The Kartoo Search Engine

On http://www.kartoo.com/ there is a wonderfull search engine that works visual. The words you look for are investigated and a visual presentation of the results is given. You can easily deepen you search and visualize the sites that are offered.

Nedstats - search engines

The Search engine Google has picked up on this blog quite well. It has brought visitors from the different countries as you can see,.

Search Engines - Theory

Search engines provide an interface to a group of items that enables users to specify criteria about an item of interest and have the engine find the matching items. The criteria are referred to as a search query. In the case of text search engines, the search query is typically expressed as a set of words that identify the desired concept that one or more documents may contain.[1]

There are several styles of search query syntax that vary in strictness. Where as some text search engines require users to enter two or three words separated by white space, other search engines may enable users to specify entire documents, pictures, sounds, and various forms of natural language. Some search engines apply improvements to search queries to increase the likelihood of providing a quality set of items through a process known as query expansion.

index-based search engineThe list of items that meet the criteria specified by the query is typically sorted, or ranked, in some regard so as to place the most relevant items first. Ranking items by relevance (from highest to lowest) reduces the time required to find the desired information. Probabilistic search engines rank items based on measures of similarity and sometimes popularity or authority. Boolean search engines typically only return items which match exactly without regard to order.

To provide a set of matching items quickly, a search engine will typically collect metadata about the group of items under consideration beforehand through a process referred to as indexing. The index typically requires a smaller amount of computer storage, and provides a basis for the search engine to calculate item relevance. The search engine may store of copy of each item in a cache so that users can see the state of the item at the time it was indexed or for archive purposes or to make repetitive processes work more efficiently and quickly.

Notably, some search engines do not store an index. Crawler, or spider type search engines may collect and assess items at the time of the search query. Meta search engines simply reuse the index or results of one or more other search engines.

source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engines

Search Queries - 1 October 2007

This is also an interesting feature in eXTReMe Tracker: You can see which queries were asked through search-engines. That explains how people are finding this Statistical Data Blog. Only the last 20 quesries are saved, so that isn't that helpfull for the search of why visitors come to your site.

Add URL to Google

Because a site has to be found the URL has to be indexed in the major search-engines. There are expensive tools for this, but a first right step is to report your new site to Google:

http://www.google.nl/addurl/?hl=nl&continue=/addurl

Offcourse there is a special box where you have to type in a code. This is to prevent programms to send constantly URL's to the Google database that need indexing.

Google is a source for other search-engines as well. I'll come back to the theme search-engines soon. A first indexing gets into the system, and it might start to cause visitors that come tou your site because of specific words that you mention on your site.