‘Search Engines’ 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…

Playing with Bing still. One of the things we use Google for is to find the pages from a single web site. In Google we can use the site:example.com query modifier to return the pages that have been indexed by Google for the domain example.com. Live did not have this functionality but Bing appears to have the site: command.

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Excerpt: Important news from Matt Cutts, Google’s head of Web Spam, who said at a question and answer session at SMX Advanced conference yesterday that PageRank sculpting was no longer an effective technique. For those that are unfamiliar with the term, PageRank sculpting is the process of using the rel=”nofollow” attribute on your least important page links, such as the terms and conditions, privacy policy and registration pages. These pages have a purpose when the visitor is at the site but they unlikely to be the reason a visitor come to the site. Using the nofollow attribute on the links to these…

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Excerpt: You may have seen that Microsoft has re-branded its live search as Bing.com. My first impressions on the name and the design are pretty good. It has a crisp fresh design and  looks a lot better than the tired MSN, Hotmail design which quite frankly after such a long time was just annoying. Bing is a better name. To me it is an onomatopoeia; the sound of an answer found. Depending on which country you access Bing in you will see a different background  and it seems that we also get a different background every day. While the look and feel is…

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Excerpt: Adding an image to a blog post can add interest and help get the point across effectively and can make a post look more attractive to visitors. Finding the exactly the right image takes imagination flare and a knowledge of copyright restrictions. There are many times where the image you want to use is subject to copyright and cannot be used. You can now cut out your frustration by using Yahoo’s creative commons image filter. Creative commons is a licensing which allows use of the copyright owners work under certain restrictions. Creative Commons license fall into one of four different types: Attribution…