| Google - The world's most popular search
engine. |
| Bing Search: Microsoft's entry into the
burgeoning search engine market. Better late than never. |
| Yahoo! Search: The 2nd largest search engine
on the web (as defined by a September 2007 Nielsen Netratings report. |
| AltaVista: Launched in 1995, built by
researchers at Digital Equipment Corporation's Western Research Laboratory.
From 1996 powered Yahoo! Search, since 2003 - Yahoo technology powers
AltaVista. |
| Cuil: Cuil was a search engine website
(pronounced as Cool) developed by a team of ex-Googlers and others from
Altavista and IBM. Cuil, termed as the 'Google Killer' was launched in July,
2008 and claimed to be world’s largest search engine, indexing three times as
many pages as Google and ten times that of MS. Now defunct. |
| Excite: Now an Internet portal, was once one
of the most recognized brands on the Internet. One of the famous 90's
dotcoms. |
| Go.com: The Walt Disney Group's search
engine is now also an entire portal. Family-friendly! |
| HotBot was one of the early Internet search
engines (since 1996) launched by Wired Magazine. Now, just a front end for
Ask.com and MSN. |
| AllTheWeb: Search tool owned by Yahoo and
using its database, but presenting results differently. |
| Galaxy: More of a directory than a search
engine. Launched in 1994, Galaxy was the first searchable Internet directory.
Part of the Einet division at the MCC Research Consortium at the University
of Texas, Austin |
| search.aol: Now powered by Google. It is now
official. |
| Live Search (formerly Windows Live Search and MSN Search) Microsoft's web search
engine, designed to compete with Google and Yahoo!. Included as part of the
Internet Explorer web browser. |
| Lycos: Initial focus was broadband
entertainment content, still a top 5 Internet portal and the 13th largest
online property according to Media Metrix. |
| GigaBlast was developed by an ex-programmer from Infoseek.
Gigablast supports nested boolean search logic using parenthesis and infix
notation. A unique search engine, it indexes over 10 billion web pages. |
| Alexa Internet: A subsidiary of Amazon known more for providing
website traffic information. Search was provided by Google, then Live Search,
now in-house applicaitons run their own search. |
| Accounting |
| IFAC.com |
| IFAC.com: For resources
and information on Ifrs and Accounting. |
|
| Bit
Torrent |
| Btjunkie: An advanced BitTorrent search
engine. It uses a web crawler (similar to Google) to search for torrent files
from other torrent sites and store them in its database. It has over
1,800,000 active torrents. |
| Demonoid: A BitTorrent tracker set up by a
person known only as Deimos. The website indexed torrents uploaded by its
members. Taken offline after legal threats to its Hosting Company by
CRIA. |
| FlixFlux: From its website, "The
ultimate torrent site for films, combining bittorrent search results with
film information, making it easy to find new film releases." |
| isoHunt, a comprehensive BitTorrent search
engine, P2P file search and community. Over 930,000 torrents in its database
and 16 million peers from indexed torrents. Avg: 40 million searches per
month. |
| Mininova: Successor to Suprnova.org - a
search engine and directory of torrent files. Anonymous uploads, no IP
address logging of users, no porn. over 550,000 torrents in the database,
over 4 Billion downloads. |
| The Pirate Bay (aka
"TPB"): Based in Sweden where torrent
trackers are not illegal. No content is filtered or removed as long as it is
clearly labeled. |
| TorrentSpy: Tracks externally hosted torrent files and provides
a forum to comment on them. Integrates Digg-like user-driven content site
ShoutWire's feed into its front page. |
| Torrentz: Tracks nearly 7 million torrents in a searchable
portal. |
| Blog |
| Amatomu: The South African Blogosphere,
sorted. Amatomu searches blogs with a distinct focus on South Africa. |
| Bloglines is a web-based news aggregator for
reading syndicated feeds using the RSS and Atom formats. Sold to Ask.com in
2005. |
| Blogperfect |
| Blogperfect: Google Powered Blog Search |
| BlogScope: Search & analysis tool for
the blogosphere being developed as part of a research project at the
University of Toronto. Itcurrently tracks over 23.5 million blogs with
275.6million posts. |
| IceRocket: An Internet search engine for searching blogs. |
| Sphere connects your current articles to contextually relevant
content from your archives as well as from Blog Posts, Media Articles, Video,
Photos, and Ads from across the Web. |
|
| Technorati catalogs over 112 million
weblogs. Known as a kind of gauge for blog popularity as epitomized by its
byline of "What's percolating in blogs now". A supporter and
contributor to open source software. |
| Books |
| FreeBookSearch.net - Comprehensive book searching portal with
more than 30 search engines in its archive, the site searches hundreds of
digital libraries and also scours the net for hidden books. |
| Google Book Search The power of Google to find books. Google's
entry will not let you see full text if the copyright is still active in your
jurisdiction. |
| Business |
| Alibaba.com - Claims to be the world's
largest database of suppliers. Based in China, it is a marketplace of export
and import, offers search, company directory, catalog, trade leads and
more. |
| Bankersalmanac.com provides intelligent
reference data solutions to the banking industry for payments, due diligence,
risk assessment and financial research. |
| business.com: contains more than 400,000
listings within about 65,000 categories. Search results are preceded by four
types of paid links. |
| Hoovers: A Dun & Bradstreet Company,
maintains a database of over 23 million companies. Some information is
provided free, other information is available to paid subscribers. Good for
company stock information. |
| Kompass: 2.3M
companies in 70
countries referenced by 57.000 product & service keywords 860.000 trade names and 4.6M executive names. A guide for worldwide sourcing. |
| Lexis Nexis: LexisNexis claims to be the "world’s largest
collection of public records, unpublished opinions, forms, legal, news, and
business information". Searchable archive of newspapers, public records
& more. |
|
| Catalogs over 650,000 American companies in 67,000
categories. |
| Email |
| eMail-Search.org Email-Search.org: A mini-portal with a number of tools for searching email
addresses. Find current, former email addresses, extract them from the
web. |
| Nicado: Free to register, Search email addresses. The Nicado
search engine allows registered users to search the Nicado database using an
email address or telephone number. |
| TEK search engine is an email-based search engine developed at
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The search engine enables users to
search the Web using only email. It is intended to be used by people with low
internet connectivity. |
| Enterprise |
| AskMeNow: S3 - Semantic Search Solution for
mobile telephones. AskMeNow offers a consumer mobile search utilizing
proprietary technology & natural language based interaction. |
| Autonomy: IDOL Server (Intelligent Data
Operating Layer), K2 Enterprise (Formerly Verity), Ultraseek |
| Dieselpoint: Search & Navigation.
