Search Skill

Web Directories in Internet is a quiet old concept by now, but the overwhelming popularity of directories have increased the number drmatically in the recent past. It inherits the concepts of folders in windows format or directories in DOS, which primarily cater to the need of grouping the required files by the PC owner depending upon his priorities. The initial philosophy still remains unchanged and that is to  segmenting the websites depending upon their nature of business to facilitate the visitors to exercise their options among a wide spread.

The user gets the advantage today that they can search their required information in a much more compact form without getting into the wide set of result set provided by the search engine. So, if you are looking for online shopping, directories catering to online shopping will display only related results in the search or the directory. Even you get the list just by browsing the directory without searching.

The ongoing popularity of directories has attracted the search engine crawlers, spiders and even Google Bot. So, the widespread advantages of directory submission have been extended to most important tools for Search Engine Marketing and most of the website owners have started submitting their websites in the directories matching their business theme. The immense advantage of presence of the websites in bulk has added further impetus to directory submission. Any Internet user gets immense benefits of such grouping concept, where he can gather the information in much lesser efforts and time.

The concept of subject specific directories like Home Web Directory or Search A College have helped the internet community to a large extent as the very name indicates the nature of the directory and the expected available information in such web directories

Once one is quiet comfortable with various searching techniques, he must possess a good idea about the crawling information and related news. We have already furnished a few search engines, other than the most common once, which everybody has been using for quiet a long.

There are several webistes, easily traceable in search engines like google, yahoo etc., which talks on various search news. Even you can get google news in your own website also.

iCrawl is such an website, which deals with crawling information, which includes various facets like brand promotion, search engine marketing etc. The website also lists a lot of recent news in search arena.

Another way is to subscribe in mailing lists of various search engine marketing and search engine optimiation companies, where they will update you through email.

Do you know that the search engines vary a lot for each search activity?

Lets us assume that you are searching a particular keyword or phrase in different search engines and the search result may vary for each search engine. Here is an salient example, we had performed a search with the phrase software companies in 3 leading search engines Google, Yahoo amd MSN, our obseravation is as follows:

Google shows the result as

The Yahoo shows a result set like

the result again varies a lot in MSN

Why like this?

The first and foremost reason is that the algorithm of each search engine is different which decides the priorirty of listing. There are certain other parameters like search engine submissions, frequency of changes, site updates as well as featured listing.

So, perhaps searching in any one search engine may not give you the desired result, it is recommended to search in different search engines. Again listing or ranking in search engines hardly gurantee the quality of services/ products!

Here is a list of some search engines, which may interest you. Some of them offer news, which helps you to remain up-to-date.

http://news.google.com/

http://news.yahoo.com/

http://news.altavista.com/

http://www.daypop.com/

http://www.ananova.com/

http://www.net2one.com/

http://www.newsnow.co.uk/

http://www.newstrove.com/

http://www.wn.com/

http://dailyearth.com/

http://www.headlinespot.com/

http://www.newsdirectory.com/

http://blogging-news.info

http://www.crayon.net/

http://www.newsisfree.com

The simplest way is simply type the phrase/ keyword, you are looking for. As an example if you are looking for Web Solutions company, type Web Solutions Company is the search bar.

If you want Web Solutions Company in Canada, then type the same. Dont worry Search Engines like Google/ Yahoo will send you a message that it ignores the common words like in, still your purpose is served.

You can also try Web Solutions company + Canada. You will find a different set of result. It will list with equal priority to Web Solutions company and Canda, as these two are different keywords to the search engines, but obviously the AND conditions will have the top priority.