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Wikipedia:Database download - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:11:16 -0700

8 Firefox Addons Essential for SEO

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:09:02 -0700

A quick post over at SEOZ.Wordpress.com lists 8 SEO Addons for the Firefox browser to make your link building and search engine optmization life simpler when searching, browsing and comparing.

Public Library of Science

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:08:55 -0700

Firefox Tip: Make Firefox 3's Bookmarks Available to Launchy and Quicksilver

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 11:08:40 -0700

about:config tweak—Change the browser.bookmarks.autoExportHTML value from false to true to get a bookmarks.html file saved to your Firefox profile directory each time you shut down your browser.

Jdem.cz jako search plugin pro Firefox - Misantrop.info - 7.08.2008

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:09:06 -0700

... zkracovač adres jdem.cz – tentokrát vyhledávací plugin pro Mozilla Firefox ... Jakub Brabec využil API Jdem.cz ... pak stačí pouze vybrat ikonku "jdem" mezi...

Introduction to Hibernate Search - Java World

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 10:07:38 -0700

"Hibernate Search encloses Lucene indexing processes into the transaction contexts of Hibernate/JPA, and transparently manages the lifecycle of Lucene Document objects through the event handler...

Zepheira :: The Art of Data

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:12:14 -0700

QuickDrag Firefox Extension

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:09:03 -0700

http://forum.moztw.org/viewtopic.php?t=23568

PicLens | Immersive Views Across the Web

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:08:57 -0700

Wow! Fantastic way to search for videos, images, news, top notch Web2.0 tool.

NICTA | Universal Storage Scheme (mContext)

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:10:31 -0700

Mycroft Project: Search Engine Plugins - Firefox & IE7

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:08:57 -0700

Joomla! Extensions Directory - PixSearch Ajax Search module

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 15:05:23 -0700

Has Mobile Local Search Finally Arrived? - Search Engine Watch

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:13:48 -0700

Yahoo Boss Is So Open, It Runs on Google’s App Engine

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:20:48 -0700

Yahoo! Search Blog

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:20:46 -0700

Build A Custom Search Engine Using Your Social Bookmarks - ReadWriteWeb

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:17:43 -0700

Lead2Amazon:English

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:17:18 -0700

Hayoo!

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:12:39 -0700

OpenGrok at OpenSolaris.org

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:12:10 -0700

Cscope Home Page

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:12:09 -0700

OpenGrok at OpenSolaris.org

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:12:09 -0700

OpenGrok at OpenSolaris.org

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:12:08 -0700

OpenGrok is a fast and usable source code search and cross reference engine. It helps you search, cross...

Nux - Overview

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:08:22 -0700

Nux is an open-source Java toolkit making efficient and powerful XML processing easy. It is geared towards embedded use in high-throughput XML messaging middleware such as large-scale Peer-to-Peer infrastructures, message queues, publish-subscribe

Ubuntu -- Ubuntu Packages Search

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:02:53 -0700

Context-Sensitive Search Via Blogs

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 16:14:51 -0700

By now most of us are familiar with Google’s PageRank algorithm, or at least the principle behind it, whereby a web page is ranked based on who else is linking to it. One key aspect of blogs is that, while a few cover just about everything under the sun, most blogs have specific areas of focus, be it art, news, politics or what have you. Such information is potentially valuable in the context of search because a blog can announce its areas of focus — keywords, in effect — that can be taken into account by search engines, which would then know what topics a specific site tends to cover.

Using existing meta tags within HTML, it would be pretty easy to create a de facto standard in which tags are used to place a blog, as well as individual posts within it, into categories or sets. For example, I used to publish a site, Telephony Design, that was specifically about telecom products and services, which would have been tagged with keywords like telecom, telecommunications, telephone systems, phone, etc.

Imagine if most blog- and site-hosting services asked you to self-describe your site with up to a few dozen keywords. Of course, you can already do this with tags, but it’s unclear to what extent search engines use this information.

