How Search Engines Find Your Content, David Harry, Search Engine Journal (Jan 28)
It isn't just links that will get your site found and indexed. There are the traditional means: submitting a site, being found through links, and using a site map. David Harry points to new methods of watching RSS aggregators and social media. But patents suggest that search engines can dig into applications such as email, instant messaging, Google Wave, Microsoft apps - except it's not clear if this is being done yet.
"Now, is this being done? Well, the availability of methods has never been the problem; processing power was. Notice how I say ‘was’? This is because with the spectre of new technologies (the least of which being the Caffeine update) they can start to incorporate these methods even deeper. What was once the domain of tin-foil apparel may now be coming to fruition."
Posted by Gwen at January 31, 2010 01:40 PM