Today when we think of search engines and information retrieval, we think of Google. In fact, there is even a word for it: “googling.” If you are a serious internet user and use it for work, entertainment, and schoolwork, you probably hit Google many times each session. If you look at the news, you’ll see […]
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In order for the internet to be of usage in the public realm, information retrieval interfaces had to be intuitive and easy to use. The first search engines in history started out on UNIX systems using TCP/IP protocol. Anyone who has worked on the UNIX systems in the 1990s knows that it was an operating […]
The first thing you need to remember about search engine optimization is that it is not an exact science—too many variables are involved. So you will see many different tips on how to do optimization from different experts. This article covers a few of the more common tips you’ll see when doing search engine optimization […]
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From the very early history of computing, efficient and quick text indexing and information retrieval have always been a challenge. Computers held so much promise in the 1960s as a way to store massive information but that could not become a reality until the information retrieval methods advanced. So you can really begin search engine […]
Internal ranking factors are things you control directly (as part of your site) that can affect your rank. They can be further divided into on-page ranking factors (things you can do in a particular web page, such as providing appropriate keywords) and on-site ranking factors (things you can do to your web site as a […]
