Can a search engine use collaborative filtering? Why?
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Collaborative filtering is when a service recommends things to you based on the behavior of other users and your similarity to them.  A simple example is when Amazon.com says "people who bought this book also bought..."\n\nA search engine could use collaborative filtering, but it would have to track information about everyone, which might raise privacy concerns.\n\nI'm not sure what you mean about "finding the non-collaborators," though.
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Why don't you use YAHOO search engine?
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Several criteria determine the amount of traffic your website gets but by far the most important are to have a good search engine ranking and good links to your site.\n\nSearch engines use a complicated and secret algorithm to determine which sites are placed where in the rankings but there are several tricks you can employ to boost you ranking.\n\nThere's lots of articles on the net to do with Search Engine Optimization (SEO) but I ignore all of them and do things my way.  This seems to work as every site I've created ranks within the top 6 on Google even when there's millions of results found.  A site I created less than a week ago is already ranked number 1 by Yahoo and Google.\n\nThese are some of my tips...\n\n-- GIVE YOUR PAGE A GOOD TITLE TAG --\nOne of the first things a search engine looks at is the title tag of the page. When writing the tag use the same words people are likely to key in when using a search engine.  For example, if your page is about space travel then a title such as "Space Travel - Be a Shuttle Rocket Tourist and Journey to the Moon" is much better than "All about flying to the moon and back".  Why?  Because the first tag includes words people are likely to use in a search engine such as space, travel, shuttle, rocket, tourist, journey and moon.\n\n-- GIVE YOUR PAGE A RELEVANT NAME --\nSearch engines look at page names.  If your domain was mydomain.com then a page name such as mydomain.com/space-travel will do much better than mydomain.com/section1/part2/page3.\n\n-- USE THE DESCRIPTION TAG --\nSome search engines including Google support this tag - others don't.  \n\nCompare a Yahoo search for 'Black Eyed Peas' to a Google Search.  Both of them find blackeyedpeas.com but Yahoo describe it as "... Multi-platinum 2-time Grammy-winners The Black Eyed Peas cross an historic threshold as their hit ... The Black Eyed Peas, Sergio Mendes, John Legend, Justin Timberlake and others ...".  Google uses the description tag and describes it as "Official site includes videos, message boards, tour dates, and photo gallery. Additional content is available to members."\n\n-- USE THE ALT TAG --\nSome search engines ignore the alt tag, others include it when spidering your site.  Not only that but some visually impaired users and power-surfers who turn off images rely on alt tags.\n\n-- FLASH ANIMATION / SCRIPTING / DHTML --\nSpiders are unable to follow these linking systems.  If all your pages are linked using Flash, DHTML or scripts then the spider won't follow the links and your pages won't get indexed.  If you're designing your site this way the least you can do it to include conventional text links to the main pages of your site and ideally to a Site Map that contains text links to every page.\n\n-- SPLASH PAGES --\nThese are the animated front pages to a site, usually nothing there other than an animation and a 'Skip Intro' link.  Spiders don't like Splash and as this is the doorway to your site think carefully before creating one.\n\n-- DOORWAY PAGES --\nThese are pages that exist on a site but are not accessible to the visitor, if someone tries to access the page they are redirected elsewhere.  Historically webmasters created such pages and stuffed them full of popular keywords and phrases.  \n\nSpiders have wised up to Doorways and there's nothing better for getting yourself pushed right down in the rankings or kicked out altogether than use of Doorway Pages.\n\n-- HIDDEN TEXT --\nSome web pages hide text by printing white text on a white background for example.  Often such text has nothing at all to do with the site but is just a list of popular words and phrases used to draw people to the site.  Spiders can spot tricks like these and will penalise sites that employ such tactics.\n\n-- PUT A HEADING ON YOUR PAGE --\nThe heading should closely match the page title.  You need to format the heading as a Heading Style a
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Improving the keywords in your content might not have an effect.  Google, for one, counts how many quality links are linking to your site and uses that and a bunch of other stuff to determine ranking.  I'd do two things: get people to link to your site using verbose pages and like you said, add more content to your site.\n\nYou might even stop by http://www.webmasterworld.com/ and take a look at what they've had to say.  Lot of experts there.
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Make original content that people like and you shouldn't have a problem. The only thing you should modify for the search engines is the meta tags. Javascripts/plugins/scripts are just ignored and it's no big deal. Just dont use flash if you want them to make contextual references.\n\nMarkup softwares wont help. They'll still parse your page in a fraction of a second and extract/order non tagged words.
