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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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “Search engines”

• Pagerank update after a long wait:

  
  MT-Soft — Authority: 524
  It seems Google has started to move away from PageRank or at least they are trying their best to make people move on from their PageRank obsession. PageRank from the day it came into existence has been the talk of the search engine world. Almost all webmaster knows about PageRank and its importance. Even lot [...]
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• Can Google Protect Your Privacy?

  
  Search Engine Optimization Journal - Search Optimization Blog — Authority: 524
  I just found a very interesting interview between Neil Cavuto at Fox Business and Google CEO Eric Schmidt. They cover a lot of ground in this interview, but one interesting thing Eric Schmidt said was that Google is going to try not to cross the creepy line. He sees his company a lot like Microsoft, but he doesn’t ...
  3 hours ago

• Ancestry.coms Improved "Edit Search" Feature

  
  Genea-Musings — Authority: 582
  Ancestry.com announced last weekend that they were modifying the "Edit Search" feature in the "New Search" experience. See Anne Mitchells post " Refine your searches in fewer steps in new search " on the Ancestry.com blog. Before yesterday, the user had two ways to change the search field entries in "New Search" ...
  3 hours ago

• Bing Partners with Wolfram Alpha

  
  Xconomy — Authority: 712
  Search , Internet , deals Gregory T. Huang wrote: The teams behind Microsoft’s Bing and Wolfram Alpha announced today they have teamed up to enhance Bing’s search results across topics like nutrition, health, and advanced mathematics. Financial terms weren’t given, but the partnership gives Bing ...
  3 hours ago

• Googles Caffeine coming soon

  
  Internet News — Authority: 437
  Google to launch new search engine, Lesley Ciarula Taylor, Toronto Star (Nov 10) Google is getting closer to taking the wraps off its new search engine, Caffeine. Described as a "rewrite of our indexing system", this has been tested by...
  4 hours ago

• Bing Launches Wolfram Alpha Collaboration & Several New Search Features

  
  Search Engine Land: News About Search Engines & Search Marketing — Authority: 766
  There’s a lot of news today coming out of Bing headquarters, perhaps most notably that the long-rumored partnership with Wolfram Alpha is finally coming to fruition.Bing’s announcement today explains that the collaboration will cover two specific areas: nutritional information and mathematics.Nutritional DataWith ...
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• TouchGraph, monitoring yourself

  
  Sylwia Presley — Authority: 415
  As a blogger I tend to Google my name time to time to see who uses my content and generally – where does my name appear. I also spend more time on Facebook this month learning its dynamics all over again, and just came accross TouchGraph Facebook app which graphed my contacts very accurately. As you can ...
  4 hours ago

• Bing Videos And Bing Search Get Updates As Well

  
  Telephone Issues — Authority: 165
  Microsoft this time seems to be dead serious to compete at all levels with the seemingly almighty guys at Google and especially their search engine. Several key services over at Bing were updated today including the already reviewed Bing Maps service. But Bing Maps was but one service that got updated. Microsoft has ...
  4 hours ago

• Information Consumption and the Real-Time Web - SEM Synergy Extras

  
  Bruce Clay, Inc. Blog — Authority: 491
  On todays episode of SEM Synergy, Bruce Clay, Inc.s weekly podcast on WebmasterRadio.fm, I interviewed the CEO of a newly launched search engine and aggregator that seeks to bring search up to speed -- at least to a pace thats as fast as the Internet evolution. LeapFish is a Web...
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• Mobile: What Marketers Need to Know About Google’s AdMob Deal

  
  SearchViews — Authority: 526
  The rapid growth of mobile platforms this year has put to rest any doubt that digital marketers may have had about jumping in. The recent successful launch of Android coupled with the continued growth of  iPhone sales (even as the recession continues) point clearly to a continuing transformation in the portability ...
  5 hours ago

• Google Safe Search filtering is now password protected.

  
  JustBol — Authority: 137
  Google, the king of the search engine comes with more security of your search terms. Already Google comes with SafeSearch Filtering which allow user to moderate their search results in decent ways. Google is always working hard to separate unexpected search results. Google made three different options to user to ...
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• Importance of Internet Marketing Education

  
  Internet Marketing Solutions — Authority: 149
  0 text-align:right; 4px type="text/javascript">There ways on but should It’s the or can when to There means podcasting, the etc. important up regarding you knowledge available well advantagesLatest [...]
  6 hours ago

• Link Popularity Building Services

  
  Reseller Web Hosting Plan — Authority: 103
  Link popularity is in the top website hosting of the most important factor. The importance of search engines, the site has been the theme of quality and a backward pass or related websites. Search engines consider your site from other sites where a given quality, choose your site before the vote, these incoming ...
  7 hours ago

• Work at Home Jobs – Finding a Legitimate Work From Home Job

  
  Computer Repair And PC Repair London — Authority: 128
  Jobs online T hese days making a living, or even a career, from a legitimate work at home job isnt as far fetched as it may seem. H owever, with all the millions of work at home job opportunities littering the internet, it may seem that securing an online job would be fairly easy. T he truth though is that ...
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• What is Joomla and Why Do I Need It?

  
  IENACE — Authority: 141
  Joomla Tutorials is in high demand as Joomla, an opensource CMS, is quickly turning into the Content Management System of choice by the vast audience of site owners who are updating their sites to fit into a Internet 2.0 framework. With Joomla Video Tutorials , learning Joomla is easy with Joomla Administrator, and ...
  8 hours ago

• Bayarat, An Arabic Online Media Content Search Engine

  
  Qwaider Planet — Authority: 165
  Bayarat is a new media search engine that was recently launched in its alpha version catering to the Arab world and aiming to make it easier to search for and find Arabic media content online.Bayarat Read More......( read more )
  9 hours ago

• Bayarat, An Arabic Online Media Content Search Engine

  
  StartUpArabia — Authority: 114
  Bayarat is a new media search engine that was recently launched in its alpha version catering to the Arab world and aiming to make it easier to search for and find Arabic media content online. Bayarat is currently only indexing video content from around the web and across online video sharing portals, with plans to ...
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• Best SEO Tools

  
  Best Strength — Authority: 145
  You will find that the best way that you can drive traffic to your site is by using search engine marketing. If you use the best SEO tools out there to help, then you’ll definitely be on the path to succeed. Many SEO tools have been created with the aim of making this an easier process for website owners, who ...
  11 hours ago

• Can You Think Of A Good Reason To Ban The Search Engines?

  
  Scotland SEO Blog — Authority: 127
  Rupert Murdoch, the grand maestro behind News Corp is reported to have floated the idea of banning search engines from indexing content from newspapers. The idea, of course, is to only have paid subscribers reading the content. I’ll come back to this specific issue in a moment.What are your thoughts? Can you think ...
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• Google Wave invites

  
  XavierMedia.com — Authority: 113
  Just a short notice to let you all know that we have 10 invites to Google Wave we dont really have any use for. So if you would like to try out Google Wave, please post a comment in this post and explain what you will use Google Wave for. Make sure you mention your email address in the email field so we can send you ...
  12 hours ago

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