Friday, January 9, 2009

Google-Pigeons Attack!

Much though most humanity don't understand how search-engines like Yahoo in truth office (mainly on account of they keep their mathematical algorithm a closely-guarded secret), community DO know that if they type something into the search-engine's search-box, they will get a list of somewhat relevant websites to their search. However, the key locution there is "somewhat"! Why? Well, if you've ever used a search-engine like Yahoo or Ask.com, then you already know that most of the results that are returned from a search are less than perfect. It's also the argument that there are still diverse search-engine companies and not just one. If any ONE search-engine becomes so perfect that all of the results is ever returns are EXACTLY what EVERYBODY ever searches for, then there will be no want for any other search-engine companies. You see, most of the info found on websites is found as what's termed organic results. Yes, there are plenty of websit
e links that are sponsored (other companies are paying to be shown on certain results pages; in Google, these are on the top and down the right-hand side and they are clearly marked as 'Sponsored Links'), however by far the most results returned for any search are organic. "Organic results" simply process that the results returned aren't being paid for. The search engines find these websites, which could be weblogs, convention promotion sites, article sites or graceful much anything else, using their own peculiar guidelines. Each has their own course of categorizing and ranking each site and they assign these guidelines into their software algorithm (a string of instructions) that they then utilize to crawl the Globe Wide Web. A more detailed explanation of how Google gathers it's news can be found by typing "pigeon rank" into Google itself (you'll enjoy this immensely! ). So with search-engines you get results that are not only less than perf
ect, nevertheless you often get results that are totally unrelated to what you're looking for. This might be in that of the road you typed in your search-term (otherwise known as your keyword) or it may be since you simply misspelled something. It might also be by reason of the search-engine you're using isn't very good. To prove this, operate your favorite search-engine. Type in a search-term and then go to about folio 5 of the search-results. You'll see plenty of websites here that have brief or no bearing on your search-term. The words you typed will be there, on the other hand most of the sites from about episode 5 onwards have no relevance to what you searched for. Directories differ from search-engines in that they are edited by humans, rather than a personal computer program called a crawler. Directories are much more like a traditional directory like Yellow Pages or any other phone book. There are literally hundreds of directories these days a
nd more are being created every year. One of the most popular ones is the Open Directory, otherwise known as DMOZ. Full text: http://computerandtechnologies.com/search-engine-optimization/news_2009-01-09-19-00-03-159.html

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