When you search on “fred wilson” or “vc” on Yahoo! or Google, this blog is the first result on both for those search terms. I have always thought that was because those keywords appear high up on the front page of my blog (vc is in the title) and because of the large number of inbound and outbound links that this blog has accumulated in the 2 � years that I have been blogging.

But when you search on “fred Wilson” or “vc” on Ask.com, you get a whole bunch of other results. It’s basically what those search terms returned on Google or Yahoo! back in 2003 before I started blogging. So that means to me that Ask.com doesn’t seem to care much about link rank.

I don’t know if that’s a good thing or a bad thing. Because when you are searching for Fred Wilson, there is as good a chance you want the artist, chess master, or rock n roll band, as you want this blog. When you search on “vc” on Google or Yahoo!, your first link is this blog. Is that the best result for vc? I doubt it.

Text search works well enough to be useful, but it doesn’t work well.