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Pandia Search Detective

The Pandia Search Engine Detective is Pandia's resource section for search intelligence. Here we list the best search oriented sites and blogs on the Internet.

The Best Website Directories

A search directory is not a search engine. Do not let the similarity of the search fields fool you. When you search a search directory, you search an index hand picked by a living and breathing human being like you and me.

The Long Term Plans For World Domination By Search Giant

This week Google announced the Chrome OS for PC’s, and people are as confused as ever regarding what company is up to.

How to Find the Right Enterprise Search Solution

What kind of internal search engine should your company or organisation choose for your own data collections?

European Search Engine Alliance To Challenge Google

Fast Search & Transfer is building a research alliance for the development of new search engine technologies, the Information Access Disruptions (iAd) network.

Eur 400 Million To The European Search Engine Quaero

The German publisher Heise reports that the European search engine project Quaero will receive some 400 million Euro (US$ 508 million) in new funding from the German and French governments and industry.

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.

SEO Best Practices for Web Site Design

Most designers and webmasters know the importance of building a site that will attract search-engine traffic, but not all of them are proficient in search engine optimization (SEO) techniques.

6 Firefox Extensions That Will Change The Way You Search

There are thousands of Firefox extensions out there. Pandia has selected the top 5 search related extensions — add-ons that will change the way you search the web.

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.

A Short Tutorial To Search The Web

An Archived Version of Pandia's Short and Easy Search Engine Tutorial

Google Leaves Norway

Google decides to close down its engineering team in Trondheim, Norway. Pandia takes a look at what this will mean for Google and Norway.