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Various herbs and vegetables are required for the purpose of making soups and gravies. Of these the principal are, Scotch barley, pearl barley, wheat flour, oatmeal, bread-raspings, pease, beans, rice, vermicelli, macaroni, isinglass, potato-mucilage, mushroom or mushroom ketchup, champignons, parsnips, carrots, beetroot, turnips, garlic, shalots and onions. Sliced onions, fried with butter and flour till they are browned, and then rubbed through a sieve, are excellent to heighten the colour and flavour of brown soups and sauces, and form the basis of many of the fine relishes furnished by the cook. The older and drier the onion, the stronger will be its flavour. Leeks, cucumber, or burnet vinegar; celery or celery-seed pounded. The latter, though equally strong, does not impart the delicate sweetness of the fresh vegetable; and when used as a substitute, its flavour should be corrected by the addition of a bit of sugar. Cress-seed, parsley, common thyme, lemon thyme, orange thyme, knotted marjoram, sage, mint, winter savoury, and basil. As fresh green basil is seldom to be procured, and its fine flavour is soon lost, the best way of preserving the extract is by pouring wine on the fresh leaves.

For the seasoning of soups, bay-leaves, tomato, tarragon, chervil, burnet, allspice, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, clove, mace, black and white pepper, essence of anchovy, lemon-peel, and juice, and Seville orange-juice, are all taken. The latter imparts a finer flavour than the lemon, and the acid is much milder. These materials, with wine, mushroom ketchup, Harvey's sauce, tomato sauce, combined in various proportions, are, with other ingredients, manipulated into an almost endless variety of excellent soups and gravies. Soups, which are intended to constitute the principal part of a meal, certainly ought not to be flavoured like sauces, which are only designed to give a relish to some particular dish.


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Andre is a part desktop publisher and loves to cook.

Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> http://www.articletrader.com/internet/seo/searchengine-classification-part-3-hybrid-search-engines.html http://www.articletrader.com/internet/seo/searchengine-classification-part-3-hybrid-search-engines.html Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Today we shall go deeper into the hybrid and meta search engines.

Here are the four major search engines types again:

1) crawler based search engines.
2) directories (edited and maintained by humans)
3) hybrid engines (META engines and engines using other engines’ results)
4) paid inclusion engines and pay-per-performance

Hybrid search engines (META engines and search engines using other engines’ results)

As directories use human editors to index websites and crawler based search engines use crawlers to index websites, hybrid search engines use both humans and crawlers to index a website.

Hybrid search engines combine a directory with a search engine to give their visitors the most relevant and complete results.

Both Google.com and Yahoo.com are hybrid search engines. Yahoo! has the tendency to be a human powered directory and Google has the tendency to be a crawler based search engine.
As a rule, a hybrid search engine will favor one type of indexing over another.

In a nutshell:
• Search engines use crawlers
• Directories are edited and maintained by humans
• Top search engines use both crawlers and humans

Today the top ten search sites are hybrids. For example, Yahoo! started out as a directory, but now it gets additional data from Google’s search results. On the other hand, Google uses Open Directory Project's directory to enrich its listings.

What is a Meta search engine?

Meta search engines also referred to as multi-engines, parallel search engines, multi threaded search engines or mega search engines combine the results from a number of search engines and directories at the same time and lay them out in a results page and present them to the user. It does not create its own database however.

Meta search engines are very useful when you want a small number of relevant results and want to see the most important hits of each individual search engine. You can also select which search engines to search.

A setback of meta search engines is that you can only use simple queries. If you’d use advanced query techniques some of the underlying search engines will not understand your query.
Examples of meta search engines are MetaCrawler, DogPile, Vivisimo, C4, Mamma, Pro fusion, Search, Surfwax, Unabot and LemmeFind.

Tomorrow:
Paid inclusion engines and pay-per-performance engines

Website promotion and seo


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Written by André de Groot©2008
http://slaygen.com – Website Promotion and SEO


Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> http://www.articletrader.com/internet/seo/searchengine-classification-part-2-directories.html http://www.articletrader.com/internet/seo/searchengine-classification-part-2-directories.html Fri, 11 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500 Today we shall go deeper into directories.

Here are the four major searchengines types again:

1) crawler based search engines.
2) directories (edited and maintained by humans)
3) hybrid engines (META engines and engines using other engines’ results)
4) paid inclusion engines and pay-per-performance

Directories (edited and maintained by humans)

Directories are often mistaken for searchengines, but they are entirely different.

