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January 23, 2007
The workings of Internet search engines
As some of you know, I'm a bit of a podcast junkie—listening to everything from NPR's "Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me" to the BBC's "In Our Time." Last week, as I was running errands, I listened to an intriguing lecture about search engine technology provided by Princeton's University Channel, a collection of podcasts provided by UC member universities.
The podcast featured Jan Pedersen, chief scientist for search and marketplace with Yahoo!, who gave a talk at Vanderbilt University on "The workings of Internet search engines" on January 12, 2007.
While Pedersen's focus was not on optimizing your Web site for search engines, his explanation of how they work and the challenges they face as the Internet grows so quickly, provides helpful background material to those of us who want to ensure that our Web pages are easily found.
If you'd like to understand more about how search engines work, I highly recommend listening to this lecture. It is 51 minutes long and non-technical enough that it should be accessible to most listeners.
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Posted by: Heidi Cool January 23, 2007 11:10 AM | Category: Heidi's Entries , Podcast Recommendations , Recommendations
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Hi, Good post. I came across a good search engine article "Search Engines May Not Like Your Web Site" that should interest you.
You can view it at:
http://www.websitetrafficbuilders.com/search_engines_website.htm
Intresting post. Im not too sure of how search engines work my self, however I found a good search engine article that my interest you. It's "Search Engines May Not Like Your Web Site" and can be viewed at:
http://www.websitetrafficbuilders.com/search_engines_website.htm
I've heard about search engines before in one of my modules at uni. search engines employ robots that continually scour the internet for key words, people that can manipulate this will increase their position on the search engines. very interesting stuff
I have put together an Internet Marketing educational MySpace Profile at www.myspace.com/steve1604. It has many articles on the subject which could be of use to you. Kind regards, Steve.
Incredibly interesting.. I always enjoy reading about how the "other side" works. Sometimes I feel like we're playing cops and robbers.. lol.
It's very interesting how search engines work nowadays, google has incorporated some new variables into its ranking system. Topics like page rank and search engine optimization are becoming alot more complex! Nothing like a good challenge tho...
yeah..i'm sure the one who also want to know how they work..never understand them and it's keep changing..
Hey,
Great blog - I'll be checking back here regularly!