Google’s mastery of search sometimes makes us forget its shortcomings. Specialized search engines insist that they deliver better, more relevant results for their particular fields. That seems especially true in the area of people search, despite the many search engines in this field that fall short of their promises. Today I’m going to take a look at Yasni, and see if it stands apart from its competition.
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Spock: The Logic of People Search in a Web 2.0 World
In the first part of this two-part review of Spock, the people search engine, I showed you how to search on Spock, what kinds of results it returns, and walked you through a profile. I also pointed out some of its conveniences, like the ability to forward results via email in just one click. Now I’m going to delve more deeply into Spock’s web 2.0 features.
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Trend Setting to the Top
In this series I am going to build a site from scratch and show you many of the steps I take to get a site to climb the search engine rankings. In many ways it’s going to be like looking over my shoulder as I show you what you have to do to get your own site to the top positions.
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