search-engines

Why would M# be harder to Google than C#?

I read just now in a comment on another question titled Effective Googling for short names C# isn't bad to Google for at all. It would be a lot harder if it were called M#, by the way. Why? What am I missing? ...

how to build a search with new features ?

i want to build a search engine for my project this year , so what i need to implement in my project to get best grade ( i need new ideas for search for video or audio ... ) , how and where i can start to learn about this topic . i want to use java and any framework on it i know that i cant build a google like , but i need to implement ...

getting pagerank

how can I retrieve pagerank of any page indexed by google ? Has google any api or page for this ?? ...

How to get sites identical in content but different in language and TLD indexed by major search engines?

Hi! Is it possible to get two "editions" of a website both indexed by the major search engines (Google/Yahoo/Bing/Teoma) which differ in content language only and are hosted under different TLDs? Say English content is available at "http://domain.com/", German content at "http://domain.de/". Now, if e.g. Google.com is used I want it to ...

how to avoid some pages from being indexed by search engines?

There is rel="nofollow" but I am not sure about this if it prevents indexing. What do you say? Any ideas Respect UPDATE Sorry I wasn't very clear. There a page a.php, and it has links b.php, c.php, d.php and some other text content. The link to b.php is only relevant if the users are on a.php, and doesn't really returns any output. It...

Navigation links in Google (or other search engines) results?

Hello all, Search for 'OpenOffice' on Google, and you'll see that the first search result's description contains navigation links and an option to "Search openoffice.org". If you search for 'WinSplit Revolution' or 'Stack Overflow' or even 'ftp client' , you'll get similar links. Is this something Google does by itself or can it be con...

What new Sphinx features are considered to be in beta?

This is a follow-up question to this question. Sphinx mentions on the downloads page: Note that 'beta' only applies to new features (RT indexes etc), everything else is stable. What is the "etc" in the new features? ...