Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Understanding e-Marketing


Understanding e-Marketing
E- Marketing, also referred to as web marketing, online
marketing, or Internet Marketing, is the marketing  of products or
services over the Internet. E-Marketing is essentially part of marketing.
So let’s try to understand where it fits within the subject of marketing
The American Marketing Association (AMA) defines marketing
as follows:
Marketing is an organizational function and a set of processes
for creating, communicating and delivering value to customers and
for managing customer relationships in ways that benefit the
organization and its stakeholders.
Therefore we can see that E -Marketing by its very  nature is
one aspect of an organizational function and a set of processes for
creating, communicating and delivering value to customers and for
managing customer relationships in ways that benefit the
organization and its stakeholders. As such an aspect, E-Marketing 
has its own approaches and tools that contribute to the achievement
of marketing goals and objectives.
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Sunday, January 13, 2013

How Search Engines Operate


How Search Engines Operate
Search engines have a short list of critical operations that allows them to provide relevant web results when searchers use their system to find information.
1.Crawling the Web
Search engines run automated programs, called "bots" or "spiders" that use the hyperlink structure of the web to "crawl" the pages and documents that make up the World Wide Web. Estimates are that of the approximately 20 billion existing pages, search engines have crawled between 8 and 10 billion.
2.Indexing Documents
Once a page has been crawled, it's contents can be "indexed" - stored in a giant database of documents that makes up a search engine's "index". This index needs to be tightly managed, so that requests which must search and sort billions of documents can be completed in fractions of a second
3.Processing Queries
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