For instance, using the current methods I would run out of disk space prior to completing the scripture index, since my webserver will run out of gigabytes. Some will say that disk space is cheap, but I am looking at using gzip compression, since most new browsers will handle gzip http compression, which will save me both diskspace and bandwidth, and might even have the side benefit of making the pages load faster.
Another issue is how the search engines will react to pages found at scriptureindex.com. I'm blogging the results of my search engine analysis, and I will re-visit this topic every 2 or 3 months -- to see how the search engines are ranking the pages at scriptureindex.com.
The test query is a bit strange, but we have to start somewhere...
The test query is: "romans 8:7" scripture index
So far we have indexed the book of Romans, and done a few special studies with key words and phrases (like in Romans 8:7 where we are told that the sinful mind is hostile to God, hates God, is in rebellion to God, etc.)
There are several large problems that I must figure out and obstacles that I must overcome before going forward with indexing the rest of the Bible. For instance, using the current methods I would run out of disk space prior to completing the scripture index, since my webserver will run out of gigabytes. Some will say that disk space is cheap, but I am looking at using gzip compression, since most new browsers will handle gzip http compression, which will save me both diskspace and bandwidth, and might even have the side benefit of making the pages load faster.
Another issue is how the search engines will react to pages found at scriptureindex.com. I'm blogging the results of my search engine analysis, and I will re-visit this topic every 2 or 3 months -- to see how the search engines are ranking the pages at scriptureindex.com.
The test query is a bit strange, but we have to start somewhere...
The test query is: "romans 8:7" scripture index
Sunday, January 09, 2005
Blogging with Opera
I am still not able to blog with Firefox, and Mozilla 1.7 was giving me troubles also, so I un-installed Mozilla 1.7 and installed Opera. This looks like is OK, but many of the edit features are missing. Back on Dec. 9, 2004 (about a month ago) I was able to get back into blogger, but could only use with Mozilla 1.7 since the Firefox browser gets all jammed up with the blogger password. If anyone else has had similar problems, please add your comments. The nice blogger people say sometimes the best way to fix this is to use another computer or another browser, so I have been expirmenting a little to try to get this resolved.
So now I have Firefox 1.0, Opera (version x), and IE version 6
OK, so it looks like I will be forced to use IE just for blogging, until such time as I re-install everything, since Firefox can't get past the password screen, and Opera doesn't allow full-feature access to blogger.
However, if I use my other computer ( a totally different PC, then I can use Firefox 1.0).
So now I have Firefox 1.0, Opera (version x), and IE version 6
OK, so it looks like I will be forced to use IE just for blogging, until such time as I re-install everything, since Firefox can't get past the password screen, and Opera doesn't allow full-feature access to blogger.
However, if I use my other computer ( a totally different PC, then I can use Firefox 1.0).
