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Increasing Link Popularity
=================================================== Increasing Link Popularity =================================================== Search engines are the gateway to the Internet; they are the first tool that potential...

Link building
A web directory is a internet web page consisting of categorized links to other web pages. They specialize in linking to other web sites and categorizing those links. Web directories often allow site owners to submit their site for inclusion. One...

Promote your site: 10 Tips For Reciprocal Links
Reciprocal links are one of the most common and most effective forms of website promotion. When sites trade links, they both benefit by sharing some traffic directly and getting noticed more favourably by the search engines. Reciprocal Links...

SEO Your PDF’s
Why optimize? First, why would anyone want to search engine optimize their PDF files? Well, if you had an eBook, brochure, product description or technical document in PDF format, you may wish to optimize these to pick up some extra search...

Viral Marketing and You!
A virus spreads and infects people through human interaction. This is exactly what viral marketing, a popular and powerful type of web promotion, does: It is an online technique that encourages people to spread to others the message about your ...

 
Google
So, Where Has Your Search Engine Been Today?

Visit Google, Yahoo, MSN or one of the lesser search engines, and you get a few million results for just about any search term. Despite this impressive depth of results, most users consider only a few of the WebPages being pointed to. A lot of research indicates that most searchers exit search engine result pages to visit one of the top three results. That raises the question: What about the remaining million plus results?

We Need a Search-Engine to Search Search-Engine Results!
Based on the above premise, I set out on a mission to simplify search engine results. But, try as I might, I could not find an automated method to simplify search engine results. I think that is logical, otherwise these multi-billion dollar behemoths would have done so themselves. So, I thought: What is that one thing that I can do which the Googles and Yahoos of the world cannot do. And the quick answer was: I can use human / personal discretion in choosing search results. This would bypass the legion of search engine optimizers who keep building link popularity to rise up in search pages.

Can Human Selected Search Results Beat Algorithm Selected Search Results?
Tough to say, but you can look for yourself. Compare the Google results for Hair Removal and my selected results for Hair Removal. There is some overlap, but the results that I display are a result of my personal visit to the listed pages.

Conclusions
As search engines become better and faster, there is a need for a human touch to search results. In this constant struggle between spammy (scammy?) search engine optimizers and search engine engineers, the searcher can be the victim.

About the Author

Ajeet Khurana is a search engine enthusiast and the founder of the Human Search Engine.