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Oriango.com is a Dictionary Style Search Engine. With Oriango you can perform searches, add and share the Web alphabetically. read more »
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I'm doing a talk at Gnomedex about how search continues to be part of our everyday lives -- and the issues that come with it, such as privacy. This post looks at some of those issues. I'm hoping to spark some discussion that will feed into my talk. read more »
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Here is Joost's guide 'how to provide usable WP-SERPs', titled
"Make WordPress' search function suck Less". This tutorial will make your readers happy - at least if you invest the time to tweak your blog accordingly. read more »
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Rand pits Cuil against today's leading search engines to determine which, overall, is the best. The results weren't as predictable as he'd thought they would be. read more »
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Previously I've covered what I dubbed Search 3.0, how search engines have evolved toward blending vertical or specialized results into "regular" web listings. Today, the step beyond that: Search 4.0, how personal, social and human-edited data can be read more »
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Mahalo pages must be just packed full of useful information, because such a flamboyant crusader for the anti-spam cause would ever allow his own masterpiece to look like a crappy MFA site which would be improved by a $2 article about GTA4 cheats out read more »
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Ann Smarty asks what should the image search look like? The image search giants (Google images, Yahoo images and even Flickr) represent rather a poor example of image search usability (to my mind). Luckily we have a number of good examples (still no read more »
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Online reputation management issues can really affect a persons life as there are a lot of ways your reputation can be damaged. Glen shows examples where women have taken reputation management into their own hands after their men went looking for ot read more »
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If you haven't heard of human powered search engine, Stumpedia, you might want to give it a whirl. It is essentially a human-powered search engine with a social aspect to it. Stumpedia allows content producers to submit and profit from their work an read more »
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There are 3 major parts to what a search engine does. What are some of the problems facing crawling programs? read more »
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Stumpedia.com - A community built and driven social search engine that relies on human participation to index, organize, and review the world wide web. It will not depend on bots, algorithms, or company insiders to make decisions on the relevance an read more »
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Webmasters, SEO's, Site authors need to understand the crawling process to better optimize their site's content. This is a comparison of Hoobastank's "Crawling in the Dark" to the crawling process. read more »
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This is one of the simplest, yet most effective ways I've seen the Long Tail concept explained graphically. read more »
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After a month of delay, China’s top search engine Baidu finally launches its Japanese portal. read more »
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With more universal search results showing up in Google and the other engines, the importance of optimizing for universal search will be one of the main areas of focus for online marketers in 2008. Having said that, how can site owners and businesse read more »
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Wikia Search might suck in SEOs eyes but what about the average user say an 11 year old? 10 Users try out the new search engine with fairly obvious results! read more »
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"If Search Wikia ultimately does gain traction and can live up to its guiding principles, we may yet see the emergence of a truly useful alternative search service. Just don't hold your breath for that to happen any time soon." read more »
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Bill Slawski discusses the prevalence of malicious software and the percentage of pages that deliver these foul attacks.

Are there reliable applications to identify embedded malicious code on web pages? read more »
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With the right touch, keyword research can provide insight into our values, our culture, what we like, what we dislike and the ‘human condition’ as a whole. read more »
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Danny does a great rundown of how vertical search is being integrated into the core search services. read more »
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Black Friday, like many other traditional shopping trends, has made its way from the brick and mortar chaos to online shopping chaos. Hitwise reports that this year, websites and online stores advertising their Black Friday sales online has grown 45 read more »
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Excellent thread at Cre8asite Forums asked if SEOs make for better searchers.

I thinks o. read more »
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Is it time for a new search engine? Who could actually compete with G? Why, Danny Sullivan, of course! read more »
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Go beyond Google and get vertical. These specialized search sites will help you find the business information you need--fast. read more »
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For the past few months I've been using a Netvibes widget that allows you to compare image search results in a nice AJAX interface. Ask is the clear winner on a search for "blue buy now button". read more »
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