What is Tafiti.com?

Tafiti, which means “do research” in Swahili, is an experimental search front-end from Microsoft, designed to help people use the Web for research projects that span multiple search queries and sessions by helping visualize, store, and share research results. Tafiti uses both Microsoft Silverlight and Live Search to explore the intersection of richer experiences on the Web and the increasing specialization of search.

What technologies are used in Tafiti?

Tafiti uses Silverlight 1.0 RC and AJAX to provide rich, cross-platform user experiences and leverages the following Microsoft services on the backend:

* Live Search for Web, Books, Blogs, News, and Images
* Live ID
* Live Spaces

I know that you had a great site with English content and you were ranking Top 10 in Google.de .se .fr .ca .dk .be(local) for a specific term. But now you have added some new languages such as Japanese, French, German Swedish, Danish, Arabic, Russian.

What would you think should happen for your Google positioning?
Will you keep the same Google ranking or would you lose it?

Actually Google had a LocalScore Patent since 2001 named Ranking search results by reranking the results based on local inter-connectivity by Krishna Bharat

Rethink your Search Engine Optimization strategy when initiated to add new languages for your site.

A search engine for searching a corpus improves the relevancy of the results by refining a standard relevancy score based on the interconnectivity of the initially returned set of documents. The search engine obtains an initial set of relevant documents by matching a user’s search terms to an index of a corpus. A re-ranking component in the search engine then refines the initially returned document rankings so that documents that are frequently cited in the initial set of relevant documents are preferred over documents that are less frequently cited within the initial set.

Danny Sullivan writing his 10 years memories about searchenginewatch.com

Happy 10th birthday for SEW by Danny Sullivan

Ten years ago today, I created Search Engine Watch. Now I’m here at Search Engine Land, but since I ran SEW for 95 percent of its existence, I thought it would be nice to look back and cover how it evolved and changed over the years. So here’s a stroll down memory lane.

Some of those who know my work might be thinking that this 10 years thing sounds familiar. That’s because on April 17, 2006, I wrote My Decade Of Writing About Search Engines. It covered my personal 10 year anniversary, which started with the predecessor to Search Engine Watch, “A Webmaster’s Guide To Search Engines.”