Arun Radhakrishnan Latest search engine news blog articles from Arun Radhakrishnan. http://www.seocentro.com/seo-archives/author/Arun+Radhakrishnan.html Arun Radhakrishnan News Archive http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12647 Just like the sea of content on the web, there is immense mix and mash of technologies that go into creating web sites. HTML, CSS, XHTML and their different versions to name a few. Opera is planning to make available a search engine that indexes this structural information. Search Engines News SEO News Arun Radhakrishnan Arun Radhakrishnan Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:41:47 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12521 There is a simple belief that sums up the effort behind viewzi, a search engine that takes many different 'viewpoints' on search (literally). A standard display of results does not suit every taste. So, provide them with different layouts on a slick interface specific to content or source. The different views available at Viewzi include: Web Screenshot : Results arranged in a flow layout with option to move back and forth. Simple Text : Serial list of search results. Search Engines News SEO News Arun Radhakrishnan Arun Radhakrishnan Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:06:50 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12476 Keeping users abreast with the latest trends in the news is what news aggregators are all about. Silobreaker , a UK based search and news engine provides a comprehensive interface along with several additional features that understanding news in context. The engine culls information from 10,000 sources providing graphical display of relationship between entities mentioned in the news, the news trends that too including geographic data. Search Engines News SEO News Arun Radhakrishnan Arun Radhakrishnan Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:42:23 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12306 A new web service that started in September takes an interesting approach towards the information overload problem on the web. Yotify takes an approach that covers the ground between search engines and social networks. While search engines provide us with results from all the web and social networks are people and activity centric, Yotify provides a service that lets the user maintain a watch or scout on select sites and be alerted when events occur that meet certain criteria. Search Engines News SEO News Arun Radhakrishnan Arun Radhakrishnan Tue, 21 Oct 2008 19:52:04 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=12252 CloudTuner , an Israeli start-up is working on technology that applies a new perspective to the importance of keywords in search. Users are provided with a WYSWYG (What You See Is What You Get) interface consisting of keywords in a tag cloud. Different keywords can be selected and their importance in the query altered. The relative importance of the words is reflected in their size and text colour. Search Engines News SEO News Arun Radhakrishnan Arun Radhakrishnan Mon, 20 Oct 2008 16:46:45 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=7909 Searchme , the visual search engine has recently launched two new features - Stacks and media search. Stacks enables users to intuitively save search results and make them shareable. The results can be mailed, added to blogs or added to FaceBook, Reddit, Digg, StumbleUpon or MySpace. Creating stacks of results is easy. Just drag the search result page to the top left and the page is added to the stack. I tried it on FireFox 3.0 and it really worked great. Search Engines News SEO News Arun Radhakrishnan Arun Radhakrishnan Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:35:46 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=7579 Careerjet , a job search engine celebrating its 8th birthday has many great accomplishments to its credit. First, the engine supports 56 country specific sites in over 20 languages. Second, it has launched public APIs and innovative affiliate programs for both online and offline partners. The crawlers of the engine use semantic analysis to index job related information from over 58,000 sites on a daily basis. Search Engines News SEO News Arun Radhakrishnan Arun Radhakrishnan Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:02:31 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=6464 After writing about SurfCanyon , I came across another search engine that brings a good focus to improving the user interface to search as well as adding a few nifty features. As mentioned by David Stat, the co-founder of ManagedQ (source: Venture Beat ) Stat points out that the basic search interface hasn't evolved since Google's early days, and that users still have to enter their queries into a "DOS-style command line. Search Engines News SEO News Arun Radhakrishnan Arun Radhakrishnan Tue, 20 May 2008 19:29:33 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=5755 Google may have its advantages over Microsoft when it comes to online advertising. But over to mapping services and we can see that both Google and Microsoft are fast aiming to get ready an array of services that will drive the navigational web. Today, most of the queries on search engines are informational with a minor percentage being transactional and navigational . With a flurry of internet ready mobile devices waiting to enter the market, things are going to change. Search Engines News SEO News Arun Radhakrishnan Arun Radhakrishnan Mon, 05 May 2008 13:36:58 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=5664 SenseBot is a search engine that produces summaries of the results that appear when you perform a search. Its a tool that is very useful when you want to make sense of a topic and there's a deluge of content from the web to choose from. Now, SenseBot has provided a FireFox plug-in that integrates with Google search as well as provides summary for any web page. Search Engines News SEO News Arun Radhakrishnan Arun Radhakrishnan Thu, 01 May 2008 21:31:08 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=5307 Nathan Enns started working on FyberSearch at the age of 19. Having developed the engine from scratch, Nathan has been following the search space for quite some time, at the same time adding more features to FyberSearch. Here are a few questions that Nathan took the time to answer for SEJ. 1. How is your advertising technology, services and tools different from that offered by other search engines (major)? Search Engines News SEO News Arun Radhakrishnan Arun Radhakrishnan Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:10:29 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=4855 Search Canyon deploys technology that helps disambiguate search queries, essentially assisting the user to dig deeper into results, suggesting links that makes a better match to results the user seeks recommendations on. The approach is unique in the sense