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The basis for sites like Myspace and facebook was originally made so that friends and family could easily keep in touch with each other. This is great if you already have a friend, but when if you are looking for a new friend, or what if you are looking for a long lost friend you once had? In these cases Myspace and facebook aren’t really your best bet, you would have to know either where they are living right now or you would have to search through 10,000 profiles to find them. Its pretty time consuming when you really think about it.

Of course you can refine your search down to sex, age, orientation but even then you still will have to search through a few thousand profiles to find the right person. Finding a new friend is a little easier because all you would need is age, sex, orientation, hobbies, etc. However, I don’t really like to use myspace as a way to find new friends, I just haven’t had good luck with it at all.

One thing I have had a lot of luck with is these websites called friend finders. These friends finders range from adult/mature, pen pals, online, offline, activity partners and much more. I have used a few of them to find activity partners for offline activities such as sports or just going out. You would be really surprised to see all the reasons people go on these sites, and all the different kinds of people you can find as well.

You have to figure there are 6.45 billion people on earth and there was about 729 million people in the year 2004 that had access to the Internet, so that’s a lot of people in one “place” all looking for different things and all interested in different things. You have a really good chance of finding your new best friend in all of this! And even if you don’t find a best friend, you could find some really interesting people along the way. Its sort of like visiting a new country every day. You won’t meet people from just the country you are in (unless you choose to do so).

You can use these for finding new friends, but you can also use other sites for finding old friends, its pretty simple too. All you have to do is enter in a first and last name (which myspace lets you do but it doesn’t work), and if you can figure out the age they would be now, that’s even better. Once you enter in those small attributes, you will be sent to a page with everyone that has that name and is that age. Chances are there will only be a few people or hey maybe you will get lucky and there will only be one! On a lot of these sites instead of friends name they will ask for something like high school you went to or group/organization you were a member of.

In this case, when you enter in first name and last name along with high school you are going to hit payload. Seriously if you actually find TWO different people with the same first and last name that went to the same school as you, it’s probably a mistake because that’s just about impossible.

I did a search once for myself just to see how it worked so I put in my first name, last name, and high school. I found one other person with my name but it was spelled differently, hers was Christie Amberose, so close yet so far away! It was kind of freaky seeing someone with a name so close to mine, but very different at the same time. Make sure you get the spelling right on the names when you are doing a search or you just might find someone you weren’t even looking for to begin with!

This author is a HUGE fan of Friend Finder

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I think we have all been through this situation at one point or another in our lives, you need to find someone online for a certain reason say an old classmate, an old friend, a relative, and you just don’t know how to find them! The Internet has made this problem a whole lot easier to fix with websites called People Finders.

These websites are usually split right down the middle with paid and unpaid inclusions. The paid ones give you a little more info and personally are for more of an investigation type situation. The free ones will give you things like the person’s name, relatives, location and even a phone number. The paid ones are good if you want to find out some “secrets” about a person such as a background check, SS check, or criminal background, so this is a great thing to use if you want to check up on a neighbor or someone you have employed!

Prices for paid inclusion can go anywhere from $15 on up to $100 depending on what you want to find out about the person. Believe it or not this is completely legit, but if you find yourself on one of these things you actually can contact the company and tell them to blacklist you. This blacklist option allows the company (with proof from you) to unlist you on the site so that your information no longer shows up.

These people finder websites can be found all over the Internet, from the official People Finder website on down to the ones that are more unheard of. As long as the place is legit you can trust them. I always like going on Google and looking up reviews for any site I deal within any situation for any website.

All you have to do is go to your trusty search engine, type in the name or the URL of the website without the http or the www part, and then add “review” at the end and you will receive several different results for that company in particular. Pretty simple stuff here, nothing overly complicated! Also, if you are interested in celebrity type things, you can also use these websites for that as well.

The inclusions will include things like fan email address, fan p.o box, location, age of celebrity, and a lot more! If I would use these for celebrity deals it would be for pure fun and I would use a free one (which does exist in this case). Pretty neat stuff, and as said above it’s a great way to get reintroduced to an old mate, friend, or a relative and YES these do work!

