Posts Tagged ‘sortfix search’
Web Search, Child’s Play?
May 4th, 2010 | Author: Doron Gez Marketing Business Development
We all know that the younger generation is much more tech savvy than our generation, and we can asumme that most children use the popular engines (Google,Yahoo!). Most of us don’t know more than that on children and search engine. There are more ways children search the web. In this post we will try to explore it.
SEO Thoughts on Personalized Search
December 28th, 2009 | Author: Doron Gez Marketing Business Development
A lot of words have been written in the past month on personalized search and the marketing impact it will make in the future. Due to the impact Google has on the Internet market, every change the guys at Google make, such as the implementation of personalized search, wakes up SEO professionals and gets them on their feet.
Christmas 2009 – Sortfix goes HD
December 22nd, 2009 | Author: Doron Gez Marketing Business Development
Still don’t know what to buy for Christmas? Waiting for the last minute? Sortfix Video Has the Best gifts for you to buy.
Now watch and find on Sortfix the coolest gifts on HD video-
HAPPY CHRISTMAS!
Sortfix Team
SortFix Search Engine News December 2009
December 15th, 2009 | Author: Doron Gez Marketing Business Development
Less than two weeks from Christmas, here are a few search updates you should know about.
Google Goggles - Google just launched this new search application for Android phones. This application enables you to search by taking a photo instead of a text- or voice-based search. Users can take pictures of business cards, locations (with GPS), or text-related items as books, from Android phones and then retrieve search results by them. It is a cool app. With time we’ll see how useful it will be. Watch this short video demonstration.
Search Engine Algorithm and SEO
November 30th, 2009 | Author: Doron Gez Marketing Business Development
SEO is a very up-to-date industry. The search algorithms evolve constantly; competition is great and very dynamic. One of the key factors that has an impact on SEO is search engine algorithms, and more specifically, Google’s page rank. In this post, we will review some of the current views and recommendations, and take a look at a few past views that are still very relevant in 2009.
I had the idea for this post when I found a blog post from March 2005 at Search EngineLand by Christine Churchill on search engine algorithms. This four year old post is still relevant. Although the examples there are for Ask Jeeves, they mostly apply for Google also. According to this post, the two main factors that impact searches are content and linkage. These still very much apply. Content is of course a key factor, due to the fact that search engines rely on text analysis and the relevance of the content to its segment/industry. Linkage, the second factor, influence the level of relevance (and relationships) that is determined by the search engine. Read the rest of this entry »
Winning Mafia Wars and Farmville with SortFix
October 12th, 2009 | Author: Doron Gez Marketing Business Development
Facebook, aside from being a leading social website, is a popular platform for Web-based social games. Two very trendy games are Mafia Wars and FarmVille by Zynga. Millions of gamers play these games. We used SortFix to help get an edge up in the game.
MafiaWars and FarmVille by Zynga
SortFix ToolBar™ – First Glimpse
September 30th, 2009 | Author: Doron Gez Marketing Business Development
About two months ago, we wrote about our current toolbar and announced that we are working on a new SortFix ToolBar™ extension to further improve and enhance the users’ search experience.
Now our new ToolBar is almost ready. Here is a first look at the new ToolBar.
Sortfix New Toolbar on Google
Search Queries are Going Through the Roof
September 9th, 2009 | Author: Doron Gez Marketing Business Development
While we get the feeling there aren’t any dramatic changes in search engine use, there has been a substantial increase in the amount of search queries worldwide.
According to comScore, Inc., in July 2009 there were more than 113 billion search queries worldwide, an increase of more than 41% over July 2008.
These findings, along with the growth of searches per-person to 103.3 searches in July 2009, illustrate the importance of search and the need for search engines to evolve and to provide improved functionality for searching. The more people search, the greater the demand (and expectation) for a better search experience and relevant results.
SortFix’s search tool continues to evolve. We also witness a substantial growth in search queries, and keep on improving our algorithm and interface to meet our searchers demands. We are also working on a new design to make SortFix even more user and search friendly.
Power Words™: Producing a Powerful Search Query
August 26th, 2009 | Author: Yohay Barsky CTO
Many people have asked me about SortFix’s Power Words feature. I realized that although most people understand very well that the Power Words are those words related to the search, and should be added to the search query. Only a few grasped the idea that Power Words can be used as a negative filter.
Therefore, in this post, I’ve decided to elaborate about the power of our Power Words.
SortFix Power Words
Google Caffeine – A First Glance
August 12th, 2009 | Author: Doron Gez Marketing Business Development
Google’s main business is search. Despite dominating the search market, the search giant isn’t neglecting the engine. With the expansion of Bing, the release of Wolfram Alpha, and Facebook’s new realtime search engine, Google is quick to draw their own card – Caffeine – a new search engine. Here’s a first glance.
Guest post by Yohay Elam of Forex Crunch – Forex Trading Blog.
You can check out the new engine here. The new search engine looks exactly like Google’s current search. The difference is behind the scenes. It’s all about speed.
Following Twitter and also Facebook, Google also aims for real time results. While they’re still not there, the new engine is more up to date. That’s one element of speed. They emphasize the importance of speed in the official blog.
The second element of speed is in the response time – the new engine feels faster. This speed could be due to the small scale of use, but it looks very promising. Quick response time helped Google top the search engine market, and they’re still improving the performance.
You may say: Google is fast enough, and I usually don’t need real time results. Is there a real improvement in searches? We still can’t tell. Let’s test a few examples,
One of our favorites is ice cream. On the current search, the first results are images of ice cream, while they don’t appear on the new search. Click on the images to enlarge:
CNN, All Things Digital and Venture Beat talk Search
July 29th, 2009 | Author: Doron Gez Marketing Business Development
Although we know our search engine does the job,and does it well, there are other search engines and tools out there.
Here I gathered a few articles about search issues from the last couple of months, all refering to issues dealt with here at SortFix everyday:
1. This first one is a a part of a series of articles by John Paczkowski for All Things Digital about google’s search and the human factor in google’s search results.
Google Enhancer according to BatesInfo
July 29th, 2009 | Author: Doron Gez Marketing Business Development
Batesinfo is part of Mary Ellen Bate’s Information services. The blog had a post covering Sortfix in August 2008.
BateInfo describes SortFix as a Google Enhancer. Bates reviews SortFix’s ‘Power Words’ use with our ‘Add to Search’ and ‘Remove’ boxes.
I also recommend to take the time to read Bate’s research tips on online matters, search engines and much more.
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