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Search Engine Watch June 18, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Search Research From The WWW10 Conference A number of technical papers relating to indexing the web and searching were presented at the recent 10th International World Wide Web Conference, which was held from May 1 to 5 in Hong Kong...  |
ONLINE Jan/Feb 2002 Marydee Ojala |
Search Soirees I am constantly struck by the difference between what people can do with search engines and what they actually do. It boils down to this: advanced search engine features go largely unused...  |
Technology Research News July 27, 2005 |
Internet Structure Search engines find content via spiders that go through the pages on a Web site by following the links among pages. Here is an overview of how search engines handle queries on the Internet.  |
AskMen.com January 31, 2001 Justin Becker |
How To: Use Search Engines Well, no need to feel lost anymore -- here is a map of which search engines I highly recommend, and which ones to use for specific searches. And since information is power, you'll feel like king of the world in no time...  |
Search Engine Watch February 7, 2007 Eric Enge |
Think Like a Search Engineer Knowing when you are taking risks, or making the decision to avoid them, can help scale your search engine marketing strategy to new heights.  |
Search Engine Watch December 5, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
In Search Of The Relevancy Figure Where are the relevancy figures? While relevancy is the most important "feature" a search engine can offer, there sadly remains no widely-accepted measure of how relevant the different search engines are. Turning relevancy into an easily digested figure is a huge, but necessary, challenge.  |
InternetNews May 6, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner |
Tips From the Search Crowd You want to make sure the search engines find your site and rank it well? Follow some basic rules of the information highway, search experts say.  |
Search Engine Watch May 3, 2000 |
AltaVista Launches New Search Site AltaVista has launched a search-only site today which follows on improvements the company made to its core database of web pages about a week ago. Called Raging Search, the new site delivers fast and uncluttered listings.  |
Search Engine Watch December 7, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
What Happened To My Site On Google? The outcry from webmasters about Google's recent ranking algorithm change has been unprecedented. This article takes a Q&A-style approach to examine many of the issues and questions that have arisen from the change.  |
Search Engine Watch June 3, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
Coping With GDS, The Google Dance Syndrome On a roughly monthly basis, Google updates its index of web pages and introduces new tweaks and changes to how its ranking algorithm works. For some, the changeover period that's come to be known as the "Google Dance" may reveal what seems like dramatic changes in Google.  |
Search Engine Watch July 21, 2004 Christine Churchill |
Meet The Crawlers Representatives of Yahoo, Google, Ask Jeeves and Looksmart offer an inside glimpse of recent developments at the major search engines. The general focus for the major search engines continues to be on the user experience.  |
Search Engine Watch April 4, 2000 |
Search Satisfaction And Behavior Results Released Every three months, some users at the major search engines are selected randomly by NPD and asked about their visits. The results are fascinating, but they've not been available to the general public until now.
The survey is funded and conducted on behalf of the major search engines, and the results have been used for their own internal purposes....  |
Search Engine Watch March 3, 2000 |
Numbers, Numbers -- But What Do They Mean? Some search engines now tell you both how many pages they've spidered and what they've kept. This article helps you make sense of the numbers.  |
InternetNews June 11, 2010 |
Google 'May Day' Update Impacts Long Tail Search A change to the way Google indexes search queries was necessary to improve the relevancy of results.  |
Search Engine Watch February 3, 2000 |
Voila Covers Europe, Reaches To The US Most of the major US-based search engines have established European editions over the past three years. Yahoo France, AltaVista Sweden and Lycos Germany are just some of the many examples. But one European player has been just as busy: Voila.  |
Search Engine Watch August 2, 1999 |
Search Engine Coverage Study Published In 1998, a landmark study published in Science magazine found that search engines fell well-short of listing everything on the web. Last month, a repeat to this study was published. Once again, search engines were found to contain only a small percentage of the web pages available.  |