I tried one out one time for a pain inclusion to find an old friend I had and lost contact with, I paid the money and right then and there I got to see all sorts of info about the person. There is no waiting! So it’s easy, fast, convenient and helpful, what more could you ask for!

This author is a HUGE fan of Find People

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It doesn’t matter if you are a professional and have a business online, or you work for someone else doing something else offline, people are always looking for a way to find businesses for all sorts of reasons. Maybe you need to find someone to make business cards for you, or make you need to find a pest control company. Either way, you can easily, quickly and efficiently find these types of sites online by going to business finders. These finders will find any type of business for you as long as it’s a business. You can browse within certain categories to make your search even more efficient, for example, by looking under business location, distance, category or even by name.

These finders come in handy whether you know the business name, or not. If you don’t know the name or your searching for something within your area, then simply go to “location” or “distance” and it will tell you businesses located in a certain town or business located within a certain distance from you. Or if you know the category such as restaurant or airports, simply click the category name, and pick what you want. Of course if you know the name of the business this is really helpful, but I find when I use these things I actually have no idea the name of the business let alone any other info so I just usually pick category and go from there.

What’s nice about these finders is you can refine your search when you go to categories. So lets just for an example pick bakers. Once I pick bakers, then it goes to states, I’ll pick Florida then refine it to where you either are or where you think a bakery might be and you are going to be in the vicinity so you want to go to Boca Raton, and then refine your search even more to cake and pie shops, pastry shops, wedding cakes or donuts. Let’s pick pastry, now you have gone from 5,000 results down to 30 results and then up above you can pick A-Z if you wanted to.

Obviously it’s a lot easier to do than it sounds! Reading “directions” always makes things sound scary, but this is far from scary stuff and it will help you quite quickly. So why don’t people just use a phone book like they have for the last few hundred years? Personally for me? I throw my phone books away. They are too heavy, too big, and too inky! My laptop, however, is small, stable, quick and convenient and the Internet (unless you have dial up) moves super fast! Also, the results in your phone book, can’t or won’t tell you about the guy in Wisconsin who owns a printing business, or the lady in Texas who owns a restaurant you might be going to on vacation! But, the Internet? Has it all. You can search business in your town or half way across the world!

This author is a HUGE fan of Find A Business

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One of the most popular reasons why search engines are so popular is simply because people are always searching for all sorts of things on the Internet. It doesn’t matter if they are looking for website URLs or something in particular. For example, say I want to find the official website for Barnes & Noble (just as a simple example). All I have to do is enter in Barnes And Noble or I could enter in Barnes and Noble plus my zip code and the official website will show up. Pretty simple! Of course adding your zip doesn’t really matter for this one but, if you are searching for other things like restaurants, automotive stores, or grocery stores within your vicinity it’s a good idea to obviously add your zip code or you could end up on the other side of the state!

Listed below are several different categories (subcategories not included) you may find on a search engine:
Electronic
Recreation
Health
Computers
Science
Business
Real estate
Sports
Education
Politics
Personal-finance

So needless to say everything you could or would need to search for is available, and that wasn’t even including all the categories! Also, listed below here are a few of my favorite search engines available online right now!

Find - When I first heard of this engine all I kept hearing was the business side of me going “wow now that’s a great domain name” and it is, but more than that it’s also a terrific engine where you cannot only just search but you can also find out information about certain subject. For example, if we go to Electronics, we will see a few extra subcategories to choose from such as Bluetooth Headsets, Cellphone Cameras, Cellphones & Home Theatre Systems.

Now if you click Bluetooth you will be given a little summary of what Bluetooth is, how its used, what its functions are and much more. But as said above you can also use this as a search engine, by placing whatever you are looking for in the search box and pressing “find”. I did a search for money, and results that were relevant to money showed up. Very easy to use, minimal ads means minimal annoyance, and its got a nice user-friendly template as well!

Wid Explorer - Widexplorer is a whole new way to view, surf, search, organize and share the web! At Widexplorer you can visit multiple websites simultaneously. So in other words its pretty much a meta crawler that doesn’t want to be called or classified as a crawler! You can search google, yahoo, msn, ask, dogpile, and a few other search engines all at once.

