That’s my opinion, anyway — in general, Yellow Page search sites aren’t very accurate, and don’t have great results. Maybe the Yellow Page publishers don’t want these sites to be very good; after all, usage of the print version is declining. Dick Larkin reports on how other search engines are getting into local search.
Internet Search
Overcoming Googlification
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Posted in Internet Search
Gary Price has an excellent article on WebMastery — What Google Teaches Us Has Nothing to do with Searching. As I say here again and again, while Google is a terrific research tool, providing arguably the most relevant results of any current search engine, it’s not the only search solution. This article is directed…
Sinister conspiracy, or just good website housekeeping?
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
There has been some talk lately about whether the White House has been preventing portions of its website from being indexed by search engines. Danny Sullivan points to a good explanation of the goings-on here. Whether it’s being done intentionally or not, it’s an interesting lesson on the inner workings of how search
Search Engine Update
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Posted in Search Engines
Greg Notess helps us keep up with the search engines with his Internet Search Engine Update.
More Efficient Searching
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Posted in Internet Search
Daniel Bazac has a nice tutorial on Searching the Web more efficiently.
Searching *** asterisks
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
This month’s Online Magazine has a great article from Greg Notess on Unusual Power Web Searching Commands, including using asterisks to enable proximity searching in Google (among other things).
The month in search engine news
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Posted in Search Engines
Just like clockwork, Chris Sherman provides his Search Engine Milestones for October 2003.
Too strong for its own good
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines, Software
The New York Times profiled the Google Toolbar yesterday, specifically discussing the utility’s pop-up blocker and its apparent super-strength. The article is right — the pop-up blocker is very strong, blocking nearly 100% of the popups I have encountered. In fact, the tracker tells me I have blocked 4,028 pop-ups since I installed the toolbar…
Google Goodies
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Posted in Search Engines
The October Pandia Post offers up some hidden features of Google, many of which you may already know about from reading this blog. They are still good to know.
Making the Invisible Web Visible
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Posted in Internet Search
In my seminars, I tell people that the best way to find resources on the Invisible Web is to “know where you need to go before you need to go there.” A little counter-intuitive, but it’s true. Now, researchers in England are developing a technology that will allow users to search for something without knowing…