So last night I was thinking about creating a tool to query Overture (not telling you why), anyway this tool is a bit different then most tools you'll find on the subject.
What it does is give you the ability to type in an endless amount of keywords, from their it takes each keyword puts it into the overture tool and records any found search results, this would work well if you have 2000 keywords and you want to find how much searches per month each of those terms get, instead of typing each in by hand you have it done automatically for you.
So anyway I got a hold of my bother (Who has been a programmer for well over 10 years now) and we begun to create this tool and realized some very interesting things about the overture keyword tool, more importantly we've found some bugs in the tool that obscure the results you are getting.
Take a keyword, any keyword and type it into the tool and if it finds that exact term it will be highlighted with a black box, from their it will give you a count number which is the approx searches done on that word last month.
Now with that same keyword in their keep searching and after about 20 tries or so it will no longer find that keyword in the list, it will just give you related keywords. Now if their is a timeout and you click re-try most of the time we've found that keyword will not show up, it'll return a message saying cannot find any keywords or it'll return a related list of keywords without that term in their, even though we know 100% that it previously found that keyword.
Your probably thinking so what, I'm not going to search for that same word more then once, well that is exactly the problem, at first we thought it was a problem with our own tool we just created, so we tweaked some things re-tried and re-tried and tweaked some more only to realize another bug in their tool.
That bug is sometimes when you type in a search it won't find the keyword, so you assume there were no searches done on it the previous month, but if you keep refreshing the page to re-do the search it will sometimes find the keyword and highlight it.
So with this tool we search for a few hundred or a few thousand terms one after the other, every once and awhile Overture will return results that should be their but it didn't show up on that page request, however on a different request it found it just fine.
This is a problem not only for our own tool but for people using the Overture tool by hand because believe it or not when you type in a search term and it doesn't find any results, that does not mean the results are not in their, you could be missing out on a term that potentially has a huge amount of search results just because the tool did not return it. So going through huge lists or finding important keywords your actually missing a fuck of a lot of them because the overture tool does not always return the same results.
I'm unsure why this goes on with the tool but it is obviously obscuring a fuck of a lot of searches, returning results as not found when a previous search found them and when it does find it the first time, it won't find it a 3rd or 4th time.
Our own tool is not 100% done because of this bug but an easy way around it is to use the tool for 2000 or so keywords, when it returns results we'll extract those words and then re-run the list to make sure it didn't miss anything again, sometime we'll run the list two or three times just to make sure.
So has anyone else every noticed this type of thing happen with the overture keyword tool? Or any other bugs you may have come across?
P.S. This tool is going to hold some serious power when its done, basically what it'll do is give you the ability to search an unlimited amount of keywords on overture, when it finds results, it will then search the title and urls of these keywords on Google, after that it'll return all those results to you.
The power lies in Arbi, I can now at the click of a button find 2000 or 5000 search terms with almost zero competition with the most amount of searches.
What it does is give you the ability to type in an endless amount of keywords, from their it takes each keyword puts it into the overture tool and records any found search results, this would work well if you have 2000 keywords and you want to find how much searches per month each of those terms get, instead of typing each in by hand you have it done automatically for you.
So anyway I got a hold of my bother (Who has been a programmer for well over 10 years now) and we begun to create this tool and realized some very interesting things about the overture keyword tool, more importantly we've found some bugs in the tool that obscure the results you are getting.
Take a keyword, any keyword and type it into the tool and if it finds that exact term it will be highlighted with a black box, from their it will give you a count number which is the approx searches done on that word last month.
Now with that same keyword in their keep searching and after about 20 tries or so it will no longer find that keyword in the list, it will just give you related keywords. Now if their is a timeout and you click re-try most of the time we've found that keyword will not show up, it'll return a message saying cannot find any keywords or it'll return a related list of keywords without that term in their, even though we know 100% that it previously found that keyword.
Your probably thinking so what, I'm not going to search for that same word more then once, well that is exactly the problem, at first we thought it was a problem with our own tool we just created, so we tweaked some things re-tried and re-tried and tweaked some more only to realize another bug in their tool.
That bug is sometimes when you type in a search it won't find the keyword, so you assume there were no searches done on it the previous month, but if you keep refreshing the page to re-do the search it will sometimes find the keyword and highlight it.
So with this tool we search for a few hundred or a few thousand terms one after the other, every once and awhile Overture will return results that should be their but it didn't show up on that page request, however on a different request it found it just fine.
This is a problem not only for our own tool but for people using the Overture tool by hand because believe it or not when you type in a search term and it doesn't find any results, that does not mean the results are not in their, you could be missing out on a term that potentially has a huge amount of search results just because the tool did not return it. So going through huge lists or finding important keywords your actually missing a fuck of a lot of them because the overture tool does not always return the same results.
I'm unsure why this goes on with the tool but it is obviously obscuring a fuck of a lot of searches, returning results as not found when a previous search found them and when it does find it the first time, it won't find it a 3rd or 4th time.
Our own tool is not 100% done because of this bug but an easy way around it is to use the tool for 2000 or so keywords, when it returns results we'll extract those words and then re-run the list to make sure it didn't miss anything again, sometime we'll run the list two or three times just to make sure.
So has anyone else every noticed this type of thing happen with the overture keyword tool? Or any other bugs you may have come across?
P.S. This tool is going to hold some serious power when its done, basically what it'll do is give you the ability to search an unlimited amount of keywords on overture, when it finds results, it will then search the title and urls of these keywords on Google, after that it'll return all those results to you.
The power lies in Arbi, I can now at the click of a button find 2000 or 5000 search terms with almost zero competition with the most amount of searches.
