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Microsoft said Wednesday that it has more than quadrupled the amount of material it scours on the Web and will be rolling out a series of other improvements to its search engine over the next month, as the world’s biggest software company continued its bid to narrow Google’s large lead in Internet search and advertising.

Many of Microsoft’s improvements are similar to changes already announced at Google and Ask. Yahoo is planning to unveil significant upgrades to its search engine next week.

Did you know Google wants websites to do well on their search engine and they give advice on how to achieve a good quality site: Take a look at Google webmaster guidelines

This is how Google explains the guidelines:

“Following the guidelines will help Google find, index, and rank your site. Even if you choose not to implement any of these suggestions, we strongly encourage you to pay very close attention to the “Quality Guidelines,” which outline some of the illicit practices that may lead to a site being removed entirely from the Google index or otherwise penalized. If a site has been penalized, it may no longer show up in results on Google.com or on any of Google’s partner sites”.

We all use them, we all know the top three (Google, Yahoo and MSN), but do we really know anything about them and why they exist ?

The definition of a Search Engine:

Websites that enables users to search for information on the internet based on the keywords that they provide. Some of these websites gather information from all across the World Wide Web and furnish them to the user in the order of importance and relevance that it assigns each page based on the entered keyword phrase.

Did you know ?

Google is the most used search engine in the UK. Having a 74% share of all searches made by us in the UK.

Types of Search Engines ?

Search engines are a hugely important part of