October 4th, 2007Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Yahoo started out as a human based directory but turned into a crawler based search engine. Yahoo was powered by Google until early 2004. Overture stands next to Google, by the # of searches per day, and is owned by Yahoo. Overture was the first search engine to actually come up with a search engine, which is amazing for them. Coming up with a search engine can be difficult, but can be fun at the same time, by seeing who your competitors are. When asking a question online, AskJeeves, was the best to ask, even if they gave you an answer you weren’t looking for, it was the best they could come up with at the time. They first became famous in 1998 and 1999 as being the so called “natural language”, because it could answer questions that people had to ask. Today, however, AskJeeves depends on crawler-based technology to provide the results or answers tho the questions or statements being asked or stated.
A web directory is basically a web search tool compiled manually by human editors.
The main factor between a search engine and a web directory is that one is compiled by human editors.