Search engines

Articles about search engines, crawlers, indexing.

Robots.txt hits analysis

Brief study on how search engines hit the robots.txt during a short period of time.
3 years 14 weeks ago

During April 1st until May 26th (+ few hours from May 27th) period i ran a test over one of my website's robots.txt file, counting all the external hits. Before we go any further you must take the following data into account:

Search engines and dynamic content issues

Find out what links can harm your rankings, and how to use robots.txt
3 years 23 weeks ago

The problem of taming search engines such as Googlebot, Slurp, MSNbot, Teoma, Gigabot and so on appears frequently when you have a large and dynamic site. There are some sections that can have approximately the same content, like the situation when...

Krugle updates

3 years 42 weeks ago

krugle Links – Save and View Past Searches krugle links allow you to bookmark your search results and add a label. You can then reference your search results later or share your findings with others. krugle Codespaces – Explore...

About Ask Jeeves / Ask.com crawler

4 years 3 weeks ago

IAC Search & Media (formerly Ask Jeeves, Inc.) was founded in 1996 in Berkeley, California by David Warthen, CTO and veteran software developer, and Garrett Gruener, venture capitalist at Alta Partners and founder of Virtual Microsystems....

About Convera Search Engine

4 years 6 weeks ago

ConveraCrawler is an experimental web crawler under development since April 2004. ConveraCrawler is owned and operated by Convera Corporation as part of an effort to develop a state-of-the-art searchable Web index.

Exabot

4 years 6 weeks ago

Exalead is the company that produced Exabot and it was founded by François Bourdoncle, a pioneer of the search engine software market, which is also the president and chief executive officer of Exalead.

Krugle search engine was officialy launched

4 years 6 weeks ago

On June 14th Krugle - find code, find answers -(www.krugle.com) went live after a period of beta-testing. During this period they've received over 4700 pieces of feedback.

Verasys 2k

4 years 7 weeks ago

About the project The project started as my interest for database mining growed. I was always troubled about how Google, Yahoo and other major search engines gather and show the results for a certain query. Every database developer knows that...

Search engines and user-agents list (2006)

Search engines, web crawlers and user-agents
4 years 20 weeks ago

I've created a list with active web crawlers, web query/crawl tools, captured on a web site of mine. I've started the logging a few months ago, and the results are pretty amazing, seems like a lot of companies and institutes are making web research...