Search Engine Watch July 27, 2010 Eric Enge |
12 Ways Your SEO Mileage May Vary If you've spent time analyzing search results for a variety of queries, you've likely seen results you can't easily explain. Here's why this happens.  |
T.H.E. Journal August 2002 Killmer & Koppel |
So Much Information, So Little Time Evaluating web resources with search engines  |
PC World September 1, 2000 Kim Zetter & Harry McCracken |
How to Stop Searching and Start Finding Tired of wading through useless search-engine results? We test 20 engines to pinpoint the ones that really deliver the goods....  |
IEEE Spectrum February 2006 Menczer et al. |
Googlearchy or Googlocracy? While search engines do not make for a level playing field, their use partially mitigates the rich-get-richer nature of the Web, giving new sites an increased chance of being discovered, as long as they are about specific topics that match the interests of users.  |
Search Engine Watch November 1, 1999 |
Who's The Biggest Of Them All? AltaVista is now claiming to have the largest index of the web, at 250 million pages. But is its claim true? Does the service deserve the title of biggest? Probably -- or certainly it and FAST Search share the title. But it's not possible to say so definitively.  |
Search Engine Watch June 2, 2000 |
Inktomi Reenters Battle For Biggest It's been over a year since one could consider Inktomi among the largest search engines on the web. The company's crawler-built index of web pages has stayed static at 110 million, while competitors such as AltaVista, FAST and Northern Light have pushed past the 200 and 300 million marks. Now Inktomi says it's back.  |
ONLINE November 2001 Greg R. Notess |
On the Net, Freshness Issue and Complexities with Web Search Engines Understanding the currentness (or freshness) patterns of the search engines' databases helps the searcher to better understand the results and what might not be found...  |
The Motley Fool April 29, 2008 Tim Beyers |
Get Ready for Google Image Ads Searching for images is about to become a whole lot more efficient at Google.  |
Searcher October 2002 Gary D. Price |
Specialized Search Engine FAQs: More Questions, Answers and Issues An introduction to specialized search engine searching  |
Search Engine Watch June 18, 2008 Eric Enge |
4 SEO Tips for Higher Search Rankings Search engine optimization is tough, and the rules for ranking vary from site to site. Authority, domain age, penalty factors, and freshness all play an important role in your Web site's ranking. Is your site ready for greatness?  |
ONLINE September 2000 Bill Mickey |
When is a Billion Too Much? Some Web search engines are on the rampage to index as much of the Web as they can. When a search service finally does catch up with the entire publicly-available Web, will that database be the exclusive destination of searchers everywhere? I doubt it.  |
Search Engine Watch August 3, 2005 Marcela De Vivo |
Coping with Search Engine Penalties Search engine penalties are present and pervasive, and are a primary method used by search engines to control webmasters. Unless webmasters understand what they are and what to do about them, their websites could easily trigger a penalty, losing traffic and revenue.  |
InternetNews February 25, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner |
Shop and Become.com The site combines price comparison and product research to provide a Google-like online shopping experience.  |
PC Magazine March 31, 2004 John C. Dvorak |
Search Engine Mania Since Google is making money and is expected to bring in big bucks in a midyear IPO, suddenly search engines are the next big thing.  |
Search Engine Watch December 16, 2003 Grant Crowell |
How Search Engines Make Money Too often, web entrepreneurs today think of search as a one-way business, focusing solely on how to make money off of the search engines without understanding how search engines also need to make money in order to survive and thrive.  |
Search Engine Watch February 18, 2004 Chris Sherman |
Yahoo! Birth of a New Machine Yahoo is launching a brand new search engine today, with its own index and ranking mechanisms, casting aside its long-standing use of Google-powered search results. The move is bound to roil the industry and sets in motion a new race for the claim of web search champion.  |
Search Engine Watch September 21, 2006 Shari Thurow |
Do Patents Point to SEO Gold? Do patents, white papers, and other publications authored by search engine employees provide clear guidance to how to optimize Web pages? A panel of experts debated the issue at a recent Search Engine Strategies conference.  |
Search Engine Watch May 6, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
