A Search Engine is a website that allows its visitors to enter a specific search criteria that they wish to find out information, media, products and services. To create such a simple user-friendly process, search engines have been constantly developed to improve the results they return. The three main Search Engines currently in the UK are:
A search engine can be viewed as a tool designed to search for information. The information can be collected from web pages, images, information and many other types of media. Some search engines also mine data available in newsbooks, databases, or open online directories. Search engines operate automatically following a algorithm to rank websites or are a mixture of algorithmic and human input.
Before search engines existing their was a single list of webservers edited by Tim Berners-Lee. Tim mainted this list on the CERN webserver and a verison of it from 1992 can still be found here: http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/DataSources/WWW/Servers.html
It was only a matter of time before a automated approach to indexing all the information on the web would be developed. The first Web search engine was called Wanlex, it collected information using a program called the World Wide Web Wanderer in 1993.
The the first "full text" crawler-based search engines was WebCrawler, it was released in 1994 and was the first search engine to search for words contained within a document on the web, instead of simply looking at a documents title and description. This has now become the standard way that search engines now collect information.
Google is the leading UK Search Engines in November 2008 and has been for a very long time. As you can see from the figures (from Hitwise) Google has a massive 90.34% of the UK search market.
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75.76% Google.co.uk
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14.58% Google.com
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2.75% uk.search.yahoo.com
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2.09% www.live.com .
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"In the past, the only way to view these documents was to download them and open them in a separate viewer application," says Google. "To provide an alternative, we made it possible to quickly and easily view these files as HTML right in a web browser by clicking 'View as HTML.' This was an improvement, but unfortunately the 'View as HTML' option loses some of the formatting from the original PDF, such as graphics, tables, fonts and other elements."
The new links are based on the same technology that is used by Google Docs and Gmail. Google says they've actually been rolling out the feature in search results since July, and now they have more than half of the PDFs in their index available this way.
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been named the most influential individual in the global technology industry, topping the silicon.com 2009 Agenda Setter's list.
Jobs has made pole position on the list for the second time (the first time being in 2003) - the only person to have achieved this feat in the 10-year history of the list.
The silicon.com Agenda Setters list is voted for by an expert panel which chooses the 50 people who exert the most influence on the worldwide IT industry.
Jobs has made pole position on the list for the second time (the first time being in 2003) - the only person to have achieved this feat in the 10-year history of the list.
The silicon.com Agenda Setters list is voted for by an expert panel which chooses the 50 people who exert the most influence on the worldwide IT industry.
Online ad spending has been fortunate in the economic downturn—recession-resistant due to its high level of accountability, Internet ad revenue growth has remained positive as spending in all other media dropped.
In the UK, the effect has been so dramatic that online took the biggest slice of advertising revenues in the first half of 2009.
US online ad spending revenues were down 5.3% year over year, to $10.9 billion in the first half of 2009, according to figures from the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
“While our preliminary estimates point to another decline in the year’s second half, expect that to be less than the first half’s 5.3% drop,” said David Hallerman, eMarketer senior analyst.
On the positive growth side, search spending was up to reach 47% of the total online spend. And online video ad spending. though still small in absolute terms, was up 38%.
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