Dieselpoint provides advanced full-text search with data navigation
capability. It gives users highly relevant results not possible with either
traditional search engines or SQL databases. |
| dtSearch Engine (SDK), dtSearch Web.
dtSearch provides simple to use but very powerful tools which create and
maintain full text indexes of documents and data. Terabytes of text can be
searched. |
| Endeca's search and information access
solutions help enterprises find, analyze, and understand information. This is
the Guided Navigation experience. |
| Exalead: exalead one: Enterprise. Exalead - Internet search engine,
image search engine, video search engine ... WebImagesWikipediaVideoMore » ·
Advanced search. 8 billion pages indexed to date. |
| Expert System Sp. A. (Cogito) is a pioneer
in developing semantic technologies to understand and manage unstructured
information. Expert System's semantic approach enables rapid classification
of information. |
| Fast Search & Transfer: Enterprise
Search Platform (ESP), RetrievalWare (formerly Convera) |
| Funnelback is an Internet and Enterprise
search engine company offering a suite of search solutions, hosted solution
for the web and a fully customisable enterprise solution for searching behind
the firewall. |
| Google Search Appliance: Make it as easy for
employees to find information inside your organization as it is to find
information on google.com. Deploy a Google Search Appliance. |
| Microsoft's SharePoint Search Services: Microsoft
Search Server (MSS) is an enterprise search platform from Microsoft, based on
MS Office SharePoint Server. MSS shares its architecture with Windows
Search. |
| Northern Light Northern Light Search: Search articles from over 800 online news feeds and over
1,000 industry authority blogs. |
| Open Text (Hummingbird): Enterprise Content
Management (ECM) software solutions supporting +/- 20 million seats across
13,000 deployments in 114 countries and 12 languages worldwide. |
| Oracle Secure Enterprise Search 10g, a
standalone product from Oracle, enables a secure, high quality, easy-to-use
search across all enterprise information assets. |
| SAP NetWeaver Search and Classification
(TREX) finds information in both structured and unstructured data. TREX
provides SAP applications with services for searching and classifying large
collections of documents. |
| TeraText Suite: Most data resides in
semi-structured, primarily textual documents, not in structured,
organizational repositories. Teratext is designed for text-rich data
repositories. |
| Vivisimo Clustering Engine developed by
scientists based upon a mathematical algorithm and deep linguistic knowledge
to find relationships between search terms and bring them to light. (Web
search: Clusty) |
| ZyIMAGE Information
Access Platform for government and corporates does capturing, archiving,
searching, security, and context-specific |
|
| Forum |
|
| Games |
| Cheatsearch.org: Finds Game Cheats from all
over the web. Searches all of the most popular cheat sites and forums to find
cheats for any game. |
| Genie Knows: A division of IT Interactive Services Inc., a
Canadian vertical search engine company concentrating on niche markets:
health search, video games search, and local business directory search. |
|
| rankings, cheats, downloads and reviews. |
| Human |
| Search |
| ChaCha Search is a search engine that pays
human "guides" to answer questions for users. This is a technique
known as social searching. |
| Eurekster is a New Zealand company, with an
office located in San Francisco, California, that builds social search
engines for use on websites, the search engines are called swickis
(search+wicki). |
| Mahalo.com is a web directory (or human
search engine) - the project is in beta test. It differentiates itself from
algorithmic search engines by tracking and building hand-crafted results for
searches. |
| Rollyo is a Yahoo!-powered search engine
which allows users to register accounts and create search engines that only
retrieve results from the websites and blogs they want to include in their
search results. |
| Trexy: Search trails are the click pathways you create while
searching and finding information on 4,000+ search engines. Record and share
your "search trails". Easier searching of the "deep
web". |
|
| Find people using name search, location, school, work,
interests, and more. |
| International |
|
| Accoona: A search engine that uses artificial intelligence. In
addition to traditional searches, it allows business profile searches, and
its signature "SuperTarget" feature. Partnered with China Daily, a
large Chinese portal. |
| Alleba: Philippines search engine and highly
organized directory of Filipino websites. |
| Ansearch: Australia/NZ/UK/US. Ansearch Ltd is involved in various
online media activities, including the Ansearch.com.au search engine and the Soush online media network |
| Araby: Middle East - Arabic language search
engine owned by the Maktoob Group, which owns the world's largest online Arab
community; Maktoob.com. (Arabic only) |
| Baidu: China - The Google of China, Baidu is doing what no other
Internet company has been able to do: clobbering Google and Yahoo in its home
market. |
| Daum: Korea - Daum is a popular web portal
in South Korea which offers many Internet services including search, a
popular free web-based e-mail, messaging service, forums, shopping and
news. |
| Guruji.com: India - an Indian Internet
search engine that is focused on providing better search results to Indian
consumers, by leveraging proprietary algorithms and data in the Indian
context. |
| goo: Japan - an Internet search engine and
web portal based in Japan, which crawls and indexes primarily Japanese
language websites. goo is operated by the Japanese telecomm giant NTT. |
| Miner.hu: Hungary - a vertical search engine
for searching blogs, videos and other Hungarian content on the internet.
