“A9.com enhances your search results with your search history, which keeps track of which searches you have done in the past, and what search results you have seen and clicked on… In addition to web search results we present book results from Amazon.com that include Search Inside the Book.”
How To Score Higher in Google Search Engine
“Almost everyone searches Google to find information, and Google quickly rewards them by displaying the information they are seeking. Thereby, Google rewards useful sites with the eyes of people who are looking for useful information. This is helping the web recover from being the wasteland of marketing hype, which the dot-come-and-gone explosion forced it to become. Google is saving the web by ultimately forcing site designers to make their sites useful again… I keep this page to help people understand how to design their sites for maximum effectivness. Please let me know if anything on this page is misleading, needs updating or additions.”
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Do you Google? Understanding search engine use beyond the hype
“Much anecdotal evidence suggests that Google is the most popular search engine. However, such claims are rarely backed up by data. The reasons for this are manifold, including the difficulty in measuring search engine popularity and the multiple ways in which the concept can be understood. Here, I discuss the sources of confusion related to search engine popularity.”
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On Search, the Series
“This series of essays on the construction, deployment and use of search technology (by which I mean primarily ‘full-text’ search) was written between June and December of 2003. It has fifteen instalments not including this table of contents.” Thanks Elegant Hack
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Search Engine Relationship Chart
Shows who supplies and receives primary, secondary, directory and paid search results among the major search engines, including Google, Yahoo!, Lycos, Ask, Inktomi, MSN, AltaVista, HotBot, dmoz, etc.
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Help the Googlebot understand your web site
“Google is the best search engine on the ‘net right now. The Googlebot is Google’s indexing software. The Googlebot visits billions of web sites over time and records their contents, which makes them available to search. The Googlebot is very smart and works really well. But, like everyone, it could use a little help from its friends.”
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Play With Your Search
“On October 8, 2000, I wrote about a TV ad for autotrader.com, which utilized a visual metaphor for search that I felt was necessary to help most searchers to really understand how search works. Well, now someone has made that a reality. Iokio.biz is in the business of providing visualization tools for sifting through data.”
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How to Choose a Search Engine or Directory
“A chart listing numerous features and the search engines and directories that support them.”
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Search Engine Features For Webmasters
“The search engine features chart below is designed primarily for webmasters who care about how crawler-based search engines index their sites. It provides a summary of important factors and features that can affect how sites are indexed and ranked. Full explanations of items can be found immediately below the comparison chart.”
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Yahoo! Learn the Shortcuts
“Need specific information fast? We’ve created a set of shortcut keywords that display what you want at the top of your search results page.”
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