Tue, Jul 29th - 1:15PM

A new search engine has been launched by former Google developers. They mention having 3 times the results when compared to Google and 10 times the results when compared to MSN.

They also stated that they do not rank sites by inbound linking but by the content on the page. I like hearing that. Lets see what happens with this in the future. So far, I like the results a lot.

Cuil

Tue, Jul 15th - 7:29PM

This info was from the Google Blog, posted by Amit Singhal, Google Fellow

The most common question I get asked about Google's ranking is "how do you do it?" Of course, there is a lot that goes into building a state-of-the-art ranking system like ours, and I will delve deeper into the technology behind it in a later post. Today, I would like to briefly share the philosophies behind Google ranking:

1) Best locally relevant results served globally.
2) Keep it simple.
3) No manual intervention.

Very Interesting. Any thoughts anyone? I would love to hear them ...

Thu, Jul 3rd - 2:15PM

If anyone was an SEO back in the day you would know what this tool ment.

A moment of silence for the Overture Search Tool ..... ....... ......

Fri, Jun 27th - 2:06PM

This data is based on SearchEngineWatch from the latest update of December 2007:

Google 58.4% of searches
Yahoo 22.9% of searches
Microsoft 9.8% of searches
Time Warner Network 4.6% of searches
Ask 4.3% of searches

Pretty crazy that only 3 search engines pull in 91% of searches out there. From the last time I checked it was more like 80% to 85%.

Another interesting bit of information is that breaking out the Google network Youtube had 7.9% of
searches.

Mon, Jun 16th - 2:14PM

So who here has used a Google search operator? If not you need to check yourself. An operator is a query of words that have a special meaning to Google. For example if i punch into Google "define:", I will get back a definition of whatever word I was defining.

Now, we combined this with seo and the Google operator becomes much more powerful.

Here are a few operators that the seo world breathes:
- link:
- inurl:
- intitle:
- site:
- cache:

Of course this is just the tip of the iceberg. For all the SEO'ers out there who want to sharpen there skills, please read up on the search operator and you will be amazed.