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I asked myself this question so many times, “Can Bing and Yahoo! really compete with Google?” So I documented something last night.

Ok, ok, this morning, at past 2 o’clock in the morning. 🙂

I have to admit, I slept late las night, I mean morning already. I wrote a blog entry for my personal blog and posted it at 11:53pm, just before midnight. Then I finished reading and scanning other blogs that I am subscribed to. I have a habit to read everything before I sleep. It took me a while though to finish reading and scanning them.

Then before I went to bed, I thought of checking the top 3 search engines if the blog entry, Mount Gurten, Wabern, Bern, Switzerland Day Trip, that I posted at my personal blog got indexed. I typed the keywords “mount gurten” in Google, Bing and Yahoo!, and what did I find?

Google Search is maybe smart but it is not so intelligent. Google Search is not so intelligent enough to recognize which blog entry is the original article and not the original one. Google Search allows itself to be fooled by some blogs and sites which were publishing articles that were copied from other blogs and sites.

I have written before that Google crawls and indexes the site or blog any time it wants. Google Search will do whatever it wants, whenever it wants to crawl and index your blogs and sites. Sometimes you may influence the search results but you cannot really play a game with Google Search. But once in a while, you might actually be able to “game” Google Search.

I cannot tell you how to do it though as I do not play that kind of game. But let me show you an example how other blogs and sites may have played a game with Google Search concerning crawling and indexing and even taking the top spot on the search results page.

On September 02, 2009, I wrote this blog entry, Inverness, the Mouth of the River Ness in Scotland at Sofie Hofmann dot com. Yesterday, I saw that Google Search crawled and indexed another blog entry with the same title but with a different URL. The content on that site was copied from my blog entry, Inverness, the Mouth of the River Ness in Scotland which was published at Sofie Hofmann dot com.

How to get indexed by Google in 3 minutes? Is that possible? Yes, it is possible! How many times did I write on how to get indexed by Google as well as Bing? A few times, for the reason that I would like to show you that there is really no secret on how to get indexed by Google or by Bing. I wrote about it at How to Get Indexed by Google, Get Indexed by Google and Bing Search Engines, How to Get Indexed by Bing, and Got Indexed by Google and De-indexed by Google?.

Your blog or site could get indexed by Google within 3 minutes, 12 minutes, 12 hours, 3 months, or it could even take longer, or not get indexed at all. If you would like your blog or site to get indexed by Google, you have to learn how to optimize your crawling and indexing for Google. That is the fact and that is no secret.

On August 11, 2009, I wrote this blog entry How to optimize your crawling and indexing for Google which was published at 10:25am. Then I checked my Google Reader as I am monitoring and tracking other sites using several keywords. There I saw that at 10:28am, Google crawled and indexed the blog entry.

I already discussed about on how to get indexed by Google. This time though you would like to know how to optimize your crawling and indexing for Google.

One good thing about this topic is that, I do not have to write about it anymore. Google Webmaster Central created a very good and useful slide presentation on how to optimize your crawling and indexing for Google.

How to get indexed by Google? That was also my question, how to get Google to crawl and index Problogit.com. Actually, Google already have crawled and indexed the front page and other pages of this blog but not really the blog entries. I have seen a few of the blog entries that have been indexed by Google but not all.

I mentioned at the blog entry Prioritizing Maintaining Blogs and Sites that Google have not really indexed the blog entries of Pro Blog it and so I am redirecting my focus to my other blogs. I did not check Google before I wrote that blog entry if Google already indexed the blog entries only to find out today that Google have actually crawled and indexed the blog entries of Pro Blog it, ProBlogging Venture Tips and Ideas, Reviews and Opinions.

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