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I have a wierd, local webpage as my default search engine. When I type in question, it takes me there automatically and is pretty useless for answering anything. I am used to Google, and I tried to find directions on how to make it my defaulted search engine, but even though I foloowed the directions, nothing works. I still keep getting my wierd page.
Here are the instructions – I tried both of them, and neither one of them works:
Run regedit from your run menu and find this key :
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\I… Explorer\Main
and find Search Page value and change it to google like this :
“Search Page”=”http://www.google.com”
“Search Bar”=”http://www.google.com/ie”
I don’t want a search bar, so I just put in the searcha page value, restarted it, and nothing changed.
Then I tried these directions, but nothing showed up like it said it would. (at http://www.google.com/options/defaults.html):
Internet Explorer
For Windows: Download this file to make Google the default search engine for Internet Explorer versions 4.0 – 6.0. (Note: you will need Administrator privileges on your computer in order to install this file.)
The “search” button will bring up a Google search box down the left side of your browser.
The “Search The Web” menu option from the “Go” menu will take you to Google. For IE4 only, you can type “? ” in the URL box instead of a URL, and it will perform the search.
When you click on the above link, IE will ask you whether to open or to save the file. Select “open” to immediately make the changes (i.e., to make Google your default search engine for the actions described above). Select “save,” and then look at the file under Notepad, if you’d rather examine what the file does first. Be aware that you will probably have to reboot your system to make the change go into effect (even if your computer does not tell you so).
By default, Google will show results in the search channel window, leaving the main window for browsing. If you prefer seeing the search results in the main window, try this file instead.
I did, and when it said RUN, I ran it. Nothing changed.
Help! Thanks.

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Does making your website standards compliant, like valid XHTML and valid CSS, actually make it get a better search-engine rank?

Can anyone give me more information on writing articles in order to boost your websites search engine ranking? Where would I post the article? Is this a effective approach? I cannot afford a company who offers “article writing”, I would need to do it on my own if possible! Any help will be very much appreciated! Thanks!

Also dogpile isnt like live search, google or yahoo. It doent crawl websites in a url directory, it just goes out and searches all the other best search engines and dispays the top 3 or 4 pages from each engine.

Take any 10 words from the 3rd paragraph of a story that appears on page 5 of any newspaper – then paste that info into the search engine. Do a search and flick onto the 16th top entry and just leave it there.
Hopefully the search engines that follow our movements will think that we are particularly interested in a topic and sell that piece of information on to advertisers not thinking it is pure rubbish. Therefore making a mockery of the search engines data gathering and ultimately unproductive.
Have you any ideas?