Came across this useful tool today, a web site that shows you the information spiders detect when they visit your site. Great for SEO!
http://www.feedthebot.com/tools/spider/index.php
Just enter the URL and it displays what text the spider will see. This could be useful if you think certain text is visible when it actually isn’t. It also displays a [...]
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Get a glimpse of how your site looks to spiders
Stumping Wolfram Alpha
Wolfram Alpha, the supposed Google killer that was hyped as being able to understand natural language queries, launched today. Let’s check it out.
The site helpfully suggests some things to try, like a date. OK, we’ll type in my birthday.
Not bad, not bad, it shows me how many years, months, weeks and days ago that day [...]
Wolfram Alpha: Google killer?
We’ve all heard promises before of a search engine that would blow Google’s socks off, and we’ve all heard promises before of an interface that could answer natural-language queries. (Jeeves, anyone?) So until we get our own hands on Wolfram Alpha, we won’t know for sure whether it’s overhyped or it’s the real deal.
Wolfram Alpha [...]
Viewzi and the movement toward what's next in search
It’s hard to imagine a world in which Google is not our first go-to site when we need to find something. Google’s bare-bones front page may be the best Web site design out there in terms of functional elegance, and it’s so ingrained in our consciousness now that its name is a verb in the [...]