The Tech

Category: Web

  • How to Choose a Good Web Hosting Provider

    With so many and so diverse Web hosting offers to choose from, the most difficult part is to decide what exactly you need in any case, what you can do without and what would be nice to have but can be sacrificed if necessary. After you have the idea what you are after, it is…

  • Search Engines and Search Directories

    There are hundreds of search engines and search directories that contain Invisible Web content. What is more, there are even ones that claim to be an exhaustive collection of such documents. Three of the most popular search engines for the Invisible Web are Direct Search, The Invisible Web, and Complete Planet. They index mainly, but…

  • Why Google =/ Internet

    As I have already said, it is a common delusion that Google=Internet. No, it is not and it will never be. There are probably hundreds of reasons why this is so but I hope that even some of them are convincing enough: Search engines and their indexing algorithms might be very powerful but it will…

  • Alternatives to Google for Searching and Being Found

    It is a fact that Google has been doing so much to make information accessible but monopoly has never been good. So, the first thing you can do, if you cannot find the stuff you need via Google, is to try a different search engine. Since the databases of the search engines differ, it is…

  • The Invisible Web

    The Invisible Web is a term I like very much because it describes precisely the situation when I know some piece of information is on the Web but I cannot see it. It is that vast part of the Net that search engines do not get to (due to different reasons, as I am going…

  • Is Google=Internet?

    Searching the Web is easy. The difficult part is to find what you are looking for. While the search engines and mainly Google have done miracles in making millions of pages accessible, finding what you need when you need it is not always an easy task. And the truth is, that the ease with each…