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[2005-05-31] Are You A Google Dropping? Ten Ways To Get Back To #1
The e-commerce world is a tricky one. If you have an online business, then there's no doubt as to the importance of obtaining a high ranking on search engine results pages-especially on search master Google, whose popularity has led to a command of 85% of the search world.
[2005-05-31] Findory Adds Ads, Personalizing Google AdSense
Findory has done the impossible, personalizing Google ads to the user on its site, presenting surfers with mostly high relevance ads on all its pages. Greg Linden announces it.
[2005-05-31] Shopping Engine Gains Funding
A new player in the shopping search engine market gains $7.2 million in additional venture capital.
[2005-05-31] Google Earth Reviewed
Today is a relatively slow day for the search engine industry. There has been no real mention of Google today, with the exception of an outstanding review of an upcoming Google product.
[2005-05-31] Lesser Known Search Engines Make News, Too
While the majority of the search engine news seems to focus on the big players, the smaller search engines are still out there, plugging away at making themselves viable, or in some cases, not viable at all.
[2005-05-31] Google Stock Prices Continue To Climb
While predictions and "guesstimations" have had Google's stock prices leveling off for sometime now, apparently buyers of the GOOG stock are not paying this advice any mind.
[2005-05-31] It's Not Just All About Google Anymore
Those webmasters that stick to the old ways and focus entirely on Google are missing out on a lot of search traffic these days if they are not also well ranked by Yahoo and MSN.
[2005-05-31] Weather Forecast For Google: Summer of Code
Google's embrace of the open source computing community is growing stronger and stronger. If you are a code junkie and would like to make some extra cash, Google may have just the thing for you.
[2005-05-27] Yahoo Sued Over Nude Images
An Oregon woman is suing Yahoo for an estimated $3 million, claiming the portal site didn't remove nude images of her after saying it would do so.
[2005-05-27] See, Some Googlers Are Part Of The Conversation
While the complaints about Google not having a major blogosphere presence will probably never go away, its good to know that at least some Googlers can be counted on to respond to blog posts in their own blogs.
[2005-05-27] Adsense ‘Choose Your Own Ad’ Feature Being Tested Further
It looks like Google are testing on a wider level the features I noticed back in October on one of their test bed sites.
[2005-05-27] Categorize Google Results With Spacilus
The Spacilus Search Engine Assistant for Google offers Google users the ability to categorize results in order to assist users in selecting the most relevant search results related to their query.
[2005-05-27] Google Cache Server Experiences Difficulties
According to a number of reports from the search engine pundits, Google's cache server was experiencing problems this morning.
[2005-05-27] Do You Have A Yahoo Mindset?
Having the ability to label and refine search results is quite the hot topic among the search industry. Because search results can number in the millions, plus the fact that they can be quite convoluted, the ability to weed out unwanted results is much desired.
[2005-05-27] Breadcrumb (contextual) Links and Search Engine Optimization
Reader Question: I am confused about breadcrumb links both from a search engine optimization (SEO) perspective and a usability perspective. Usability experts often say not to use them, but a lot of SEO experts recommend using them. So who is right? Should I use them or shouldn't I?
[2005-05-26] Yahoo! Pictures You Using PhotoMail Service
The portal and search engine company offers another online tool; this one lets you e-mail 300 digital photos to your friends.
[2005-05-26] Friendster Makes A New CEO Friend From CitySearch
Taek Kwon, currently vice president of product and technology at CitySearch.com, takes over Friendster's executive office on June 13.
[2005-05-26] Trouble at the ODP
The Open Directory Project is the largest human edited directory of web sites and documents existing online at this time. While many search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Ask and MSN maintain larger databases of electronically spidered sites, the volunteer editors at the ODP read, sort and classify all submitted content before it is added to their search-database.
[2005-05-26] Ask Jeeves Zooms Towards Web Answers
With the majority of us who follow the search engine industry focusing on Google, Yahoo, and MSN Search, quite often; the "second tier" engines remind us they are still a viable alternative to the big 3. Such is the case with Ask Jeeves.
[2005-05-26] Kevin Bidwell Responds To AdSense Hijack
A couple days ago, it was widely reported a certain Google result had been hijacked by another site using redirect technology. However, the site owner responsible for the presumed hijack disagreed with the assessment and would like to offer an explanation.
[2005-05-26] One of My Favorite Search Blogs
3 or 4 months ago I interviewed Phillip Lan the CEO of a new shopping comparison engine. After I posted the interview I was contacted by one Josh Stylman, the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Reprise Media.