that it makes search an ever continuing process where the machine assists user through a continuous feedback loop. The engine integrates well with Google, Yahoo and MSN Live results. Mark Cramer, Search Engines News SEO News Arun Radhakrishnan Arun Radhakrishnan Tue, 15 Apr 2008 14:25:56 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=4793 Algorithms, natural language processing, artificial intelligence - the list is endless in the quest for the perfect technique to make computers do what humans are capable of. Now, a search engine does away with the machine completely. GGoal is a total human powered engine, no machines, all organic. An excerpt from the About page : Ggoal is a search engine "based on" human intelligence, created by users and for users, Search Engines News SEO News Arun Radhakrishnan Arun Radhakrishnan Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:59:39 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=4700 Few days back there was an article at SEJ on Relona , a search technology start-up which used unique technology to add more relevance to results from major search engines like Yahoo, MSN Live and Ask.com. Kumar Ramanathan, Chief Technology Officer at Relona graciously answered a few questions on Relona and search via e-mail. 1. Can you provide us some information on the roots of Relona and how you got started on the idea? Search Engines News SEO News Arun Radhakrishnan Arun Radhakrishnan Fri, 11 Apr 2008 14:23:31 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=4386 David Kirkpatrick, senior editor at Fortune Magazine has written a great article summarizing some technology statistics that have come out as result of the 2008 Global Internet Snapshot compiled by Imran Khan, senior analyst for Internet, media and entertainment at JP Morgan. An excerpt from the article : But for cell phones it's a different story. Here the United States is a laggard, with 77.4 subscribers per 100 people. Search Engines News SEO News Arun Radhakrishnan Arun Radhakrishnan Fri, 04 Apr 2008 13:51:41 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=4177 The trend today is about 'socialnetworking-zing' everything. From corporate portals to hotel sites, the buzz is about how to get users to sync with other individuals and share content online. I think it was only time that genomics also got on the bandwagon - a reason why the latest announcement from 23andme is not much of a surprise. An excerpt from Technology Review Avey and Wojcicki hope that, as with traditional forms of social networking, Search Engines News SEO News Arun Radhakrishnan Arun Radhakrishnan Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:56:50 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=4076 Search, as the work horse of the internet, has delivered much. Though search as a problem is far from solved, there are many advantages that accrue from the imperfection of search engines. Firstly, there is this new skill that one gets to hone in identifying and getting to the answers one seeks from a whole pile of content. Then there is the obvious market for search optimization since in the perfect search world, the engine makes out the relevance of the article, Search Engines News SEO News Arun Radhakrishnan Arun Radhakrishnan Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:34:49 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=3881 Many have pointed out that the success of Google is as much its relevance algorithm as its simple clutter free approach to the user interface. Now, a search company is working on the interface front to provide a refreshing approach to presentation of search results . The iTunes 'Coverflow' inspired view at Searchme lets you browse through the snapshot of pages that are returned from search. I found this similar to the 3D browser approach in SpaceTime. Search Engines News SEO News Arun Radhakrishnan Arun Radhakrishnan Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:23:55 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=3171 FyberSearch got its popularity for having been started by the then 19 year old Nathan Enns. The engine sports a lot of options from a pure search perspective and also has entered a few specialized niche search areas along the way. Some of the very interesting features tried out at the engine are the sentence searching concept. The engine has its own crawler and database and does image search and feeds search as well. Search Engines News SEO News Arun Radhakrishnan Arun Radhakrishnan Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:29:34 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=2709 With the rapid rise in video and audio content online, there is an immediate need for search technologies that can catalog and search media content based on content in addition to the meta-data provided alongside. Pluggd is one such firm that is seeking to provide the answer with its HeatMap interface that makes it possible for users to move to segments within video that mentions keywords they are looking for. Search Engines News SEO News Arun Radhakrishnan Arun Radhakrishnan Sun, 02 Mar 2008 15:10:36 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=2280 Recently Bill Slawski from SEO By the Sea wrote on a patent application filed by Yahoo on Techniques for Searching future events . It brings forth a new dimension to consider in making search more timely and relevant to users. The patent is on making search engines acknowledge the temporal information in articles. This implies interpreting the word usages that refer to chronological information and classifying articles on the basis of the timeline that the content deals with. Search Engines News SEO News Arun Radhakrishnan Arun Radhakrishnan Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:14:29 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=2250 The founders of this social-networking, social bookmarking site with people powered categorization of content hoped to provide a topic centric approach rather than a people centric approach to content on the web. At CrowdFound , users get to categorize article on the web into predefined categories and sub-categories. While the features have lot of similarity with the social bookmarking sites, Search Engines News SEO News Arun Radhakrishnan Arun Radhakrishnan Sun, 24 Feb 2008 06:35:44 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=1393 Engines which work on top of search engines has been a growing area ever since Web Search went mainstream. Most meta-search engines use content from the top engines - Google, Yahoo or Live Search and many also refer to content specific sources such as Flickr, PicSearch for image search. Infact, DogPile was one of the first search engines to offer keyword targeted advertising, via keyword targeted banners; before Yahoo Search Marketing (Goto.com) or Google AdWords existed. Search Engines News SEO News Arun Radhakrishnan Arun Radhakrishnan Mon, 24 Dec 2007 13:57:22 GMT