In the upper right hand corner of the screen the web surfer can choose the way the results are displayed. Google Catalogs can contain videos, image galleries and web links in addition links from the merchant’s Google Shopping feed.
This notion is the subject of a Google patent on the concept of the Reasonable Surfer. If the link looks artificial in nature that could counter what would otherwise be a strong "reasonable surfer" score.
The web 2.0, constantly connected web surfer has much more sophisticated information needs. And given the pace that end users now generate content, and the limitations that the protocol of the world wide web places on crawling, it’s not likely that...
Reasonable Surfer Model: Considers the navigational use of a link and places more or less importance on a link based on how it is, or might, be clicked on to navigate to further information. While semantic web has many facets, intrinsically it is...
Surfing habits (frequent surfer – fresher results) Kaltix Corp.was formed in June 2003 and focuses on developing personalized and context-sensitive search technologies that make it faster and easier for people to find information on the web.
Client-side Web programming refers to actions that happen in the browser using the Web surfer's computer to process the code. Developers beware, there's a new scripting language for client-side Web programming.
A good analogy would be that is calculates the probability that a web surfer will end up on any given page if he or she follows links around the web at random. PageRank is what made Google what it is today: a heuristic analysis of the web's link...
As a search engine optimization (SEO) consultant, website owner, and web surfer, I find it illogical how important Google finds some ranking factors. Keep feeding Google with information from Gmail, Google Analytics, Google Chrome, Google Web...
So if a French web surfer searches for [librairie Paris” and you're running a online bookshop with a .fr TLD hosted in France, then you'll be much more likely to turn up in the French search results. If your French online bookshop is hosted in...
The company explains both in its Nachofoto white paper, and case study that when users type in recent topics, they expect to see the latest pictures and not some old, static image content that sits there awaiting to be conjured up by a feisty web...
The Microsoft paper explains their approach where "the user browsing graph can more precisely represent the web surfer's random walk process, and thus is more useful for calculating page importance. Instead of buying links, we'll see spammers...
If you're a Web surfer, you don't need to do anything. People don't go to Web sites anymore. Web sites come to them. The mobile Web has severely ratcheted up the importance of local search. SEO is now commonplace, which this means that Web sites...
Random Surfer Theory, Smart Keywords Here we've collected today's top news stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with search-related headlines from around the Web: SEW Experts: Call for Production Value Standards in Search Marketing...
Random Surfer Theory, Smart Keywords Find out here, with these links to some of the latest topics being discussed in our own Search Engine Watch Forums, and other search marketing forums across the Web:
Years ago, a great article in Wired on the emergence of kite-surfing quoted a kite-surfer suggesting “windsurfing has become like bowling. Phil has over nine years of experience in search marketing and web site production for major sites across...
So search engines may contribute to these changes, but the driving force is the educated Web surfer – your customer. What made all of this possible was an audience (the Web surfing audience) that was pretty naive, and search engine algorithms that...
They cannot be content with reaching just any curious Web surfer, but need to focus on qualified and interested customers, suppliers or partners. But this approach ensures that clickers, and expensive Web site visitors, are actually more qualified.
In the end, I've got no particular beef with domain owners trying to make money off of traffic for sites through these programs where a surfer or another site owner really isn't being hurt. OK, advertisers can choose not to show their ads on other...
Surfer A: 9 Google visits, 5 to Yahoo, 3 to MSN: 17 total visits Surfer B: 5 Google visits, 6 to Yahoo, 8 to MSN: 19 total visits Surfer C: 8 Google visits, 9 to Yahoo, 7 to MSN: 24 total visits Hitwise uses a combination of anonymous web surfing...
And Yahoo has 255 spots open at the moment, including one job to be a directory editor/surfer for Yahoo Canada. And more coverage of Ask developments also here, Ask Jeeves CEO: Technology Matters in Web Search,
