Search Engine Friendly Design : SES Chicago
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Detlev Johnson of Search Return hosted this session, and its speaker Shari Thurow, on the basics of search engine design and optimization.  This is a must-attend session for businesses entering the search engine marketing world or those intending to redesign a site or enter the SEO market.    Search engine friendly design takes elements of search [...]
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A new open-source search engine lets users vote on results.
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Search site adds color--and clutter--to its famously clean design.
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A Scottish firm is looking to attract web surfers with a search engine that reads out results.
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Redmond unveils its much-hyped search engine. Does the world change?
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Until recently, the needs of visually impaired users wasn't a top priority for search engines. That's changed, but there are still issues that need to be resolved, according to people with vision challenges.
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Google have hosted a customized Internet Explorer search page for many years now specially designed to act as sidebar search. And with the launch of the first final release of the very popular Mozilla Firefox
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Google is experimenting with different ways to serve up search results. But will any of them stick?
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Everyone in the PHP community (as is probably true all around the web) is buzzing about the new offering from Google - the Google Code Search. In the PHP community, the ones talking about it so far include:  Chris Shiflett's look at the security aspect of the search Ilia Alshanetsky's take on the search as it possibly being a hacker's good friend Pierre-Alain Joye's searches for macros and the term "virtual_file_ex" Harry Fuecks' own search for superglobal-related issues Ivo Jansch's happy look into frustrations other developers have had (ex. this search)    Check out this handy tool and see what you think. Does it provide too much access to code that needs to stay out of hacker's hands? Or does it promote the "open" in open source better than most of the tools out there?
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Blog: Company kicks off its Search Suggest feature, designed to save users time by offering search suggestions on which they can click.
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IBM has created a free semantic e-mail search engine aimed at users of the company&#39;s Lotus Notes software and Microsoft Outlook.The engine, called IOPES (IBM OmniFind Personal E-mail Search), allows users to search their mail based on concepts, such as dates and phone numbers, according to IBM. It also allows searchers to define their own concepts.Once the software is installed, it indexes and analyzes the user&#39;s e-mail store. Searches are conducted through a browser interface that delivers results through a stripped-down, Google-like interface.Users can enter simple keyword-based queries or ones using basic natural language constructions. For example, to find e-mails from a friend named Mark Smith, you could simply enter &quot;from Mark Smith.&quot;But to find only the e-mails Smith sent in a certain month, a query might be constructed as &quot;Mark from January 2007.&quot; You could find his phone number by typing &quot;Smith&#39;s phone number.&quot;The results don&#39;t show a list of e-mail headers or display the messages in full. Instead, the software extracts the passage it believes contains the right answer, and highlights what it deems to be the specific information requested, such as a phone number.Users can also search for attachments with search results providing direct links to the documents in question.E-mail is a good target for developing a semantic search engine because users frequently repeat certain phrasings and words and repeatedly exchange the same type of information. &quot;There is a fairly large number of things that are so e-mail specific,&quot; said Shivakumar Vaithyanathan, the project&#39;s technical lead.Researchers in a number of IBM labs worked on the project for the past year and a half, according to Vaithyanathan. The product has been quietly available on the company&#39;s alphaWorks site for a couple of months, but only now is IBM attempting to drive widespread adoption, according to a spokeswoman.&quot;To be able to solve all these problems in some meaningful way, we want some feedback,&quot; Vaithyanathan said.IBM also released the tool internally to its employees and said it has received mostly positive responses.
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Teaching search engines to see Web pages the way people do could improve their performance.
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NEWARK, Delaware, June 6  /PRNewswire/ -- Search engine results are highly dependent on the quality of the keyword or phrase entered into the query box.
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Search Engine Roundtable, the blog of Barry Schwartz, has updated with a much more slick and streamlined design. I&#8217;ve been eagerly awaiting for the day that Barry updates his design as his company, Rusty Brick, puts out some incredible work and his personal blog, CartoonBarry, is top of the shelf in blog functionality. Excellent job Mr. Schwarzt!
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(InfoWorld) - Those curious about what enhancements Google may implement in its search engine should check out a new site called SearchMash. Operated by Google,Â SearchMashÂ is a testing ground for user interface changes that may or may not graduate to the Google.com search engine, a company spokeswoman said via e-mail. "The goal of SearchMash is to test innovative user interfaces in order to continually improve the overall search experience for our users," she wrote. The experimental search engine looks very different from Google's Web sites and lacks Google branding. In this way, Google believes the site will yield more objective feedback from users, the spokeswoman said. SearchMash went up recently and can handle limited traffic, which may render it unavailable sometimes, she wrote. Google.com's famously minimalistic look revolutionized Web user interfaces in the late 1990s, when home pages tended toward a cluttered look. Over the years, Google has been conservative about altering its site's design, so changes often attract wide attention. When Google runs user interface tests on google.com, they invariably get reported about in the blogosphere along with screen shots and a heavy dose of speculation over the chances the changes have of being permanent.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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One of the many fond memories I&#8217;ll have of Search Engine Strategies Chicago was Liana Evans and her HatBait.com campaign. Liana could be seen around the conference, parties and bars with a selection of wild hats, a HatBait &#8220;link&#8221; (sign) and camera, capturing different search engine personalities and their HatBait.com photos.  Liana, of Search Marketing Gurus, [...]
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Image search is playing an increasingly important role in search engine optimization, and SEOs should develop strategies for optimizing a web site to receive this type of traffic.