After all, engines need good content just as badly (to be relevant to their searchers) just as you need their "free" traffic. Especially the ones who do everything by the "Google book" only to fearfully watch Google web visits plummet with every...
Both of those groups are large, and they're all searchers. Then a year and a half with Danny Sullivan as news editor of Search Engine Watch, also during that time or prior to that about 6 years ago now I co-authored a book called The Invisible Web...
It's a good time of year for searchers, and search marketers, to step back and realize that no matter how big Google gets, it's still not the only place to find what you're looking for. But the invisible web, or deep web, is estimated to be 500...
The user interface there hasn't been that appealing, nor have searchers been seriously directed to it. In fact, the search box on the Google Base home page was just dropped, not something you do for a service designed for searchers.
Two Amazon employees have had a patent application published which may correct misspellings in queries in order to return results to searchers. Yahoo provides an XML based bid management tool, and a way to maintain a persistent link to dynamic...
Redevelops, Reaches Out: GoTo realizes that to succeed, it needs to partner with search engines, rather than try to capture searchers directly. The information I published quickly generated a lot of positive feedback, both from site owners and...
But the implementation into the search results show how searchers will be directed to what are effectively surrogates of these types of services. Web search might have to serve you results about golfing, buying cars, medical information, news and...
In order to see the presence of searchers seeking out Reviewing user queries to search engines will help us understand the search behavior of current web users, to estimate how often web users encounter HTM materials through searches, and to...
Don't forget that for many web searchers, the Invisible or Deep Web is everything beyond the first six or seven results. Advanced searchers might also benefit with a unified interface versus numerous interfaces and syntaxes.
While searchers generally don't make use of search options and drop-down boxes, I think that vertical search engines are an exception. To help explain why this is sort of Google getting into tagging -- and not -- plus some of the invisible web...
Discussion on a great article by Internet Retailer on Searching for Searchers and the difficulties with hiring in-house for search expertise. Translating and paraphrasing the answer I received, Chitika search tab available in eMiniMalls is not an...
If the search engines are all saying that their main goal is to return relevant results for search queries, how can Google's alleged age delaying sandbox be considered helpful when the application of the filter may be keeping searchers from...
One of the world's foremost super searchers has distilled his extensive and wide-ranging knowledge into an essential guide to the web's highest quality resources. Find It Online: The Complete Guide to Online Research, Alan Schlein Google Hacks...
Bloggers are big ego searchers, so if someone targets your name, blog spam can see worse. It's likely going to be just like what happened with free web space -- free blog space will get ignored by search engines.
Today, Google is dropping from its home page the famous count of pages in its index while simultaneously claiming it has the most comprehensive collection of web documents available to searchers. Look at actual queries that searchers do that come...
Finally, since many searchers only look at the first few results, just because a page is listed somewhere in a results set doesn't mean it will be seen. Maybe the Invisible or Deep Web in 2005 is everything beyond the first 10 results?
Where are searchers likely to go? So Yahoo's new My Web 2.0 service is up! The My Web Detour They may click on whatever is listed below the My Web heading, or they might decide to detour into the full My Web results.
To view the full text of premium content, searchers will either have to have a subscription to the fee-based database providing it or take advantage of pay-per-article options, when offered. To search subscription content, searchers need to visit...
A study published by Outsell last month pointed out that searchers in the workplace are "shifting away from their Internet research methods from just four years ago" and relying more on other sources including librarians and their intranet.
And if you weren't in Yahoo back then, you are largely invisible to web searchers. Today, crawlers rather than directories dominate the web. Been wondering what's going on with your Open Directory submission?
