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Zeedex is a new breed of search that is attempting to get more user input into the search process.
Zeedex provides search results along with suggested search suggestions provided by users.
Zeedex user input works on the basis of lists. Users can create a list of other suggested search terms that are displayed based [...]
Microsoft rolled Live.com out of beta. Live.com is Microsoft’s new search engine that will replace the old engine at MSN.com. MSN will still exist, but all search will be driven by the Live.com technology.
At first blush, Live.com looks like Pastel Google. The colors are softer more subdued. For example, a search result consists of [...]
The answer to this question is in the web server log files.
For beginners, there may be a more user friendly way.
Go to Google.com type: www.yoursitename.com into the search box (where yoursitename is the name of YOUR website) When the results return, your site should be the top one listed. The bottom line of [...]
It pays to pay attention.
I wrote a few months back that Snap was a search engine with great potential but little seems to have been accomplished. I had been a subscriber to the Snap RSS feed, but they went a long time without posting (Note: it may help to post at least once a [...]
A search engines main purpose is to provide answers to the questions its users ask.
Of course we know that Google, Yahoo and MSN are the big three search engines. I was curious about all the other places that people visit to get their questions answered. How popular are they? So I went to [...]
FyberSearch is a small search engine that offers two unique pieces of functionality.
I had originally hoped that FyberSearch would help me search for feeds. While it has this functionality, the results returned are web page related not feed related. The search for a quality feed search will continue…
HOWEVER! I did come across [...]
I often wondered and could not figure out Alexa’s way of charting website traffic as ‘reach per million”. In a post on the Alexa blog the other day this explanation was given:
As long as I am on the topic, I might as well explain this reach per million business. Alexa does not [...]
SEOMoz has an excellent article that outlines a whole plethora of potential factors that affect search engine ranking. Focus on the top 9 to let a website begin to make a difference.
GoLexa is a cross between Google, Alexa and a ton of other metadata. Data freaks will love this tool. It takes Google search results and adds Alexa and other metadata to the result. For any given result returned, GoLexa provides links to numerous metadata site about that webpage/website. A searcher can get access to following:
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Dogpile is a Searcher’s Search Engine. Searcher’s Search Engines are different than Marketer’s Search Engines. A marketers search engine is Google. The goal of most websites is to try and get noticed within Google. It has the most traffic, the most use, the most potential customers. However, engines like Dogpile are different. Dogpile compiles [...]
Here are two great articles about search engines.
The first, How Search Engines WorK (and Sometimes Don’t) explains the basic nature of a search engine and provides some detail on problems search engines sometimes face when crawling a page.
The second, How Search Engines Deliver Result Pages expands upon the first article providing [...]
With the help of Myriad Search, search four top search engines (Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask Jeeves) concurrently and return weighted results.
Why weighted results? How is that useful?
Myriad Search takes the results from the aformentioned search engines and places a weight value to each. It then computes its own results list based [...]
One of the handiest websites to keep track of future Google PR Updates has been SEO Company’s Page Rank Export List History. There is also a blog for more specific comments about the update.
By now you have heard about Google’s Blog Search release. Is there anything to write home about here?
On the plus side, a blog search engine is able to handle infinitely more blogs than a blog directory. It is open to the whole world wide web not just those that have been submitted to [...]
Do you know the tip about getting a website crawled by Yahoo? In brief, by adding a website’s RSS feed to MyYahoo, Yahoo will crawl the parent site. It is how this site got quickly crawled by Yahoo.
Now that Google and MSN have their own News/Feed Aggregators, maybe the same will hold true [...]
Zniff is billed as the “human search engine”. Essentially, Zniff is a search engine for the websites bookmarked via Spurl (I have reviewed Spurl elsewhere) . Websites that get bookmarked the most appear higher in the search results. The idea is that bookmarked sites are favored choices among actual users. Thus, a search [...]
In case you have been wondering when it was going to be released…here is the link to the Google Toolbar for Firefox
Answers.com has become a favorite to search for items of a more encyclopedic nature.
Tired of wading through tons of sites and pages to find a simple answer to historical questions? or finding a basic definition for a word? Or finding a helpful article about a topic? Try Answers.com first.
Easy, one [...]
I has taken me a long time to warm up to About.com. I don’t know why. Maybe it was the orange color scheme or the sometimes disorganized pages or the ads right in the middle of articles (that DOES annoy me). As I was developing my own site, I actually began to read the [...]
Clusty is another alternative search engine that can be used by keyword hunters.
Clusty provides traditional search results along with “clustered” results. These clusters combine the search results around a theme.
Clustering is best explained by Clusty itself:
It uses our award-winning Clustering Engine to organize search results into folders grouping similar [...]
Snap has been an ever evolving search engine for the last several years. Snap recently changed their look once again. While the search results themselves offer nothing spectacular, there are two great features of Snap that users will like.
With every search, Snap produces a list of related search terms in the left [...]
The Librarians Index to the Internet is an excellent information resource. The site can be broken down into two parts: human edited directory and an integrated search engine page.
Human edited directory
The LII human edited directory is not like DMOZ. It is not striving to be the largest directory of information but rather [...]
This article makes the argument that webmasters should see search engines as partners instead of as adversaries. I agree.
If you are just beginning to develop your own websites, it is helpful to check out the guidelines published by Google and Yahoo for webmasters. These guidelines offer basic instructions for webmasters concerning web development and search engine optimization. The guidelines are a summary of “what to do” and “what not to do”. They are [...]
Exalead is a beta search engine. The company behind Exalead is based in France. Don’t hold that against them, Exalead is quite slick in many ways. Google’s excellence resides in their search algorithm. Exalead’s excellence resides in their user interface.
Let me walk you through all the features that make searching with Exalead a [...]
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