Comments on: The Changing Face Of Search Engines http://iface.wordpress.com/2006/05/24/the-changing-face-of-search-engines/ Software For Business, By Design Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:11:19 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Lorelle on WordPress » The Changing Face of Search Engines: Try Not Searching Google for a Change http://iface.wordpress.com/2006/05/24/the-changing-face-of-search-engines/#comment-538 Lorelle on WordPress » The Changing Face of Search Engines: Try Not Searching Google for a Change Thu, 01 Jun 2006 17:35:01 +0000 https://iface.wordpress.com/2006/05/24/the-changing-face-of-search-engines/#comment-538 [...] Abhijit Nadgouda has written another awesome article, “The Changing Face Of Search Engines”, explaining why you should consider trying a non-Google search engine for a change. Still, lot of quests end in frustration and dissatisfaction, sometimes because of the user’s mistakes or sometimes because the expected information is either never thrown up or are buried in the eternal search result pages or sometimes it is simply inconvenience. There are some new entrants in the search engine domain with their own ideas to solve these problems. They claim they are better, some are, and some are still proving. [...] [...] Abhijit Nadgouda has written another awesome article, “The Changing Face Of Search Engines”, explaining why you should consider trying a non-Google search engine for a change. Still, lot of quests end in frustration and dissatisfaction, sometimes because of the user’s mistakes or sometimes because the expected information is either never thrown up or are buried in the eternal search result pages or sometimes it is simply inconvenience. There are some new entrants in the search engine domain with their own ideas to solve these problems. They claim they are better, some are, and some are still proving. [...]

]]> By: Abhijit Nadgouda http://iface.wordpress.com/2006/05/24/the-changing-face-of-search-engines/#comment-485 Abhijit Nadgouda Sat, 27 May 2006 04:57:56 +0000 https://iface.wordpress.com/2006/05/24/the-changing-face-of-search-engines/#comment-485 Hi Lorelle, Thanks for the comment. Yes, it will be interesting to see if too many out-going tag links divert the webcrawler. However, I would really like if we didn't have to mark the tags :-). The author should be able to provide something to reflect the whole scheme/context/subject of the article rather than keywords/tags. Hi Lorelle,

Thanks for the comment.

Yes, it will be interesting to see if too many out-going tag links divert the webcrawler.

However, I would really like if we didn’t have to mark the tags :-). The author should be able to provide something to reflect the whole scheme/context/subject of the article rather than keywords/tags.

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://iface.wordpress.com/2006/05/24/the-changing-face-of-search-engines/#comment-463 Lorelle VanFossen Wed, 24 May 2006 13:51:18 +0000 https://iface.wordpress.com/2006/05/24/the-changing-face-of-search-engines/#comment-463 Excellent, as usual. The only point I'd like to make is that you say Sphere does not use tags. Well, it doesn't recognize tags as "tags" but does recognize the words in the links as words. Because they are usually (but not always) reflective of the keyword content and categories of the post, they are put into the keyword pool. They aren't ignored, or used as tags but are used as keywords. Tags that link, as you are using, to Technorati or other offsite content rather than onsite content, help search engines follow those leads those sites, which helps them gather more information into their database, which speeds up collection of material. I would be interested to know if such offsite links could convince a webcrawler to leave your site faster if they meet enough offsite links before they get to your intrasite links found in the sidebar and elsewhere. You've listed several search engines I love working with, and a few new ones I'm eager to try. Thanks for the great work! Excellent, as usual.

The only point I’d like to make is that you say Sphere does not use tags. Well, it doesn’t recognize tags as “tags” but does recognize the words in the links as words. Because they are usually (but not always) reflective of the keyword content and categories of the post, they are put into the keyword pool. They aren’t ignored, or used as tags but are used as keywords.

Tags that link, as you are using, to Technorati or other offsite content rather than onsite content, help search engines follow those leads those sites, which helps them gather more information into their database, which speeds up collection of material. I would be interested to know if such offsite links could convince a webcrawler to leave your site faster if they meet enough offsite links before they get to your intrasite links found in the sidebar and elsewhere.

You’ve listed several search engines I love working with, and a few new ones I’m eager to try. Thanks for the great work!

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