Search engines

A search engine generally refers to an Internet searching site used to find information and related sites on the web. The search results are usually called “hits”. The information gathered could be images, music or video files, database entries or web pages. Search engines use programs, or algorithms to locate results rather than web directories that use people for a manual search of results.

The first search engine was called “Archie” created in 1990 by a student at the McGill University in Montreal. In 2007 Google remained the most popular web search engine worldwide. The study of how search engines rank documents and subsequently optimizing a website to be found is called search engine optimization.

Search engine blogs include emerging trends in programming and algorithm development as well as blogs listing popular search engines and their success rates. Emerging trends, fading popularity and changes in ranking methods are frequent discussion topics. The Search Engine Watch blog compares programming effectiveness and ranks current popularity within the search engines.

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• Search engine Promotion – not a method of fooling the search engines, but working together with them

  
  Internet Marketing Ideas and Information — Authority: 128
  Some company owners believe that Online Marketing is all about fooling the search engines to send more customers to a particular website. In some cases organisations will offer this very service. Guaranteeing to increase your visitor numbers noticeably but using unscrupulous methods to do it. Clearly this type of ...
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• How long before an online marketing promotion will start to deliver the goods?

  
  Internet Marketing Ideas and Information — Authority: 128
  If you have invested in an online marketing package from a Search Engine Optimization Company you will have with any luck been through a valuable process of business and customer appraisal. Ideally what should happen is that the optimization company spends time with you recognising and then evaluating keywords, then ...
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• Is marketing an internet site really worth the cost?

  
  Internet Marketing Ideas and Information — Authority: 128
  There are relative costs attached to Online Marketing and companies often balk at spending on the service when it gets to the end of a lengthy process which has already made them spend a considerable chunk of their marketing budget. The fee of a graphic designer for the artwork and then a web designer for the ...
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• Some Advice On Choosing An SEO Expert

  
  Internet Marketing Secret — Authority: 134
  An accepted reality in the web about SEO is that it is a constantly changing strategy. It takes a lot of zest, dynamism and good amount of time to stay abreast with it its trend. Many website owners, as a consequence, find it more logical to hire an SEO expert than be bothered by the demands of web optimization. ...
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• Building Links To Promote Websites

  
  WikiMag — Authority: 151
  There are many different aspects of search engine optimization or SEO. SEO of course being the process of moving a website up to the top end of the search results. One of the oldest techniques in the book and still the most important is link building.
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• Are You Still Paying For Keyword Research, Find Out How To Instantly Spot Possible Niches

  
  Kevin H Davis - Speaker, Mentor, Marketing Coach — Authority: 139
  Pfew, How is it possible that those keyword research tools be so incredible expensive? While the mother of all Search-engines (Google) offers a perfect working tool for free. When using Google free keyword research tool you can instantly spot possible niches that can make your profit and find out what the current and ...
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• Microsoft Launches SDK For Facebook – Giants Rock Together !

  
  vhxn.com — Authority: 439
  Yesterday, Microsoft has developed a software development kit for Facebook that lets developers create Facebook applications for Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation. In order to expand the reach of Facebook in third party applications, Silverlight and WPF are more practical and easier platforms for the ...
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  ::the open end:: — Authority: 134
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• Google signed an agreement to acquire AdMob for $750 million.

  
  JustBol — Authority: 136
  On November 9, 2009,  Google signed an agreement to acquire AdMob for $750 million (Press release).Google is already in the mobile advertising business and this agreement will certainly boost the Google’s mobo advertising business. This is next step from Google in mobile advertising and this will benefit ...
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• Murdoch says he will remove News Corp. sites from Google (video)

  
  Gadget Reviews — Authority: 144
  Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch told Sky News interviewer David Speers that he will remove his news sites — The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, The Times of London and many more — from Google’s search index. It’s all in the video below, but here’s the crux of it:Speers: “The other argument from Google ...
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• WSJ to block Google indexing, wants paid content

  
  Business 2.0 Press — Authority: 116
  Rupert Murdoch, the Chairman and CEO of News Corporation, sat down with Sky News today to discuss how people should access internet news content. Murdoch, who owns the WSJ.com, argues that people should have to pay some sort of marginal premium to access the content. He argues that people should have never had access ...
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• SEO Can Only Help Local Newspapers

  
  gainfully unemployed — Authority: 118
  Search Engine Journal has a very good post about how local newspapers –and in fact, the newspaper business as a whole–can only benefit from harnessing SEO for their websites. This article has some details that will help any blog owner, in whatever industry, make their site more visible to search engines and ...
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• How To Become A Ghost Writer And Start Earning Money From The Comfort Of Your Home

  
  Paranominal — Authority: 455
  A ghost writer is someone who writes any kind of written work for other people. One of the main differences between a regular writer and a ghost writer is that after paying a ghost writer, the client usually retains the copyright of the written work.A ghost writer is paid to write informative and interesting [...]
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• Will Google Blink When Murdoch Gives The Finger?

  
  The Next Post | Beyond The Blogging Experience — Authority: 98
  If theres anyone who can give Google the finger without blinking, it has to be media mogul Rupert Murdoch. In an interview on Nov 9, Monday, with Sky News political editor David Speers, the News Corporation supremo said he plans to take his media sites off the radar of search engines. You can watch the interview ...
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• Learn How To Cloak Your Affiliate Link

  
  Free Internet Marketing Information — Authority: 157
  The internet is a wide arena of people and businesses. You need to be very careful with your techniques because not paying special attention to your techniques can ultimately lead to failure. The whole aspect is something to be very weary of because it is so easy to get lost while trying to understand your way ...
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• Google Chrome – The Other Web Browser

  
  Internet Marketing Blog — Authority: 118
  This blog post is an outcry of some sorts to Google.  It’s about my mixed feelings regarding Google Chrome. I think Google Chrome is a great browser once you really start using it. At first glance, it seemed a bit bizarre compared to other browsers as far as appearance but the more I used it, the more I wished I ...
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• New article on West Publishing

  
  Legal Research Plus — Authority: 423
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• Is Anything Ever Out of Print? Or Google and The Monkey’s Paw

  
  Concurring Opinions — Authority: 593
  As the Google Book Deal approaches its next phase, I am wondering does anything ever go out of print? Pam Samuelson and others have noted the vague nature of the deal. I have poked at some drafting issues at the Public Index. The out of print problem seems like a key issue about why this deal should not proceed. (I am ...
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• News Corp points gun at foot and fires

  
  Third Pipe, the future of broadband — Authority: 127
  Wishful thinking has trumped common sense at Newscorp.  After putting most of its online news content behind a pay wall, the company has added the stated goal of preventing search engines form indexing it. Since most of us use search engines to find news, this should minimize traffic to Newscorp sites, and with even ...
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