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The search engine landscape has undergone some incredible changes in recent years; not only in the refinement of technology, but also in various partnerships between search companies.
You may be running your queries on search engine X, but who is actually supplying the results? It may be another company altogether!
So who is feeding whom? The following is a breakdown current as at August 2005 of various search companies and their relationships with other engines....
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Businesses struggle daily trying to figure out the mystery behind how to succeed on the internet. Pay per click, directory listings, SEO, direct traffic programs, and then there is the thing just around the corner which you always hear is the next best way to drive traffic to your web site. The funny thing is everyone already knows the answer of how to succeed on the internet and they are just failing to connect the dots from one world to the other.
It astonishes me how everyone makes so much more out of the internet then there really is. The internet is simply a mirrored image of our every day world built on technology instead of earth and water...
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If you've been surfing search engine optimization web sites, you've no doubt come across the above being mentioned on many occasions.
Crawlers, Agents, Bots, Robots and Spiders
Five terms all describing basically the same thing, but in this article they'll be referred to collectively as spiders or "agents". A search engine spider is an automated software program used to locate and collect data from web pages for inclusion...
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