Search Engines - Topics A-Z
Topics A-Z listing of articles and resources about search engines especially in relation to government websites.
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Search Engine Market Share - January 2010
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Google's global market share has increased from 82.49% in January 2009 to 85.78% in January 2010.
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Search Engines: Part 1 - Archive
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Resources about search engines especially in relation to government websites.
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Search Engines: Part 2 - Archive
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Resources about search engines especially in relation to government websites.
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Search Engines: Part 3 - Archive
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Resources about search engines especially in relation to government websites.
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Search Engines: Part 4 - Archive
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Resources about search engines especially in relation to government websites.
- The Search Engine Glossary
- search-engine-glossary.co.uk. "This glossary was developed to help you understand the terms you might come across within Search Engine Marketing that many of you may not have come across before..."
- Search Engine Dictionary
- Published by Pandecta Magazine, this online dictionary provides definitions of terms related to search engines, search engine optimization and search engine marketing. The website allows you to suggest terms for addition or suggest corrections to existing entries.
- The Search Engine Report
- Search Engine Watch - a free, monthly newsletter from Search Engine Watch that recaps top news stories about search engines. Latest issue - February 21, 2007 - Number 122
- The Google ultimatum: Europe has spoken, but what about Australia?
- by Nigel Phair. The Conversation, 22 May 2012. "The European Commission (EC) has given Google 'a matter of weeks' to address concerns the American search giant has 'abused a dominant market position'.
The announcement overnight (AEST) follows an 18-month antitrust investigation led by Joaquín Almunia, Vice President of the European Commission responsible for Competition Policy.
The investigation identified four concerns where Google's business practices may be considered anti-competitive..."
- Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings
- Posted by Amit Singhal, SVP, Engineering. Google Inside Search - the Official Google Search Blog, 16 May 2012. "Search is a lot about discovery—the basic human need to learn and broaden your horizons. But searching still requires a lot of hard work by you, the user. So today I’m really excited to launch the Knowledge Graph, which will help you discover new information quickly and easily...
The Knowledge Graph enables you to search for things, people or places that Google knows about—landmarks, celebrities, cities, sports teams, buildings, geographical features, movies, celestial objects, works of art and more—and instantly get information that’s relevant to your query. This is a critical first step towards building the next generation of search, which taps into the collective intelligence of the web and understands the world a bit more like people do..."
- Google search will incorporate 'knowledge graph' into main search results
- Users will see more context-sensitive information added to Google search results, by Cameron Scott (IDG News Service). Computerworld, 17 May, 2012. "Google will begin in the next few days to incorporate the "knowledge graph" it has been building for two years into its search results .
The new search format will deliver context-sensitive information about the people and things users search for to the right of the conventional list of links to Web pages, said Johanna Wright, Google's director of product management..."
- Google seeks High Court appeal
- By Josh Taylor, ZDNet Australia, April 26th, 2012. "Google is seeking leave to appeal the full Federal Court ruling that the search giant had misled users through search results served from its AdWords advertising program.
The case centred around sponsored links for online trading company Trading Post and travel booking firm STA Travel that appeared in Google search results. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) alleged that because the headline of an advertisement link in Google search results often referred to the business name that a person was searching for alone, and then redirected to the Trading Post or STA websites, which had no affiliation with the business being searched for, Google and Trading Post were engaged in deceptive conduct..."
- Structured Thinking About Semantic Search
- by Ryan DeShazer. Search Insider, Monday April 9, 2012. "... the topic of semantic search has again become a hot-button issue for SEOs and webmasters... Google appears primed to make good on its promise to better understand both the Web and the intent communicated by its user base through the queries entered..."
- Google's March Updates: Anchor Text, Image Search, Navigational Search & More
- by Matt McGee. Search Engine Land, April 3, 2012. Highlights the important changes including: anchor text tweaks; indexing symbols; navigational queries; more accurate short answers; improvements to freshness and better indexing of profile pages.
- Search quality highlights: 50 changes for March
- Posted by Johanna Wright, Director of Product Management. Google Inside Search, 3 April 2012. "Here's our latest installment of search quality highlights, with another 50 changes to report for March. We're starting to get into a groove with these posts, so we're getting more and more comprehensive as the months go by. New for this month, we've published uncut video from our search quality meeting, which gives a great flavor for how these decisions get made..."
- WSJ Says Big Google Search Changes Coming? Reality Check Time!
- by Danny Sullivan. Search Engine Land, March 15, 2012. "The Wall Street Journal is out with a story saying that Google is about to make one of the biggest changes in its history of offering web search, providing more direct answers and gaining 'semantic' smarts to understand more about what words mean. I'm scratching my head, since Google already does this. Methinks Google's PR has exploded in ways it didn't expect..."
- ACCC wins appeal against Google
- Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. Release # NR 065/12, Issued: 3rd April 2012. "Today the Full Federal Court unanimously upheld the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's appeal filed in October 2011 against Google.
The Full Court declared that Google, by publishing the four advertisements that were the subject of the ACCC's appeal on result pages of the Google Australia website, engaged in conduct that was misleading or deceptive, or likely to mislead or deceive, in breach of section 52 of the Trade Practices Act 1974.
The Full Court also ordered it to put in place a consumer law compliance programme and pay the ACCC's costs of the appeal.
"Google's conduct involved the use by an advertiser of a competitors name as a keyword triggering an advertisement for the advertiser with a matching headline. As the Full Court said this was likely to mislead or deceive a consumer searching for information on the competitor," ACCC chairman Rod Sims said..."
- Google Gives Search a Refresh
- By Amir Efrati. The Wall Street Journal, 15 March 2012. "Google Inc is giving its tried-and-true Web-search formula a makeover as it tries to fix the shortcomings of today's technology and maintain its dominant market share.
Over the next few months, Google's search engine will begin spitting out more than a list of blue Web links. It will also present more facts and direct answers to queries at the top of the search-results page..."
- Search Engine Use 2012
- by Kristen Purcell, Joanna Brenner, Lee Rainie. Pew Internet and American Life Project, March 9, 2012. "Search engines remain popular—and users are more satisfied than ever with the quality of search results—but many are anxious about the collection of personal information by search engines and other websites and say they do not like the idea of personalized search results or targeted advertising.
Though they generally do not support targeted search or ads, these users report very positive outcomes when it comes to the quality of information search provides, and more positive than negative experiences using search..."
- Search quality highlights: 40 changes for February
- Posted by Amit Singhal, Senior VP and Google Fellow. Google Inside Search, 27 February 2012. "This month we have many improvements to celebrate. With 40 changes reported, that marks a new record for our monthly series on search quality. Most of the updates rolled out earlier this month, and a handful are actually rolling out today and tomorrow. We continue to improve many of our systems, including related searches, sitelinks, autocomplete, UI elements, indexing, synonyms, SafeSearch and more. Each individual change is subtle and important, and over time they add up to a radically improved search engine..."
This category last updated: 23 May 2012