When finished, each engine will show either a green tick or a red cross to indicate if the check has been successful. Some common reasons for searches failing are:
Incorrect proxy settings
Setting your timeout value too low
Internet access being blocked eg. software based firewalls or virus protection software
Search engines responding slowly
Results column descriptions:
Engine
The name of the engine.
Popularity
The popularity of the URL i.e. number of links found to the URL on the engine.
Change
The change in popularity (number of links) since the last check.
Saturation
The number of pages from the URL that are currently indexed.
Date
The date and time of the popularity check.
Viewing the Top ranked URLS
To view the top ranked URLs for each engine, click on the View menu and select the Top ranked URLs item. The top URLs will be displayed underneath the popularity results.
