Category: Other Search Engines

Despite Alexa.com formerly shutting down on May 1st and the web site saying it was retired, the backend APIs and tools seems to still work. Not that any of that matters for SEO but I found it interesting, nevertheless.

Back in the early 2000s we use to cover Alexa, an Amazon related website ranking service here a lot. SEOs use it like they used PageRank, and how they now use Domain Authority or other third party website measurement services. Well, Amazon is shutting …

Brave made some big news the other week when it announced it is replacing Google Search as the default in its Brave browser with its own search engine. The thing is, Brave documented how it does ranking and it actually said it uses click data for rank…

Brodie Clark posted a poll on Twitter that has about a thousand responses, asking “which search engine has the best chance of competing with Google over the next 10 years?” The search engine that got the most votes was DuckDuckGo, beating out Microsof…

Apple Maps both on iOS devices and desktop seem to now be showing menus from some restaurants. The menus seem to mostly come from Yelp, a partner of Apple.

Apple has updated the “about Applebot” help documentation page the other day and in that document it lists information about how Apple ranks web results. It also updated information around Applebot.

Danny Sullivan of Google responded to the claims and allegations from DuckDuckGo around Google’s biased search results.

Have you ever checked out the Yandex webmaster tools? Yandex is a huge Russian search engine but you don’t need to care so much about your rankings in Yandex to use the tools. It also has link reports and other nice chunks of data that may be useful to…

Yesterday, Dmitry Gerasimenko the CEO of Ahrefs – a beloved SEO toolset provider, announced on Twitter his company will be building a search engine to compete with Google. He knows it sounds crazy, he said that, but he said he wants to do it for two r…

Google announced the other day they are closing their Site Search product, which is a paid internal search service. Keep in mind, the free version is still available and is not closing.

But DuckDuckGo and Cludo jumped on the news to promote their sit…

Yesterday, Yandex announced that they launched something similar to the Google RankBrain – well, they didn’t say that, I am.

They launched what they call Palekh which is name of a Russian city, the flag of that city is of a firebird, which you can see…

DuckDuckGo announced on Twitter that they have added some New Jersey Transit schedule data to their search results.

So if you search for various routes in DuckDuckGo, the schedules may be returned…

Moesen noticed a new spider crawling through his HTML files on his web site and checked to see who this new spider was. The IP range seems to resolve to Apple’s servers, named APPLE-WWNET…

DuckDuckGo, the privacy search engine, that was also recently added as a search option on iOS 8, has been blocked by China.

Gabriel Weinberg, the founder of DuckDuckGo, confirmed it on Twitter yesterday when Steven Millward asked him.

Using the block…

Yesterday at the Apple WWDC, Apple announced quietly (actually, I don’t even think they said it…

Who doesn’t love HTML Entities, unicode characters and the like…

DuckDuckGo announced the next version of their privacy search engine at https://next.duckduckgo.com/.

Note, this is where users like us can play around with it and give them feedback. DuckDuckGo wants to switch over to the new version in about a mont…

Back in December, Yandex announced they will be dropping link factors from part of their search ranking algorithm. They made that decision because the links were being abused so much that it ruined the overall relevancy of the search results…
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I spotted a thread by a Google+ Community manager named Aygul Zagidullina on Google+ stating…

Andy Atkins-Krüger posted an awesome news story at Search Engine Land covering how Yandex is changing their algorithm for some types of queries to no longer count links as a ranking factor.

Yandex is the leading Russian search engine…