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From: Bob Rankin
Subject: TOURBUS - 06 Jun 2000 - Search Engine Watch
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TOURBUS Volume 5, Number 94 -- 05 Jun 2000
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SEARCH ENGINE WATCH
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Here are some of the features of the Search Engine Watch site that
you'll enjoy exploring. Let's start today's tour here:
Search Engine Watch - http://searchenginewatch.com
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Search Engine Submission Tips
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Explains how search engines find and rank web pages, with emphasis
on how webmasters can improve their rankings. If you have a
website, and you've been frustrated at your inability to get your
pages listed in the top 30 hits, you'll find help here.
This is particularly valuable, since some of the techniques that
have been recommended in years past will now get you banned from
certain engines - ouch!
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Web Searching Tips
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Info on getting the most from the major search engines, from a
general user's perspective. Articles include POWER SEARCHING FOR
ANYONE, SEARCH ENGINE FEATURES CHART, the entertaining WHAT PEOPLE
SEARCH FOR, HOW SEARCH ENGINES WORK (rather technical), and SEARCH
ENGINE SIZES.
That last one I found particularly interesting. It shows that
several of the Biggies have doubled or tripled the size of their
databases in the past year. But a few have remained the same for
over two years! Here's a quick glance:
Engine 06/00 06/99 (Size in millions of sites)
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AltaVista 350 150
Fast Search 340 90
Northern Light 260 150
Google 230 80
Excite 214 55
Inktomi 110 110
Lycos 50 50
For the search engine "consumer" the rapid growth of the number of
websites indexed is good news. Expect to see several of these
databases top the 500 million mark by the end of the year. Even
so, that'll only cover about half of the estimated size of the web!
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Search Engine Listings
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A trove of links to various kinds of search engines, including
Major Search Engines, News Search Engines, Kids Search Engines,
Regional Search Engines, Meta Searchers (sites that query multiple
engines and collate the results), Specialty Search Engines, and
Multimedia Search Engines.
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Ratings, Reviews and Tests
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Here's an interesting collection of links to show how the search
engines measure up. For example, STATMARKET rates search engines
based on how much traffic they send to web sites. The NPD STUDY
measures user satisfaction with search engines, and the GVU SURVEY
takes stock of how people actually find sites. The SEARCHES PER
DAY article and SEARCH ENGINE REVIEWS are worthwhile reading too.
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Search Engine Report Newsletter
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The Search Engine Report is a free, monthly newsletter about search
engines and changes to the Search Engine Watch site. Over 130,000
subscribers enjoy editor Danny Sullivan's insight, analysis and
a rich set of links to other relevant news stories in each issue.
If you're a webmaster, researcher, or frequent search engine user,
Search Engine Watch is a must-see site. That's all for now, see you
next time! --Bob Rankin
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