There are many Search Engines that you can use to find something on the Internet - Google, Yahoo and Bing being the most popular as of 2011. Usually you will not search beyond the first couple of pages of results that appear, unless you are hunting for something very specific. Search engines use different algorithms, therefore they give varying results.
Webmasters use various techniques to get a favorable listing, hopefully on the first page. The design of the first part of the page, title and first paragraph, is most important.Commercial websites frequently pay to get a favorable listing and buy advertising on the search pages. They also try to get top rankings by placing large numbers of pages with similar titles and arranging for cross-linking between them and other similar pages, because most placement algorithms use the numbers of external links as one of the elements.
| Query | Yahoo | Bing | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Walk in Vienna | #5 | none | none |
| budapest day trip | #4 | #8 | #8 |
| walk in warsaw | none | none | none |
| tour cracow | #3 and #5 | pg2 #1 | pg2 #2 |
| tour Warsaw | #6 and #8 | none | none |
| photos warsaw | #3 and #6 | p2 #4 | pg2 #4 |
| Warsaw memorials | #1 and #2 | #2 and #5 | #2 and #5 |
| central poland tour | #4 and #5 | #5 and #10 | #7 and #11 |
| central europe history | #3 and #5 | #5 | #5 |
| warsaw map prewar | none | #10 | #10 |
| 1939 map warsaw | #9 and p2 #6 | none | none |
| warsaw map 1938 | #1 | #1 and #5 | #1 and #5 |
| map salzburg | #4 | p2 #5 | p2 #5 |
| Caribbean sailing | #8 and #10 | none | none | caribbean sailing destinations | #4 | #1 | #1 |
| sailing grenadines | #4 | #1 | #1 |
| conception island | #3 | #2 | #2 |
| sailing history | #4 | #5 | #5 |
| html code foreign characters | #7 | p2 #6 | pg2 #4 |
| html quick reference | #6 and #10 | p2 #4 | pg2 #4 |
| special character tables | #4 | #1 | #1 |
| fighter in Warsaw | #3 and #6 | none | none |
| hypocrisy | #9 | none | none |
It is surprising that this Web-site gets such excellent placing in the search engines, considering that it is a small personal non-commmercial site. Not a single penny was paid to anyone to get good placing. Clearly the search algorithms like the page design and the subject matter. However, note that "walk in warsaw" gives no results, because none of the several articles about Warsaw on this web-site had the word "walk" in the title or in the first paragraphs!
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November 8, 2011
