5 Easy Ways To Make A Customized Search Engine
Returning visitors are an important part of a successful web site.
And if you give them something special, some boon that your competitors
don't offer, chances are your visitors will come back. Building your
blog or web site and researching your topic you have most likely gained
knowledge that your users could benefit from. Why not offer them a
customized...
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9 Ways of Optimizing your Site for Image Search
All the major search engines have their own image search engines.
These may actually generate a lot of traffic. Here’s how you attract
image search visitors to your site.People may have different
reasons for using image search engines. There are teenagers looking for
pictures of their teen idols, iTunes users looking for an obscure cover
of a 1960′s album, and...
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On the Google Jagger Algo Update
Google does minor algorithm updates almost on a monthly basis. Once in a while, it implements a major algorithm update.If
there is one thing search engine marketers and website owners fear, it
is a major algorithm update, especially by Google. Well, much as we may
like it not to happen, its here. Google has recently done a major
algorithm update,...
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Using Press Releases In Search Engine Marketing
Newsworthy press releases help your business. What if you could
get traffic and better rankings, too? The four easy steps outlined in
this article help you get results.First, let's discuss why it's important.The
standard method for press releases is pretty simple. You write your
press release on something newsworthy -- a new product launch,
announcement of new service, awards, or...
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The Size Of The World Wide Web
One of Pandia’s most popular articles ever is On the number of Web
sites in the world from 2000. This proves that many of us find the
tremendous growth of the Web both fascinating and — maybe — a bit
intimidating.In 2000 the size of the Web was reckoned to be some 7 million unique sites, a 50 percent increase...
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Spammers Hijack Web Site Listings In Google
The search engines are constantly bothered by spammers, i.e. webmasters who try to manipulate search engine results to gain more traffic. Earlier this year Pandia reported on one culprit who had actually copied large portions of the Pandia site and presented it as his own.This is, of course, a problem in its own right, as he or she is stealing...
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Spokeo, The Big Brother Of Social Networking
Spokeo is a new kind of profile aggregator. It gathers information
from social networking sites, but instead of aggregating info from your
various profiles, like MySpace, Last.fm or Ma.gnolia, it scoops up info
on all of your contacts from a wide variety of sites.The
people at Spokeo call their service a friend tracker. Here’s how it
works: You provide it...
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Top 5 Social Bookmarking Services
If you spend a lot of time online or do any kind of web based
research, chances are the Bookmarks menu in your browser is no longer
sufficient for you. If you browse the web from more than one computer,
storing bookmarks in the browser is downright counterproductive. It is
time to choose an online bookmarking tool. Here are Pandia’s...
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Google: One Million Servers And Counting
Gartner reckons that Google now make use of more than 1 million
servers, spitting out search results, images, videos, emails and ads.Google’s
sucess is the end result of a complex set of innovation processes.
There is the science driven pagerank algorithm, of course., which so far
has guaranteed pretty good search results — attracting an obscene
number of searchers.The Adsense...
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The Search Engine Scene In 2015
Pandia is currently celebrating its 8 anniversary; our site is a very
old one in Internet terms. However, we are not going to mark this
occasion by writing long articles about what has happened since December
1998. Instead we are going to tell you what is going to happen during
the next eight years.Due to a freak accident, Pandia's
newsletter...
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Where To Search For Daily News
Having found Pandia's resource section for
news searching, you have already come a long way towards accessing high
quality news articles on the Web. However, if you cannot find what you
are looking for here, there are other options.Top News Sites There are several
decent news search engines on the Web, and some of them are listed
below. A news...
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Free People Search Engines And Email Address Finders
People Search gives you the best people finders on the Net, all on one page.You
may perfectly well use ordinary search engines to find people on the
Web. You will soon find, however, that using one of the Net's many
people search engines will be more effective.Furthermore,
online "white pages" will often give you data you will not find on...
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Top Radio and Music Streaming Sites
The Internet can offer you a large number of online radio stations and music streaming services. You can listen to radio or your favorite music track on your computer, smart phone or tablet wherever you are.Pandia has gathered some of the best radio, podcast and music directories and search engines available.Most of these services are available as regular web sites,...
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The Q-card Collection For Search Engines
Advanced search query syntax and rulesIf you know a bit
about advanced searching, you will benefit greatly from using the Pandia
Q-cards. We have made special pages for some of the major search
engines and directories that sum up their features and search syntax.
Examples show you how to formulate queries.If you are a newcomer
to advanced searching, take a...
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Fast With New Multimedia Search Engine
Fast Search & Transfer has announced the launch of what it calls
the worlds largest multimedia search engine, an index of over 66 million
multimedia files fetched from Fast's 575 million URL Web search
catalog."With this new release, we have pushed beyond simply
growing the catalog," says Stephen Baker, FAST product manager for
Multimedia. "This catalog includes advanced features such...
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