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Future of Search Engine

Conventional search engines are so frequently used that their spectacular development won’t be a surprise. Search Engine Optimization is now a vital part of every website life, so the Search Engine’s results are also vital for a Web site. It won’t be the small firms that change the way of search; Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, [...]

1st, 2nd, and 3rd generation search engines

The first generation based the search on what was on the Web page. Important factors, like keywords density and title. Meta tags had an important role, keywords in the domain name, and also some keywords in the URL. Search engines started looking like yellow pages. The second generation based the page ranking on related links; [...]

New Solutions (Query Tracker, Focused Crawler)

The QueryTracker (the search engine submits the user’s query daily and returns the answers – the Web pages that have changed since the previous search or the new ones). The magic in QueryTracker comes from its automatic generation of an additional daily query, based on what it learns about the user’s interests and priorities over [...]

Overcoming the lack of relevant search results

It is obvious that lately, the search engines are trying to enhance their results to better anticipate the user’s intentions. Google has the advertisers with its Adwords service, and the technology to determine which results to show within the email interface. Yahoo is re-vamping Overture (Yahoo Business Services) and Inktomi; Microsoft is already jumping into [...]

Theme engines

Michaela Campbell, author of popular books, defines a theme engine as “what you say about your Web page, how the structure of other people’s Web pages compares on the same topic, and what other people say your site is about, to be in harmony with each other, be as one. A theme engine looks at [...]

To search where no-one has searched before

Search engines providers are waiting for billions of dollars to have some of the smartest people in the world working to develop the next great version to enhance more relevant results. Satellite and aerial imagery are these days the main attraction (Google Maps, Google Earth, MSN Virtual Earth, TerraFly, and World Wind from NASA); this [...]