What You Need To Know

Search Engines

"Search" is a term defined as: To make a thorough, careful examination of; Look over in order to find something; To come to know.

"Engine" is defined as: A machine, appliance, or tool that is a means of accomplishment; An instrument which produces an output.

Many tools, machines and inventions have had huge impacts on society. The Internet itself is becoming the most influential force the world has ever seen. The Internet is basically a network of information that grows by leaps and bounds every day. This abundance of information is why Search Engines were created. Information or data is useless unless it can be managed. A search engine allows people to find information on the Internet.

In terms of business, information is everything. A company should be concerned the most about its information, the information it sends out to the public or its customers and the information it receives from the same sources. Whether its marketing, advertising, sales and even internal process, you can measure the success of the process or function with the Internet. And compare the Internet with the cost versus value proposition; hands down the Internet should be a company’s primary source of information. The Internet by far provides a company with the most value than any other asset.

Search Engines Explained

What is a search engine? What is all the buzz going on about searching the web and why do I care? What can a search engine do for me? If you do not know the answers to these questions, you will after reading our website.

Website ROI

Have you spent lots of money on your website and have not seen the success everyone said you would? Are you wondering why your website is not performing as well as you had hoped? Well, join the club. Most every web site can produce the results your looking for, but you need to learn how to achieve those results. Chances are, your website has major problems, which is causing your site to perform below you expectations.

Search Engine News

Footnote.com and National Archives Release New Vietnam War Collection Footnote.com has announced a new addition to its Vietnam War Collection: Army Photos and Unit Service Awards. As you may know Footnote.com is usually a subscription service but the company is making its Vietnam War collection free for the month of February. You can access it at http://go.footnote.com/vietnam/. The Army Photos are directly available at [...] Bing Ties Up Tighter with Facebook Bing announced last week several initiatives that will tie it in tighter with Facebook. Facebook recently had its sixth anniversary, which is pretty old in Internet terms, but has gotten really hot in the last couple of years. Bing is the search provider on Facebook. In other words, when you run a search on Facebook [...] Directory of Cloud Computing Companies I thought the Internet was the Internet, but you can also consider the Internet as “the Cloud”. And there’s a lot going on in “the Cloud,” from applications to hosting to content delivery systems. Several companies provide products and services to the Cloud, and Cloudbook has a directory of over 1200 of them. (If, like [...] Specialty Calendar Data — Get Sunrises and Sunsets After my writeup about Calendar Labs last week, I got a note from reader MF about Sunrise Sunset Calendars, available at http://www.sunrisesunset.com/. This site has apparently been around for years and years, but either I hadn’t heard about it before or I’d heard about it and forgotten. The site allows you to create your own [...] Huge Archive of Ornithological Magazines from New York A hat tip and block of suet to Zen Birdfeeder, which tipped me off to the new release from the New York State Ornithological Association. The NYSOA has released its quarterly journal, The Kingbird, as a free searchable archive. The current archive contains 228 issues that span from 1950-2007 — that’s about 8 million words [...] Harvard Law School Library Releases Internment Camp Papers Archive The Harvard Law School Library announced earlier this week the release of the Maurice Ettinghausen collection of Ruhleben civilian internment camp papers, 1914-1937. An overview of the collection is available at http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/deepLink?_collection=oasis&uniqueId=law00029. The papers were produced when the German government established an internment camp at a horse racetrack outside of Berlin to incarcerate male foreign [...] A Search Engine With Ergonomics Aimed at Older Adults Sunmee Huh took a Google Custom Search engine and tweaked it to make it more ergonomic for older users and a little less confusing to novice searchers. The result is called Good50 and it’s available at http://www.good50.com. While it’s not quite perfect — some of the functionality doesn’t work for me — it’s a good [...] Twitter Rolls Out Local Trending for Some Areas Twitter is interesting when looked at in a global sense, but even more interesting when you can delineate and narrow down what’s being tweeted. You can do that of course by searching, and more and more you can do it geographically. Twitter is helping that somewhat with their new “Local Trending” service, but unfortunately the [...] Google Opens Up Its Social Search Google announced last week that its social search experiment, which it opened up for limited use last year, is now more widely available. You can read the initial October 2009 announcement at http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/introducing-google-social-search-i.html and get more details on social search at http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=165228. Google’s Social Search features are basically built around what Google considers to be [...] Startpage/Ixquick Offers Anonymous Browsing Web Proxy Startpage.com, which you might know better under the name Ixquick (it changed its name last summer), last week launched a proxy service that allows you to browse pages in search results in privacy. As you might remember, Startpage does not record IP address or search term details of its users. (You can get more details [...]