Traffic Flow SEO

Guruji claims to be the first crawler based search engine for India and Indian related sites. Here is what their site proclaims about their new search engine:

India, known for being the spiritual Guru of the world, is now seeking to become the technology Guru with Indians spearheading the IT revolution. With Guruji.com, a totally indigenous product, we aspire to become a world-class search engine and showcase the "Indian" content to the world.

Guruji, a respectful way to call one's teacher, is the person one seeks help from in times of need. Likewise, Guruji.com is built to help provide easy access to information in every walk of life.

Guruji.com is the first crawler based search engine for India and India related content. Our proprietary algorithm automatically identifies India related content on the web and organizes it in such a way that you get the most relevant results fast. Our team of young, dynamic and passionate engineers from India's premier institutes like the IITs,IISc and other top engineering colleges, is working arduously to make this product better each day.

Quick links:

- Search Engine Homepage
- Search Engine Blog
- Site Submission

I tried to submit a site that was not an Indian or based in India site to see what would happen and I got this email back from them, but nothing else and I am still (a week later) not in the index - so much for trying...:-)

Thank you for submitting your website.

It typically takes us 3-4 days to crawl the submitted websites and
include the content in our index. Our algorithm may not accept the submitted website under one or more of the following conditions .

. The website is non Indian
. The website is a spam
. During the crawl the website could not be accessed by our crawler

We will send you an automated mail once your website is included in our
index.In the meanwhile, you can also check for the inclusion of your
website by searching for your domain name on www.guruji.com.

We once again thank you for submitting your website.

You can use Guruji.com . the Indian Search Engine - to search for
anything related to India including your favorite restaurants, theaters,
hotels, dentists and more, in more than 20 cities across India.

Keep exploring India on Guruji.com

Have a great day.

Team Guruji

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Exalead is a French search engine involved in the Quaero project.

Background about the search engine as per Wikipedia:

The company is a société anonyme based in Paris and founded in 2000 by François Bourdoncle. Its name comes from the association between

- the prefix exa which means 1018 (used as a generic term for size, to imply large coverage of pages)
- and the verb lead (as the customer is led through the search options)

Exalead tries to integrate research functions in one piece of software, combining Internet, desktop and enterprise functionality.

Exalead employs approximately 100 people in 6 countries (Paris in France, Milano in Italy, Weinheim in Germany, Glasgow in UK and New York in the United States).

What is interesting about this small engine is that it seems to be popping up everywhere as of late. First, I noticed that my Web CEO SEO software now incorporates Exalead within many of its ranking, backlink and saturation functionality. Then I noticed that Wikipedia has even included it as one of its search engines - click here to see (click drop down menu). What is interesting to me is that Ask (which is a bigger engine with more marketshare) is not included.

Finally, seeing an opportunity to get some additional exposure and possibly some new customers on the enterprise search side, Exalead has decided to take on Microsoft. The recent announcement of Microsoft's intent to purchase the enterprise search company FAST has opened an opportunity to grab some of FAST's potentially upset or concerned customers. Exalead announced a new migration program called Accelerate With Exalead that's designed specifically to help OEMs that tailor FAST for enterprise customers migrate to Exalead. The funny thing to me is that Exalead just announced (12/28/2007) that they had become a Microsoft Partner.

I would love to see Exalead become a major player, especially with Microsoft potentially taking over Yahoo and the pool of major search engines dwindling, but they still have a long way to go. I hope that Exalead keeps up its aggressive tactics, increases the size of its index and works on its search results relevancy which could ultimately make it the little engine that did.

If you have not already discovered the Audit My PC website you are missing out. It has a great collection of free online webmaster and SEO tools which include:

- A great (looking and performing) Internet speed test - check you connection speed.
- Probably the best online sitemap generator I have seen in awhile.
- Plus a lot of additional tools...

Check it out to today at - Audit My PC

Link Diagnosis is one of the best free SEO tools I have found. It is not perfect as I am not sure that it is correctly identifying all the backlinks and there tends to be a lot of data missing, but overall it is pretty cool and compares with my paid tool SEO Spyglass.

The site has a blog which gives you a little insight to the commitment and passion of the author. I am sure this tool will only get better and better. As of now, there is no way to provide any financial support (no ads, no donation requests, no information), but if there ever is, I will be the first in line to make a donation.

Now go check you backlinks - Link Diagnosis

People ask me all the time as to where they can find a list of directories for this or that and I am always trying to tell them to go here or there, so I decided to create a quick post on some of the best sources for free, paid and niche directory lists (in alphabetical order):

Best Web Directories
- Some good listings based on their ranking system, but somewhat limited on quantity.

Directory Critic
- Great resource for a lot of directories sorted by quality.

Info Vilesilencer
- The original free list of quality Web directories, now includes paid and niche all in easy to view online and downloadable version! Probably the best maintained list on the Web.

In addition, 5 Star Directory has a great and ever expanding selection of free Web directories under its Free Web Directories section.

Good luck!

The well respected Andy Beal just quietly launched his new online reputation management tool - Trackur. I am sure there will be an announcement over at Marketing Pilgrim soon, but in the meantime enjoy. Below is the site's explanation of the new service:

Trackur is an online reputation monitoring tool designed to assist you in tracking what is said about you on the internet. Trackur scans hundreds of millions of web content--including news, blogs, video, images, and forums--and lets you know if it discovers anything that matches the keywords that interest you.

Using sophisticated monitoring and filtering techology, Trackur is your reputation guardian. It does the heavy-lifting for you--scanning the web for any mention of you name, brands, and products--so you don't have to.

Link - Trackur.com