John on May 12th, 2009

If search engines were just set up for searching, they would not be able to sustain themselves for long without any profit and income sources. Those bread and butter profit and income sources come from advertising. In order to make a venue desirable for advertisers, it must promise exposure to as many people as possible. [...]

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Internet search engine censorship is practiced in a few countries around the world for reasons of filtering pornography and controlling government criticism, criminal activity, and free trade. The reasons all boil down to the categories of cultural values, money, and/or power. Internet access is provided by local internet service providers (ISP) in the host country [...]

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John on March 12th, 2009

Search engines are popular for finding the information you need on many things to include getting a job. Getting a job using a search engine focused on employment is quite common today and in some ways it almost replaces newspaper classifieds. It seems like a good idea but unfortunately there are those that post jobs [...]

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John on February 21st, 2009

Users are on two sides of the internet privacy issue. The purpose of this article is not to debate the right or wrong of third parties utilizing search engine records to probe into the activities of others. There are those in the United States and other countries that believe that giving up privacy for purpose [...]

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John on February 12th, 2009

What is pop culture? Pop culture is a term used for describing what is popular in the society at the time. “Pop” is a shortened use of the word popular. Pop culture tends to be on the opposite end of the spectrum with classical or traditional ways. Pop culture is also used to indicate what [...]

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John on December 30th, 2008

It’s like anything that is extremely profitable—everyone wants to try the same and be just as successful. And so it is with the future and internet search engines. Other enterprises want to be just as successful as the internet search engine leader Google but in order to do that, they have to figure out how [...]

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John on December 12th, 2008

The major search engines like Google and Yahoo are used by most for the majority of searches however there are occasions when you want to search deeper than just keyword articles—when you want comprehensive, factual, and/or specialized information. This is where you use the different alternative search engines out there—the ones that have something a [...]

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John on December 8th, 2008

Remember the times when you had to submit your URL to SEs? It appears that Google, Yahoo! and others are aware of your new domain the moment you create it.
Take this website as an example. Whois record shows the following:
Domain Name: SEOWARRIOR.NET
Updated Date: 17-nov-2008
Creation Date: 14-nov-2008
Expiration Date: 14-nov-2010
Without adding my URL to any SEs, just [...]

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John on December 1st, 2008

Google enjoys the title of being the strongest and most popular search engine on the internet. However most know that there are competitors looking to gain that position too. And there are times, although not often, that Google is not available and the other search engine competitors might have to be used. Here are some [...]

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Today when we think of search engines and information retrieval, we think of Google. In fact, there is even a word for it: “googling.” If you are a serious internet user and use it for work, entertainment, and schoolwork, you probably hit Google many times each session. If you look at the news, you’ll see [...]

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