http://multiz.com/blog Leading information on search development. Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:49:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There have been a few errors that needed to be fixed on MultiZ. 1. Recently, many of the media corporations have been changing there site structure -- so the news page had to be completely reformatted. 2. Cuil was officialy launched.  It doesn't appear as if it will be overcoming Google soon, ... http://multiz.com/blog/multiz-multi-search-updates/ More of the webmaster items, regarding SEO and SEM, are moving to http://ugux.com/blog/. However, the MultiZ related items (new features, etc.) are staying here. http://multiz.com/blog/12-of-this-blog-is-moving/ A little while back I posted on how MSN/Live.com has improved their search algorithm, but it appears they have in some cases but in others have depreciated. The below image is a search for "multiz" at MSN/Live.com that should have shown my own site as ranked number one, but as for ... http://multiz.com/blog/what-is-wrong-with-msnlivecom-search/ About a month ago, MultiZ came out with a yellow pages search -- which will search within a certain proximity of where you live or where you're looking for a business. It's nothing too fancy that will create an "oooo...ahhh" in anyone that is a regular user, but it ... http://multiz.com/blog/yellow-pages-yellow-book-search/ In a study from PennState, they studied 56 participants from 18 to 29 years old (the demographic most targeted by marketers) to examine various search engine results. In one part of the study, they flipped the organic search results and the sponsored results (so, the user would feel he/she was viewing ... http://multiz.com/blog/do-people-click-the-sponsored-results-ppc/ Here's the results that were calculated from AOL's Search: Ranking Number 1 receives 42.1 percent of click throughs. Ranking Number 2 receives 11.9 percent of click throughs. Ranking Number 3 receives 8.5 percent of click throughs. Ranking Number 4 receives 6.1 percent of click throughs. Ranking Number 5 receives 4.9 percent of ... http://multiz.com/blog/which-search-result-are-you-going-to-click/ According to a study, 1.4 million searches are done every minute, from comScore. Most of these searches are done directly through Google. Worldwide, Google earns approximately 60% of all searches worldwide, but in the US Google only earns up to about 50% of all online searches. The study also stated: Yahoo Inc. ... http://multiz.com/blog/14-million-searches-every-minute/ Live.com (Microsoft's new approach to searching) now provides a different way of searching than before. Its algorithm changed a little to display different content (rather than just search results) for specific search terms. These improvements range from having an automatic display of movie showtimes to showing a comparison of ... http://multiz.com/blog/msnlivecom-search-a-little-better/ SquidWho was almost added to the people search page on MultiZ, but a simple test eliminated it from being added. What the site has to offer It offers a user-collaborative way of obtaining content about people. So, users are allowed to submit any information about anyone, and this results in speculations ... http://multiz.com/blog/squidwho-a-wiki-based-people-search-that-needs-some-work/ Zippy.co.uk is a decent metasearch engine that allows the user to search, but then also gives the user a quick way to check site statistics: And then gather information about a site by clicking "information" to the lower-right of the site: And then finally the information is displayed to the right-hand column: That's ... http://multiz.com/blog/zippy-a-webmaster-meta-search-engine/