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- Search Engine
- Software that searches for data based on some criteria. Although search engines have been around for decades, they were brought to the forefront after the Web exploded onto the...
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- Top US search engines in May 2008
- Core Search Entity Apr-08 May-08 Growth Total Core Search 10,582 10,777 2% Google Sites 6,514 6,664 2% Yahoo! Sites 2,159 2,221 3% Microsoft Sites 961 920 -4% AOL LLC 491 486 -1% Ask Network 458 486 6% ...
- Tags: Search Engine, Site, Search, NB
- Blog posts 2008-07-22
- SmartsAutoWeb (exe)
- You can use SmartsAutoWeb to automatically perform repetitive or fiddly tasks on the Internet, saving you time. For example you might want to automatically check out your competitors' prices every day, and have an email or text message sent to you if they change. Or you might want to wrap...
- Tags: Web, Monitor, Search Engine, Quality Componentware, E-mail, Channel Management, Web Site Development, Monitors & Displays, Search, Web Technology, Online Communications, Marketing, Internet, Hardware, Components
- Software downloads 2008-07-18
- Top US search engines in May 2008
- Provider Searches (000) YOY Growth Share of Searches All Search 7,849,553 9.5% 100.0% 1. Google Search 4,654,624 15.4% 59.3% 2. Yahoo! Search 1,328,667 -13.8% 16.9% 3. MSN/Windows Live Search 1,043,848 72.4% 13.3% 4. AOL Search 322,454 15.6% 4.1% ...
- Tags: Search Engine, E-mail Providers, Search, Cloud Computing, Internet, NB
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Leading search engines in May 2008
- Rank Search Engine Volume 1. www.google.com 68.29% 2. search.yahoo.com 19.95% 3. search.msn.com 4.33% 4. www.ask.com 4.23% Source: Hitwise by NB
- Tags: Search Engine, Search, NB
- Blog posts 2008-07-15
- WebSite Auditor (zip)
- WebSite Auditor is a quick and smart on page optimization tool for Web masters and professional SEOs who want to optimize Web pages for top search engine rankings. It analyzes top 10 competitors' on page strategies and creates your personal on page optimization plan based on the best practices in...
- Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine, Web Site, Link-Assistant, WebSite Auditor, Search, Web Site Development, Marketing Research, Internet, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-07-15
- Top US search engines in May 2008
- Search Entity Apr-08 May-08 Growth, MTM Total Core Search 100.0% 100.0% N/A Google 61.6% 61.8% 0.2 Yahoo 20.4% 20.6% 0.2 Microsof 9.1% 8.5% -0.6 AOL LLC 4.6% 4.5% -0.1 Ask Network 4.3% 4.5% 0.2 Source: comScore...
- Tags: Search Engine, ComScore Networks Inc., Search, NB
- Blog posts 2008-07-08
- How dependent are sites on search engines in May 2008
- Category Traffic from search engines Growth of search engine traffic Traffic from Google Growth of traffic from Google Health and Medical 45.76% 3% 30.86% 5% Travel 34.81% 11% 24.26% 21% Shopping and Classifieds 25.48% 2% 16.84% 8% News and Media 21.70% 7%...
- Tags: Search Engine, Search, NB
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- Top search engines in UK in May 2008
- Domain May-08 Apr.-08 May-07 Googl 87.30% 87.69% 78.28% Yahoo! 4.09% 4.01% 8.58% Microsoft 3.72% 3.65% 5.46% Ask 3.07% 2.89% 4.96% Source: Hitwise by NB
- Tags: Hitwise, Search Engine, Search, NB
- Blog posts 2008-07-07
- US search engines share in May 2008
- Domain May 2008 Apr 2008 May 2007 www.google.com 68.29% 67.90% 65.13% search.yahoo.com 19.95% 20.28% 20.89% search.msn.com 5.89% 6.26% 7.61% www.ask.com 4.23% 4.17% 3.92% Source: Hitwise by NB
- Tags: Hitwise, Search Engine, Search, NB
- Blog posts 2008-07-06
- Microsoft: Silverlight content is searchable, too
- Microsoft: Silverlight content is searchable, tooYeah it probably willI think that this might give people a certain confidence in Flash over Silverlight only because people don't know that Silverlight has been designed to be searchable from the start.The great thing about Silverlight as you quoted is that search engines don't...
