How Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) Started and About Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) The story of the search engine begins with ‘Archie’, created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, a student at McGill University in Montreal. At the time the World Wide Web and its protocols did not yet exist. However the Internet did, with many files scattered over […]
How do Google, Yahoo! and Bing differ in ranking results for Natural Listings?
There are approximately 1.5 billion Internet users worldwide, of whom 50% use search engines every day. Google, Yahoo! and Bing currently account for over 90% of all these searches, being by far and away the three most popular search engines in the English speaking world, (the Chinese language search engine Baidu actually ranks third in terms of numbers of […]
Importance Of Choosing a Web Development Company Before You Consider Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)
importance Of Choosing a Web Development Company Before You Consider Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) When it comes to the major search engines such as Yahoo!, Google and Bing, you’ll want to be at the top end on your chosen keywords or keyword phrases. Failure to hit the first page on campaign-critical terms can severely damage your Internet […]
About Google
About Search Engines About Google Google’s corporate mission statement is: ‘Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.’ So far so good, it would seem. Google began life in 1996 at Stanford University as a collaborative search engine development project between two computer science undergraduates, Larry Page and […]
Real time search, Google, Twitter and your business
About Search Engines Real time search, Google, Twitter and your business The SEO community has been buzzing about the development of a new kind of search for the last year or so. With the rise of social media sites in popularity, things like real time Twitter search results have had a major influence on the […]
Search Engine Algorithms
About Search Engines Search Engine Algorithms The first technology to be defined as a ‘search engine’ goes back to 1990. It was named Archie and created by Alan Emtage, a student at McGill University in Montreal. The commercial search engines that we are familiar with today started to appear in the mid 90’s […]
Search Engine Spiders
The Internet is big. In fact the Internet is very big. Recently Google announced that their systems that process links on the web to find new content had hit a milestone. They had recorded 1 trillion (as in one thousand billion) unique URLs on the web at once. That’s quite some going considering that the […]
SEO Consult, About Bing
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 […]
About Yahoo
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 […]
How Search Engines Index Websites
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 […]