Comments on: Google Co-op and Nonprofit Technology http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/google-co-op-and-nonprofit-technology?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=google-co-op-and-nonprofit-technology Confessions of a Non-Profit Executive Director Sat, 28 Jan 2012 12:36:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: seo http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/google-co-op-and-nonprofit-technology/comment-page-1#comment-7739 seo Sat, 17 Mar 2007 06:25:59 +0000 http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/google-co-op-and-nonprofit-technology#comment-7739 I am also going to be using it on a little start-up I’m working on.I think its marvaleous but Also I had to lie! to get no ads later. I am also going to be using it on a little start-up I’m working on.I think its marvaleous but Also I had to lie! to get no ads later.

]]> By: Jason King http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/google-co-op-and-nonprofit-technology/comment-page-1#comment-2881 Jason King Sat, 27 Jan 2007 19:07:33 +0000 http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/google-co-op-and-nonprofit-technology#comment-2881 Last weekend I set up a Google Co-op site: a custom search for the boating community in the UK. It's at www.boatr.org.uk. It took only a few hours to set up co-op, integrate it into my webspace and incorporate Google Analytics and Adsense. The research into which websites to include took longer but I asked visitors what's missing and have had about 50 more sites suggested, maing a total of over 170 so far. I'm getting good feedback and am thinking about which other communities of interest I could do this for. It does have a few awkward characteristics and there's a limit to how much the look and style of it can be customised; but the more I keep it looking like Google the easier users will find it anyway. Interested to see you had trouble integrating it into WordPress because that would have been my next step! Last weekend I set up a Google Co-op site: a custom search for the boating community in the UK. It’s at http://www.boatr.org.uk.

It took only a few hours to set up co-op, integrate it into my webspace and incorporate Google Analytics and Adsense.

The research into which websites to include took longer but I asked visitors what’s missing and have had about 50 more sites suggested, maing a total of over 170 so far.

I’m getting good feedback and am thinking about which other communities of interest I could do this for.

It does have a few awkward characteristics and there’s a limit to how much the look and style of it can be customised; but the more I keep it looking like Google the easier users will find it anyway.

Interested to see you had trouble integrating it into WordPress because that would have been my next step!

]]> By: davidzeidman http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/google-co-op-and-nonprofit-technology/comment-page-1#comment-421 davidzeidman Wed, 25 Oct 2006 08:34:06 +0000 http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/google-co-op-and-nonprofit-technology#comment-421 I was refering to Search-a-rama. The putch entry was not there when I wrote mine (time difference thing must have thrown Wordpress). Like the idea a lot though. It would be good to weight the sites though. David David Zeidman Zeidman Development http://www.zeidman.info I was refering to Search-a-rama. The putch entry was not there when I wrote mine (time difference thing must have thrown WordPress).

Like the idea a lot though. It would be good to weight the sites though.

David

David Zeidman
Zeidman Development
http://www.zeidman.info

]]> By: see3 http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/google-co-op-and-nonprofit-technology/comment-page-1#comment-420 see3 Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:51:13 +0000 http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/google-co-op-and-nonprofit-technology#comment-420 As mentioned in the TechCrunch piece, this is just like Rollyo (http://rollyo.com/), which I have been using for a while. It is from blogger Dave Pell, who has re-launched his daily newsletter Davenetics (www.davenetics.com), which I highly recommend. Rollyo has Yahoo's search engine behind it, and he already has a pretty interesting set of custom search engines worth checking out. As mentioned in the TechCrunch piece, this is just like Rollyo (http://rollyo.com/), which I have been using for a while. It is from blogger Dave Pell, who has re-launched his daily newsletter Davenetics (www.davenetics.com), which I highly recommend. Rollyo has Yahoo’s search engine behind it, and he already has a pretty interesting set of custom search engines worth checking out.

]]> By: abenamer http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/google-co-op-and-nonprofit-technology/comment-page-1#comment-419 abenamer Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:16:56 +0000 http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/google-co-op-and-nonprofit-technology#comment-419 David, Were you referring to the Putch search engine or the Search-a-rama? Either one is full of Blackbaud.com links. What's too bad is that we can't dictate the order in which the results are returned. I'd love to be able to push the more independent sites and blogs up first in the search array and THEN show the Blackbaud.com results. I like the Putch idea too. A better Google -- I'm sure Google would like that but I fear that spam sites are way too easily code-generated and that mere people would never be able to catch up. David,

Were you referring to the Putch search engine or the Search-a-rama? Either one is full of Blackbaud.com links. What’s too bad is that we can’t dictate the order in which the results are returned. I’d love to be able to push the more independent sites and blogs up first in the search array and THEN show the Blackbaud.com results.

I like the Putch idea too. A better Google — I’m sure Google would like that but I fear that spam sites are way too easily code-generated and that mere people would never be able to catch up.

]]> By: davidzeidman http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/google-co-op-and-nonprofit-technology/comment-page-1#comment-418 davidzeidman Tue, 24 Oct 2006 16:06:39 +0000 http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/google-co-op-and-nonprofit-technology#comment-418 I just did a test run, searching for my favorite subject of the moment "Raiser's Edge" and I the first 4 pages are almost exclusively from Blackbaud. When you search via Google normally do you not see the "More pages like this" link under Blackbaud's entry rather than every single page on their website. I was hoping to find references to sites other than Blackbaud's, to see what people had written on their software but all I get is Blackbaud. I guess I could put the -Blackbaud switch in and see what I get. David David Zeidman Zeidman Development http://www.zeidman.info I just did a test run, searching for my favorite subject of the moment “Raiser’s Edge” and I the first 4 pages are almost exclusively from Blackbaud. When you search via Google normally do you not see the “More pages like this” link under Blackbaud’s entry rather than every single page on their website.

I was hoping to find references to sites other than Blackbaud’s, to see what people had written on their software but all I get is Blackbaud.
I guess I could put the -Blackbaud switch in and see what I get.

David

David Zeidman
Zeidman Development
http://www.zeidman.info

]]> By: Putch http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/google-co-op-and-nonprofit-technology/comment-page-1#comment-417 Putch Tue, 24 Oct 2006 15:09:02 +0000 http://www.nonprofittechblog.org/google-co-op-and-nonprofit-technology#comment-417 Upon checking this out, three features stood out: 1) You can exclude sites that you do not want in the results 2) You can easily do so using the Google Marker 3) Anyone can volunteer to help So we decided to throw up an experiment to encourage everyone to mark spam sites to be excluded from search results. Working together as a community we may be able to radically improve the quality of the search results (or perhaps just get in a blacklisting war?) The result is Putch - http://www.putch.com Upon checking this out, three features stood out:
1) You can exclude sites that you do not want in the results
2) You can easily do so using the Google Marker
3) Anyone can volunteer to help

So we decided to throw up an experiment to encourage everyone to mark spam sites to be excluded from search results.

Working together as a community we may be able to radically improve the quality of the search results (or perhaps just get in a blacklisting war?)

The result is Putch – http://www.putch.com

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