So that you can decide just how critical your job hunt is in your total life scheme, let’s put a kind of frame around the importance of the effort ahead.
YouSearched Launches Disability Accessible Search Engine
Claiming to be the world’s first accessible search engine for people with disabilities, YouSearched.com has completed its launch. In an email sent by StepForth, a member of the YouSearched design team, the plans on how the engine achieves its accessibility goals is laid out.
Polish Search Engine NetSprint Launches Search In Lithuania
Following the search engine trend set by Google and perpetuated by competition sweeping the industry, Polish search engine NetSprint has decided on Lithuania as the next area for its operations. The company has launched a search engine for the country with an index of 2.7 million pages or 90% of Lithuanian sites.
FindFoward Search Engine Offering RSS Feeds For Search Results
RSS feeds are in high demand. Having the ability to get live updates to topics of interest is seen as being very desirable. FindFoward has taken this technology usually reserved for news and blog sites and applied it to its SERPs. You can now receive RSS updates on search queries entered into FindFoward.
Search Engine Marketing to the U.S. Hispanic Market
The explosive increase in the U.S. Hispanic population coupled with its increasing purchasing power has companies competing for a larger market share of this largely untapped market. Advertisers spent an estimated $2.8 billion in 2003 to market their products to U.S. Hispanics.
AskJeeves Expands Smart Search To Include Current Movies
The AskJeeves search engine contains a function called smart search. Smart search was designed by Jeeves to offer detailed, relevant information included in search engine responses. AskJeeves has expanded this option to include current movies.
Overture To Launch Local Search Ads
Yesterday’s Piper Jaffray Technology Conference saw Overture discussing its plan for the near future with its search engine advertising business. Among the items discussed by Overture’s General Manager David Karnstedt was the introduction of its local search product this quarter.
Search Optimization With Hyphenated URLs
It’s widely believed that hyphenated urls that include your primary keywords can help you rank higher for those keywords. For my entomological supply site I might create a url like this: Butterfly-Nets.com, especially if I specialize in butterfly nets.
Optimizing Online Catalog Copy for the Search Engines
It only makes sense. You have an e-commerce catalog site. You want lots of visitors to come to your site and buy. The best (and most cost-effective) way to do that is with great search engine placement. However, search engines are text machines, and most catalogs don’t have a lot of text, so herein lies the problem.
Risky Tactics That Lure Search Bots Into Your Site
If you’ve got one or a few pages in Yahoo’s index but are having trouble getting more pages indexed one thing that might work is putting links to your deeper, unindexed pages high in the code of the pages that are indexed.