Miner.hu indexes about 129.000 blogs. |
| Najdi.si Najdi.si: Slovenia - a Slovenian search engine and web
portal created by Interseek. It's the most visited website in Slovenia. It
uses a technology created by Interseek written entirely in Java |
| Naver: Korea - The undisputed number 1
search engine in Korea with over 16 million visitors and 1 billion page views
per day. |
| Onet: Poland - Polish language web portal
and search. |
| Onkosh: Middle East - Arabic language
search. |
| Rambler: Russia -offers proprietary web
search (Rambler Search), e-mail, rating and directory, media, ecommerce and
other services to the Russian-speaking websurfer. |
| Rediff: India - India's leading internet
portal for news, mail, messenger, entertainment, business, mobile, ecommerce,
shopping, auctions, search, sports and more. |
| SAPO: Portugal - Portuguese language search
based in Portugal and focused on Portugal. |
| Search.ch: Switzerland - a search engine and
web portal for Switzerland. Founded in 1995 as a regional search engine,
later many other services were added: phonebook, SMS service. Acquired by the
Swiss Post. |
| Sesam: Norway, Sweden - Based in Norway and
focused on Norway and Sweden. |
| Walla!: Israel - Search the web in Hebrew with an Israel
focus. |
|
| Yandex was launched in 1997. |
| Job |
| Bixee (India): Comprehensive jobsearch for
India. |
| Career Builder: The career builder
website. |
| Craig's List: is a centralized network of
online communities, with free classified ads (with jobs, internships,
housing, personals, services, community, gigs, resume, and pets categories)
and forums. |
| CV Fox: A search engine that is designed to
hunt down and retrieve resumes (CV's) from all over the Internet. Free to
use, has become a popular tool with professional recruiters. |
| Dice.com is the #1 technology job board. For
technology experts in areas such as Information Technology (IT), software,
high tech, security, biotech, and more. Recently purchased
eFinancialCareers.com. |
| Eluta.ca (Canada) - High-paying jobs in
Canada directly from employers' websites. Seach new full-time jobs at 71000+
employers across Canada. |
| Hot Jobs (Yahoo): Find a job, post your
resume, research careers at featured companies, compare salaries and get
career advice on Yahoo! HotJobs. |
| Incruit (Korea): Incruit claims to be the
first Korean match making site between job seekers and companies and claims
the first Korean Internet résumé database (June 1. 1998). |
| Indeed.com: A job 'meta-search' that scours
job boards, newspapers and multiple sources with one search interface. |
| Jobs.pl (Poland): Run by an American/Polish
team of MBA's, Poland's leading job portal. Partially owned by European Media
Group "Orkla Press" from Scandinavia. |
| JobsDB (Asia/Pacific): An Asia/Pacific
focused job and recruitment site with databases dedicated to each country in
the Asia/Pacific region. |
| JobPilot (Owned by Monster): A European job
site now owned by Monster.com. Focused on European jobs with branches in a
number of European countries. |
| Jobserve: UK based job search focused
originally on IT Contracting work, but now covering multiple areas. Resume
database, large number of job postings. |
| Monster.com: The world's largest resume
database and online job search. |
| Naukri.com (India): An India-focused job
search engine. |
| Recruit.net: A job search engine that allows
you to search jobs worldwide. |
| SimplyHired.com - Job search engine. Search
over 5 million job listings and thousands of jobs sites to find a job you
love. |
| StepStone (Europe): European online recruitment site based in
Scandinavia with operations and subsidiaries througout Europe. |
|
| TheLadders.com (USA) Job search for
professional jobs in the most comprehensive source of $100K+ jobs on the
internet. |
| Legal |
| Canadian Law List: List of Canadian
lawyers. |
| Lawyers.com: Another LexisNexis company |
| FindLaw: Search FindLaw's database of 1,000,000 lawyers to find attorneys in your area.
All Topics in FindLaw are geared for the Public, by Subject Area. |
| The Lawyers' List: Search for lawyers all
across the United States. |
| LexisNexis: Provider of legal, government,
business and high-tech information sources. By subscription only.
Martindale.com® Martindale.com and LexisNexis, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. QuicklawTM |
| LexisNexis owned portal for searching for
lawyers and things legal (Canada) |
|
| Maps |
| Géoportail: French Geographic portal. French
language only. |
| Google Maps: Provides directions,
interactive maps, and satellite/aerial imagery of the United States as well
as other countries. Can also search by keyword such as type of business. |
| MapQuest (AOL) was founded in 1967 as
Cartographic Services, a division of R.R. Donnelley & Sons & became
an independent company in 1994. MapQuest was acquired in 2000 by America
Online, Inc. |
| Michelin (Via Michelin): The European map
specialists' webpage includes standard map features with good European
coverage. |
| Windows Live Maps: Enter an address, click enter... be sure to
check out "Bird's Eye View". You can see a close-up aerial view of
nearly any US Address and many foreign ones. Amazing. |
| Yahoo Maps: Maps, directions, reverse-directions satellite view
but no 'bird's-eye-view'. |
| Medical |
| Bioinformatic Harvester: From the Karlsruhe
Institute of Technology, the Bioinformatic Harvester crawls and crosslinks
dozens of bioinformatic sites and serves 10's of thousands of pages
daily. |
| Entrez (Pubmed): The life sciences search
engine. |
| EB-Eye - EMBL-EBI's (European Bioinformatics
Institute):
Open-source, high-performance, full-featured text search engine library
written entirely in Java. Very fast access to the EBI's data resources. |
| Genie Knows: A division of IT Interactive
Services Inc., a Canadian vertical search engine company concentrating on
niche markets: health search, video games search, and local business
directory search. |
| GoPubMed: Knowledge-based: GO - GeneOntology
- Searching sorted - Social network and folsonomy for sciences. |
| Healia: The health search engine. From the
site, "The high quality and personalized health search
engine". |
| KMLE (King's Medical Library Engine): Full
American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary comprehensive resource
including tens of thousands of audio pronunciations and abbreviation guides.
MeshPubMed MeSH -
Medical Subject Headings (GoPubMed): Knowledge-based. |
| SearchMedica: Professional Medical Search |
| WebMD: A source for health information, a symptom checklist,
pharmacy information, and a place to store personal medical information.The
leading US Health portal, it scores over 40 million hits per month. |
| MetaSearch |
|
| Brainboost: Now Answers.com. Type in a
question in natural language, get an answer. |
| Clusty: The clustering search engine powered
by Vivisimo. |
| Dogpile: Brings together searches from the
top search engines including Google, Yahoo! Search, Live Search, Ask.com,
About, MIVA, LookSmart, and more. |
| Excite: Now an Internet portal, was once one
of the most recognized brands on the Internet. One of the famous 90's
dotcoms. |
| HotBot was one of the early Internet search
engines (since 1996) launched by Wired Magazine. Now, just a front end for
Ask.com and MSN. |
| Info.com: Metasearch bringing together
results from the top search engines. |
| ixquick: Eliminate Big Brother! The Ixquick
metasearch engine permanently deletes all personal search details gleaned
from its users. Based in the Netherlands, results come from 11 search
engines. |
| Kayak: Metasearch for travel - search 140
travel sites all at once for the best deals and buy tickets and make
reservations direct. |
| Krozilo is a virtual web browser, similar to
My Yahoo!, iGoogle, Pageflakes, Netvibes, and Microsoft Live. Krozilo uses
AJAX and DHTML, so does not require installation. |
| Mamma: "The Mother of All Search
Engines" - was one of the web's first metasearch engines (1996). Now
owned by Copernic Inc. of Montreal, Canada, Mamma.com is a tier 2 search
engine. |
| MetaCrawler is a metasearch engine that
blends the top web search results from Google, Yahoo!, Live Search, Ask.com,
About.com, MIVA, LookSmart and other popular search engines. |
| MetaLib is a federated search system
developed by Ex Libris. MetaLib conducts simultaneous searches in multiple
resources such as library catalogs, journal articles, newspapers and the
web. |
| Mobissimo.com is a travel meta-search
website. Like other travel meta-search websites, Mobissimo does not sell
directly to the consumer but consolidates travel offerings for a referral
fee. |
| Myriad Search: Ad-free search lets users
select results from Ask Jeeves, Google, MSN, and Yahoo! Select search depth
and place bias on the search results from the major search engines. |
| Sidestep: Searches over 200 travel-relates
websites for airfares & the best deals on airfare. Find cheap airfares,
discount hotels, car rentals and cruise deals to popular travel destinations
worldwide. |
| Surfwax offers a variety of tools for
finding, saving, and sharing information on the Internet, including Nextaris,
the law-article research site LawKT, the SurfWax meta-search and SurfWax
Scholar services. |
| Turbo10.com is a metasearch engine which uncovers information in
the Invisible Web. Turbo10 can access information from 800 online databases
and searches 10 databases simultaneously. |
| WebCrawler was used to build the first publicly-available
full-text index of a subset of the Web. WebCrawler® brings users the top
search results from Google, Yahoo!, Windows Live, Ask and other popular
search engines. |
| MultiMedia |
| YouTube: Owned by Google, the web's largest
media site. This search will search through the videos of YouTube only. |
| blinkx: Over 18 million hours of video .
