Saturday, 13 February 2010

Google’s New Universal Search

Google announce the first steps toward a universal search model, offering users a more integrated and comprehensive way to search online.


Google's vision for universal search is to ultimately search across all its content sources, compare and rank all the information in real time. Beginning today, Google will incorporate information from a variety of previously separate sources – including videos, images, news, maps, books, and websites – into a single set of results.

Google is also in the process of deploying a new technical infrastructure that will enable the search engine to handle the computationally intensive tasks required to produce universal search results. The company is also releasing the first stage of an upgraded ranking mechanism that automatically and objectively compares different types of information. As always, Google™ search results are ranked automatically by algorithms to deliver the best results to users anywhere in the world. You can read the more on this press release here.

WEB CEO is a one of the most important free Search Engine Optimisation programmes, the link to this free programme is available on our web site One of the segments of the WEB CEO programme is a tracking tool, [this is a paid for addition]. They track over 300,000 websites and have produced graphs from January 2009 to January 2010, showing where visitors have come from to these websites. As expected Google are still the main source of visitors, what is interesting is where the other visitors come from....
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Vic Farron, RFT Express

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