The Craziness of Search Engines, And A Possible Search Engine
You probably use Google Search most of time, as most do. And, you may have noticed that often the results you get take you to pages that are dead, or aren't really as represented in the search engine description. Or, worse, you click on a result, and end up on a page with flashing banners, popups, and so on. Sometimes you'll get multiple results that lead you to the same site or page.
It's gotten completely nuts. (For more information stay tuned to our Understanding Search Engines Section).
We've revived a pet project I was working on several years ago, because it's become much more relevant as the results from the major search engines have gotten so terrible. It's called SearchNich.org, and what we are doing is developing "niche search tools" that, for the topics they cover, provide a much better search experience.
What's a Niche Search Tool?
When you use Google or Bing, the search engine draws from the billions of sites available, and tries to "read your mind" about what you are looking for. The general search engines do their best to match the results to what's in your head, but over time, as the Internet has exploded, the task has gotten much more difficult, and in a nutshell, that's why the results you get are so terrible. Their job is to index the entire web, and there's truly a lot of junk out there.
A niche search engine is different. It's task is to take ONE topic, and present to you a small subset of available results. While the general search engines "spider and classify the internet" via machine, our niche search engines index only what a real person decides is worthy. So, to build a niche engine, a PERSON hunts down the best sites and sources on a topic, eliminating spam, pages that are impossible to read, misleading results, and so on. The good stuff is added to the engine. The poor stuff is not.
The result is that you should see much better results.
We're Building Usable Engines On Topics We Know
Niche search engines have to be built by hand, so we've chosen topics for which we have great passion and interest, and eliminate the junk. It's a bit time-consuming, so we currently cover just the following topics, though we'll be adding more.
- Conflict and Communication
- Leadership and Management
- Audiophile and Vintage Electronics
- Understanding Search Engines (Great For Webmasters)
- Customer Service and CRM
Take Them For A Spin
There's no charge to use these search tools, so perhaps the best way to evaluate whether you'll find them useful (and bookmark them) is to give it a try. We're still fine tuning the engine content, and will continue to update the engines, but they are already functional, and in my view, usable.
You Can Place Our Search Engines On Your Site Or Blog
Not only can you use the niche search tools for yourself, but you can put them on your own websites or blogs, since we've provided the simple code to do so. It's pretty simple if you have any experience in designing and hosting pages, so if you are interested you can find the code for each of the search engines here.
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After a lot of hard work, we've almost finished making the entire book available to read, free of charge. All of the 101 ImPerfect Phrases are now online, and we have just the final chapter or two to add. It's just about done.
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2) Add the book to your cart (button on the left)
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5) Check out according to the instructions.
Finally Our Sites:
We have lots of other books and learning tools that might interest you, so make sure you stop in at our online store where you'll find downloadable versions and kindle version of some our our guides on conflict, communication, performance management and appraisal, customer service and career development. All at http://bacalassociates.com
Training and Development Resource Center:http://thetrainingworld.com
Leadership Resource Center: http://leadertoday.org
Communication Resource Center: http://www.work911.com/communication/index.htm
Conflict (both workplace and family) http://conflict911.com
Business, Strategic and Personal Planning: http://www.work911.com/planningmaster/index.html
Performance Management & Appraisal: http://performance-appraisals.org
Customer Service: http://customerservicezone.com
Our Main Site: http://www.work911.com
That's it for now. See you next time.
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