In this scenario, when searching via a search engine that recognizes your tags, you could issue a query like “gore (climate)” to get search results that are optimized based on link weights from sites and blogs that describe themselves as climate-related. This isn’t the same as saying “gore AND climate,” because someone who blogs at a climate site might write something about Al Gore that’s not, strictly speaking, climate-related. Essentially this is a way of searching for a topic, as ranked by people (primarily bloggers) who write on several topics or areas of focus.

This isn’t a new idea, of course, since “meta keyword=” has been with us since the earliest days of the web. The trick is to create a subtle variation on search query syntax in which you’re asking to, in effect, “Find X within sites that are usually about Y.” It’s kind of poor man’s approach to the semantic web, but if enough sites and blogs used it, and popular search engines introduced a simple way to filter or weight search results based on it, the method should work.

An important point is that you’re not using the “meta” tag to emphasize a keyword, so your site isn’t more likely to show up if I do a search on “climate.” Instead, what the tag says is that you usually blog about “climate,” among other things. The actual keyword search is based on content elsewhere in the page, so the meta tag is just used in describing a limit set of keywords the content is usually about. Another important point is that if spiders only recognize a limited number of these tags, maybe 20 or so per domain, it will be difficult to spam search engines by stuffing hundreds of tags in a page header.

Is this a Google killer? Hardly. It seems like the kind of thing that could be added to existing search engines, Google included, pretty easily. This might seem like a trivial thing, but it should make search a lot smarter without burdening webmasters with the need to comply with an overly complex semantic web approach. This is also a simple and easily learned query style, so just as users have learned to combine keywords to improve search accuracy, they can use this approach to narrow search results by the type of source, in what amounts to a kind of fuzzy boolean search.

When it came to web services, REST won out over SOAP because of its simplicity. I think the same thing could happen here. After all, this is something even a novice web master could do in a minute — all that’s needed are a few lines of HTML.

Google thinks UK SEO's are a*ses

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:21:50 -0700

ukseoblog - Google Search

Tackling information overload, 10 million documents at a time

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 08:09:12 -0700

Imagine the last time you misplaced an important document right when you needed it most: your plane ticket the day of a flight; your driver's license before the morning commute; the warranty on your radio just as the speakers begin to crackle. A frustrating circumstance, perhaps, but a manageable one given the relatively limited landscape of one's personal items.

Now imagine you can't find a key statistic before a work presentation, a customer detail before a sales pitch, or product spec before a critical design meeting. To find these, you're navigating the opaque universe of your organization's file shares, content systems and databases.

Because we appreciate the universal quality of the first scenario and the high stakes of the second, we've released the latest Google Search Appliance, an enterprise search solution that can index all of an organization's content (up to 10 million documents) in a single box.

We think that searching for the myriad of business information that helps you do your job should be as easy as searching for information on Google.com -- regardless of how much content your organization has, or where it resides. And since the volume of documents, customer contacts, presentations and other data flowing into your office is probably not going to shrink any time soon, giving your IT organization access to a high-capacity single appliance (instead of the dozens that come with typical enterprise search implementations) might save your company expense and administrative hours while making it that much easier for you to find the exact piece of information you need to close that sales deal -- 10 million documents at a time.

As for finding your driver's license, you're on your own. Learn more about our search solutions for businesses.

Posted by Nitin Mangtani, Lead Product Manager, Enterprise Search

MySQL: How do you enable sphinxse (Sphinx Storage Engine) in your mysql installation?

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:09:31 -0700

As you may know mysql fulltext search is not highly scalable. One of the options to get around this scalability limitation, which I prefer, is to use Sphinx. You can use Sphinx with out having to alter your mysql installation. But, if you would like to use from within mysql and not have to [...]

When google ads are spot on.......

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 03:14:18 -0700

Metasearch with clustered results, one click refinement and switching to blog search, image search, forum search, and more.

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 02:56:11 -0700