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Archive for March, 2007

Parking through Web and Mobile

Posted by Ravi on March 26th, 2007 filed in Search Engines, Uncategorized, research, search technology, web usability

You’re in a rush, you need to find a parking spot – and there’s nothing available! Well, how about finding a parking spot on your mobile phone; or maybe even reserving a spot from home via your browser? This kind of Web-based car parking solution is in its infancy, but we think this solution is [...]

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Web directories help in finding authority websites

Posted by Ravi on March 20th, 2007 filed in web directories

For a while it seemed that the aged of the Web directory was over. Why should you use human edited Web site catalogs, when the robot driven search engines provided just as relevant search results?
Well, the web directories are back, partly because the regular search engines value input from human edited sites. That is: sites [...]

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Technorati vs Google blog search

Posted by Ravi on March 5th, 2007 filed in blog search engine, google blogsearch, technorati

Technorati, the leading blog search company, had for the first time fallen behind Google BlogSearch in traffic. The reason was Google’s new strategy of pushing Google BlogSearch on the Google News homepage. A quite unfair competition for Technorati, but this was an expected and very natural move for Google.

The Technorati vs Google question is [...]

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The mystery of keyword density

The mere introduction of keyword density concept led to the destruction of unique content all across the globe. Without any regard to flow or customer experience, website owners around the world began shoving keyphrases into their copy like wild men. The results have been disastrous! Otherwise wonderful content has been utterly destroyed. This slaughter of [...]

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Yahoo’s site Indexing filters

Posted by Ravi on March 4th, 2007 filed in Uncategorized, research, search engine spiders, yahoo

Why does Yahoo index only few pages of the site despite it being a popular site that does well in all other search engines?
For Yahoo this is the typical sign of a ban. Go over everything on the site. Pay special attention to any linking that might appear to be the least bit dubious; Y! [...]

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