Searching for a Better Way: Part 4 – Natural Language Searching Phrasing web searches in the form of a question is this week’s topic. Since Yahoo!’s IPO, we’ve been knee-deep in company names with...
Searching for a Better Way: Part 5 – Experts Sites These days, it seems, someone is always trying to teach us something. Turn on your TV, and someone we don’t know personally is trying...
Andrew reviews the latest web searching innovations in six areas: Popularity engines, better meta search, meaning-based search, natural language interfaces, expert search and pay-per-click search engines. Read below to find a summary of each...
Optimizing About.com’s 800 guide sites was a daunting challenge for search engine marketing guru Marshall Simmonds. He is helping About guides make peace with search engine spiders. One of the most popular online destinations today is...
What’s in a directory? Some of the hottest debates about web search revolve around criticisms of the Yahoo! directory. Often these are general complaints: link rot; difficulty in getting considered for a listing; the inability of...
The Open Directory is fast challenging Looksmart and Yahoo as one of the most important means of searching for web content by category. Consequently, it has become a...
Last time, Andrew reviewed the non-Hotmail and non-Yahoo Mail web-based e-mail options (are there really any other viable options, though?). This time, I take a look at the leaders in this arena: Hotmail and Yahoo Mail. 1. Hotmail (MSN Mail)...