@Mike Janke: Excellent questions, and thanks for c...

2010-02-22T16:36:39.774-08:00

@Mike Janke: Excellent questions, and thanks for commenting. In the advanced Google settings you can specify that you want to find documents older than a specific date. I think if you play with the Google hacking HOWTOs out there you can find ways to limit your search to a date range. As for specific suckage, you might try excluding some keywords from your search.

However, I worry that diving that deep into the search results might be an attempt to make this measurement more accurate than possible. I feel this is more of a numerical finger in the air, and I wouldn't put a large weight on this metric in your decision matrix.

I use queries like that to try to get a feel for a...

2010-02-22T16:15:31.666-08:00

I use queries like that to try to get a feel for a vendor or product, but I've never attempted to quantify 'suckage'.

How would you handle old suckage verses recent suckage, or how would you quantify a small amount of suckage that was widely reported verses a lot of suckage that didn't get much internet traction?

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@Mike Janke: Excellent questions, and thanks for c...

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