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My dear friend, search engine hits don't come overnight. It takes a lot of time for a website to feature on great seach engines like Yahoo and Google. I own a website that I created at about the end of January this year, and only last week I found it listed at number 29 only after all my keywords have been searched for at once! You have to be patient!\n\nWhen search engines build their powerful databases, they perform what is called indexing. This is done by special software called "bots". They start at the most popular sites on the net, and then follow every possible link on those pages, then all the next possible links, etc. They spider almost the whole web like this.\n\nFor those reasons, Yahoo might not know about you if you don't have a listed website that is linking to you. I would suggest you go and surf for other websites of your kind and add your page to their list of links. (Search engines also judge the popularity of your site by how many other sites are linking to you.)\n\nWhile you are waiting, there are some things you can do to make your website feature quicker. I don't know how familiar you are with HTML meta tags and the search-engine friendliness of your page, but I'll explain it anyway.\n\nMeta tags is ordinary HTML tags that you place inside your website code. They serve the primary purpose of giving information about your website. Some of them give the keywords that you would like your site to be searched for, others provide a short description of your site which will be shown on your listing if you feature on Yahoo. There are countless other meta tags which I have yet to explore, but they make your site a great deal more search-engine friendly.\n\nI have some really good software that helps me make my site more search-engine friendly. It is easy-to-use and completely virus-free (trust me). Best of all, it is free! It contains a complete explanation of meta tags, and also provides tips on selecting the right keywords for your page. It also has a feature that can check your pages for any errors or other things that would make search engines not like you. You can obtain it at http://www.webceo.com/\n\nHope my advice helped...
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Most advanced search engines such as google, have many criteria to rank web sites. One of the major ones is how many other web pages link to your site.. So you can start by giving your link to other websites...
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Actually what I make out of your question, what you are talking about is improving the page rank of the web page so that it comes up higher in the google search.. if that is the question then here is the explanation: let us assume that 10 different websites have link to your kitten website then the google crawler takes it as 10 votes and depending upon the importance and popularity and content of those 10 websites, the page rank of your web page would be decided automatically.. \n\none way of doing that was through blogs but google has started overlooking blogs sites.. one famous example is of "Miserable Failure" which leads you to the biography of george bush...
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curiosity and good search engine skills
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depends on how you set up the search criteria or the words or phrases you use.\n\nI'm still at a loss to understand why the search engines don't reference each other.  Like if you search for something on Google and can't find it, why won't Google give you a link to another search engine?\n\nBut, generally speaking, search engines are good! :)
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Google or any of the other major search engines do not use 'aesthetic appeal' as a variable when deciding where to rank websites for a given keyword/keyphrase.\n\nThey do however use over 100 other variables.  One of these is quality inbound links and transcripts.net has over 600 of them which is a good start. \n\nTo read about the relative importance of some of these variables look through this excellent Tutorial http://www.seo-blog.com/tutorial.php
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Wow - I had no idea there was a search engine optimization category!
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Here is a great article to help you out:\n\nhttp://ezinearticles.com/?Basic-On-Page-Search-Engine-Optimization&id=214791
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Google isn't as picky. I get many many many more results using google.
