New Web Ranking Tool
Published by Picturesque on Tuesday, July 27, 2004 at 4:56 PM.
A new site called Microsoft Watch has a free tool for checking web site statistics. It gives you the Google PR (is this worth anything anymore, but here it is), the Alexa ranking and the number of Yahoo! back links. It even attempts to guess at the number of site visitors a site receives daily. Check it out at Web ranking tool.
BBC Motion Gallery - Search - Advanced Search
Published by Picturesque on Monday, July 26, 2004 at 1:20 PM.
The BBC Movie Gallery is online and searchable with thousands of shots ready for viewing. Click here for more --> BBC Motion Gallery - Search - Advanced Search
AskJeeves Increases Visitors
Published by Picturesque on Friday, July 23, 2004 at 9:50 AM.
AskJeeves has increased the number of visitors to it's search sites by 150 percent from May to June according to comScore Media Metrix. Although still a small search company, this signals that the battle for top dog in the search engine world is far from over reinforcing the idea that SEO work needs to consider all players. AskJeeves also owns Search Holdings a company that owns several portal sites including MyWay, Iwon, Excite and the gateway MySearch. AskJeeves uses the Teoma search engine technolgy.
Audio and Video Search on Google
Published by Picturesque on Friday, July 16, 2004 at 7:12 AM.
According to the New York Post, Google is planning to include the ability to search the Internet for audio and video clips. This is seen as a necessary effort in order for Google to maintain their lead as the head search source.
Currently this type of search is available at AltaVista and AlltheWeb (both owned by Yahoo!) and at AOL.
Currently this type of search is available at AltaVista and AlltheWeb (both owned by Yahoo!) and at AOL.
AskJeeves gets smarter and shows thumbnails of web sites
Published by Picturesque on Tuesday, July 13, 2004 at 10:52 AM.
AskJeeves smart search shows a box with what it guesses to be your primary search target. Rather than weeding through various sites, they hope to hit the nail on the head. If the smart search doesn't work for you, just ignore the box and review the normal listings as before.
The thumbnails feature does what many other sites do now; show you the web page before you click to it. This beta binoculars feature shows the thumbnails when you move the mouse over a special icon, a bit different than the other guys.
The thumbnails feature does what many other sites do now; show you the web page before you click to it. This beta binoculars feature shows the thumbnails when you move the mouse over a special icon, a bit different than the other guys.
HURISEARCH
Published by Picturesque on at 10:49 AM.
HURISEARCH is a HUman RIghts SEARCH engine created by the people of FAST. (The same ones that brought us AllTheWeb.) This project has taken years to assemble and is ready for your research into the arena of human rights. Click here ---> HURISEARCH
Get Your RSS Feed Listed Within Hours at Yahoo in 5 Simple Steps
Published by Picturesque on Tuesday, July 06, 2004 at 1:59 PM.
If you have an RSS feed and you are a paid listing in Yahoo!, you should check out this article on getting your feed listed quickly. If you don't have an RSS feed and you have a news or articles section on your site, it's past time to implement a feed. (Stumped on how to do it? Contact us.) Click here for more...Search Engine News Journal - Get Your RSS Feed Listed Within Hours at Yahoo in 5 Simple Steps
MSN and Yahoo! Present....
Published by Picturesque on at 1:56 PM.
MSN will now let you test drive it's new search engine and Yahoo! has announced a more user friendly search results page.
