Google dominates the search market. Bing has made an impression and Yahoo still has a loyal following, but Google is king, especially in the West. However, a new search engine has just been launched, and it does things differently.

The new search engine is called YaCy (pronounced “Ya See”). Heavily backed by the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), an organisation that advocates digital rights and online freedom, YaCy aims to de-centralise search by using a ‘peer to peer’ approach.

Vadodaria cosmetic surgery wanted a website for their dimple creation service.

A key aspect of the project was search engine optimisation to ensure a high position in organic search results, and so a strategy was put in place to ensure good results on an ongoing basis.

The project also involved consulting on the use of social networking systems to increase the visibility and customers to the business.

Visit the website at www.dimplecreations.co.uk.

For many of us, technology has changed our lives considerably over the last few years, most noticeably through the use of the internet. But has technology also changed our minds?There is a growing belief that our dependence on the Internet is affecting the way we think and even the fabric of our brains. Nicholas Carr brought this to prominence with an article in Atlantic magazine entitled ‘Is Google Making Us Stupid?’ (July/August issue, 2008). His argument wasn’t that the search engine itself was affecting our intelligence, but rather our concentration and the way we now access and use information.

The web is huge, and it’s growing all the time. There’s a lot of useful information out there, as well as a lot of junk. But how can you find what you want? That’s where search engines come in.

Internet search engines have been around since 1990, when ‘Archie’ was first created by Alan Emtage. There had been a central list of webservers held at CERN, but it simply could not keep up with the number of new websites, and so the internet search engine was born. Archie was soon followed by other systems like Gopher and Web Wanderer. In the early days of the web there were also Search Directories like the first Yahoo! Website. These were manually updated lists of websites, and not true search engines.

Today, Google is the most popular search engine. As of April this year, 86.3% of searches were still made on Google, in comparison to 5.3% and 3.13% for Yahoo! and Bing respectively. Google has recently revamped its service, adding new options on the left hand side of search results, such as the ability to organise results by date amongst other innovations.