Introduction
Search Engines have developed into the Internet’s most popular and powerful source of information, accounting for an estimated 80% of the Internet’s traffic (Heche, 2007, p. 1). As a result, website owners are realizing the power in such devises and are shifting marketing budgets into the optimization of their sites specifically for search engines. During [...]
The grandmother of search engines, Veronica, arrived 4 years later in 1993. These ancient search engines were soon followed by a host of modern day search engines, some prominent ones being AliWeb, 1993 WebCrawler, 1994 Lycos, 1994 Yahoo, 1995 AltaVista, 1995 Excite, 1995 HotBot, 1996 Inktomi, 1996 Ask Jeeves, 1997 GoTo 1997, renamed as Overture [...]
Without the search engines, one could safely say, the Internet becomes meaningless. Just give it a thought, how many websites do you visit by actually typing in their URLs? And compare this with the number of websites you visit by making a search on Google, Yahoo!, Lycos, Ask, MSN or any other such search. This [...]
Sitemaps are well-known to most of the people as many websites put their sitemaps on their homepage. But, that who doesn’t know, a sitemap is a web page which contains a list of all the links or pages of a website under different categories and headings, same as an index of a book. Sitemap can [...]
