admin on December 8th, 2008

Remember the times when you had to submit your URL to SEs? It appears that Google, Yahoo! and others are aware of your new domain the moment you create it. Take this website as an example. Whois record shows the following: Domain Name: SEOWARRIOR.NET Updated Date: 17-nov-2008 Creation Date: 14-nov-2008 Expiration Date: 14-nov-2010 Without adding […]

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admin on December 1st, 2008

Google enjoys the title of being the strongest and most popular search engine on the internet. However most know that there are competitors looking to gain that position too. And there are times, although not often, that Google is not available and the other search engine competitors might have to be used. Here are some […]

Continue reading about World outside of Google; Search Engine Competition

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 […]

Continue reading about Information Retrieval, Search Engines, and the King of the Hill: Google

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 […]

Continue reading about Concise History of Search Engines and Information Retrieval Technology – Part II

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 […]

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