USA Today gives a "News junkie alert", stating that "Pandia serves up a search engine that spits back headlines, summaries and links to articles from some of the best news sites on the Net."

Visit the Pandia Newsfinder, our gateway to news resources!

The Pandia Post Newsletter No. 20, January 2004, part 3

Recent Pandia articles

The future of search engine technology

(January 28 2004) "Instead of looking at what will happen this year, perhaps we should look at what must happen in the search engine space if Google, Yahoo and MSN are truly able to revolutionize search and enhance the user experience."

Andy Beal takes a look at radical new search engine innovations that might change the way you are searching.

The Open Directory adds thumbnails

(January 8 2004) The Open Directory -- also know as dmoz and the ODP-- is the largest web directory in the world.

dmoz has now added a thumbnail view alternative to its regular lay out. By clicking on the red ball in the lower right hand corner of a result page, the directory will give you thumbnails -- i.e. small pictures -- of each and every one of the sites or pages presented in that particular category.

Pandia has more about the new thumbnail feature.

Nightmares of a search engine optimization expert

(January 7 2004) Companies can ruin the effects of honest search engine optimization efforts by making the wrong moves.

Guest writer David Wallace shares his experience as a search engine optimization expert.

Yahoo! to drop Google

(January 6 2004) The Wall Street Journal reports that Yahoo! will stop using the Google search engine index for its regular search results, probably during the next couple of months.

Read Pandia's analysis of Yahoo!'s alternatives.

An introduction to pay-per-click search engines

(January 4 2004) If you cannot get visitors to your site by regular search engine listings, there is another way.

Pandia guest writer Prabuddha S. Raychaudhuri gives an introduction to the use of pay-per-click search engines in search engine marketing strategies.

The new BrainBoost search engine answers your questions

(December 11 2003) The new BrainBoost search engine tries to analyze the meaning of regular questions and match the query with web pages that include sentences that (hopefully) give a relevant answer.

Pandia has more on this new natural language search technology.

Webmaster World announces PubConference VI

(November 25 2003) The Webmaster World search engine discussion forum is arranging another pub conference, this time in Orlando, Florida, on February 26 to 28 2004.

Pandia has more about this search engine marketing learning event.

Search Engine Optimization Basics Part 6 – Content

(November 13 2003) As part of the continued series "Getting Back To Search Engine Optimization Basics", Andy Beal takes a closer look at how to optimize the regular content of webpages.

Previous articles in this series include the importance of search engine marketing (SEM), effective keyword research, title tag formats, meta tag use, as well as search engine submissions.

Read the latest article!

The Google Deskbar

(November 7 2003)Google launches a test version of a search tool for the Windows taskbar.

Is it a search tool, a thesaurus or a calculator? Pandia has the answer.

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