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.
Google Crawler May Have Helped Leak Colorado Drug Informants by Frank Watson Here's a roundup of this week's columns and news stories for the week of Dec.to Dec.as reported by Search Engine Watch, as well as search news and tips from around the web.
However, the real power of Goodzer comes from it's crawler which is able to parse any online store regardless of it's design and if it changes it's website. Today, software engineers Dmitry Pakhomkin and Artem Zarutskiy, have launched a location...
Additionally, companies will recognize the importance of doing their homework on keyword research and creating "crawler-friendly" site architectures. Nico Brooks, VP of search engine marketing at Local Matters
Yahoo Adds Support for Page-Level Exclusion Tags for Non-HTML DocsYahoo is giving webmasters more control over page-level directives to its Slurp crawler for non-HTML files. Here we've collected today's top news stories posted to the Search Engine...
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. We've collected all the search marketing news from selected posts to the Search Engine Watch blog...
Why IAC's Pronto Will Succeed: Partnership With Ask There are many reasons to like Pronto among the many crawler based shopping search engines: - Comprehensiveness (read last week's press release) -Upcoming features that provide a better user...
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. Visit our Search Technology & Relevancy area of the Search Engine Watch Forums.
It's not unthinkable that Google and Yahoo, the longest surviving crawler-based engines, could collaborate to restore a comprehensive archive of the web. ShopWiki Launches Mobile Shopping Search Engine.
AdSense Crawler Doing GoogleBot's Work? Search Engines Forum Spotlight - Links to the week's topics from search engine forums across the web: Google Confirms Mid-Page 'See Results For' Section No Longer A Test - How to Approach a Company About...
Yes, Yahoo has only had its own crawler-based search engine using its own technology for about two years, rolled out in February 2004. Product Search is a new search tool designed to help you find a comprehensive listing of products available...
MSN Says We'll Slow Down The News & Feed Crawling - Yahoo's Jeremy Zawodny noticed that MSN Search seemed to be overactively hitting his RSS feed, prompting MSN Search to respond via its blog that the news and blog crawler in testing may have been...
Currently, Become.com doesn't provide a mechanism to submit URLs for its crawl of the web, but if your web site is listed in the other major search engines or the Yahoo or DMOZ directories its crawler will likely find your site.
A longer version of this story for Search Engine Watch members explains how to sign up as a merchant partner for Become.com, the types of product feeds that are available, and provides details for controlling Become.com's crawler behavior on your...
Here's a recent WebmasterWorld thread about visits from the Noxtrum crawler. Browse articles from Search Engine Watch and across the web in the Search Topics area. The agenda for the next Search Engine Strategies show in San Jose this August 8-11...
Gigablast Now Indexing More than 2 Billion Pages May 16, 2005 - Matt Wells over at Gigablast has had his web crawler really cranking lately. Analysis of Paid Placement in Web Search Engine Results is a study now out that looks at what percentage...
The crawler automatically identifies and categorizes web content, indexing only shopping related information and discarding other types of content. Join the Become.com Crawler Out on the Prowl discussion in the Search Engine Watch forums.
The Yahoo News "test" crawler (Yahoo also has a crawler named Yahoo Newscrawler) was also seen and reported in a WMW post about two weeks ago. Yesterday, Steve Rubel over at Micro Persuasion posted an item about noticing a crawler named "Yahoo...
Now that the big job of getting a crawler-based search engine of its own working on MSN Search is completed, what happens next? MSN Home Page Redesign: Those visiting the MSN portal site now see a redesigned home page that features a larger, more...
If you are listed in Google's crawler-based results (as explained on the Google Web Crawler page within Search Engine Watch), then you are already contained within the database that AOL Search will use for searches.
