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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• Google vs. Google

  
  Beers with Demo — Authority: 525
  Is it possible that Google may employ some bigots or even (gasp)… conservatives? Google is doing some explaining as to why offensive images popped up as a result of searches for Michelle Obama and Jews. Google is running advertisements to explain the appearance of racist and anti-Semitic material in search ...
  2 hours ago

• Neat sites

  
  Interesting Pile — Authority: 440
  Why you arent the great driver you think you are All Games Search is a search engines for all things video games (via AltSearchEngines ) Whats The Harm? is a site that presents stories that show what exactly the harms are for kooky medical treatments and other pseudo-scientific claims
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• Targeted Traffic The Holy Grail To Succeed With Online Marketing

  
  Free Internet Marketing Information — Authority: 162
  Online Marketing is know as one of the easiest methodes to make online profits. But in order to make money as affiliate marketer you need Targeted Web Site Traffic, Now there are a aggregation of methodes to generate targeted traffic to your websites or affiliate offers, let us verify a look at some of them! Long ...
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• Try a Secret New Google

  
  Technologizer — Authority: 657
  Google guru Philipp Lenssen has a cool tip on his Google Blogoscoped site: He shows how to turn on an experimental version of Google by pasting a URL into your browser. It’s got a number of minor visual tweaks, including a much cleaner version of the Google logo (it even skips the TM sign). But for me, the real ...
  4 hours ago

• Getting where we want to go…quicker!

  
  Hitwise Intelligence - Analyst Weblogs — Authority: 507
  Following from yesterday’s post ‘Searches getting longer” today we look at the impact of branded search (aka navigational search) and the trends in the success rates of searches on the major Search Engines used by Australian Internet users. The following chart analyses the Top 500 search terms used by ...
  4 hours ago

• A Guide To Automated Article Submission Software

  
  Homebusiness-Facts.com — Authority: 130
  Many have already heard about the use of Automated Article Submission Software, but that does not always mean that the person knows what it is about. In any case, the software has the ability to automatically submit the articles that you want.
  5 hours ago

• A Guide To Automated Article Submission Software

  
  Website Marketing Club — Authority: 163
  I am sure if you are someone that does work on the internet with articles, then you have heard about the Automated Article Submission Software, but do you really know what it is? If you have never had experience with the software, but are thinking about using something of the sort, then you should know that it is a ...
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• What is the difference between Grey and White Hat SEO?

  
  Yada Yada Marketing — Authority: 127
  var fbShare = {url: http://www.yadayadamarketing.com/2236/what-is-the-difference-between-grey-and-white-hat-seo/,size:large} What is the difference between Grey and White Hat SEO?White hat seo is using ethical seo techniques to rank your website high in the search engines – techniques which search engines themselves ...
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• Teeth-Whitening Company Sues Google, Microsoft, Yahoo (Wired News)

  
  Adam Dicker | Domain Expert — Authority: 162
  DazzleSmile accuses the three major search engines of selling advertising space to scam companies that infringed on its teeth-whitening trademarks. If we don’t all get cleaner teeth out of the suit, we might get more stringent standards about deceptive advertising on the net. Read the original here: ...
  7 hours ago

• Will Google Copy Bing with Categories on the Side Bar?

  
  BusinessOnLine SEO Blog — Authority: 107
  Google Starts Trends The early days of search pre-Google days were all about crowded interfaces with tons of things going on the page. This was when the main players in the space were Yahoo and Altavista, and those trying to keep up with the page were Excite, Hotbot, Lycos and other. Many of them started with ...
  8 hours ago

• Internet Marketing 101

  
  sherrill brown recommends — Authority: 138
  When you hear the term “ internet marketing “, what do you think of? For many, that term conjures thoughts of websites or spamming or search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. For others, it’s all about graphical design, writing fancy code or even affiliate programs. All of those answers correct, but the ...
  9 hours ago

• Internet Marketing And Permission-Based Email Marketing

  
  sherrill brown recommends — Authority: 138
  When you hear the term “ internet marketing “, what do you think of? For many, that term conjures thoughts of websites or spamming or search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. For others, it’s all about graphical design, writing fancy code or even affiliate programs. All of those answers correct, but the ...
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• Internet Marketing: The Central Component

  
  sherrill brown recommends — Authority: 138
  When you hear the term “ internet marketing “, what do you think of? For many, that term conjures thoughts of websites or spamming or search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing. For others, it’s all about graphical design, writing fancy code or even affiliate programs. All of those answers correct, but the ...
  9 hours ago

• SideWiki: What Was Google Thinking?!?

  
  Hot Tech Buys — Authority: 110
  Personally, I think SideWiki is a horrible idea. Very invasive. Just too many ways for it to be hacked and spammed and used against competitors and just taken advantage of.It’s opening the doors for an immense amount of spamming, as soon as spammers figure out how get themselves a good quality score, and then [...]
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• Martha Stewart Caught in Bed With Big Government [Media Crack]

  
  Gawker — Authority: 867
  In your cheery Wednesday media column: our nemesis Martha Stewart s magazine implicated in decoration-for-prestige scheme, iTunes for magazines is coming, your weekly layoff roundup, and the Search Engine Media Wars heat up. POLITICO EXPOZAY: Our archnemesis Martha Stewart (s magazine, Martha Stewart Living, ...
  10 hours ago

• Inside the Michelle Obama image fight: why Google wont tweak results

  
  Technology: Technology blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 139
  Google is determined not to be seen to make choices, even over results such as the Michelle Obama monkey image Google made its name in search through a simple principle: if lots of other sites point to a particular site that matches a search term, thats probably the most highly thought-of site for that topic. Its ...
  13 hours ago

• Michelle Obama racist picture that is topping Google Images removed

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Hot Girls website apologises over monkey picture that had been appearing at the top of Google Images searches A blog hosting an offensive image of Michelle Obama with monkey features has removed it and posted an apology. The image, which has been appearing at the top of search results when the words "Michelle Obama" ...
  15 hours ago

• Thanksgiving Feast

  
  AOL Hot Searches — Authority: 129
  Today is the day before Thanksgiving. As I am checking my lists of required items that I will contribute to that oh so yummy meal, it occurs to me that for a lot of families this is a meal that has many contributors. The larger the family, the more food items you have and everyone has a "specialty". Aunt Idas ...
  18 hours ago

• Rupert Murdoch Is Trying To Change How Search Engines Work

  
  Small Business Mavericks — Authority: 129
  Leave it to media mogul Rupert Murdoch to try and change 10 years of search engine optimization. He has stated publicly that he plans to start charging for news content on all of his web properties and de-index his websites from Google. TechCrunch offers a pretty good overview of the situation.The latest development ...
  21 hours ago

• Yellow Journalism: New York Times Calls for Bing Boycott Over Chinese Results

  
  Brisbane Search Engine Optimization SEO Training - Advice - Tools - Resources — Authority: 142
  Yellow Journalism: New York Times Calls for Bing Boycott Over Chinese Results Nicholas Kristof took to the pages of the New York Times to call for a boycott of Bing . Yes, Kristoff is attempting to create the news instead of just cover it, and yes, that goes against the fundamentals covered in any ...
  21 hours ago

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