One of the differences is that crawler based searchengines keep visiting your website after it has been indexed and detect the changes you made to your website. The same does not apply to directories who do not keep track of changes on your website after it has been submitted.

At a directory you have to manually submit your website and experienced editors will then decide if you are allowed in their directory. The editors will check your website according to certain (rigid) guidelines and check the content, design, functionality, Google Pagerank™ and such instead of using automated crawlers like crawler based searchengines do.

This method of working will insure quality websites added to a directory.

It is important, if you want to be added to such a directory, to submit a relevant and precise description to the directory editor, as well as to take the whole manual submission seriously.
In SEO(search engine optimization) you should treat manual directory submission as seriously and responsible as possible.

For sure, ranking of a website in a directory works completely different than a crawler based search engine. An example of such a directory is dmoz.org (ODP (Open Directory Project)).

If your website is listed in such a directory it will be quite influential to your positions in crawler based search engines.
This means when your website is added to the dmoz.org directory it will influence your rankings positively on the crawler based searchengines that also use the directories to enrich their databases.

You could say that being added to the dmoz.org directory is an honor. It will also provide you with a pagerank 8 backlink and your website will be boosted and indexed within 1-7 days instead of a few months.

Top directories include Yahoo!, ODP (Open Directory Project) and Ask Jeeves.

Tommorow:
Part 3 - Hybrid Searchengines


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André is part part-time Desktop publisher, webdesigner and part-time affiliate.
I like to educate people, write articles, and do creative things.


Source: http://www.articletrader.com ]]> http://www.articletrader.com/internet/seo/searchengine-classification.html http://www.articletrader.com/internet/seo/searchengine-classification.html Thu, 10 Apr 2008 00:00:00 -0500 In order not to overwhelm the reader I will divide this article into four parts.

Four major search engine types

1) crawler based search engines.
2) hybrid engines (META engines and engines using other engines’ results).
3) directories (edited and maintained by humans).
4) paid inclusion engines and pay-per-performance.

1. Crawler based searchengines

Crawler based searchengines use special software, known as crawler, bot, spider, or robot, to automatically and regularly visit websites to create and supplement their gigantic web page databases.

When a crawler visits your website, your web server will return the HTML source code of your page to the spider and after it reads your pages, it will compress the data and store it in the gigantic database called the search engine index.
The index, sometimes called the catalog, is like a giant book containing a copy of every web page that the spider finds. If a web page changes, then this book is updated with the new information.

The process of compressing and storing webpages is also known as indexing.

After your page has been indexed, it will appear on search engine results pages for the words and phrases most common on the indexed web page.

The reading of your webpages by the crawler is also known as crawling or spidering.

Crawlers ignore graphics and flash animations but read the META tags and give more value to text that is closest to the beginning and end of a webpage, text wrapped in links, headers, image ALT descriptions, and so forth. These graphics are additional ‘obstacles’ on it’s way to your content and the crawler may rank your page low, no one will find it on the searchengine and no one will be able to appreciate the design of your website.

Later, when someone searches the engine for particular terms, your page will be pulled out of the index and included in the search results.
The searchengine software applies a sophisticated technique(algorithm) to sift through millions of pages recorded in the index to find matches to a search and rank them in order of what it believes is most relevant.

Many factors are taken into consideration and the page is given a position and rank, within other results found for the surfer's query. This process is called ranking.

Basically the crawler based search engine has three parts:
1) the crawler
2) the index
3) search engine software

Sometimes it can take a while for new pages or changes that the spider finds to be added to the index. Thus, a web page may have been spidered but not yet indexed. Until it is indexed it is not available.

SEO (search engine optimization) is the solution for making your page more search-engine friendly. The optimization is mostly oriented towards crawler-based engines, which are the most-popular and common on the Internet. The best is ofcourse to keep both human and crawler visitors happy and combine graphics and search engine optimization.

Google is a typical crawler based searchengine.

In my opinion it is better to have quality content then quality graphics.

What would you prefer?: A fast loading, ugly looking, website with quality content text or a slow loading website, filled with nice graphics and pictures that no one is able to find?

Tommorow:
Directories (edited and maintained by humans)


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André is part part-time Desktop publisher, webdesigner and part-time affiliate.
I like to educate people, write articles, and do creative things.


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