‘Search Engine Results’ Category Archive

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Excerpt: AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript And XML)  is a combination of  Javascript and XML to process information without having to refresh the page. It is used increasingly in web applications and may websites and  search engines have great difficulty crawling  websites that use AJAX because they do not execute  Javascript. With this being a modern and useful feature for visitors on websites, there is a considerable need to be able to crawl this information. Sites that use AJAX produces URLs that look like, http://www.example.com/#state1 everything after the octothorpe is meaningless to a crawler. Google have been researching methods to crawl AJAX sites and have developed…

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Excerpt: The recent Vince update to Google, where generic terms become associated to brands even if they are not specifically targeting a keyword has caused much consternation in the SEO community. In the US the changes were noticed as far back as Feb. Aaron Wall has shown some evidence for brands being pushed up by the change when it happened in the US. The update was supposed to have be rolled out to the UK on Sunday, 29th June, 2009. Looking at the search results in the UK for generic items there is scarce evidence for a preference for well known brand…

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Excerpt: Obviously, Google and Bing are competing search engines. I am still trying with Bing and so far  it has been all good. Fast and accurate results. I just though it would be fun to have a look to see what the search engines have to say about each other. Firstly in Google trends we can see the interest in Bing. Quite a lot of interest. How about a search for Bing in Google? This returns These results are showing that Google does not have much interest in Bing the search engine. Only a few results, much preferring to directly my search to Bing Crosby …

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Excerpt: Wolfram Alpha (WA) was launched on  18th May. The reaction has been rather harsh in general because of the way it is touted as a Google killer but this really is to misunderstand what it is. It is not a search engine as such it is a more repository for facts with an advanced calculator or a Turing machine. It will have a stab at finding information but it is not a thinking machine that knows everything. I think that that many people were expecting an omniscient computer like Douglas Adams’ Deep Thought.  WA it is somewhat less powerful. It hasn’t…

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Excerpt: Choose your key phrases correctly and the rest of your SEO will follow. If you choose keywords that are too competitive it will take a long time to and maybe you will never achieve the results that you were hoping. Keywords that are not competitive don’t receive many searches. Tools such as WordTracker and Google’s Keyword Tool can help you gauge which keywords you want to optimise for. But there are other ways of finding good candidates for keywords.  For example suppose you have to optimise for Fire Sprinker Systems, you might choose a broad range of keywords ranging from the…