NetGuido

1. A method of searching a plurality of electronically accessible records, said method comprising the steps of: receiving a search query from an originator thereof; searching said records electronically accessible using said query to identify a set of results indicating at least ones of those records that said incorporate at least one component of said search query; analyzing said records of said set to identify one or more underlying themes content of each of said records; Continue reading »

Founded in 2003, Focus International is an international strategy management company. Focused on emerging countries and changing lines, our firm works with business entities, public institutions and non-governmental organizations, which have for main concern to find their marks around and to reach their goals in a global and ever-developing world. Since its creation, International Focus had determinedly believed in the integration of complementary skills. Continue reading »

The traditional search engines like Google, Yahoo, Live Search and Baidu concentrate almost all market share of search engines in the world. A market that becomes totally impenetrable. The amounts invested by the players up in their research and development budget make it difficult for the arrival of newcomers. Many drivers have yet embarked on the adventure, but they remain unknown to the general public. It is always difficult to talk about themselves and make themselves known, even for the greatest. Continue reading »

Restoring balance in the market shares of search engines is what trying to achieve Google’s competitors. Since its inception, Google has awarded a leadership position very difficult to change. In the USA, the engine has reached 50.7% market share (for the month of May 2007 according to Com score). In France, he rises to 84% (in May 2007 according Ad’Oc). However, in June, figures Com score market research at the USA showed an unexpected curve: a loss of 1.2% of market share for Google. This loss has directly benefited Microsoft, whose market share gains have been estimated at 2.9%. Continue reading »

Creating a website is one thing. Getting it listed in search engines and getting a high ranking is quite a different thing. There are many ways to do this, for example by optimizing the design, the code and the content. Here are a few tips specifically aimed at optimizing the content on your website.
How does a search engine work? A search engine collects Internet content by “crawling” (browsing) websites using a so-called spider. Continue reading »

Windew is a search engine on CD-ROM. It responds to the idea of disseminating information on CD ROM with the availability of a search tool for advanced features:
Search full-text document and natural language search phonetic Management of the proximity of the words
Establishment of query words Search by category of documents Research on the dates Unaffected accents, plurals, upper case, lower case Continue reading »

A recent study from the University of Southern California found that a growing number of users find search results less accurate and reliable. Continue reading »

The Moscow Times reports that the leading Russian search engine, Yandex, plans for float shares in an IPO on New York’s Nasdaq stock exchange this fall. They have accredited this to a “banking source with knowledge of the matter”. Yandex is currently the most popular search engine in Russia with approximately 55% market coverage. In comparison, Google currently holds 17-20% of the market. Continue reading »

A system used when the internet was in its infancy may be the answer to more thorough search engines, Chinese researchers say. They propose a search engine that searches via the domain name server (DNS), a system where computers ‘talk’ directly to other computers. Specifically, they propose an engine that searches first by country. Wang Liang and team from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan published details of their search engine on the physics website arXiv, which is owned and operated by Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. Continue reading »

Plans for a dedicated Arabic language search engine could boost the number of Arabic webpages, its developers say. The Saudi-German search engine, called Sawafi, is planned to be launched in the last quarter of 2006.And it could set a tough challenge for international search giants such as Google, MSN and Yahoo, which currently offer a basic Arabic search. There is no [full] Arabic internet search engine on the market. You find so-called search engines, but they involve a directory search, not a local search,” says Hermann Havermann, managing director of German internet tech firm Seekport. Continue reading »