Competition in the search engine world is fierce and none more fierce than the big three. Google rules the roost by far. There’s no question. MSN runs a distant third. One question floating around is what could MSN do to catch up or perhaps beat Google?
Kosmix Health Search Goes Alpha
A new health topic search engine that will compete with Healthline and established sites like WebMD has launched as an early public test.
Cross-Linking and Search Engine Optimization
Web site designers and developers should know how to create search-engine friendly design templates. However, most Web developers seem to think that if they create a text-link site navigation scheme, then a Web site is automatically search-engine friendly.
‘ePrecis’ Could Tempt Search Engines
One entrant in the quest for the semantic web, ePrecis, could surpass efforts already under way and may be good enough to grab the interest of the big search players.
Online Search To Hit $59.6 Billion in 2008
Research firm Outsell Inc forecasted an impressive $59.6 billion in revenue by 2008 for online search, aggregation and distribution. The report covers major search players including AOL, MSN, Yahoo and Google.
MSN Search Will Do Book Search
Microsoft’s online service will join Yahoo and others in supporting the Open Content Alliance and launch MSN Book Search.
Yahoo Adds Trip Planner To Travel Search
With the leaves changing color, many feel the need to get out of the office and get on the road; Yahoo’s newest product lets users get their trips planned using its services.
Designing Your Site For The Search Engines
When you design a website, it’s easy to focus on what your visitors are going to see. What you have to realise, though, is that you’re going to have another kind of visitor with a completely different agenda: they’re not going to be looking at your pretty logo and they’re not going to be passing judgement on your background colour. What they’re looking for is the content and structure of your page.
The Search That’s Better Than Search?
Every so often, it dawns on you that the whole Internet environment has traveled too far from that quiet, information-oriented era that got you so interested in the medium in the first place.
Search Engines Should Dump “Legacy” Products
For advertisers alone, especially on the Yahoo side, there is such a confusing array of product options and features that it is in fact becoming difficult to know how to spend.