Ms. Dewey - I don’t even use this site to search on, I use it purely to give me a smile upon my face! This is a great SE if you are looking for something to make you smile or you are bored out of your skull and looking to do something interesting, and I suppose it’s a good search engine as well! Ms. Dewey is a viral marketing campaign started by Microsoft in October 2006. The Ms. Dewey website is an Adobe Flash-based experimental interface for Live Search.

The interface features a modern-looking cityscape as a backdrop with the character on the left side, while the search results appear on the right. The cityscape backdrop changes depending on the time of day! Ms. Dewey appears to be an interactive search assistant who audibly comments on searched keywords in her own style and makes random actions when idle, including taking props from behind her desk.

These are all some pretty cool search engines in their own ways, try em out and see what you think! You can also look for more of these cool sites by checking out Google! Have fun!

This author is a HUGE fan of Search Engine

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It’s really incredible the amount of information available online nowadays, you really can find anything your heart desires. The best place you can go to is a search engine, these engines allow you to search directly for what you want by using keywords, or you can also pick categories and subcategories on their websites to find what you want. I’m a big foodie freak, mainly because I’m a Chef, so I’m always looking for new recipes online, and adding new ones I make to my own websites such as cooking light, cooking healthy, holiday recipes, gourmet, grilling, etc. I also like to find cooking shows online that I may have missed on TV like Top Chef, which if you search for can be found online not only to see when it’s on next but to actually watch it on your computer! And once in a while I find myself going to these search engines to find things like restaurant names, locations, phone numbers, etc.

Any of the above and so much more are available to you quickly, easily, and most important conveniently! I think that those are probably the top 3 reasons people even bother to use search engines to begin with instead of calling information or looking in a phone book. And besides information went up a dollar over here! Yep, it’s now over a dollar to ask someone to find a piece of information for you that you could find for free (technically) on your own! Don’t worry, I say technically because you are paying for your Internet, not because you have to pay these search engines! The day it actually costs money to use a search engine, is the day I will actually keep my phone book!

These search engines are really quite simple to navigate, just go to the search engine you like, put in the keyword you want, and get the results. Or as said above, they also may ask you to refine your search results, which is nice because then you can say okay I want a restaurant located in Naples Florida, but I want it to be on Sea Gate Drive because I’m going to be in the vicinity and will want to grab lunch. So just enter in that easy info and voila, results! If you are really lucky you may just go to an engine and they asked for the type of restaurant you want such as eat in, dine out, delivery, etc. Or the type of food the restaurant serves such as Italian, French, Japanese, Mediterranean, etc.

All in all these sites are perfect for just about anything you want to find on them. It doesn’t necessarily have to do with food, it can deal with any of the other zillion and one things you might be searching for such as electronics, jobs, finance, sports, health, computers, etc! Need to rent a car? Go to travel. Looking for a Dentist? Go to health. Want to know where the nearest salon is? Go to beauty! Yea, it really is this easy. Just think about what category it would be in and you are good to go! Good luck!

This author is a HUGE fan of Search Engine

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Many of you probably use a search engine such as google every single day, but do you know how one actual works? Do you know why all those results appear or what sponsored ads are? You would be surprised how many people don’t know the process or the inner workings of search engines! Some parts are pretty confusing and others not so much, maybe that’s because I have owned a search engine so I had to learn how it worked! Of course there are the big boy SEs like Google, Yahoo and MSN but there are also search engines that are medium and smaller ones referred to as PPC engines. For medium ones I would probably name off ones like Dog Pile or Alta Vista, for small PPC ones I would say Smart-Phart or Gold Searching.

If you delve down a little deeper there are also search engines referred to as Meta Crawlers, these search engines allow you to use one engine to search on multiple sites. Mamma is a good example. Every time you type in a query at a meta-search engine, they search a series of other search sites at the same time, compile their results, and display them either by search engine employed or by integrating them in a uniform manner, eliminating duplicates, and resorting them according to relevance. It’s like using multiple search engines, all at the same time but much quicker!