- Tags: SEARCH, Microsoft Silverlight, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-02
- Microsoft: Silverlight content is searchable, too
- When Adobe, Google and Yahoo announced earlier this week that content stored in its Flash file format would be more easily indexable by Google's and Yahoo's search engines, Microsoft was nowhere to be found. It took a while, but I got Microsoft to explain how/why Silverlight already is indexable.... by...
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Search Engine, Microsoft Corp., Flash, Search, Mary Jo Foley
- Blog posts 2008-07-02
- Search-ability in Flash
- Last night Adobe announced that we've given a special version of the Flash Player to Google and Yahoo that will more accurately let them crawl through Flash content. Even though Google has been indexing .SWF files for a while and even been able to pull out some text, they haven't...
- Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Google Inc., Search Engine, Flash, Search, Marketing Research, Marketing, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Adobe makes Flash searchable, crawlable
- It's not gadget news per se, but if you consider Adobe Flash a tool in your arsenal, this is big news. Posted on Slashdot today is news that Adobe has figured out a way to make Flash crawlable by search engines: Today Adobe systems made an...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Search Engine, Shockwave Flash, SWF Specification, Search, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- A boon to the Webtop: Adobe makes indexing Flash in search easier
- It's a big day for rich Internet applications. Why? You can now find these newfangled Web applications a lot easier. Google, Yahoo and Adobe have teamed to make Flash file format content easier to find. Adobe said in a statement Tuesday that it has worked with Google...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Google Inc., Search Engine, Yahoo! Inc., Rich Internet Application, Flash, Search, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Top UK search engines in April 2008
- Property Mar-08 Apr-08 Growth Total Internet 100.0 100.0 0.0 Google Sites 74.4 74.2 -0.2 eBay 5.7 6.0 0.3 Yahoo! Sites 4.4 4.3 -0.1 Microsoft Sites 3.5 3.4 -0.1 Ask Network 2.7 2.7 0.0 Facebook.com 1.7 1.8...
- Tags: Search Engine, Site, Internet, Search, NB
- Blog posts 2008-06-28
- 200,000 sites spreading web malware, China's hosting the most
- Yesterday, the Stopbadware.org initiative released a report entitled "May 2008 Badware Websites Report" summarizing the findings out of analyzing over 200,000 sites spreading malware. With recent data for malicious sites provided by Google's Safe Browsing diagnostic, Stopbadware.org also received responses from affected parties such as Google itself, The Planet, SoftLayer...
- Tags: Web, Search Engine, Malware, Site, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev
- Blog posts 2008-06-24
- Rank Tracker SEO Software (zip)
- Rank Tracker is a must-have rankings checking SEO software product for webmasters and SEOs to monitor their site's positions in 337 search engines. The product checks your rankings in 337 search engines, tracks an unlimited number of sites, keeps history records of rankings fluctuations, draws progress graphs so your site's...
- Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Search Engine, Link-Assistant, Search, Marketing Research, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-06-20
- Top search engines in April 2008
- Provider Searches, 000 Growth Share 1. Google Search 5,109,444 35.4% 62.0% 2. Yahoo! Search 1,446,410 -3.4% 17.5% 3. Live Search 796,038 30.0% 9.7% 4. AOL Search 352,039 -5.1% 4.3% 5. Ask.com Search 171,545 35.8% 2.1% 6. My Web...
- Tags: Search Engine, E-mail Providers, Search, Cloud Computing, Internet, NB
- Blog posts 2008-06-18
- Build a better search engine then what?
- Build a better search engine then what?Monetization is still based on technologyDrawing more traffic, creating higher conversion rate, and so on are still the fundamental that makes better monetization. If sales and relationship is the major problem, I can't imagine Microsoft is weak on that aspect. Instead it is a...
- Tags: SEARCH, conversion rate, search engine
- Discussion threads 2008-06-15
- Build a better search engine then what?
- If you could build a better search engine than Google what would happen to Google? Nothing. GOOG can monetize search better than anybody else. That's what the recent YHOO/GOOG deal is about. Google has the best monetization platform for search...
- Tags: Monetization, Google Inc., Search Engine, Search, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-06-14
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