Category Archives: Search News

Real Time Search – The Twitter Model

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on May 27, 2009. Filed under Search News, Social Media, Social Networking. Tagged , , . 1 Comment.
real-time-search

Think back, way back.  Remember when Alta Vista was senonomous with search?  How time flies.  Google came along and re-defined what search means and the rest is history, or is it?

Search Engines Agree on Canonical Tag

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on February 14, 2009. Filed under Code, SEO, Search News. No comments.
Canonical Tag to Deal with Duplicate Content

An agreement was struck yesterday by the three main search engines (Google, Yahoo and MSN) on the adoption of a new tag to tackle canonicalisation in the SERPs. Canonicalisation is the challenge of having multiple pages of the same page due to outdated software such as a content management system or forum. Examples of pages [...]

Google Search Wiki

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on November 24, 2008. Filed under Google News, Search News. No comments.

On Thursday, Google officially launched its much anticipated “Search Wiki” application found within its personalised Google search accounts.  This move was hardly a surprise especially as Google’s been dabbling with the idea of search Wiki as an experiment for some time now. The idea behind search Wiki is simple.  Google now allows users to custom design their search results from within [...]

New Engines on the Search Block

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on July 30, 2008. Filed under Search News. No comments.

Over the past few months, two new search engines have been creeping their way into the limelight;  Cuil and Wikia Search. Quil (pron: Cool) was started by ex-Google engineers who now claim they have an index larger than that of Google’s.  While Wikia Search (brainchild of Wiki founder Jimmy Wales) harnesses the power of the [...]

News Flash – Adobe’s Product More Search Friendly

Written by Omar Kattan. Posted on July 10, 2008. Filed under SEO, Search News. No comments.

Adobe recently announced it is has developed its Flash technology to enable search engine spiders to read the content within it. In the past, search engines like Google were able to pick out links embedded in Flash files but unable to index the content within the Flash file.  So even though humans were able to [...]