Search it all. Blinkx is a multi-media metasearch engine searching the media
files of sites such as YouTube, MetaCafe, GoogleVideo, MySpace and more. |
| FreeBookSearch.net: The famous book
searching portal also searches for audiobooks. This same search will also
find MP3 files. FindSounds FindSounds: Search engine to find any kind of sound file: WAV, MP3, AIFF,
AU - search by sample rate and quality... a great place to find those sound
effects. |
| MetaCafe: Search videos hosted by MetaCafe.
If you are a producer of videos, you can get paid for videos - the more
viewers, the more cash. |
| Musgle: Music Search (mp3, wav, etc.): Based
upon a JavaScript that automatically inserts a clever boolean search string
into Google to return catalogs of hidden MP3 and Music files. |
| PBS provides resources to air its standard
programming & also provides its audience with multiple online archives of
specific video programs. All video archives can be searched for any spoken
word pronounced in them. |
| Picsearch: Search the web for images. An
image search service with more than 2,000,000,000 pictures. |
| Podscope: "Introducing: the first
search engine that can find podcasts according to the words spoken during
them!". Finds audio and video files based upon actual content! |
| SpeechBot was a search engine for audio
& video. It was created by HP Research, but unfortunately, is now
offline. |
| Singing Fish: An audio and video search
engine, now AOL media search. |
| StrimOO: Video search engine. Find videos on
Youtube, Metacafe, Dailymotion and more with one search. |
| TVEyes: TVEyes makes Radio & TV
searchable by keyword, phrase or topic - just as you would use a search
engine for text. TVEyes is the first company to deliver real-time TV and
Radio search. |
| Veveo / VTap: a video search platform for mobile phones. Vtap is an
offering from Veveo and it currently |
| works on Apple Iphones as well as Microsoft Mobile-powered
phones. |
|
| Web-Cam-Search.com: Search and hack nearly a million webcams for
free on the net. This search uses Boolean scripting to uncover cams - public
& supposedly 'private'. :-) |
| News |
| Google News: News by Google. Search and
browse 4,500 news sources updated continuously. |
| MagPortal: Find individual articles from
many freely accessible magazines by browsing the categories or using the
search engine. You can mark articles or find similar articles with several
useful tools. |
| NewsLookup.com: Search thousands of news
sites by source region and media type. News headlines updated
continuously. |
| LexisNexis: Provider of legal, government,
business and high-tech information sources. By subscription only. |
| Topix is a news aggregator which categorizes news stories by
topic and geography. It was created by the founders of the Open Directory
Project. Knight Ridder, Tribune Company and Gannett own 75% of
Topix.net. |
| Yahoo News: Use Yahoo! News to find
breaking news, current events, the latest headlines, news photos, analysis
& opinion on top stories, |
| world, business, politics... |
|
| Open |
| Source |
| DataparkSearch DataparkSearch
Engine is a full-featured open source web-based
search engine released under the GNU General Public License and designed to
organize search within a website, group of websites, intranet or local
system. ::egothor Egothor
is an Open Source, high-performance, full-featured text search engine written
entirely in Java. It can be configured as a standalone engine, metasearcher,
peer-to-peer HUB, etc. gonzui: gonzui is a source code search engine for accelerating open source
software development - a source code search engine that covers vast
quantities of open source codes available on the Internet. |
| Grub started back in 2000 with a simple
concept of distributing part of the search process pipeline: crawling. Their
website claims, "We want to help fix search." |
| ht://Dig is a complete world wide web
indexing and searching system for a domain or intranet. ht://Dig is meant to
cover the search needs for a single company, campus, or web site. |
| The iSearch PHP
search engine allows you to build a searchable database for your web site.
Visitors can search for key words and a list of any pages that match is
returned to them. |
| Apache Lucene is
a high-performance, full-featured text search engine library written entirely
in Java. Full-text search & cross-platform. Apache Lucene is an open
source project available for free download. |
| The Lemur Toolkit
is a open-source toolkit designed to facilitate research in language modeling
and information retrieval. Lemur supports a wide range of industrial and
research language applications. |
| mnoGoSearch: Web search engine software. Namazu Namazu is a full-text search engine intended for easy use. Not only
does it work as a small or medium scale Web search engine, but also as a
personal search. (Namazu means "Catfish" in Japanese.) |
| Nutch is an effort to build an open source search engine based
on Lucene Java for the search and index component. The fetcher
("robot" or "web crawler") has been written from scratch
solely for this project. |
| OpenFTS: OpenSource Full Text Search is an
advanced PostgreSQL-based search engine that provides online indexing of data
and relevance ranking for database searching. Sciencenet |
| Sciencenet: For scientific knowledge based
on YaCy Technology. Current search engines are based on popularity and/or
sponsored links. This makes it difficult for scientists/students/teachers.
