About Search Engines How Search Engines Index Websites The competition’s fierce. There’s only one first page for any keyword or keyword phrase, and ideally you’ll be somewhere at the top of it. As well as the quality of the competition you face there’s also the quantity; with over 21 billion web pages to choose from the […]

About Search Engines About Yahoo! Like Google, Yahoo! has its origins in Stanford. Originally named ‘Jerry and David’s Guide to the World Wide Web’, Yahoo! originators David Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph.D., candidates in Electrical Engineering, started their guide in February 1994 as a way to keep track of lists of favourite Internet links. It wasn’t […]

Surprisingly, Microsoft has been a relative late comer to the self-generated search party. Though originally launching Bing Search in 1998, they didn’t get serious about search until after Google had established and proven the business search model. It wasn’t until January 2005 that they formally switched to their own in-house technology from Yahoo!, having up until then […]