Glossary » Search Engines http://www.gravytrain.co.uk/glossary Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:35:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 AllTheWeb http://www.gravytrain.co.uk/glossary/2009/08/alltheweb/ http://www.gravytrain.co.uk/glossary/2009/08/alltheweb/#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:20:32 +0000 admin http://www.gravytrain.co.uk/glossary/?p=129 A search engine owned by Yahoo. See http://www.alltheweb.com/

]]> http://www.gravytrain.co.uk/glossary/2009/08/alltheweb/feed/ 0 Alta Vista http://www.gravytrain.co.uk/glossary/2009/08/alta-vista/ http://www.gravytrain.co.uk/glossary/2009/08/alta-vista/#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2009 09:55:57 +0000 admin http://www.gravytrain.co.uk/glossary/?p=137 One of the earliest search engines – it’s now owned by Yahoo! See http://www.altavista.com/

]]> http://www.gravytrain.co.uk/glossary/2009/08/alta-vista/feed/ 0 Ask http://www.gravytrain.co.uk/glossary/2009/08/ask/ http://www.gravytrain.co.uk/glossary/2009/08/ask/#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:08:39 +0000 admin http://www.gravytrain.co.uk/glossary/?p=146 Ask was formerly known as Ask Jeeves – and was the first commercial search engine to support search queries in plain English as well as traditional keyword searching. See http://uk.ask.com/?o=312&l=dir

]]> http://www.gravytrain.co.uk/glossary/2009/08/ask/feed/ 0 Blended Search Results http://www.gravytrain.co.uk/glossary/2009/08/blended-search-results/ http://www.gravytrain.co.uk/glossary/2009/08/blended-search-results/#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:47:36 +0000 admin http://www.gravytrain.co.uk/glossary/?p=187 Blended search results incorporate many sources into the results pages of a search rather than simply web pages. The results may include: images, videos, maps, products, news and books. Google call this universal search.

See Also: Universal Search

]]> http://www.gravytrain.co.uk/glossary/2009/08/blended-search-results/feed/ 1 Cache http://www.gravytrain.co.uk/glossary/2009/08/cache/ http://www.gravytrain.co.uk/glossary/2009/08/cache/#comments Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:33:18 +0000 admin http://www.gravytrain.co.uk/glossary/?p=71 Memory used to store frequently used data which might otherwise take some time to load. Search engines hold cached copies of web pages.

]]> http://www.gravytrain.co.uk/glossary/2009/08/cache/feed/ 0 Crawl Depth http://www.gravytrain.co.uk/glossary/2009/08/crawl-depth/ http://www.gravytrain.co.uk/glossary/2009/08/crawl-depth/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:28:29 +0000 admin http://www.gravytrain.co.uk/glossary/?p=288 How deeply a site is crawled / indexed – i.e. are all of the pages of the site indexed?

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]]> http://www.gravytrain.co.uk/glossary/2009/08/crawl-frequency/feed/ 0 Crawler http://www.gravytrain.co.uk/glossary/2009/08/crawler/ http://www.gravytrain.co.uk/glossary/2009/08/crawler/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 11:35:01 +0000 admin http://www.gravytrain.co.uk/glossary/?p=293 A crawler is an agent sent out by a search engine to catalogue websites for indexing purposes.

See Also: Bot, Robot, Spider

]]> http://www.gravytrain.co.uk/glossary/2009/08/crawler/feed/ 1 Duplicate Content http://www.gravytrain.co.uk/glossary/2009/08/duplicate-content/ http://www.gravytrain.co.uk/glossary/2009/08/duplicate-content/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:20:10 +0000 admin http://www.gravytrain.co.uk/glossary/?p=354 Refers to content on a site which is the same (i.e. duplicate, or near to duplicate) across many pages. This is frowned upon by search engines – who will not index multiple pages which they deem to contain the same content.

]]> http://www.gravytrain.co.uk/glossary/2009/08/duplicate-content/feed/ 0 Googlewhack http://www.gravytrain.co.uk/glossary/2009/08/googlewhack/ http://www.gravytrain.co.uk/glossary/2009/08/googlewhack/#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:02:00 +0000 admin http://www.gravytrain.co.uk/glossary/?p=443 When a two word query is entered into Google, but returns only one result. Made famous by British comedian Dave Gorman who authored a book called “Googlewhack Adventure” wherein he travelled the world finding people who had authored them. See http://www.davegorman.com/projects_googlewhack_adventure.html

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