9 Mar, 2010
You really want to know the fastest ways to make money at home? Check This Out
Pretty much all of us have heard of and use one of the big three search engines on a daily basis. Google, Bing and Yahoo collectively make up just over 95 percent of the western world’s search engine market share.
As search engines optimisers we tend to put most of our effort into Google (and rightly so, with 70 to 80 percent of the market share.)
I was surprised to learn that a lot of the ancient search engines from back in the infancy of the Web are still up and running: Lycos, AltaVista and Excite are all still live and claim to be indexing and coming up with relevant results. My own personal favourite, long before Google was around, was Dogpile – and even that is still going.
There are also experimental new search engines, each with their own speciality. There’s the ill-fated Cuil that was launched in 2008 by ex-Google employees. It was far too over-hyped, but does integrate quite nicely with social media. It’s definitely one to keep an eye on.
There’s also Wolfram Alpha, a “computational knowledge” search engine that attempts (relatively successfully) to understand the meaning of web content computationally. As an example, you can enter “population of the UK” and it will return information taken from Wikipedia on the population and other information (such as age expectancy etc.) It sounds like a simple idea, but once the meaning of content can be properly understood by a computer (not just matching keywords and phrases) you can start ranking and graphing data much easier. It would be fantastic if this really took off and became more successful.
Simon Davies
SEO Programmer
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9 Mar, 2010
You really want to know the fastest ways to make money at home? Check This Out
Pretty much all of us have heard of and use one of the big three search engines on a daily basis. Google, Bing and Yahoo collectively make up just over 95 percent of the western world’s search engine market share.
As search engines optimisers we tend to put most of our effort into Google (and rightly so, with 70 to 80 percent of the market share.)
I was surprised to learn that a lot of the ancient search engines from back in the infancy of the Web are still up and running: Lycos, AltaVista and Excite are all still live and claim to be indexing and coming up with relevant results. My own personal favourite, long before Google was around, was Dogpile – and even that is still going.
There are also experimental new search engines, each with their own speciality. There’s the ill-fated Cuil that was launched in 2008 by ex-Google employees. It was far too over-hyped, but does integrate quite nicely with social media. It’s definitely one to keep an eye on.
There’s also Wolfram Alpha, a “computational knowledge” search engine that attempts (relatively successfully) to understand the meaning of web content computationally. As an example, you can enter “population of the UK” and it will return information taken from Wikipedia on the population and other information (such as age expectancy etc.) It sounds like a simple idea, but once the meaning of content can be properly understood by a computer (not just matching keywords and phrases) you can start ranking and graphing data much easier. It would be fantastic if this really took off and became more successful.
Simon Davies
SEO Programmer
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9 Mar, 2010
You really want to know the fastest ways to make money at home? Check This Out
Pretty much all of us have heard of and use one of the big three search engines on a daily basis. Google, Bing and Yahoo collectively make up just over 95 percent of the western world’s search engine market share.
As search engines optimisers we tend to put most of our effort into Google (and rightly so, with 70 to 80 percent of the market share.)
I was surprised to learn that a lot of the ancient search engines from back in the infancy of the Web are still up and running: Lycos, AltaVista and Excite are all still live and claim to be indexing and coming up with relevant results. My own personal favourite, long before Google was around, was Dogpile – and even that is still going.
There are also experimental new search engines, each with their own speciality. There’s the ill-fated Cuil that was launched in 2008 by ex-Google employees. It was far too over-hyped, but does integrate quite nicely with social media. It’s definitely one to keep an eye on.
There’s also Wolfram Alpha, a “computational knowledge” search engine that attempts (relatively successfully) to understand the meaning of web content computationally. As an example, you can enter “population of the UK” and it will return information taken from Wikipedia on the population and other information (such as age expectancy etc.) It sounds like a simple idea, but once the meaning of content can be properly understood by a computer (not just matching keywords and phrases) you can start ranking and graphing data much easier. It would be fantastic if this really took off and became more successful.
Simon Davies
SEO Programmer
This SEO news has been brought to you by Just Search; Experts in internet marketing and PPC
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