Search Engine
August 15th, 2008 at 02:38pm
Under SEO+ Search Engine
In summary, Google Insights is a free keyword research tool that allows you to explore Google Trends data by subject category or to compare different locations.
“With Google Insights for Search, you can compare search volume patterns across specific regions, categories, and time frames.”
In key phrase research, you are concerning quite a number of factors. These 3 things - category you are in, seasonal trend, and target audience, would be presented to you in Google Insights and it has certainly made SEO a lot easier.
If you have a new product and are looking at entering the market, you should surely start your research through Google Insights.
By Leo
July 30th, 2008 at 01:34pm
Under Search Engine+ Wiki
Wikipedia is a great invention. You can pretty much find everything on there.
The traditional way (for me) is to Google for something I want. And it is very likely that a Wiki entry is listed within the top 5 results.
Apparently the new Cuil search engine displays a lot of Wiki results as well.
However, do you know that there is a search engine dedicated to search only the Wikipedia?
Powerset is designed just for this purpose.
Powerset enables you to:
1. Discover Factz
For most people, places and things, Powerset shows a summary of Factz from across Wikipedia.
2. Unlock Meaning
Powerset finds articles related to the meaning of your query. And sometimes even direct answers.
3. Scan Summaries
Powerset summarizes pages for easy browsing, with tools that follow you as you read and explore.
It is of course easy to use - type in a search query, click ‘enter’, and there you go.
By Leo
July 29th, 2008 at 11:43am
Under Search Engine
Recently launched is the new search engine - Cuil.
Founded by an ex-Google employee, Cuil claims to provide a better searching environment for internet users. In fact Cuil has indexed 121,617,892,992 pages at the time of writing - about 3 times more than Google.
But more pages indexed doesn’t really mean better. It is more important that when people are searching, they would be able to find what they want.
As opposed to Google, Cuil uses an all-black design on the homepage. After typing the search query, if you are lucky enough not to have the “server overload” error, then you would be presented a search result page, white in background, having a layout like a news / magazine website. Each entry would have a thumbnail beside it.
I searched for “best web ezy” and I have half of the results leading to this blog, another half leading to BlogCatalogue. The thumbnails are not screenshots - some seems like they are randomly generated!
It also has a search result (indeed, #2 result) which leads to a page that I took down about 1/2 year ago.
And I cannot find information on how to submit websites to this search engine. I searched for “submit to cuil” and I got presented results which are absolutely irrelevant.
I guess it might still take some time for Cuil to make things right. I am looking forward to a better Cuil.
By Leo
July 9th, 2008 at 09:59am
Under Search Engine
A few fun facts about Google (Originated here):
The great search engine is named Google, being a play on the word googol which refers to the 1 followed by one hundred zeroes. It reflects the company’s mission to organize the unlimited amount of information on the internet.
Many people know this already - Google was started as a research project at Stanford University. It was created by PhD students Larry Page & Sergey Brin at 24 & 23 years old respectively.
Google’s indexed webpages is the most in the world. It often only take Google <1/2 a second to commence a search in its collection of information.
Search requests are all over the world including Antarctica.
Apart from English, users can search in 35 different languages.
** Specially for Star Trekk fans - Google Klingon! **
“Googlers” refers to the nearly 3,000 staff in Google (is that all?) and “Googleplex” refers to the Google headquarter.
For the handheld devices fans, Google translates HTML webpages into WAP / i-mode phone formats. “Predictive text input” is also available!
Google Groups have got more than 845 million Usenet messages - the world’s largest collection of messages. That’s equivalent of more than a terabyte of human conversation.
“PageRank”, although associated with the ranking of a webpage, is actually named after Larry Page, not the function.
Who works in Google? Former neurosurgeon, rocket scientist, chef for George Clinton……
The above are from Google Press Room. Surely there are more of it:
The “I’m feeling lucky” button was nearly never used. But it was a comfort button.
The homepage got pretty much nothing on it because the original founder just want a simple interface and he didn’t know HTML.
The “©2008 Google” was added just to show the users that the page has finished loading. In the early stage of user tests, people were sitting in front of the screen and waited for a long time. They were asked why they have to wait and they said they thought it is still loading l0l
By Leo
June 12th, 2008 at 08:41pm
Under Search Engine
Do you remember the days that you have to type all commands in DOS to get your computer going? There was no mouse at that time. Only a keyboard.
Have you ever dreamed of using DOS to search? Now you have the chance - the (Unofficial) Google Shell provides you the opportunity to search the internet like, when you are using DOS.
Open the page and perform a search by typing “web [search query]” to perform a search. To learn more functions, type “h” or “help”.
If you are feeling lucky, type “l [search query]” or “lucky [search query]“, which works just as the same as the “I’m feeling lucky” button.
Currently the shell only displays 4 results to ease server load.
By Leo
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