{"id":196,"date":"2007-11-20T16:21:35","date_gmt":"2007-11-20T20:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cherrycoated.com\/wordpress\/?p=196"},"modified":"2007-11-20T16:21:35","modified_gmt":"2007-11-20T20:21:35","slug":"links-for-2007-11-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/interesting-web-sites\/links-for-2007-11-20","title":{"rendered":"Search Engines: ranking methods &#38; Overlap; Obfuscating email addresses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/webliminal.com\/images\/sidepics\/sp95.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/webliminal.com\/images\/sidepics\/cwdata\/sp95.jpg\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"20\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nSearch Engine overlap is a favorite topic, since the last of the famous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/search\/10steps.htm\">10 Steps <\/a>is to  try the search in another search engine. The first four of the links below deal with that and closely related topics.<\/p>\n<p>The last two links deal with making an email address visible on a Web page, but hiding it from an email-address-scraper.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/airweb.cse.lehigh.edu\/2005\/bifet.pdf\">An Analysis of Factors Used in Search Engine Ranking<\/a> (tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ernestackermann\/search\">search<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ernestackermann\/engine\">engine<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ernestackermann\/Ranking\">Ranking<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/library.scsu.ctstateu.edu\/sea4.htm\">How Searching the Web Works<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;Search Engines are searchable databases generated by software &#8220;robots&#8221; or spiders that roam the World Wide Web looking for pages. With the returns from these spiders a database is created that attempts to provide a picture of what material is available&#8221; (tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ernestackermann\/search\">search<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ernestackermann\/engine\">engine<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ernestackermann\/rankings\">rankings<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seochat.com\/c\/a\/Search-Engine-Optimization-Help\/Search-Engine-Overlap-and-Divergence\/\">Search Engine Overlap and Divergence<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;A lot of people like to think search engines aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t that different. They index the same internet, and they return mostly the same results, right? Not at all. A new study shows once again that search engines index mostly unique pages and rank common on..&#8221;\u00c2\u00a0 (tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ernestackermann\/search\">search<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ernestackermann\/engine\">engine<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ernestackermann\/overlap\">overlap<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cs.odu.edu\/~mln\/pubs\/jcdl-2007\/se-apis-jcdl07.pdf\">Agreeing to Disagree: Search Engines and Their Public Interfaces<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;Google, Yahoo and MSN all provide both web user interfaces (WUIs) and application programming interfaces (APIs) to their collections.&#8221; \u00c2\u00a0  (tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ernestackermann\/search\">search<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ernestackermann\/engine\">engine<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ernestackermann\/overlap\">overlap<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alistapart.com\/articles\/gracefulemailobfuscation\">A List Apart: Articles: Graceful E-Mail Obfuscation<\/a><br \/>\nCloaking email addresses on a  Web page using Apache 2 and PHP. Includes a review of some other techniques.\u00c2\u00a0 (tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ernestackermann\/email\">email<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ernestackermann\/cloaking\">cloaking<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ernestackermann\/spam\">spam<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anti-spam_techniques_(e-mail)\">Anti-spam techniques (e-mail) &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;To prevent e-mail spam, both end users and administrators of e-mail systems use various anti-spam techniques. Some of these techniques have been embedded in products, services and software to ease the burden on users and administrators.&#8221; (tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ernestackermann\/ant-spam\">ant-spam<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ernestackermann\/email\">email<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Address_munging#Alternatives\">Address munging &#8211; Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia <\/a><br \/>\n&#8220;Address munging is the practice of disguising, or munging, an e-mail address to prevent it being automatically collected and used as a target for people and organizations who send unsolicited bulk e-mail.&#8221; (tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ernestackermann\/address\">address<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/del.icio.us\/ernestackermann\/email\">email<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Search Engine overlap is a favorite topic, since the last of the famous 10 Steps is to try the search in another search engine. 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