Sciencenet is the solution. |
| Sphinx is a free software search engine
designed with indexing database content in mind. It currently supports MySQL
and PostgreSQL natively. It is distributed under the terms of the GNU General
Public License v2. SWISH-E SWISH-Enhanced (Simple Web Indexing System for Humans - Enhanced) is a fast,
powerful, flexible, free, and easy to use system for indexing collections of
Web pages or other text files. |
| Terrier is software for the rapid
development of Web, intranet and desktop search engines.A modular platform
for the rapid development of large-scale Information Retrieval
applications. |
| Wikia Search: Jimmy Wales and Wikia aim to create a an open source
Internet search engine,
to which the community can contribute. |
| Xapian is an Open Source Search Engine
Library, released under the GPL. It's written in C++, with bindings to allow
use from Perl, Python, PHP, Java, Tcl, C# and Ruby (so far!) |
|
| It was formerly known as Lucy. |
| People |
| AnyWho.com - Part of AT&T, mostly a
telephone directory and reverse phone number directory. |
| Ex.plode.us: Explode is an easy way to find
friends and those with common interests, no matter what social network or
service they use. Finding-People.com Finding-People.com: Finding-People.com is the best place to start a people
search, as they have a huge number of tools all in one place to find whomever
you seek. |
| InfoSpace: From their webpage, "The
yellow pages and white pages directory from InfoSpace is the most convenient way to find people and
businesses." |
| LinkedIn is a business-oriented social
networking site used for professional networking. As of March 2008, it had
more than 20 million registered users. An easy way to search for business
people or professionals. |
| Spock advertises itself as, "The
world's most accurate people search. Sign up to find people you
know." |
| Wink is a free people search engine that helps you find people
at social networks, blogs, and across the Web. ZABASEARCH Zabasearch:
Honestly free people search. All US postal addresses & telephone numbers
revealed free. 3-times more listings than white pages phone directory. |
|
| published resources. |
| Question
& Answer |
| About.com. The majority of their results
come from their own site. Used to be miningco.com. Answers.com Answers.com offers free access to
millions of topics from the world's leading publishers. |
|
| Ask Jeeves was designed
to allow users to get answers to questions posed in everyday, natural
language. Ask.com was the first such commercial question-answering search
engine for the Web. |
| AskMeNow: Questions answered from your
mobile telephone. From their site, "We thought it would be cool if we
could get simple answers from our phone anytime, anywhere — so we built
AskMeNow." |
| AskWiki Beta is a preliminary integration of
a semantic search engine that seeks to provide specific answers to questions
using information from Wikipedia articles. BrainBoost Brainboost: Now Answers.com. Type in a question in natural language, get
an answer. |
| eHow is an online knowledge resource with
more than 140000 articles and videos offering step-by-step instructions on
"how to do just about everything" Lexxealpha Lexxe processes natural language
queries and delivers results in clusters by topic. Queries can be keywords,
phrases or short questions. |
| Lycos iQ is a community driven "human
search" site by Lycos Europe GmbH. Users on iQ can post questions and
answers in a similar manner to sites such as Yahoo Answers, Google Answers
and Wondir.com. |
| Powerset is betting on the wisdom of the crowds with a new
online community site called Powerset Labs. The company hopes the site will
get people to help build and improve its search engine. Windows Live QnA
Windows Live QnA: Ask any question and get answers from people in the know.
Try it. Real answers. A little late to a crowded market, but Windows is there
now too. |
| Yahoo! Answers is a community-driven knowledge market website
launched by Yahoo! |
|
| that allows users to ask questions of other users and answer
other users' questions. Over 60 million users. |
| Real
Estate |
| ForSaleByOwner.com: Search homes being sold
by their owners without the intermediation of realtors - save on
commission. |
| Home.co.uk Home.co.uk: Comprehensive Property Search for UK houses for sale, estate
agents, house prices and guides on buying and selling property and mortgages
advice. |
| Inman News: Real Estate News search. |
| Properazzi.com is an online real estate
search engine. Launched in March of 2007 by Yannick Laclau, it allows users
to search and view property listings for Europe. |
| Realtor.com: The official site of the
National Association of Realtors. Search listed properties all across
America. |
| Rightmove: Find property online, search a
wide range of property for sale in various areas in the UK, London and
Overseas with Rightmove. |
| Trulia: Find property online, agents can list their properties
free, a robust real estate portal for homebuyers and sellers. |
|
| historical sales, home valuation tools and more. |
| School |
| The College Search Engine.com: Searches the
webistes of colleges and universities worldwide, not just the USA. If it is
on a university website somewhere, this search engine will find it. |
| Skoolz.org: Search colleges and universities. Use this search to
search only the websites of colleges - to find courses, information,
professors, curricula, etc. |
| Google University Search allows you to search a specific site -
one school at a time. The list of schools is comprehensive. Skoolz searches
them all at once, Google University Search allows them to be searched one at
a time. |
| Scientific |
| Scirus: The most comprehensive scientific research tool on the
web. Over 450 million scientific items indexed at last count. Search
journals, scientists' homepages, courseware, pre-print server material,
patents, more... |
|
| Shopping |
| Google Product Search: (Formerly Froogle)
use Google to search for the best deals on products when you are
shopping. |
| Kelkoo: A Yahoo! company. Also powers
Yahoo!Shopping in several countries. |
| MSN Shopping: Comparison
shopping made easy: Offering 33,155,627 products
from over 8,000 stores — all in one place — and over 470 pages of shopping
advice to help you make the right choices. |
| MySimon: Price Comparison Shopping |
| Nextag Comparison Shopping. Product
directory and search. Shows popular searches - what others are searching
for. |
| PriceGrabber.com: "Comparison Shopping
beyond compare" Comparison shopping and search engine. |
| PriceRunner: Price Comparison website and
search engine |
| RetailMeNot: From the people who brought you
"BugMeNot", check here before you buy for discount coupons and
promo codes. Why pay retail when you can find coupons at RetailMeNot? |
| Shopping.com: A shopping directory and
search owned by eBay. |
| Shopwiki: Shopping directory and search
cataloguing some 241,416,304 products, and counting... |
| Shopzilla (Owned by Bizrate) helps shoppers find, compare and
buy anything, sold by virtually anyone, anywhere. 20 million unique visitors
according to ComScore. BizRate reviews stores and products. |
| TheFind.com is a discovery shopping search engine as opposed to
a comparison search. The search database includes over 150 Million products
from over 500,000 online stores. |
| Source
Code |
| Google Codesearch: Searches public source
code using a variety of parameters. |
| JavaScriptSearch.org searches for
javascripts, ajax, DHTML and JavaScript snippets from all over the web. The
fastest way to find a JavaScript. Useful for web developers and
webmasters. |
| JExamples analyzes the source code of Java
open source projects such as Ant, Tomcat and Batik and loads them into a java
examples database for easy searching. Enter the name of a Java API Class and
click Search. |
| Koders Searces some 766,893,913 lines of
open source code. Securely searches private source code. Create and share a
custom code index that is easily searched from Visual Studio, Eclipse or
any browser. |
|
| Krugle Code Search Engine can turn
your company's code and related development assets into a searchable,
shareable asset. |
| PHP Classes Repository: Find the PHP class you need at
PHP Classes. The leading PHP site for coders. Everything PHP! |
|
| Usenet |
|
| Visual
Search Engines |
| Grokker visual Meta Search Engine lets you choose which sites to
search and presents the results in multiple views - outline view, map
view. |
| Kartoo visual Meta Search Engine searches multiple search
engines and presents its results in a visual map. |
|
Social Bookmarking
Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to organize, store,
manage and search for bookmarks of resources online. Unlike file sharing, the
resources themselves aren't shared, merely bookmarks that reference
them.
