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Search Engines

This category is for some of the smaller and lesser known search engines that don’t make headlines but are still valuable to users. This is also a category to talk about multiple larger search engines as well.

01
Aug

Will There Be a New Meta Tag for LLM/AI?

August 1, 2023
Although Google is initiating a conversation about giving credit and complying with copyright while developing large language models (LLMs) for generative AI products, they seem to be primarily concerned with the robots.txt file.   However, some disagree with their approach, as they believe the robots.txt file is not the appropriate solution.   In a compelling...
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19
Apr

Fake News Still a Problem for Search Engines and Social Media

April 19, 2017,
I have to admit, first off, that I fell for this fake news story when it broke a couple of days ago. My bad! You may have read it (and believed it), too. It basically goes like this: A married couple in Mississippi go to a fertility clinic since they are having trouble conceiving children....
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15
May

How to Get Blacklisted By the Search Engines

May 15, 2015
Several years back I wrote an article called “How to Avoid Being Blacklisted by the Search Engines” and it was picked up and republished by a lot of other websites. Now, I think it’s time to update this article a bit with this article that I’m titling “How to Get Blacklisted By the Search Engines.”...
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23
Feb

Birds of a Feather Artificial Intelligence SEO Modeling

February 23, 2015
Scott Stouffer offers a great read via the Search Engine Journal website about “Using Artificial Intelligence to Solve #SEO”. While it is pretty technical, it allows us a glimpse on the algorithmic scale on whiy SEO is so difficult and what can be done on the search engine level to resolve this. Mr. Stouffer talks...
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24
Jun

Is the Heyday of Search Over?

June 24, 2014
Some people have asked, for the past several years, if the heyday of search is over. And the answer is that for the past 6 months, this apparently has been so. Shareaholic has tracked the organic search traffic to the top 5 search engines from December 2013 through May 2014 and found declines in ALL...
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15
May

DuckDuckGo Nofollowing Searchers

May 15, 2014
If you’re a search user who doesn’t like being tracked, you could use the Firefox browser with its no tracking privacy option, or you could go to DuckDuckGo and search away. One of the claims to fame of DuckDuckGo is that it doesn’t track people and share their info with the NSA (what would be...
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10
Sep

Topsy Tweets Are Forever Sleek

September 10, 2013
Twitter Tweeters soon learn the shortcomings of the search feature in this popular social media destination. Do a few random searches on Twitter and you’ll soon find not what you’re looking for but rather results that are akin to those that may have been served up from one of the search engines in the 1990’s...
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02
Jul

Altavista, Hasta La Vista Baby

July 2, 2013
For those who weren’t into search on the Internet before Google became King, you’ll need to say goodbye and pay homage to a search engine you may have never heard of which is Altavista.com. Sure, Altavista is now powered by Yahoo (or Bing actually) and even in the title bar of the website it says...
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01
Apr

Post-Apocalyptic Search Engine Unveiled

April 1, 2013
Google and Microsoft have teamed up to create the first open-source Post-Apocalyptic search engine. The new search engine code named “Bang!” heavily prioritizes results towards the walking dead, cockroaches, preppers and oddly enough Adam Sandler. Bang! took years of preparation and teamwork by the two search giants who are rivals in most cases, but have...
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06
Mar

Finding Drug Side Effects Quicker with Search Engines

March 6, 2013
Okay, so printed dictionaries and encyclopedia are almost ancient with the advent of the Internet. When is the last time you’ve used either? The same goes for the phone book. Search engines, Wikipedia and different spell check software have replaced a lot of print. But what about search engines being better than the FDA in...
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