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Improving Marine Search

We are constantly looking for interesting and useful sites to send the spider off to index, so we improve your experience in finding marine information. If your own site or one you have visited recently offered good information then please share it by clicking the submissions button and adding the sites URL. The search engine will go off and spider the sites you recommend and add them to the indexes. Add URL

Information about Marine Search
In the marine aquarium hobby we are very lucky that the Internet has really delivered on its promise of providing information. In fact few interests attract as many dedicate sites with cutting edge articles and opinions. Why this is it’s hard to say, it may be the sheer enthusiasm of Aquarists or that our hobby is still has many fascinating aspects to be explored. One thing is certain month after month informative documents from scientists and enthusiasts abound.

The marine search engine
With the increased commercialisation of Internet search engines, searching for information on marines has become increasingly difficult. Gone are the halcyon days when you could type the word coral into one of the fledging search engines and be rewarded with a raft of sites and information, these days you have to battle your way through people trying to sell you coral calcium for your health to endless banners and trick links.

Well the marine search engine is our humble attempt to reverse that trend and provide you with useful information and articles. We only send the spider off to index useful articles and sites, we will never be in the situation of announcing we have just indexed our 10 billionth page, but we will be able to say the future is about dedicated micro engines that deliver useful information that enthusiasts need.

Getting the best from Marine Search
As we are indexing in essence only the aspects of a single subject, when it comes to searching you need to be a little smarter and use the engines facilities. If for example you wanted to find out about calcium reactor media you could simply type “calcium” you will more than likely be presented with a whole ream of documents that contain the word. As calcium is discussed endlessly in the marine hobby, so we need to use the logical search facilities to improve things. So if we prefix our words with either + or – sign we can ask the search engine to include or exclude word. So for example +calcium +reactor +media would find all articles containing these words in the indexes. This would reduce the level of hits, combine this with the fact that the indexing applies a relevancy rating to each document and we are getting close. If we really want to get as close to finding information on reactor medias as we can, we now add a few exclusions to sharpen our results. So if we now repeat our search and add –Kalkwasser –chloride –magnesium we will end up with a selection of documents that are far more relevant. Or if you just want to get a load of interesting stuff to read on a subject just bang in a couple of words and see what wonders are returned.