Descriptions may be added to these bookmarks in the form of metadata, so
users may understand the content of the resource without first needing to
download it for themselves. Such descriptions may be free text comments,
votes in favour of or against its quality, or tags that collectively or
collaboratively become a folksonomy. Folksonomy is also called social
tagging, "the process by which many users add metadata in the form of
keywords to shared content".
In a social bookmarking system, users save links to web pages that they
want to remember and/or share. These bookmarks are usually public, and can be
saved privately, shared only with specified people or groups, shared only
inside certain networks, or another combination of public and private
domains. The allowed people can usually view these bookmarks chronologically,
by category or tags, or via a search engine.
Most social bookmark services encourage users to organize their bookmarks
with informal tags instead of the traditional browser-based system of
folders, although some services feature categories/folders or a combination
of folders and tags. They also enable viewing bookmarks associated with a
chosen tag, and include information about the number of users who have
bookmarked them. Some social bookmarking services also draw inferences from
the relationship of tags to create clusters of tags or bookmarks.
Many social bookmarking services provide web feeds for their lists of
bookmarks, including lists organized by tags. This allows subscribers to
become aware of new bookmarks as they are saved, shared, and tagged by other
users.
As these services have matured and grown more popular, they have added
extra features such as ratings and comments on bookmarks, the ability to
import and export bookmarks from browsers, emailing of bookmarks, web
annotation, and groups or other social network features. |
|
| Absolute Link – A link that shows the complete URL of the web
page that is being linked. |
| adCenter – This is Microsoft's search advertising service,
wherein the user has to create an adCentre account and set the market details
belonging to them. The payments are done on a Cost-per-click method |
| AdSense - An advertising network from the house of Google,
wherein the ads are posted next to the web content. Once the ads are clicked
and profits made, the same is shared with Google. The ads might include text,
videos, animation and the likes |
| Affiliate Marketing – A kind of marketing program, wherein
merchants pay the agents, once the visitors complete a specific action, on a
Cost Per Action (CPA) basis. |
| Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) – A technique wherein
additional information from the web server is picked by a website's page in
the same page, without having to open a new page altogether. As the name
suggests, JavaScript is used along with few other high-end technologies in
order to create interactivity in the web pages. |
| Alexa – A free information service that measures the traffic
that comes in a website |
| Algorithm – Set of rules followed by search engines while
ranking websites in their indices |
| Alt Attribute – When images are used in websites, it proves
advantageous to add relevant text equivalent for that image, for search
engines to know what the function of that particular image is. This text
equivalent is called an image Alt Attribute. |
| Anchor text – This is the text that has to be clicked, to follow
a link. When links are given in images, the image Alt Attribute becomes the
anchor text |
| Backlinks – This are links that point from any website to your
website. Using the link: function in search engines, it is possible to check
the backlinks that point to any website. Also refer to Inbound links |
| Black Hat SEO – Unethical or illegitimate techniques used in SEO
that do not follow the search engine guidelines, in order to get quicker
results. But these do not last for long and if picked up by Google, would
also end up in penalizing or even banning of the website |
| Blog – A journal that is updated on a regular basis. It could be
both personal and business blogs as well, wherein readers can leave their
comments on the write-ups, thereby resulting in user interactivity, in a
smaller sense. |
| Blogroll – A list of links on the blog, which is usually of
other blog sites of the same company or related companies. |
| Bounce Rate – The count of visitors who visit a site, but do not
go deeper into the site and leave it almost immediately |
| Branded Keyword – These are keywords or phrases, that relate to
a brand. |
| Breadcrumb Navigation – This helps website navigators and search
engines to know the exact location of particular web page, and its relation
to the other pages. An example: Home > Services > SEO |
| Broken Link – A given link that is not functioning properly,
thereby not guiding to the expected location |
| Cache – When searching sites using the search engines, the
results that pop up are those that are available in the index of the search
engines. A cache is a replicate of the web page that the search engine has
saved. |
| Cloaking – The process of exhibiting different web content in a
website, to different users and search engines is called Cloaking. This is
ethical to certain extent and the practice is allowed, when followed
according to the norms. If the guidelines of search engines are not followed,
then it could also lead to banning of the website |
| Clustering – Grouping of search results from the same site, when
shown in a search engine for a specific search, in order to make the results
look organized and orderly. |
| CMS – Content Management System. Assists in adding and updating
content to any website. Example: Blog software |
| Contextual Ad – Creating advertisements for websites, depending
on the web page subject or content. |
| Cost Per Action (CPA) – This is the cost that is involved in
performing an online action, which includes clicking of an ad, enquiring
about a product or even buying a product online. The success of online ways
of advertising is measured using the CPA. |
| Cost Per Click (CPC) – One of the online advertising methods
wherein the advertisers are charged only when any user clicks the particular
ad. |
| Cost Per thousand (CPM) – This is a type of advertising, wherein
definite charges incur to the advertiser, for every ad impression. Here, “M”
in CPM represents the Roman numeral for thousand. |
| Crawl – The process of web crawlers or web spiders, that are
programs, going through the whole of World Wide Web, in an automated fashion.
