Category Archives: Search Engine Marketplace

Tim Bray, the co-inventor of XML shares in detail his understanding of and hopes for search engine technologies on his On Search, the Series blog series of essays. Particularly interesting in these articles posted between June and December 2003 is … Continue reading →

A new website, a fusion between a search engine and a social network, is launched today under the name Eurekster. It has the financial backing of NBC, features search results provided by AllTheWeb and sponsored results by Overture, the Yahoo! … Continue reading →

Chinese Web Marketplace According to a semi-official Chinese research centre, the China Internet Network Information Centre, the number of Internet surfers in China has grown to 79.5 million people at the end of 2003, up an annual 34.5 percent. China, … Continue reading →

According to a survey conducted by WebAdvantage.net, “85 percent of the respondents claim to click on sponsored links less than 40% of all searches, but nearly half of the audience (49 percent) does not seem to know the difference between … Continue reading →

Peter Small of UK has contacted me about including WebSage into a demo of a stigmetric system he is building for search engine optimization based on the way insects collaborate in hunting for food. It is an intriguing idea, particularly … Continue reading →