06 May, 2008

SEO – The Beginner’s Checklist

Posted in: Search

Came across this really good checklist for optimising a website. The Beginner’s Checklist for Small Business SEO Technorati Tags: seo, search engine optimisation

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07 Jan, 2008

Wikia search is live

Posted in: News,Search,WWW

Remember all the talk about the founder of Wikipedia looking to build a human-powered search engine which took place some time last year? Well, looks like an alpha version of the search engine has been released and it is called wikia search. Although in the About page it was mentioned that ‘What you see here [...]

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08 Dec, 2007

Google custom search engine

Posted in: Google,Search

I have heard of Google Custom Search Engine since a few months ago, but not until recently I gave a good attention and decided to set one up for this blog. Setting up is really simple and it can be done just in a matter of seconds. Here’s a step-by-step guide on how to set [...]

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03 Oct, 2007

New and Improved Yahoo! Search

Posted in: Search

Back in 2000 when I was a humble college student, Yahoo! Search was my all-time-favourite search engine, followed by Altavista. That was until I discovered google and I haven’t looked back since. But today, after reading a post on Techcrunch titled Yahoo Search Just Got Smarter, it prompted me to check out Yahoo! Search again. [...]

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While reading a 100 things we didn’t know this time last year on BBC, I learned that “Restaurant” is the most mis-spelled word in search engines. That prompted me to do a research on the subject of misspelled words in search engines, and hence, this post was born. On Wednesday May 23, 2007, Yahoo! Buzz [...]

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06 Jun, 2007

Search Engine Rankings

Posted in: Search

Source: comScore Press Release I have always wanted to know what the most popular search engines are and I finally get the answer via a link from Techcrunch today. According to comScore Press Release, for the month of April 07, Google is in the lead with 49.7%, followed by Yahoo! with 26.8%, Microsoft with 10.3%, [...]

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04 Jun, 2007

Sproose – Human Powered Search

Posted in: Search

Sproose is a human powered search engine, which, in their own words, provides user generated search results to give the power of search ranking to you, the user. I tried searching for a few keywords, and the search result is very similar to that of google except that they are sorted by votes, i.e: a [...]

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29 May, 2007

Google in 20 years

Posted in: Google,Search

Ever wondered how google will be like in the future, say 20 years from now? the.voyager (Flickr) has uploaded a screenshot of the future google. View this on flickr That would be very cool! Technorati Tags: google, search engine, humor

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24 May, 2007

Technorati Redesign

Posted in: Design,Search,WWW

Technorati has been redesigned with color scheme of green and yellow in less than a year. Not only it has been redesigned, new functionalities have also been added and some old ones have been eliminated. In their own words: First, we’ve eliminated search silos on Technorati. In the past, you had to know the difference [...]

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05 Apr, 2007

alpha (beta) search

Posted in: Search,WWW

The web is so large Almost boundless in its scope Emphasis: “Almost” – A No-Results-Found message by alpha (beta) search Yahoo!7 (An Australian and New Zealand Yahoo!) has released a web 2.0 aggregated search engine called alpha. I know what you are thinking, because I was thinking the same thing too; Yahoo! has already got [...]

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