In general I think we already know how search engines work, you look for something, put in the keyword phrase, and the results show up. But where do all those results come from? Crawler-based search engines, such as Google, create their listings automatically. They “crawl” or “spider” the web, then people search through what they have found. You literally can search for anything and it will be found. You can ask the engine questions, you can put in products/brands, you can say keywords, you can enter in store names, people’s names, anything and you will find a result.

The sponsored results you see for example, on the top and side of Google are bought ads. People can go to sites like AdWords and buy space on space to place their ads, these ads are almost always relevant to what the results are that you are searching for but once in a blue moon I’ll be searching for tennis and a golf ball sponsor ad will show up. It happens, not a huge deal! Usually the people that buy the ads on the side and the sponsor ads will place a certain amount of money in their account on AdWords, and then they can say okay I want my ad to be .10 cents, if you have $100 in the account that’s about 1000 clicks.

Usually when you allocate an ad and give it a high worth, its placed more on the engine. In other words you could search flowers once, and then search flowers again and the same ads probably won’t show up, if they do, then that person probably paid a good amount of money for it to do that.

There really is no default engine for everyone to use, people just find a search engine they like and they go with it, usually sticking with it and never changing. So, that’s why new engines need a nice little “hook” to reel you in. If you are super dedicated to using Google, you won’t move on and use another site unless it has something really special about it right? Well this is one of the reasons there are so many engines, each one is trying to out do the next, and each one is trying to get more visitors than the other. I have a few faves I use besides Google, one of which is a site called Find.

Find is a terrific engine where you cannot only just search but you can also find out information about certain subject. For example, if we go to Food, we will see a few extra subcategories to choose from such as Gourmet, Food Network, Easy Recipes, Cooking Light or Halloween Recipes. Now if you click easy recipes you will be given a little summary of what easy recipes are, how they are used, why should you use easy recipe. But as said above you can also use this as a search engine, by placing whatever you are looking for in the search box and pressing “find”. Pretty cool! Check it out!

This author is a HUGE fan of Search Engine

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We all know about the Googles and the Yahoo search engines by now, but once in awhile I like to use something a little more interesting and a little less cliche. Sure Google and Yahoo are nice search engines within their own rights, but if you are looking for particular things you might just enjoy the ones listed below. The first one is a regular search engine like Google but it also includes a lot of nice written content, which gives it a nicer feel than Google with its tons of ads and all that annoying stuff. The second one is a music search engine, you can enter in an artist or band name and it will come up with a chart sort of like a “6 degrees of separation” type of thing. And the last one is cool as well, and its very user-friendly which I think is something we all enjoy! So let’s get on to the engines so I can tell you a little more about them.

Find - When I first heard of this engine all I kept hearing was the business side of me going “wow now that’s a great domain name” and it is, but more than that it’s also a terrific engine where you cannot only just search but you can also find out information about certain subject. For example, if we go to Electronics, we will see a few extra subcategories to choose from such as Bluetooth Headsets, Cellphone Cameras, Cellphones & Home Theatre Systems. Now if you click Bluetooth you will be given a little summary of what Bluetooth is, how its used, what its functions are and much more. But as said above you can also use this as a search engine, by placing whatever you are looking for in the search box and pressing “find”. I did a search for money, and results that were relevant to money showed up. Very easy to use, minimal ads means minimal annoyance, and its got a nice user-friendly template as well!

Like - This is a great visual type search engine. Its like Google images except you can actual find items to buy just by doing a visual image search for those items. For example, if I go to the shoe image I can then, refine the results with subcategories such as boots, casual, sandals, etc. It will visually show you which kinds of shoes are in those categories. Ya, this is a terrific engine to use for any of your shopping adventures online! Once you find a shoe you like, simply click it, and it will then open a new page with the website that shoe is on for example, Nike, Zappos, DSW, Shoe mall. Oh and you can really refine your search with more options than just the type of shoe, or the type of shirt, you can also pick other options such as color, brand, material, and site. So this is really useful and fun if you want to shop online but don’t want to visit 50 thousand websites looking for just two items. It’s a time saver pretty much.