[2005-05-26] The Head of the Tail
I first started seriously expounding on that whole long tail thing a little over three years ago, when I urged AdWords advertisers to "avoid insider thinking" in their selection of keywords.
[2005-05-26] Your Search Engine Optimization Strategy: Make Love, Not War
When it comes to search engine optimization strategy, there are basically two camps - those who view search engines as adversaries to be conquered at any cost and those who regard search engines as partners in their online marketing efforts.
[2005-05-26] BitTorrent Search Engine Goes Live, Experiences Technical Difficulties
With BitTorrent becoming THE preferred method for peer-2-peer users, the idea of a search engine with an index of torrent files only can be quite appealing... unless you are apart of the entertainment establishment.
[2005-05-25] War Of The Virtual Worlds: Google Vs Microsoft
The search engine market heats up as Microsoft joins Google and other search providers by introducing mapping technology to searches.
[2005-05-25] Retail Search Advertising Spending Doubles
A study conducted by the Forrester Research Group found retailers in the US more than doubled the amount of money spent on search engine advertising in 2004.
[2005-05-25] Blinkx Embraces Video Search
Much ado was made about the launches of Google Video and Yahoo Video Search. However, there was an upstart service, called blinkx TV, which beat both of the search giants to the punch.
[2005-05-25] Google Desktop Search Becomes Multi-Lingual
Google, long a supporter of international languages, is quite adamant about developing multi-lingual services in order to facilitate world-wide Google adoption.
[2005-05-25] Internet Directories See PageRank Removed
Internet directories function in a way similar to a university's student directory or a telephone directory: it gives site owners a service that can bring exposure to their web site.
[2005-05-25] Borgs At Google?
I've been meaning to post about the possibility of borgs at Google but just now got around to it. What the heck is a borg you ask?
[2005-05-25] Google Hit With A Number Of Cease And Desist Requests
No one said being on top was easy. In case you need further proof, just ask Google. The search engine king was recently hit with 3 cease and desist notices, asking them to remove certain content from their index.
[2005-05-25] AnooX Challenges Google and Yahoo To A Competition
AnooX, the revolutionary Search Engine that delivers the most accurate search results due to our innovative mechanism for search generation that 1st machine generates the results and then continuously re-generates them based on the majority Vote of the People - invites Google and Yahoo to a contest to see who actually delivers the more accurate search results.
[2005-05-25] AskJeeves.com Contemplating A Name Change
Barry Diller, CEO of IAC; the company who purchased Ask.com, indicated the property may be preparing for a name change yesterday at the D conference.
[2005-05-25] SEOmoz Invites You To Take SEO Quiz
Who is the most knowledgeable SEO whiz out there? Apparently Rand Fiskin was curious about this, so he developed a "tool" where SEO gurus can test their mettle.
[2005-05-24] Microsoft Debuts MSN Virtual Earth
Geo-mapping service will offer layers of aerial photographs and satellite photos, and arrive later this year.
[2005-05-24] Y!Q and F’n Yahoos
Okay, you may have noticed those Y!Q contextual search tags on the post pages here and on InsideMicrosoft. I was hoping to use Y!Q to let you guys see other posts on Blog News Channel that relate to the one you're reading.
[2005-05-24] Google Backlink Update In Progress
It's that time again ladies and gentlemen: time for site owners to visit various datacenters; hoping to find favorable answers concerning the search performance of their web site... in other words, there's another Google update taking place.
[2005-05-24] Google AdSense Hijacked In Google Search Results
The act of page hijacking with concerns to the search engine world can produce long ranging results, especially for the web site or page targeted by the attack.
[2005-05-24] Gas Price-Related Searches Increase
A study conducted by comScore Media Metrix indicates search engine queries seeking lower gas prices has increased by 156 percent.
[2005-05-24] BigClique Prepares To Challenge Search Engine Players
While it's generally acknowledge that the big 3, consisting of Google, Yahoo, and MSN Search, dominate the search engine industry. However, an upstart search company has decided not to let these facts deter them from introducing a search engine with hopes they can challenge the industry leaders.
[2005-05-23] Yahoo Joined Search Party Later, But Successfully
But the Sunnyvale-based portal company has profited handsomely from their foray into the Internet search market.
[2005-05-23] South African Search Engine Launches
A search engine focusing on web sites and properties originating from South Africa has enjoyed its official launch.
