Search Engines

Where would the web be without search engines? How would you have found this page without a search engine?

Best practices when moving your site (#)

Posted in Search Engines on Friday, April 18th, 2008

The Official Google Webmaster Central Blog provides their list of things to do when moving a site to a new domain. If you ever have to take this up and are worried about How do you do it without hurting your site's performance in Google search results?, then be sure to bookmark this link.

Ideally, you should contact the webmaster of each site that links to yours and ask them to update the links to point to the page on your new domain. If this isn't practical, make sure that all pages with incoming links are redirected to your new site.

Not sure if that first part would ever be practical...

Rollyo (#)

Posted in Search Engines on Wednesday, September 28th, 2005 | Via

From the website: Rollyo is the fast, easy way to create personal search engines using only the sources you trust. Full of Web 2.0 buzz phrases like "Share Your Searchrolls", the engine is powered by Yahoo! search technology and of course it also has added Ajaxy Goodness.

Some High Rollers - their term for their high profile members (or more popular search engines) - include Debra Messing, Seth Godin and Dooce. Who would have thought those three names would ever be in a sentence together...

Koders - Source Code Search Engine (#)

Posted in Search Engines on Sunday, January 23rd, 2005

From the site Koders is a search engine for source code. It enables developers to easily search and browse source code in thousands of projects hosted at hundreds of open source repositories.

Ask Jeeves Blog (#)

Posted in Search Engines on Wednesday, February 16th, 2005 | Via

The Ask Jeeves weblog.

Google Latent Semantic Indexing (#)

Posted in Search Engines on Wednesday, February 16th, 2005

From the article: LSI considers documents that have many words in common to be semantically close, and ones with few words in common to be semantically distant. Get out your thesaurus and start stemming your keywords! LSI may have reared its head in the latest GOOG update...

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The PHP Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks

Like the other books listed here, this provides a great reference for the PHP developer looking to have the right answers from the right people at their fingertips. I tend to pull this off the shelf when I need to delve into new territory and usually find a workable solution to keep development moving. This only needs to happen once and you recoup the price of the book in time saved from having to develop the solution or find the right pattern for getting the job done..