The Mixed Message Of Paid Inclusion Pages pitching webmasters on the advantages of paid inclusion end up hurting search engines that run these programs, because they imply that the search engines have out-of-date, incomplete listings of the web...  |
Search Engine Watch January 29, 2004 Chris Sherman |
On Search, the Series Few people who have a deep understanding of search have the ability to write eloquently about it. Search engine pioneer Tim Bray is one of those people, and he has written an absolutely fabulous series of essays that should be essential reading.  |
Search Engine Watch August 1, 2008 Frank Watson |
Look Out PageRank, There's a New Algorithm in Town Microsoft recently published research on a new algorithm it calls BrowseRank, which is based on user behavior instead of linking patterns. Microsoft thinks this could be the answer to increased relevance in search results. But is it?  |
Search Engine Watch May 25, 2010 Mike Grehan |
Saying Goodbye to Search Engines Just as the challenges of indexing the web was a major topic of interest to the research community back in the '90s, the unique challenge of capturing and making sense of real-time data is the current research hot potato.  |
Search Engine Watch January 27, 2009 Aaron Shear |
Breaking the Norm with Search One untapped way to capture search traffic is to combine content of related items in new ways. Many engines, especially Google, are looking for uncommon combinations of content that typically don't exist together.  |
JavaWorld September 2000 Brian Goetz |
The Lucene search engine: Powerful, flexible, and free Lucene is a Java-based open source toolkit for text indexing and searching. It is easy to use, flexible, and powerful -- a model of good object-oriented software architecture. We explore what Lucene does, how it works, and what software engineers can learn from its design... (3,400 words)  |
Search Engine Watch April 25, 2004 Danny Sullivan |
Google In Controversy Over Top-Ranking For Anti-Jewish Site Google has added a disclaimer to the search results that come up in a response for a search on jew, to counter complaints about an anti-Jewish site that until recently ranked number one.  |
InternetNews August 17, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Sizing Up the Search Competition In the Google-Yahoo rivalry, does the bigger index do a better job?  |
Search Engine Watch March 5, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Being Search Boxed To Death General purpose search engines often can do many different jobs. Nevertheless, your results might be better if you turn to a vertical tool. This may be the year that the general purpose search engines finally figure out a way to get the right vertical tools into the hands of their users...  |
ONLINE May 2000 Greg R. Notess |
Search Engine Update AltaVista adds related pages link; Ask Jeeves acquires Direct Hit; New Intelliseek BullsEye Pro 2; Dialog releases WebCheck, etc.  |
Search Engine Watch July 6, 2010 Adam Audette |
Crawl, Index, Rank, Repeat: A Tactical SEO Framework (Part 3) A framework for SEO strategy that captures the three primary elements of search engine optimization. The final installment of a three-part series.  |
Search Engine Watch August 22, 2008 Chris Boggs |
Word or Phrase Co-Occurrence within Particular Industries Are search engines smarter now than 4 years ago? I certainly hope so. There are too many words that could mean multiple things, and so many Web sites have at least some content that appears to humans but not text browsers.  |
Search Engine Watch September 3, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
Google: Can The Marcia Brady Of Search Stay Sweet? Does search dominance by Google mean that the company is destined to be hated, in the way that Microsoft endures a poor reputation due to its dominance of operating systems, office software and browsers? Such a fate is not preordained.  |
D-Lib Mar/Apr 2008 Smith & Nelson |
Site Design Impact on Robots An examination of search engine crawler behavior at deep and wide websites.  |
Search Engine Watch July 2, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
The Evolution Of Paid Inclusion Paid inclusion has always been a tricky concept to explain, but understanding it is important to both webmasters and searchers, as recent changes have suddenly made paid inclusion commonplace with search engines...  |
Search Engine Watch July 29, 2008 Aaron Shear |
When's an Outage More than Just an Outage? In SEO for major sites, one of the most overlooked factors is uptime. How does an outage impact your SEO efforts?  |
Information Today February 18, 2002 Richard W. Wiggins |
Google Unveils New Server Appliance Web search engine company Google has announced a new line of server appliances intended for enterprises that wish to harness its crawling, searching, and page-ranking capabilities in order to index millions of documents hidden behind corporate firewalls...  |