One large leap and several half steps

One month no press, but SERP Score acts really well on its maturity so far, of course, owing to me.

There's one large leap, I mean, the implementation of SERP Combat which enables users to compare the SERP of two URLs, usually their own URL and the rival's, with the same keyword. This feature must be usefull and led SERP Score to be in the era of v0.3. By the way, I improved the layout somewhat and increased the minor version at the end of v0.2 era.

After the fantastic SERP Combat implementation, I cannot help my self to make it better, for example, to modify the way of measurement to make the font size freely changeable and keeping the layout orderly, v0.3.1; to replaced the old fashioned MSN Search by Live Search, actually I cannot see any essential differences between them two, and fixed some tiny bugs, v0.3.2, and so on.

It's not an easy way to focus on SERP Score, especially the AOL which acted as a time killer really annoyed me on and on. I guessed that AOL blocked half the access by an agent through some technical ways, "half" means it seems normal sometimes, but mostly stock still like a rock! I tried to increase the timeout property, it didn't work. I cannot stand for the worrying life, and finally turned off AOL, it's wise, wasn't it?

Furthermore, ASK was also turned off, and the original International stream was renamed to Big 3 stream with Google, Yahoo and Live Search. Now it's faster!

After one large leap and several half steps, I can catch my breath.

Misinterpreting the term, SERP, I'm an idiot

Just now, I read an article about SERP on Wikipedia, it defines the SERP to be:

A search engine results page, or SERP, is the listing of web pages returned by a search engine in response to a keyword query. The results normally include a list of web pages with titles, a link to the page, and a short description showing where the keywords have matched content within the page. A SERP may refer to a single page of links returned, or to the set of all links returned for a search query.

Simply speaking, SERP refers to the whole PAGE, NOT the POSITION of any result!

However, I misinterpreted it as the latter one, the position of a result, since I read the term for the first time. Therefore SERP Score concerns the position actually, although the term is misused everywhere. Sorry for bothering you.

It's really an abstract error, but not a fatal one. Over shoes over boots, I won't revise anything about it. SERP Score is still SERP Score, Aha!

Go back to the past

It may be necessary to go back to the past to introduce you the history of SERP Score.

At the end of July, I was so spared that felt empty, an idea shock my head: why not to make an EZER-like tool to check the SERP? EZER was wonderful, but its SERP check tool was often maintained and unavailable, in addition, I had some new ideas to enhance it, and the most important reason to drove me coding was the rareness of similar tools on the internet.

I never coded anything in PHP, and moreover I had been apart from coding for at least one year, it's a dual-challenge, luckily, I completed it and won!

SERP Score was initially launched at Augest the 7th, v0.1.0, hosted on GoDaddy. There're two streams, International and China, each one involved five popular search engines. Unfortunately, Yahoo perhaps filtered the IPs of GoDaddy, it caused the SERP Score unstable. Eventually I cancelled my account on GoDaddy, and was fully refunded successfully, what a good ISP.

And then SERP Score was moved to Ary.com.cn on which I debugged it and hosted my personal blog, it's pretty stable even though speed was sacrificed a little especially to the non-China users. After the migration, I improved the code but forgot to update the revision version.

Experienced wisdom-tooth explosion and Olympics opening, a new stream was brought to SERP Score at Auguest the 15th, Googles stream! The version was updated to v0.2.0, and this blog was established. Googles stream involved 17 Googles around the world, by the way, EZER involved 38 Googles. I'm sorry that there's no localised Google for anyone of the middle east countries, I really want to add Google Iran or Google Iraq to SERP Score, but they do not exist. Anyway, I hope for world peace and everybody equal.

At the same day, I adjusted the weight of each Google to make the score more meaningful according some public accessible data and reports, the version was updated to v0.2.1, it's the latest version so far. What's next? It's out of this topic.

Finally, I have some difficulties on English, but I'm working hard on it. If the post is unclear, let me know please, thank you.

You're welcome to SERP Score Blog

SERP Score Blog is now established on BlogSpot.

The author of SERP Score, me, will post something about SERP Score here, and any requirements, questions or error reports is welcome to be commented here, I'll try my best to reply every comments as soon as possible.

OK, let's start blogging!