Cuil - The people who own Cuil say that it’s the largest search engine on the web today, honestly I don’t know how true that is considering I have never heard of it and no one I know has ever heard of it. Cuil is a mixture of a nice interface, a great looking template and easy to use features such as roll over definitions, tabs and a nice navigation system which is actually being used by a lot of search engines these days. You simply type in a few letters of what your looking for and it will show a downward menu of some suggestions, which in turn saves you time and helps you out. I don’t usually use mine for things like eBay or the Steelers website because, hello, I already know those links very well. However, I do use it for other things such as “buy forum.” and then it shows online, members, website, template, script, etc. Its pretty nice but its one of those things where you have to get used to it!

Obviously there are millions of engine showing up every single day but these are some of the ones that are being talked about in a very good way as of late. Everyone seems to enjoy these search engines, amongst many others because they all offer the same type of option (search) but they also are all different and all offer different things, different things that make them “cool” or easy to use or fun. I suggest checking the top three out, who knows they might become your number 1 engine! Have fun!

This author is a HUGE fan of Search Engine

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Search Engine Optimization services which are also known as SEO are needed to perform well in the search engines. More importantly finding a google search engine optimization services company is needed to rank in the most popular search engine itself. When trying to grab that top place, you need to focus on several factors. This article is composed of methodologies that are widely accepted by SEO professionals. These are arranged from most to least important from my personal, yet educated opinion. This was actually stated by google in their own publications.

Search Engine Optimization Link Popularity
Your sites link popularity is the main and most important factor when trying to improve your SEO campaign. You must focus on obtaining inbound links from quality and relevant sites. Several methods are submitting to link directories, reciprocal linking, article distribution, video blogging, forums and social bookmarking.

Using Keywords In The Meta And Title Tags
Second on our list is placing your keywords you are trying to obtain top rankings for within your title, description meta tag and keywords meta tag. In google SEO, your title tag only allows 8-9 words within the title tag for their search engine results. So limit yourself to 9 words (use as many as possible) and then move forward.

Time Your Web Site Has Been Indexed
Something that the search engines have placed a lot of emphasis on is “sandboxing” new sites on the internet. On average this process takes 3-4 months to get out of. The longer that your site is online the more trusted your site will be to the search engines. Ideally I believe a site is going to benefit most when it has been consistently indexed for 2 years or more.

Anchor Text Of Inbound Links
Even if you have a large number of inbound links, they won’t do a lot of good if they aren’t linked with good anchor text. Anchor text is the actual text that is clickable within the link. Keep links around 3-5 words long. Many search engine optimization experts believe bolding your links will improve rankings as well.

Link Popularity On Sub Pages
It is highly believed that sub pages within your web site must have inbound links and popularity for your entire site to succeed (including your home page). Even if you have a successful site right now, it could do even better with inbound links to sub pages.

Relevancy Of Inbound Links
Links coming to your web site must be coming from relevant sites with relevant content! This is extremely important.

Link Popularity Of Your Site Compared To Your Competitions
This is another seo factor that deems a lot of attention when it comes to google seo tips. You must make sure that you have comparable link popularity to your competition for certain key terms. Without comparable link popularity you simply won’t succeed as much as you want to.

Keyword Use In Your Pages Content
You must use your top key terms within the content of your web site. Certain key phrases can show tremendous growth by having the exact phrase within the content of your site itself. Google loves unique content and google loves relevancy.

How Popular Are The Sites That Are Linking To You - Are They Relevant?
Quality inbound links should also come from recognized or semi popular to popular sites. These sites must also have similar content to your topic. If they come up high under your key terms, they are a great site. You should try to obtain links from these web sites.

Using Good Tools To Help With Search Engine Optimization or SEO?
You must perform research of key terms. I use google’s keyword tool personally, however there are many out there. Also I recommend using SEO programs to analyze your competition.

Joel McLaughlin
Dataflurry Internet Solutions

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Have you ever clicked on a recognizable name in an internet search and wondered how you ended up on some porn site? You were a victim of spamdexing, a deliberate, deceitful, and manipulative practice intended to give the wrong impression.

