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The Search Industry Blog
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By Nathan Enns on Thursday, March 31st, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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Here is a quote from the press release:
"Copernic announced today the official launch of its new and improved desktop search product, Copernic Desktop Search (CDS) version 1.5. This production release, launched after five weeks of extensive beta testing, contains major enhancements to the company's flagship product."
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By Nathan Enns on Wednesday, March 30th, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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Go check out 99 Problems (the Google Re-mix)
Nothing like combining Rap with Google... I love it for many reasons :-)
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By Nathan Enns on Tuesday, March 29th, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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Here is a quote from the press release they sent me:
"Indeed LLC announced today the launch of Indeed.com, a search engine for jobs offering job seekers free access to millions of employment opportunities across the Web. In beta since November 2004, Indeed.com includes all the job listings from over 500 websites - job boards, the top 200 newspapers, hundreds of associations and company career pages."
I tried it out and it looks good to me!
Good luck guys :-)
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By Nathan Enns on Saturday, March 26th, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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According to this story the meta search engine BlowSearch has released a PPC advertising program.
It looks like AFP and Google are not the only companies affected by the lawsuit over Google News.
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By Nathan Enns on Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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I recently figured out that the link to the full interview between me and Mark Maunder was broken. I wanted to let you all know that it is fixed now. If you would like to read the interview please visit http://blog.fybersearch.com/interview-with-mark-maunder.php
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By Nathan Enns on Tuesday, March 22nd, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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Ask Jeeves has posted about being bought by IAC.
Yep, I am turning 20 years old today. I look forward to continuing to provide everyone following the development of FyberSearch with search industry news and of course, more information technology.
Speaking of search engine technology, some of you may have noticed a major improvement to the relevancy of the search results, more advanced features and a much better advanced page.
I will be making a post in the next few days covering all the changes in detail as well as a press release that will announce the major updates. Until then, I will let you try to figure out what changed ;-)
Try these example search queries to start with:
ICANN
NBA
Google
Fred Meyer
ZDNet
AFP is suing Google for using their stories and pictures without permission.
MSN now has a shopping search engine in beta.
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By Nathan Enns on Thursday, March 17th, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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Go check out Yahoo! 360 and stay in touch with your friends and family.
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By Nathan Enns on Wednesday, March 16th, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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Yes, you can now go and edit your business listings in for Google's local search engine.
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By Nathan Enns on Tuesday, March 15th, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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The FyberSearch Newsletter #37
This is a special addition of the FyberSearch newsletter. Instead of the normal content, you will get to read a 10 question interview with Mark Maunder, the founder of the job search engine WorkZoo. You can view an online copy of this interview at The Search Industry Blog. Enjoy!
WorkZoo was founded by Mark Maunder and Kerry Boyte who are husband and wife. I was very impressed by the job search technology they have put together and am excited that Mark had enough time to do this interview with me (Nathan Enns) for The Search Industry Blog. For permission to copy this interview please contact FyberSearch.
Question #1
Nathan Enns: What motivated you and Kerry decide to start your own job search engine and what is your background in the search industry?
Mark Maunder: Kerry and I both have backgrounds in software consulting. While we were both consulting in London we would keep an eye on most of the job boards and it became time consuming. So in our spare time we set up a meta-search that searched the top 10 UK job boards and combined the results. The site back then was very basic, but we built up a small user base. In 2003 we moved to California and started looking for business ideas. The USA has more than 100 times the number of job boards in the UK and WorkZoo seemed like an obvious fit. So in 2004 I started full-time work on a US version and changed WorkZoo from a meta-search to a full-blown search engine with it's own crawler and index.
Question #2
Nathan Enns: When was WorkZoo officially launched?
Mark Maunder: The original UK version of WorkZoo was launched in late 2001. The US version has been around as a meta-search since early 2004 and we officially launched the new search engine with its own index on 24 February this year.
Question #3
Nathan Enns: You recently announced that WorkZoo is able to index about 45,000 new job listings a day. Without revealing any secrets, can you tell us about how it is able to process that much data every day?
Mark Maunder: Just to clarify, that is the number of jobs we are currently indexing per day. We can handle 5 times that with our existing server capacity.
The first stage is our crawler that actually fetches each job from the job boards. The crawler is called ZooBot and is multi-threaded so it fetches multiple jobs simultaneously without overloading any one web site. We respect the robots.txt exclusion standard on all the sites we crawl and provide detailed instructions on our web site for webmasters to limit the amount of data we display for their site or to limit the rate at which we crawl them.
As each job is fetched, we do some initial processing on the HTML and we compress the HTML and store that and a plain-text version of the page ready for the indexer. The compressed HTML is what we used to provide cached versions of each job.