These create copies of the web pages that are visited and then store them in
the index of the search engines. |
| Crawl Depth - The depth for which the crawl extends in a website
is called Crawl Depth. |
| Crawl Frequency - The frequency with which sites are crawled is
called Crawl Frequency. The more frequent the sites updated and the longer
the crawl on a website, the more better from the SEO point of view. |
| Cloud Tag – Also called as Tagging. |
| Dead Links – Links that do not function any longer. The quality
of information of a site depends on the ratio between dead links and useful
links. The lower the dead links, the better |
| Digital Marketing – Promotion of products and services
digitally, using SMS facilities, Banners, Ads, outdoor digital means, apart
from using the Internet. |
| Deep link – Linking of one interior page of a site, to another
interior page of another site. It is always best to link between pages that
correspond or relate to the same thing, in different websites |
| Dedicated IP – An IP address that is designated or dedicated to
a single and unique website. |
| Dedicated Server – More reliable servers that serve a single or
a group of websites whose proprietor is the same. |
| Description – Small snippets seen in directories and search
engines, against the site URL, that actually describes the site. |
| DMOZ – It is the largest directory with a biggest collection of
websites. It is called the Open Directory Project and is edited and
maintained by voluntary editors from all over the world. |
| DNS – Known as the Domain Name System, is a method to name
computers and any other resources, that is available on the Internet. |
| DoFollow – This is given in the HTML page or the Robot.txt of
the website, in order to direct the search engines to follow that particular
web page. |
| Doorway Pages – These are web pages that are appropriately
designed in order to land the search queries to this page, which would
redirect the searches to another page containing advertisements. However,
these should have relevant content on the search that is being made, and
should not be unnecessarily disguised for getting high rankings in specific
searches conducted. |
| Duplicate content – Web page content that has already been
duplicated in any other page or website. This is strictly against the search
engine rules and they most often filter out such duplicated contents when
they encounter one. |
| Dynamic Content – Web pages that contain content that keeps
changing over time. It is developed using languages like PHP, ASP.Net, ASP so
on. When a ? symbol is added to the URLs, the search engines would treat the
content as dynamic. But sometimes it are also chances that if a ? symbol is
used in the URL, search engines might also ignore the URL altogether. |
| Entry Page – The page where the given link lands in, while
searches are performed. |
| Ethical SEO – SEO methodology that is performed according to the
standard rules and regulations followed by the search engines. |
| External Link – Links that refer to a web page in another
website, from a page in your website. It is always better to have many high
quality external and inbound links, |
| Feed – A data format that provides content that are updated
quite often to subscribers. |
| Free for all – FFA, these are sites that can be linked by any
other sites. It is not advisable to link to such sites, as these links carry
no importance at all. |
| Filter – If certain sites contain web content that is more
unnatural or duplicated data, then search engines filter out certain content
from these sites using appropriate filters. |
| Frames – This is a method, using HTML, which permits web site
developers to present two or more pages within a single browser window. This
not only reduces the number of pages in a website, but also makes the search
engines believe that there is only one overall page in the website, thereby
reducing the crawl frequency. |
| Fresh Content – Content that is not duplicated or rephrased, but
is completely new and created afresh. |
| Google Adwords – The keywords that match our kind of business
and requirements, are chosen, and when searches are performed using those
keywords in Google, your ad gets displayed at the side of the Google searches
page. Here too, payments are done on a Cost Per Click method. |
| Google Analytics – Was previously called as Urchin. A free
software from Google that helps you login to get your site details like user
paths, sales conversion details, trailing of page views and the likes. |
| GoogleBot – The spider name used by Google . |
| Google AdSense – Same as AdSense. |
| Google Base – Was called as Froogle previously. Database
prepared by Google that contains meaningfully structured data. This is free
to be used. |
| Google Bombing – Efforts taken to rank a particular web page
well in searches performed in search engines. This is done by linking the
page with many external links that contain the same keywords. |
| Google Bowling – This is a practice wherein many low level links
from low quality sites are pointed to the competitor's sites. This reduces
their page ranking, thereby bowling them off the search engine results. |
| Google Traffic Estimator – This tool helps in finding out the
volumes of searches being performed for specific keywords and also calculates
the bid amount for these keywords as well. |
| Google Sitemap – A structured program that helps Google to index
the contents of any website. |
| Google Sitelinks – A collection of links from a website, that
come below the search results when the same website is listed as a result, in
a search engine. These links appear automatically under the search results. |
| Google Supplemental Index – Google index where certain links of
websites are stored, which contain less trust factor from Google. This could
be because they have more of duplicate content and Meta tags, if URLs are
quite confusing and the likes. |
| Google Website Optimizer – A free platform specifically used for
advertisers in Adwords, to help them get good sales conversion. |
| Headings – Concisely explains the content that it introduces. |
| Hidden text – A type of SEO black hat method wherein keywords
are blended with the background page of the website, so that it is not
visible to the eyes, yet gets placed in search results for the keywords that
are hidden in the page. This method should not be followed as search engines
can also go to the extent of banning your site, once they get to know about
this unethical practice followed in your website. |
| Hijacking – This is one of the ways to make the search engine
come to a conclusion that a particular website occupies another URL. This is
an unethical method followed by spammers. For example, a site yourcompany.com
is a real website and yourcompany.net is a hijacked site wherein spammers use
various strategies to ensure that this site ranks well above the real site. |
| HTML – The web pages are created in the Hyper Text Markup
Language or the HTML language. A newer version of the HTML is the XHTML
language. |
| .htaccess – A directory-level configuration file for redirection
of files or protecting password, especially in Apache web servers. |
| Inbound Links – A link that is pointing from one website into
your website. Also refer to Backlinks. |
| Index – A collection of all the websites that is used by the
search engine as a record, while posting results that match a particular
query. |
| Internal Link – These are links inside the same site that point
from one location to another. This type gives a better idea to the search
engines as to what the site is all about. It forms as an explanatory factor
for the website. |
| Java Script – This is a scripting language that helps in adding
dynamic features to the website, when embedded inside HTML. |
| Keyword – A word or a phrase that is more liable to be used by
target audience to search for a particular product. |
| Keyword Density – A measure of the usage of keywords in any
content. The usage of keywords should not be more or less in any content;
this measure is calculated using the keyword density analysis tool. Also
called as Keyword Weight. |
| Keyword Frequency - The number of times a keyword appears in the
content of a web page. The more the number of keywords used, the better the
search engines would notice your website. However, if you stuff the web page
with too many keywords, then the website can get penalized on grounds of
spamming. |
| Keyword Prominence – The place where the keywords are used in a
web page. The more occurrences of keywords on the top portions of the web
page, the easier it is for the search engines to identify the keywords and
index your site to higher search ranks. |
| Keyword Relevancy – This is a measure of the relevance of a
particular keyword with respect to the query that is searched in a search
engine. |
| Keyword Research – The process of analyzing and researching on
various keywords and keyword phrases that would suit the particular business
for which the site is being created. |
| Keyword Stuffing – contents that are written only for the sake
of including keywords for search results placing. This makes the content more
mechanical and does not convey the exact message to the readers, thereby
decreasing the page rank of that website. |
| Keyword Weight – Also called as Keyword Density. |
| Landing Page – The place that the web surfer lands on when
clicked on a particular referrer link. This link could be either on your
website ad, an email, or from another website/directory. |
| Landing Page Quality – These are scores that are given by Google
to the ads that come as part of their Google Adwords program. This helps in
keeping a tab on the relevancy of ads |
| Link Baiting – Techniques used to attract links from high