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look at memoriblia sites through a search engine
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★★ HELP WITH SEARCHING ★★\n\n◙ I used to have so much trouble finding what I wanted. That's because I didn't know the best methods for filtering my searches. Now I rarely have trouble finding what I want. Thanks to a great web site called GoogleGuide. Click on the "Novices Click Here" button to read about Google's fantastic search syntax. Yahoo has some of these operators too. But not even close to the amount that Google has. Below are a few examples.\n\nsite:briefcase.yahoo.com (mp3)\nintitle:?parent directory? (mpg|avi|wmv|mov) "strauss"\ninurl:forum intitle:recipes intext:cookies\n\n☞ http://www.googleguide.com/\n\n◙ Some of what you will learn at the GoogleGuide was used to create the following special search tools.\n\n☞ http://www.soople.com/\n\n◙ Compare Yahoo and Google search results in side-by-side frames here.\n\n☞ http://www.gahooyoogle.com/\n\n◙ You'll get pretty much the same tutorial as the GoogleGuide has by reading the first few chapters of this book.\n\n☞ http://tinyurl.com/6zx2\n\n◙ Here are two more great sites to help you.\n\n☞ http://tinyurl.com/qey8v\n☞ http://tinyurl.com/2ywye\n\n◙ You shouldn't rely on just one search engine. There are many really good ones and they don't all have the same things in them. One might have links to HTML sites etc. and another might not. There are currently 800,000 search engines. Most of them are specailty search engines. Here are several hundred generalized search engines. Plus a few specialized search engines I threw in for my own use.\n\n☞ http://dwight.clickthesky.com/search/\n\n◙ Google is the very best full-text search engine. But when you want a much deeper search you should use the number one cluster search engine.\n\n☞ http://www.vivisimo.com/\n\nIf you are in a really big hurry you can search many search engines at once by using meta search engines. These will give you the top-ten most-relative results of each engine they search.\n\n☞ http://www.ask.com/\n☞ http://www.msn.com/\n☞ http://www.dogpile.com/\n☞ http://www.altavista.com/\n☞ http://www.webcrawler.com/\n\n◙ Here is a way to search many different search engines from a single portal. I use this everyday to research your questions before answering them. Select a resource from the dropdown menu, type in your keywords, and click search.\n\n☞ http://www.searchalot.com/
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You need to get a good ranking in the search engines and establish a network of other sites that link to yours.\n\nSearch engines use a complicated and secret algorithm to determine which sites are placed where in the rankings but there are several tricks you can employ to boost you ranking.\n\nThere's lots of articles on the net to do with Search Engine Optimization (SEO) but I ignore all of them and do things my way.  This seems to work as every site I've created ranks within the top 6 on Google even when there's millions of results found.  A site I created less than a week ago is already ranked number 1 by Yahoo and Google.\n\nThese are some of my tips...\n\n-- GIVE YOUR PAGE A GOOD TITLE TAG --\nOne of the first things a search engine looks at is the title tag of the page. When writing the tag use the same words people are likely to key in when using a search engine.  For example, if your page is about space travel then a title such as "Space Travel - Be a Shuttle Rocket Tourist and Journey to the Moon" is much better than "All about flying to the moon and back".  Why?  Because the first tag includes words people are likely to use in a search engine such as space, travel, shuttle, rocket, tourist, journey and moon.\n\n-- GIVE YOUR PAGE A RELEVANT NAME --\nSearch engines look at page names.  If your domain was mydomain.com then a page name such as mydomain.com/space-travel will do much better than mydomain.com/section1/part2/page3.\n\n-- USE THE DESCRIPTION TAG --\nSome search engines including Google support this tag - others don't.  \n\nCompare a Yahoo search for 'Black Eyed Peas' to a Google Search.  Both of them find blackeyedpeas.com but Yahoo describe it as "... Multi-platinum 2-time Grammy-winners The Black Eyed Peas cross an historic threshold as their hit ... The Black Eyed Peas, Sergio Mendes, John Legend, Justin Timberlake and others ...".  Google uses the description tag and describes it as "Official site includes videos, message boards, tour dates, and photo gallery. Additional content is available to members."\n\n-- USE THE ALT TAG --\nSome search engines ignore the alt tag, others include it when spidering your site.  Not only that but some visually impaired users and power-surfers who turn off images rely on alt tags.\n\n-- FLASH ANIMATION / SCRIPTING / DHTML --\nSpiders are unable to follow these linking systems.  If all your pages are linked using Flash, DHTML or scripts then the spider won't follow the links and your pages won't get indexed.  If you're designing your site this way the least you can do it to include conventional text links to the main pages of your site and ideally to a Site Map that contains text links to every page.\n\n-- SPLASH PAGES --\nThese are the animated front pages to a site, usually nothing there other than an animation and a 'Skip Intro' link.  Spiders don't like Splash and as this is the doorway to your site think carefully before creating one.\n\n-- DOORWAY PAGES --\nThese are pages that exist on a site but are not accessible to the visitor, if someone tries to access the page they are redirected elsewhere.  Historically webmasters created such pages and stuffed them full of popular keywords and phrases.  \n\nSpiders have wised up to Doorways and there's nothing better for getting yourself pushed right down in the rankings or kicked out altogether than use of Doorway Pages.\n\n-- HIDDEN TEXT --\nSome web pages hide text by printing white text on a white background for example.  Often such text has nothing at all to do with the site but is just a list of popular words and phrases used to draw people to the site.  Spiders can spot tricks like these and will penalise sites that employ such tactics.\n\n-- PUT A HEADING ON YOUR PAGE --\nThe heading should closely match the page title.  You need to format the heading as a Heading Style and not simply use bold and underlined text.\n\n-- REPEA