Spamdexing combines spam with keyword indexing in an attempt to trick search engines into listing their websites along with legitimate sites. Search engines use keyword indexing to locate and rank websites. They do this so that you can find websites that interest you rapidly and easily.

How do the spamdexers accomplish this?
They try to slip in under the radar by loading their pages with unrelated language. They will use keywords over and over again (known as keyword stuffing) and also add familiar names and trademarks that are not associated with their sites. Spamdexers also mask keywords and phrases by using an assortment of methods such as blending unrelated text into the background colors of web pages. You would not be able see these texts, but the trick can bamboozle the web crawlers that search engines utilize to list and rank sites. A porn site could imbed keywords and phrases appropriate to a popular site in order to draw in unsuspecting people. Even worse yet, a site designed to spoof a bank or any other financial institution can lure naive victims to their sham site, then steal private passwords and account information.

At the very least, spamdexing can cause search engines to be less useful, and even dangerous. The good news is that the major search engine developers have not only caught on to spamdexing, they have developed more sophisticated methods to combat the practice.

Without search engines, finding anything on the web would be next to impossible. To increase the rank of your website, search algorithms are used to add relevant keywords for the website. This process is known as Search Engine Optimization.

Spamdexing manipulates the index methods used by a given search engine. Practices that get you to the number one mark when you don’t belong there are called spamdexing. It is a kind of black hat technique. Professional SEO professionals do not spamdex, and those who do are banned and no longer considered to be professional. A search engine uses algorithms for their systems of ranking.

The algorithms show relevant search results, and not just relevant keywords. Any efforts to bamboozle these will result in being banned and your web page will also be removed.

Spammers also practice link farming. This is where links are connected to each other in fake blogs, for example, or by cloaking, where different versions of the pages crawled are sent to humans vs. spiders. Spiders crawl over web pages in order to locate keywords. Although, the use of these practices also results in these sites being banned and deleted, people are still using these methods.

The internet is a multilane super information highway, and spammers are the speed bumps. They slow down not only that search for porn, but also for other searches such as homework, shopping, cooking, etc. Spamdexers can earn more in one week than some wage slaves do in a month, and they cause major interferences with honest hard, working advertisers.

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All of the time we needed to gather information from the net for different purposes we used an internet browser. Sometimes we know the exact sites to visit, sometimes we bookmark the pages but the most time is spent searching.

The Firefox internet browser is equipped with some great searching mechanisms and offers a few tricks so all your searching habits are known and thus you are provided with the best options very quickly.

Firefox offers a built in search box which is considered the real advantage of searching. This search box is located at the top right of the browser. By default Google is selected as expected. In addition several other search engine plugins are also included with a clean install; these include Yahoo!, Amazon, eBay, and others. To select a different search engine just click the drop down box and select the icon associated with a specific search engine.

New plugins for different search engines can be installed by clicking the Add Engines link. After this, you will be presented with a list of a few popular search engines, just click on one of your choice and conform the installation when prompted. The new search engine will be added to the drop down list and ready to use immediately. You can use the Mycroft website which is one of the best to find search engine plugins. The site is located at the mozdev site. All the plugins are listed by category for you to browse or you can simply use their search box to search for those hard-to-find sites that are not categorized. After you have located the plugin you wish to install simply click on it and it will be included in your Firefox drop down list of search engines. Really simple stuff. Firefox stores the last search engine used in memory so if your last used plugin was Yahoo and the browser is closed and reopened then Yahoo will be the selected search engine plugin.

When you have experimented with all of these plugins it is common for you to find yourself not needing so many. Sometimes they will clutter Firefox and interfere with your work in progress. To remove some of them all you need to do is locate the ’searchplugins’ folder and delete the SRC and GIF files for the plugin. After this you will need to restart Firefox.

You will find two files in Search engine plugins:
- a SRC file that lists the codes that tells Firefox how to use search terms for a specific site.
- a GIF file which contains the icon for a specific search engine.

The SRC and GIF files are by default located in the ’searchplugins’ subfolder of the Firefox installation directory. (Please do not confuse this with your Firefox user profile directory).
It is important to note that uninstalling and reinstalling will cause you to lose any additional plugins you added to Firefox from Mycroft or other sites.

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