22 September 2008 3 Comments

The battle of the search engines

One way to decide the battle of the big three search engines (Google, Yahoo!, Live Search) is this one: Google vs. Yahoo!: Google vs. Live Search: Yahoo! vs. Live Search: You can vote on Search Engine Rap Battle.

14 February 2008 4 Comments

Google Valentine’s Day logo February 14th 2008

I guess you noticed today is Valentine’s Day and just like last year Google changed the logo at the Google start page: Clicking the logo takes you to the result page for “valentine’s day“. Yahoo! did a similar thing with their logo. Some birds fly in, start flirting and kiss at the end: Clicking the [...]

21 January 2008 2 Comments

Is Yahoo! going for universal search?

It’s only a few months since Google decided to provide its search engine result pages with additional media. The so called “universal search” was born. The Google SERP’s no longer only offer webpages, but also news, images, videos, maps, stock information,… Sure it will make our SEO work more difficult, but also more challenging. And [...]

13 December 2007 3 Comments

How the big ones implement their 404 page not found error pages

Yesterday while browsing on YouTube I ran across a 500 Internal Server Error. Never happened to me before on YouTube, but I didn’t mind. The YouTube 500 Error page seems to contain a funny message, and if there is something I like it is funny errorhandling. A team of highly trained monkeys has been dispatched [...]

26 November 2007 3 Comments

How to get your blog indexed by the Search Engines

So you managed to set up your new blog. You were much excited about it, told all your friends and some of them even took the effort of paying your new site a visit, but now the amount of daily visitors dropped to somewhere near freezing point. How do all those websites generate traffic ? [...]

16 November 2007 2 Comments

True Knowledge, should Google be aware?

Also fascinated by Search Engines like Google, Yahoo! and MSN / Live Search? Also wondering what the future of search might bring? Some sort of Search Engines 2.0? Artificial intelligence? Or intelligence based on user generated knowledge? Search no more! True Knowledge might have the answer…