Three key sources of information include Web search engines like eHealthinsurance.com, insurance brokers that work with multiple carriers and the carriers themselves.
Siminoff's small but fast-growing firm, Efficient Frontier, uses dauntingly complex calculations to help its clients get a better return on the ads they buy on Web search engines.
But for the average person using web search engines, there's a really easy one that a lot of people still don't do, although the search engines have made their technologies smarter, and that's using quotations marks around two or more key words that you want to search as a phrase.
The company failed to realize a crop of "algorithmic" Web-search engines such as Google were a potential threat to its business.
By using thought leadership content on the web, search engines provide quick and prized determination of the value of the content.
Among them are an updated version of the Sherlock search system introduced last year, which allows users to search the Web using multiple search engines simultaneously.
They've tried tweaking Web browsers and search engines to make scam sites more apparent.
The rise of mobile apps is another example of how the traditional paradigm of accessing web information through search engines is changing.
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Personal computers, Web browsers and search engines appeared as disruptive innovations.
Google recognizes the Web's power to publicize and offers Web masters a simple interface to remove their own pages from its index. (Type "remove" into Google to get started.) Other preventive measures include putting sensitive info behind password-protected walls and attaching so-called robot files to Web sites that tell search engines not to index a particular page or site.
New search engines could give web surfers the ability to simply enter their travel itinerary and let the search engine get the best prices directly from suppliers.
He also said the site would be almost pointless if it does not come equipped with a powerful search engine that could scour federal Web sites with much more detail and power than current search engines.
But every few years the world gets a wild breakthrough--graphic computing in the 1980s, Web browsers in the 1990s, fast search engines today.
The Internet, e-mail, cell phones, web browsers, social networking sites, search engines: these have become necessities, and it's fanciful to expect people to simply refuse to use them just because they don't like the spying, especially since the full extent of such spying is deliberately hidden from us and there are few alternatives being marketed by companies that don't spy.
He compared the change to modern search engines such as Google, over the traditional Web browser.
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The ICT classes consist of activities which build on literacy skills such as writing e-mails, using a word processor, accessing internet search engines, writing a blog and creating a web page.
Google did a good job organizing the chaos of the Web better than AltaVista, Excite, Lycos and all the other search engines that preceded it.
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Cybercriminals and security researchers have used search engines, including Google, for years to scour the Web for instances of outdated code open to intrusions.
Alongside the growing sophistication of net users is a lack of awareness about paid-for results that many search engines provide alongside lists of websites found by indexing the web.
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The Company estimates that if it were to go into the Web advertising marketplace and secure an equal number of impressions from deals with search engines and portals, the value of an equal amount of exposure would be in the tens of millions of dollars.
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Rarely are leaks intentional: Somebody at work might post a file on a server to download at home, a wrongly configured server might make too much of a hard drive searchable or a Web site's password-protection might be flimsy enough to be accessible to search engines.
Qwiki aims to supplant search engines on the iPad and other mobile devices, by providing multimedia answers to web queries.
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The major search engines now use shopping "bots" (for robot) to scour the Web for the best deal.
Some commentators, including blogger Jeff Jarvis, question the value of specialized search engines, likening them to fences that disrupt the "open prairie" of the Web.
Taking over the Web project himself, Klemm devoted five hours to it each day, battling for top billing on search engines so that people looking for fabrics are steered to Great Lakes' site.
Taking over the Web project himself, Klemm has been devoting five hours to it each day, battling for top billing on search engines so people looking for fabrics are steered to Great Lakes' site.
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