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The Search Engine Watch website is a gold mine for all things related to search engines. As the navigation bar on the side indicates, the site provides visitors with a news blog, a forum, web searching tips, search engine listings, search engine ratings, search engine resources, a daily newsletter, and a monthly newsletter. Judging from that list, there is no doubt that the website is dedicated to search engines.
The site doesn't cater to any specific user; it has articles and tools for both techies and novices. For the casual search engine user, the site offers many articles on how to use search engines more effectively (Web Searching Tips). For example, "Search Engine Math" taught me how to find specific topics I wanted using symbols such as + or -, conventions I've never heard about before. I highly recommend this website to anyone who wants learn how to use search engines more effectively, even if they aren't interested in any other content on the website.
For those who are tech-savvy and don't need tutorials, Search Engine Watch has its own forum and community of users. I found myself in over my head just from looking at the titles of several topics; many of the topics focus on the technical and logistical aspects of search engines--Google's algorithms and search technology, for example--that more advanced users may find interesting.
While the website has a plethora of content, I found the site difficult to navigate because it was cluttered with links, ads, and text; it is very jumbled. The main content of the front-page looks is formatted to look like a blog: most of the articles and links have dates indicating when they were posted. However, there were boxes with forum topics and news stories interspersed between the posts, which contributed to the clutter on the page. Those same boxes are on the navigation bar on the side, so it seemed pointless putting them in between the posts.
Despite being cluttered, the site is indeed a valuable resource to anyone who uses a search engine and every search engine user should visit the site at least once.
The site doesn't cater to any specific user; it has articles and tools for both techies and novices. For the casual search engine user, the site offers many articles on how to use search engines more effectively (Web Searching Tips). For example, "Search Engine Math" taught me how to find specific topics I wanted using symbols such as + or -, conventions I've never heard about before. I highly recommend this website to anyone who wants learn how to use search engines more effectively, even if they aren't interested in any other content on the website.
For those who are tech-savvy and don't need tutorials, Search Engine Watch has its own forum and community of users. I found myself in over my head just from looking at the titles of several topics; many of the topics focus on the technical and logistical aspects of search engines--Google's algorithms and search technology, for example--that more advanced users may find interesting.
While the website has a plethora of content, I found the site difficult to navigate because it was cluttered with links, ads, and text; it is very jumbled. The main content of the front-page looks is formatted to look like a blog: most of the articles and links have dates indicating when they were posted. However, there were boxes with forum topics and news stories interspersed between the posts, which contributed to the clutter on the page. Those same boxes are on the navigation bar on the side, so it seemed pointless putting them in between the posts.
Despite being cluttered, the site is indeed a valuable resource to anyone who uses a search engine and every search engine user should visit the site at least once.
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