RG: For many years now, I have written that the game to watch in modern search is to find out which entity has both the best crawler-based engine technology, combined with the best human social layer.
FREE – Xenu: Run a crawler over your site and find all your broken links. They have paid services from $20/mth. Good as a first stop when you're looking at a redesign or A/B testing.month – Crazy Egg: Produces a heatmap of your pages based on user...
All the other cool metrics like inbound links, subscriber stats, and Googlebot crawler reports are still in Webmaster Tools. They've even enhanced the services based on feedback during the pilot. You may recall four months ago, Google Analytics...
Especially when you're concerned with SEO: you want to know when, if, and how the crawler based search engines spider your pages, which search queries (a.k.a.keywords) are pulling visitors to your site, whether someone has linked to you out of the...
Eightfold Logic uses this data to deploy a crawler to run a set of semantic queries against your business to verify the data provided and find the right matches. Consequently, this service should bring some sanity back to how much money marketers...
A crawler is just a software program. If you have many products or services, which ones are the most important? Software developers have their own biases and prejudices based on their experience, and what they're familiar with.
Additionally, companies will recognize the importance of doing their homework on keyword research and creating "crawler-friendly" site architectures. Finally, we believe call-based services, such as pay-per-phone call and call tracking, will...
All flash site - Very, very pretty, but not a great experience for a crawler. Just make sure you offer text link navigation options and use a technique like Scalable Inman Flash Replacement (sIFR) to tell the crawler what is in the movie.
It's most useful in helping to index a site with dynamic pages, which may confuse a search engine's crawler and lead to issues with indexing multiple versions of the same page, or not indexing some pages at all, Mayer said.
Slurp's Change of AddressYahoo's web crawler, affectionately known as Yahoo Slurp, will move from its domain of inktomisearch.com to crawl.yahoo.net. Yahoo Mail Turns 10, Offers Unlimited StorageOne of the biggest and oldest free email services...
A query on a crawler-based search engine often turns up thousands or even millions of matching web pages. No one likes spam email, and sites that use spam email services often face a backlash from those on the receiving end.
One of the most important crawler-based search engines is Google, because many people search there, plus it "powers" the main results of several other services (see the Search Engine Results Chart for an explanation of what "main" results are).
As mentioned in Part 2, being listed in this Yahoo Directory MAY potentially help you get included and ranked more favorably in crawler-based results, including Yahoo's. In addition, if you are listed with them, then crawler-based search engines...
If there are no errors, the rule is activated and is then used by the web crawler for future crawling to avoid the download of duplicative web pages or web resources. Amazon is granted a patent for recommendation services.
Web can systematically grant permissions information (relating to access and use of their content) in a form that can be readily recognised and interpreted by a search engine “crawler”, so that the search engine operator (and ultimately, any...
What this tool does is show you which pages the AdSense crawler is having problems getting to. Why would they crawler have a problem getting to those pages? Microsoft plans on spending $500 million on adCenter, Windows Live, MSN Search and other...
It's not unthinkable that Google and Yahoo, the longest surviving crawler-based engines, could collaborate to restore a comprehensive archive of the web. The various book scanning projects underway throughout the world don't snare as much media...
As for the browser, my 2003 article -- Microsoft's MSN Search To Build Crawler-Based Search Engine -- summarized Microsoft's "built in" search advantage but concluded it wasn't a factor that guaranteed a win:
We've felt we should really develop our own [crawler-based] search engine to try and solve this problem. We believe there is massive opportunity to improve every aspect of the search experience including: basic web relevancy, new types of media...
AOL has easy access to lots of video content from Time-Warner, deals with other providers, and also its own multimedia crawler with SingingFish. Will the AOL Video database of crawled video content continue to use SingingFish technology or will...
