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• 2 9 March 2009

  Yahoo! Directory

  Yahoo! Directory (http://dir.yahoo.com) To submit pages to the Yahoo! Directory, it will cost $299 for an annual review (for adult-related sites – $600). If you pay, it’s possibly to be listed within a few days. If you go the non-commercial route, it can take months and quite often they won’t list you at all. Registration at the Yahoo! portal is required for both cases. Yahoo is now making use of clickthrough measurements as part of its relevancy ranking system. Searches performed at Yahoo!, instead of leading directly to websites, point to yahoo’s internal redirecting script so that Yahoo can measure [...]

• 0 5 March 2009

  Human-Powered Search Engines

  The term “human powered” mainly refers to directories, i.e. online catalogs which categorize websites into thematic sections. Yahoo!, along with the regular Web search, offers one of the most complete catalogs on the Web. When you submit a site to a directory, it is queued for editorial review. Usually, when you submit, you are allowed to choose the category your site will be placed under, and the desired description and title for your site, which will show up in a related category. However, the actual presence of your site is subject to the editor’s decision when he or she browses [...]

• 0 4 March 2009

  Ask.com

  Ask.com (http://www.ask.com) Ask.com (formerly Ask Jeeves) is the last crawler-based search engine we are going to speak about. Ask.com supplies its search results to the Iwon search engine and is a member of the Google family of search engines. It was designed as Ask Jeeves, where “Jeeves” is the name of the “gentleman’s personal gentleman”, or valet (illustrated by Marcos Sorensen), fetching answers to any question asked. On September 23, 2005 the company announced plans to phase out Jeeves and on February 27, 2006 the character was disassociated with Ask.com (according to the Wikipedia). Ask.com has acquired DirectHit and Teoma [...]

• 0 4 March 2009

  FAST Search / AllTheWeb and AltaVista

  FAST Search / AllTheWeb and AltaVista (http://www.alltheweb.com) FAST (now called Fast Search and Transfer) is a Norwegian company that specializes in search and filter technology solutions. Some time ago it built the AllTheWeb search engine. In 2003, AltaVista and AllTheWeb were bought out by the Overture engine, the second being bought from FAST Search. Overture, in its turn, was purchased by Yahoo!. It is through this route that AllTheWeb has joined the Yahoo! family of search engines. As a result, AllTheWeb‘s spider is no longer crawling the Web, and you can no longer submit to the engine. Its XML feed [...]