quality and ranking sites to your site. These techniques include formatting
of quality web content, using Social media sites and other community sites as
well |
| Link Building – In order to prove a site's credibility and
reliability to search engines, they should have high quality links pointing
out from other authoritative and exclusive sites. This process is called Link
Building. |
| Link Equity – This is a measure of the importance of a website,
depending on the inward link popularity done on the site and the importance
of the sites from where inbound links are coming. |
| Link Farm – These websites have no control in linking out to
other sites, they are similar to FFA sites |
| Link Popularity – Based on the number of backlinks that a site
has, Link Popularity is a factor for ranking of sites, that depends on the
number and quality of links that point to your website. |
| Link Reputation – The proximity of matching between the anchor
text and the title and content in the link that the particular text points
to. |
| Long Tail – Keyword phrases that contain up to even 5 words per
phrase, in order to cater to highly specific keywords. These usually have
less traffic, but the conversion rate would be very high, as searchers often
land exactly on what they are looking for |
| Meta Description – Description comprising of a line or two,
explaining about the web page content |
| Meta Keyword – A tag used to spotlight the keywords used in a
web page. |
| Natural Link – A link to your link from any other link, because
they found the content in your website to be more useful or relevant to their
website content. This usually results from having a very well written and
managed relevant content in a website. |
| New Visitor – The number of visitors who have landed into a
particular website for the first time and has made no visits before to the
website |
| Nofollow – This is usually embedded inside an HTML page or in
the website's Robot.txt, so that search engines can be stopped from following
that particular web page. This is usually used in user-generated content like
in the comments section in blogs. |
| Organic Search Results – When search results are displayed, they
contain both unpaid results and paid ads. The unpaid results that are ranked
based on the relevancy of the keywords used and the content inside the
website, along with the importance of the website and trust on the data that
the site extends, is called Organic Search Results |
| Outbound link – a link that originates from one website pointing
to another external website |
| Open Directory Project – Abbreviated as ODP, also known as DMOZ |
| Page Rank – Importance of a particular website is provided in
terms of a numerically ranking procedure called PageRank. |
| Page Title – Explains what the page contains. When searchers
search for content, the page title I taken into account and so is very
important from the SEO point of view |
| Paid Inclusion – Buying of exposure and popularity to your
website by adding site URLs to directories that add it for a charge. |
| PPC – Pay Per Click. This is a type of online pricing model for
search ads. Keywords are bid and payments are made if a particular ad is
clicked. |
| Pay for performance – Payment model that pays sales people if
they get prospectus clients and thereby sales to the websites |
| Penalty – When websites follow unethical SEO means to promote
their website in searches, then as soon as search engines detect this, which
happens almost immediately, they penalize that website, and remove them from
their index. |
| Quality Content – Web content that is worth being linked to,
because of its high quality |
| Quality Link – Links that are from reliable websites, from aged
domains, sites that are related to your website and the likes, are called
Quality links. It is always best to link to such links, as search engines
give high priority or preference to such links. |
| Reciprocal Links – A link exchange that goes double-way. That
is, if a link is pointing site A from B, then another link is also pointing
from site B to A. |
| Redirect – When the location of a page has been changed, then
the site is redirected to inform the search engines that the switch over has
happened. This is done using 301 or 302, as the case may be. |
| Re-inclusion – After a site has been penalized by search engine,
the website would request the search engines to include them back to their
index, and this is called Re-inclusion |
| Referrer – A page in the website that consists of a link to your
site and helps in getting you visitors. |
| Relative Link – Relative link does not mention the complete
domain URL, but gives only the specific file name, unlike an Absolute link.
For example, test is a relative link, whereas test is an absolute link. |
| Reputation Management – The procedure of tracking of activities
performed by an organization, the responses received for those activities,
preparing a report on them and finally responding to the responses received. |
| Return Visitors – A visitor who has visited a website or clicked
an ad previously as well. This is identified with the IP address. In ads, if
clicks come from the same IP address more than once between 24 hours, then
the same is not counted. |
| Reverse Index – A collection that contains related documents of
specific keyword searches |
| Robots.txt – These files are available in the website root and
they direct the search engines as to where all to crawl in the website and
where not to |
| ROI – Return on Investment. This is the measure of how much
return that the organization has received, when compared to the money
invested |
| RSS – Real Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary. Here,
information in the Internet syndicates together in any software wherein
people can register and subscribe to get the information on a regular basis.
It originates from web feeds. |
| Search Engine – A collection of numerous web pages. When a
search is performed in a search engine, it generates results that match the
requirements posed in front of it. |
| SEM – Search Engine Marketing: This includes creating and
marketing a website along with site optimization done to improve its web
rankings in search engines. SEM is a combination of SEO along with marketing
and advertising methodologies put together. |
| SEO – Search Engine Optimization is the procedure followed to
optimize sites in such a way so that search engines rank them in top
positions, in their indices, when appropriate queries are put forth in search
engines. This includes researching of keywords and phrases, SEO content
writing, link building, brand building and much more. |
| SEO Copywrighting – Rational website content writing that is
understood by the readers and also includes keywords and phrases, thereby
assisting in SEO |
| SERP – Search Engine Results Page: The page where the search
results are populated for the particular search enquiry |
| Search Marketing – Website Marketing, using PPC, paid inclusions
and the likes |
| Sitemap – The page that proves to be an alternate means of
surfing a particular website, with complete details of all the pages present
in the website |
| Social Media Sit – Bookmarking and community sites wherein users
can share links of anything that has interested them most. This could be
websites as a whole, links of blogs or other web contents or articles and the
likes. A great way for site popularity |
| Spam – Emails or comments that are unsolicited or search results
that are of low quality |
| Spider – Also called as crawlers that crawl or spider through
the websites and store information in the search engine indexes. |
| Stopword – These are words that are not indexed by the search
engines. They are omitted when the search engine puts terms from the web page
into its index. Words like “a”, “an”, “to” and the likes are examples of
Stopword |
| Supplemental results – Sites that are less trusted and do not
have high ranks, are kept as supplemental results. The search engines do not
crawl much in such sites and so the page ranks of these sites are also less. |
| Tagging – Also called as bookmarking, these are ability given by
websites to bookmark their websites. |
| Trackback – A method of notification to the website owners, when
any other website is trying to link with their website. |
| Unethical SEO – SEO methodologies that are performed against the
search engine ethics and rules. Black Hat methodologies are also part of
Unethical SEO. If such practices are performed in websites, then search
engines can also go up to the extent of banning or penalizing a website |
| Unique Visitor – A count of traffic that a website gets,
counting each and every visitor just once, during a fixed period of time,
usually a month. This report helps the web master and the advertisers to know
how many unique surfers have visited the site, thereby knowing the reach
capacity of the website. |
| URL Rewrite – A method used to rewrite URLs to make them more
search engine friendly at the same time descriptive as well |
| Viral Marketing – Self advertising of one's own websites through
word of mouth, emails or even social bookmarking sites |
| White Hat SEO – Ethical techniques that use acceptable standards
of search engines, in SEO. Though the initial results might be slow, it
generates long lasting and stable results |
| XHTML – Extensible Hyper Text Markup Language is an updated
version of HTML that makes HTML pages adapt itself to the XML format. |
| XML – Extensible Markup Language. This is a very simple, easy to
use and free open format specification that helps in distributing structured
information to various systems, in order to encode and format data, through
the Internet. It is recommended by W3C and is used in application languages
like RSS, XHTML and the likes. |
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