Search Engine Relationship Chart
I love the layout of the legend, but it could cause problems for people who are on dial-up. For dial-up users the page will take awhile to load and some of the images may not even load. In terms of navigation, it gives a useful layout and relationship of whatever search engine I want to use. It's also interesting to see what search engines are directly connected to Google and what powers them.
Facts
Google: The web crawler used by Google only views the visible text on webpages. The Meta description and keywords don't have much influence on Google's rankings and to be listed in Google's directory you have to submit your website to the Open Directory.
I thought Google thrived on keywords, which is the main way for people to navigate and find websites so this is news to me. I think only viewing the visible text on webpages is helpful because if one doesn't put keywords to be searched then the webpages will show up anyway just with the text on the page. I have a lot of text on my webpages so it makes things easier for me if I forget to put in keywords to be searched.
Yahoo!: Yahoo! is the leader in traffic, advertising, household and business user reach. Yahoo! has both a human-edited directory and a spider based index. Sites are evaluated by Yahoo! editors, who visit and evaluate user suggestions and decide where the sites belong.
I honestly don't think these facts will optimize my website, the human interaction and editing might actually stop websites from showing up in search results. I'm not saying technology is flawless and doesn't have glitches, but humans make more mistakes than a computer would. Human interaction could definitely intervene with website displays.
Ask.com: Previously known as AskJeeves.com. It is a question based search engine, instead of searching for just words or phrases, which is unique. It's powered by Teoma.com which measures the authority as well as the popularity of websites. It states that it's a no free Add page URL, but it crawls the web so if links are pointing to your website then the website will come up automatically.
I think the automatic URL find is very helpful, this also makes things easier without putting in keywords.
Facts
Google: The web crawler used by Google only views the visible text on webpages. The Meta description and keywords don't have much influence on Google's rankings and to be listed in Google's directory you have to submit your website to the Open Directory.
I thought Google thrived on keywords, which is the main way for people to navigate and find websites so this is news to me. I think only viewing the visible text on webpages is helpful because if one doesn't put keywords to be searched then the webpages will show up anyway just with the text on the page. I have a lot of text on my webpages so it makes things easier for me if I forget to put in keywords to be searched.
Yahoo!: Yahoo! is the leader in traffic, advertising, household and business user reach. Yahoo! has both a human-edited directory and a spider based index. Sites are evaluated by Yahoo! editors, who visit and evaluate user suggestions and decide where the sites belong.
I honestly don't think these facts will optimize my website, the human interaction and editing might actually stop websites from showing up in search results. I'm not saying technology is flawless and doesn't have glitches, but humans make more mistakes than a computer would. Human interaction could definitely intervene with website displays.
Ask.com: Previously known as AskJeeves.com. It is a question based search engine, instead of searching for just words or phrases, which is unique. It's powered by Teoma.com which measures the authority as well as the popularity of websites. It states that it's a no free Add page URL, but it crawls the web so if links are pointing to your website then the website will come up automatically.
I think the automatic URL find is very helpful, this also makes things easier without putting in keywords.
posted by Maryam at 12:22 PM
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