Search Engines
Google and latent semantic analysis
by Admin
21 Feb
Copyright by Axandra.com
Web site promotion software
Rumor in search engine forums has it that Google is giving more weight to latent semantic indexing (LSI) in its latest ranking algorithm update.
New Search Engine Says It's the Web's Biggest
by Admin
17 Feb
MIAMI, FL - The Web's Biggest (http://www.websbiggest.com) says it searches more websites than any other search engine. In a recent study done by the company, "Other search engines missed from a third to more than half of the websites in the Web's Biggest search results," according to company spokesperson Adam Radly.
Web's Biggest is unique in that they have licensed the Whois database of more than 40 million domain names. This enables them to search almost every website in the world. Other search engines rely on hyperlinks and manual submissions to find websites and miss many of them as a result. The company estimates that most search engines search less than 10 million websites.
Searching for relevancy
by Admin
04 Feb
by Rob Sullivan
http://www.enquiro.com
I read an article the other day from a well known technology site which said that in order for search engines to move forward they have to improve the relevancy of search results.
Google moved a step in the right direction with the Florida update, and now results do seem to be better.
However, the problem I have with this whole "search engines need more relevancy" theory is this: Who defines the relevancy?
Take this scenario which happened to me last night.
Future Search Markets
by Admin
29 Jan
by Rob Sullivan
http://www.enquiro.com
It is ironic that Google launched TV search yesterday, because I was thinking about where search will go, and I think it will follow a similar pattern to television.
When I was growing up, we only had 2 channels until I was about 12 or 13. This was because, in my home town, we didn't have cable TV. But then, we got cable and we got 13 channels.
I was amazed. My TV universe was opened up to much more available programming, all because of a simple piece of cable.
Fast forward to the present and the advent of satellite TV where I have Direct-to-home satellite and have access to over 400 digital quality channels. Almost 25 times more channels than the 13 we had on cable, and over 150 times more than the 2 channels I grew up with.
There's more than Google in the search engine world
by Admin
27 Jan
Copyright Axandra.com
Web site promotion software tools
Keynote Systems released the results of a new survey this January. The California based company surveyed 2000 Internet users to find out which search engines they prefer.
Google the ISP?
by Admin
24 Jan
by Rob Sullivan
http://www.enquiro.com
Recently, in the news, there was a post about a job listing on Google's site. They are apparently looking for someone with experience in "identification, selection, and negotiation of dark fiber contracts." Does this mean that Google wants to become an ISP?
While that might be kind of neat - A Google flavored ISP (after all I would imagine their rates would be cheaper than anyone else) - I don't see this as their plan.
Dark fiber refers to all that fiber optic cable that was laid in the late 90's but never activated, or was used but subsequently turned off. It's the stuff that no one is using now.
But for what purpose would Google need miles of fiber? Well, there are many uses.
MSN search using RSS
by Admin
23 Jan
by Rob Sullivan
http://www.enquiro.com
In the "That's cool but what's the use" category, a new entry from MSN.
In order to perform this experiment there are a few prerequisites; A news aggregator or a browser that supports reading feeds, or some other way of reading an XML or RSS feed. I use Firefox with Sage.
I will demonstrate how to do this using Firefox with Sage merely because I am most comfortable with it.
So, once you have Firefox and Sage installed, open Sage, and then what you need to do is go to MSN and perform a search. When you see the results, click on the feed discovery button in Sage (it's the magnifying glass). Within a few seconds you will see that you can get the same search results page served in XML. Highlight the feed and add it. Now if you go into Sage, and click on the feed you will see the exact same results as would be displayed on MSN search.
The Search Engine Showdown
by Admin
08 Jan
by Courtney Heard
http://www.abalone.ca
If you're anything like me, you have a favourite search engine and you're loyal to it. You never use any others (which made this research difficult for yours truly), insist yours is the be-all and end-all and you even go so far as to deny any shortcomings it may have. But is your search engine truly the best? Inspired by a great article at the BBC News (BBC News: Search Wars), we decided to compare the major search engines. Here's what we found.
We chose the search term "real estate fiji" because it's a competitive industry and geographically specific. We also searched with the same phrase, misspelled to see if the search engine would suggest the correct spelling.
Search 2005
by Admin
02 Jan
by Rob Sullivan
http://www.enquiro.com
2004 has been quite a year. We saw the emergence of 2 major players in search debuting their own technology, while the third recently doubled the size of its search index, and filled its founder's pockets with money.
We also saw improvements in how the engines rank sites, and how often they spider and index.
So, what will 2005 bring? Let me give you my opinion:
The new Google Suggest feature
by Admin
15 Dec
Copyright Axandra.com
Web site promotion software tools
Google Labs have just released the beta version of a new Google tool: Google Suggest. As you type into the search box, Google Suggest guesses what you're typing and offers suggestions in real time:
News Categories
|
|
|