Tags: search engine navigation seo

Here is an introduction to the topic of search engines. Feel free to contribute if you are a registered user (free).

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Introduction

There is so much to say about search engines. We have to start somewhere.
So let's start with a few basic articles on the topic.
Thanks to AltSearchEngines.com for this set of articles:

Part I: What is a Search Engine?
by Nitin Karandikar
http://altsearchengines.com/2007/07/30/what-is-a-search-engine/

Part II: What is Not a Search Engine?
by Kaila Colbin
http://altsearchengines.com/2007/07/31/what-is-not-a-search-engine/

Part III: What is an Alternative Search Engine?
by Kaila Colbin
http://altsearchengines.com/2007/08/01/what-is-an-alternative-search-engine/

Lists

Here is a list of search engines by topic at Wikipedia:
List of search engines
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines

Here is a list of alternative search engines.
The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines, July 2007
http://altsearchengines.com/2007/07/02/the-top-100-alternative-search-engines-july-2007/.

Are search engines becoming the primary method of website navigation? Is search optimization more important than overall structure and hierarchy?

The article Search Engine Optimization More Important Than Navigation Optimization? asks:

As the power and influence of search engines such as Google increase, will Web users bother going to homepages and trying to figure out each site's navigation scheme? Or ... will we just Google everything?
Do you think it's futile for site designers and information architects to struggle with developing effective navigation schemes for their sites ... is search engine optimization (seo) becoming more important than navigation optimization?

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Contributors to this page: Bill Albing and Rick Sapir .
Page last modified on Monday, October 08, 2007 07:15:13 pm EDT by Bill Albing.