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Archive for April, 2008

Building the basics of search

By jasonslater • Apr 23rd, 2008 • Category: Project Development

The EggnChips development is getting underway. The first part of the project is to build a simple keyword search engine.
In this project a form will be presented the user with a familiar text input box followed by a button for performing a search. To make the system usable and to provide a mechanism for [...]



Exploring search using keywords

By jasonslater • Apr 8th, 2008 • Category: Theory

To understand more about the way search works, and to gain an idea into how it could work in the future, it may be useful to talk about what we would do if search was not available the compare it to a keyword based search engine. So, if the Internet did not exist - what would [...]



Ranking: Website popularity services

By jasonslater • Apr 4th, 2008 • Category: Terminology

Discussing Ranking methods used by Search Engines and how they relate to Keyword searching.



keywords or tags or both

By jasonslater • Apr 3rd, 2008 • Category: Terminology

No doubt keywords and tags play an important part in the modern web. But what is a keyword and what is  a tag and what is the difference between them. My explanation would be this:

A keyword is a common word used within a web page
A tag describes a conceptual idea about a web page

As an example, [...]



SEO: Further Reading

By jasonslater • Apr 1st, 2008 • Category: SEO

In this article we look around the Web for useful related search engine optimisation articles, especially things to consider.