Archive for February 7th, 2009

What is the process that search engines like Yahoo and Google use to list the order of a search?

Saturday, February 7th, 2009
search engines



My example was that I punched in the name of a book by an Armenian-American author who teaches at Colgate but instead of Amazon being the first in line to come up it was 3rd while a small Turkish sponsored website which refutes the genocide came up 1st. I am this question for no other reason than to understand how these search engines come up with their results as the results disturb me.

Jeffrey

Posted in Google | 1 Comment »

How do i stop search engines from picking up different parts of my site, for its description?

Saturday, February 7th, 2009
search engines



Hello all, my title says it all. For some reason google picked up my content from the footer area, and used it as my site description?

How can i stop major search engines from picking up content from diffrent parts of my site, to use as my site descripion?

How can i make it so they only spider the descripion the site is optimized for?

Google use to crawl my correct site descripion like a few weeks ago, but dont know what happend.

Please help.

Venetta

Posted in seachengines | 5 Comments »

How often do search engines scan the internet for information?

Saturday, February 7th, 2009
search engines



How often do search engines scan the internet for information and update what they’ve got?
No, I meant that how often does the search engine catalogue and update what’s online. So if I search for something today – let’s say “hungry gorillas” and it turns up 10 results and 3 of those websites are then deleted today, they’ll still show up on my search in a few days – how long will it take the search engine to figure out that those 3 websites are no longer online?

Maura

Posted in Other - Internet | 2 Comments »