The next stage is an indexer that crunches through the job data created by the crawler and creates the final index we use for searching. The indexer determines the geographic location (longitude and latitude) of each job and indexes all the words in the job title and body.
We continually check job boards for new jobs throughout the day and have made our crawler intelligent enough so that it only fetches a small number of pages if there are no new jobs. In other words we don't crawl an entire job site just to find that there is only one new job.
All the above runs on a single server. Every hour we copy t
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By Nathan Enns on Wednesday, March 9th, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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Look out Google Adsense... here comes the Yahoo Publisher Network!
The Search Engine Watch Blog has the story.
Google Desktop is now out of beta and officially launched.
I hope everyone had a good weekend. I spent part of my Sunday fixing issues caused by people running automated scripts on the add URL tools. If you had some problems using FyberSearch recently or if it has been slower than normal this week you have them to thank. Either way I have a better system in place now and if someone finds a way around it I will know much quicker.
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The major update made to FyberSearch this week is the addition of a new type of advertising solution. FyberSearch now allows you to advertise your graphical ads on the search result pages as well as your text ads. Go take a look at the press release.
Graphical ads may be beneficial to you because users will get to know your business name and logo even if they do not actually click on your ad. This concept is called "branding" and is something all businesses do in one way or another. It is not necessary to use graphical ads but they are typically more effective than just text ads if done correctly.
There are a few requirements that each image must meet before it is accepted. The smallest image that can be used is 88x20 and the largest is 468x60. To save your bandwidth the image will be copied to FyberSearch servers. Therefore, the maximum disk space any image can take up is 12 kilobytes.
If you are interested please go to ads.fybersearch.com. Just like text ads, graphical advertisements are instantly setup. FyberSearch checks the graphical ads in real time and informs you of any errors on the spot. After the setup process is complete, your ad will begin appearing on FyberSearch web search results.
News from The Search Industry Blog:
February 26, 2005: Teoma Founder Speaks
February 25, 2005: List of Search Engine Blogs
February 25, 2005: SEMPO Gets New Board Of Directors
February 24, 2005: Google Showtimes
February 24, 2005: AOL Local Search
February 24, 2005: New Job Search Engine WorkZoo
February 23, 2005: Yahoo Image Search Upgrade
February 23, 2005: Picsearch Providing Images to MSN Search
February 22, 2005: The Pandia Search Engine Awards 2004
Please feel free to send me an email if you have any questions, comments or suggestions.
-- Nathan Enns
URL: http://www.fybersearch.com
Email: owner@fybersearch.com
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By Nathan Enns on Saturday, March 5th, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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You can now search for weather by web or phone on Google now according to the Google Blog.
Here is a quote from the story:
"Projects on display during a Microsoft Research event yesterday included a method for personalizing Web search results based on the contents of the files on an individual user's computer hard drive."
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By Nathan Enns on Thursday, March 3rd, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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Yep, Lycos will be using Ask Jeeves to power their search engine now.
Here is the press release.
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By Nathan Enns on Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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Today Yahoo has turned 10 and is giving you a present.
By the way, I would love to hear someone yodel "happy birthday to Yahoo!".
(Note: you have to visit this site to have a clue what I am talking about.)
Here is a copy of the press release announcing the new option to promote your site using graphical ads on FyberSearch:
Burien, WA -- February 28, 2005 - FyberSearch now allows graphical advertisements to be displayed on search result pages under search queries selected by the advertiser.
Graphical advertising provides business with the opportunity to brand their business in a way that text ads do not. Some companies care more about getting their name and logo out to users than how many clicks they receive. This is why FyberSearch now provides these companies with a highly targeted graphical advertising solution on search result pages.
There are a few requirements that each image must meet before it is accepted. The smallest image that can be used is 88x20 and the largest is 468x60. To save the advertiser's bandwidth the image is copied to FyberSearch servers. Therefore, the maximum disk space any image can take up is 12 kilobytes.
Anyone can begin advertising their website by visiting ads.fybersearch.com. Just like text ads, graphical advertisements are instantly setup. FyberSearch checks the graphical ads in real time and informs the advertiser of any errors on the spot. After the setup process is complete, the ad will begin appearing on FyberSearch web search results.
About FyberSearch:
FyberSearch is a search engine technology company founded by 18 year old Nathan Enns in November 2003. Now 19, Nathan continues to be the sole owner of the business. FyberSearch’s mission is "To make the entire web useful to each individual by providing them with the control they need to receive the results they desire." FyberSearch offers many advanced features that users can easily modify until they find the information they are looking for.
Nathan Enns, Owner and Founder
Company: FyberSearch
URL: http://www.fybersearch.com
Email: owner@fybersearch.com
Phone: 206-856-0101
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