The Corporate Training Search Engine is a free vertical search tool for the training community, delivering only results directly relevant to learning and development, removing off-topic sites and eliminating the proliferation of websites focused only on selling, delivering malware, ‘SEO’ spam, or advertising that is often found in the results of generic search engines.

For this reason the selection of sites included has been hand-picked by trainers based on relevancy and utility (but not on whether we agree or disagree with the information provided). The model for the search engine is human-edited opt-in rather than elimination by computer algorithm.
The Origins

The search engine was created and is financially supported by TJ Taylor English Training new window. Originally designed as an internal performance support tool for their trainers to help with materials research and development, it was made available to the public in January 2007 following some requests and positive feedback from external trainers.

The Corporate Training Search Engine is part of a category commonly called vertical search – focussing on a specific topic or sector rather than drawing results from the millions of websites present on the internet covering every topic possible. This approach produces more accurate and relevant results for searches consisting of 1 – 4 words, but as the selection of websites included is carefully edited, for obscure terms and searches a generic search engine will often produce a wider range of results as they draw results also from more obscure and possibly less authoritative websites.

The technology used to index and create the search results is based on the Google® new window search engine using their public CSE tool. Using the same indexing and ranking algorithm, this guarantees the integrity, speed and accuracy of the results, though based on an edited selection of high-authority and useful training and learning websites.

All the websites included in the search engine have been manually inspected and included based on 1) relevancy, 2) utility, 3) authority, and 4) having a purpose that is non-exclusively commercial. The range of websites included are training magazines, industry associations and think-tanks, authoritative personal websites, official blogs, reference materials, and information portals.

TJ Taylor English Training powered by Google®.

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