Kris Tarr

I just can’t stop building search engines. My latest one is called: Where Can I Find Pages. Every time I come up with a new idea that I think would be a good improvement I just have to implement it. The problem is that I cannot just add that new idea to an existing search engine, because in most cases it would change the structure of that site so much that it would get the site flagged on other search engines which drive traffic to the site already. (more…)

About a year ago, I found a AdWord ad while reading an SEO blog. The ad was promoting a service which promised to get unlimited amount of back-links to their customers’ sites for a fixed low rate. I decided to check it out. I read the marketing blah blah on their front page (I believe back then it was on searchenginetrust.com later moved to getsearchenginetrust.com). The service was called Search Engine Trust (SET) operating by Nicolas Messe of Yoffi Internet Marketing. (more…)

About a month ago, I joined the already giant, yet rapidly growing group of super-bored people of the Internet, called Twitter. I installed their ugly box on my sidebar. Then I started thinking how I could use that new, free tool for anything, anything at all. (more…)

I just couldn’t rest this weekend. I had to build another search engine. This new one will be optimized for getting traffic primarily from MSN and Yahoo! while displaying Google AdSense ads. I decided to name it Where Can I Find Sites?

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Last summer, for my 33rd birthday I created a search engine for myself. I called it Accelax. The site quickly got a PageRank PR1 and later PR2 ranking with most of its pages included in the Google index. The site was successful enough, but I felt that something was missing. So I developed a new search engine, knoole.com with more features, more functional and better looking design as well as the new SEO techniques I applied to the site. (more…)

A reader from one of my blogs sent me a PM to ask why I’m not using feeds provided by other search engines. He was kind to offer me his help and ideas. Let me post here my reply: (more…)

When your site moves to a new domain or a page moves to a new location or the file name changes for whatever reason, search engine crawlers will keep trying to find the moved file(s).

The web server will handle the situation by either giving back a 404 Not Found HTTP response which tells the search engine spiders and web browsers a note that sorry but the page cannot be found on the server. Search engine spider will eventually remove these pages from their indexes. (more…)