[2005-05-23] Why Don’t Google’s RSS Ads Support Wordpress?
Recently, Google has been expanding its beta of AdSense for RSS feeds. Problem is, it only supports Google's own Blogger and Typepad, at least at the moment.
[2005-05-23] One Month Left For Google Puzzle Championship
Google's 2005 U.S. Puzzle Championship will be held in just under a month, on June 18, 2005.
[2005-05-23] Your Cookie Just Crumbled
Third-party cookies get rejected at an alarming rate according to a study by a web analytics firm.
[2005-05-23] DMOZ Closes Site Submission Status Forum
The nature of the DMOZ directory dictates the use of human editors to populate the index. Because of this, DMOZ has been a topic of discussion amongst many who feel they've been treated unfairly.
[2005-05-23] MSN Virtual Earth Employs Satellite Technology
Since the official beta launch of the Google Maps satellite technology feature, integrating real time satellite photos with online map services has become all the rage.
[2005-05-23] BitTorrent.com To Launch Torrent Search Engine
In a move that is sure to please the entertainment industry, a search engine devoted to peer-2-peer file sharing is preparing to launch.
[2005-05-23] Yahoo Asks Users To Take The Y!Q Challenge
In order to promote the upcoming launch of their Y!Q contextual search service, Yahoo is holding a contest to find who can use Y!Q in the most innovative method.
[2005-05-23] Online Dating Service To Integrate Google Maps
In a move that's sure to please privacy junkies everywhere, an online dating service has announced the integration of Google Maps into their site, allowing members to look up, address-wise, the location of other members.
[2005-05-20] An Inside Look At Yahoo! Messenger
I attended a pre-launch briefing for the new Yahoo Messenger. I have to hand it to the folks at Yahoo for having people like me ...
[2005-05-20] Ask Jeeves Buys Excite Europe
The little search engine that could has kept right on doing things that contributed in their longevity to begin with.
[2005-05-20] Get $50 For One Hour Of Blogging
Blogger is willing to pay you $50 to come down to Google for one hour and help imrpove the design and usability of Blogger.
[2005-05-20] Improve Searching With More Search Results Per Page
There is an overlooked search preference that I have changed to improve my Google searching. You'll find it in the Preferences settings that you can get to from nearly any Google search page.
[2005-05-20] Excite.com Asks Jeeves For Help With InfoSpace
InfoSpace and Ask Jeeves combine to mutually support the search and portal functions of Excite.com.
[2005-05-20] Google Leaders Defend Business Strategies
Yesterday, during one of the Gartner Symposium sessions, Google co-founder Sergey Brin and CEO Eric Schmidt hosted a Q and A detailing their positions on a number of areas concerning Google's exponential growth.
[2005-05-20] Study Finds Google News Unbiased
Brad Hill reports on a study which charts Google News and determines that it is unbiased.
[2005-05-20] How MSN and Yahoo Sells Your Traffic
Yes, it really happens. Now you might find it hard to believe but you will understand after I explain.
[2005-05-20] Examining The Google News Bias Study
A study testing whether or not Google News is biased was recently released. The study found that Google News does not show favoritism, but may contain some residual biases.
[2005-05-20] Bloglines Promises Comprehensive Blog Search Engine
With the blogosphere continuing to makes its way into everyday life, some feel a thorough search engine for blogs is lacking.
[2005-05-20] AOL Staying With Time Warner For Now
Rumors of a spinoff of the Internet service provider aren't true, says Time Warner's chief executive.
[2005-05-20] A Brief History Of Google In Time
Googlites everywhere benefit from the Mountain View-based company's ongoing search engine development. This is a quick review of Google and some products it has brought to the masses.
[2005-05-18] Google Launches Enterprise Desktop Search
The latest offering from the Mountain View-based search company trumps Microsoft's recent enterprise search announcement.
[2005-05-17] Google Results Undergoing Update
A large backlink update is underway at the datacenters used by Google Search. As per usual, when big updates occur in Google or any other search engine, the effects are normally seen in the search results.
[2005-05-16] Customize Google And Gmail
Add Google Suggest to the Google homepage; Remove Ads from Google; Auto-save emails in Gmail, while you type; Gmail delete button, to easily delete messages; Make all "mailto:" links point to Gmail...
[2005-05-13] RustySearch Results Posted
Since the explosion of the search engine industry, many have discussed which search engine has the most relevant results. However, conclusions about this debate may have been made a little clearer yesterday.
[2005-05-13] SEO Professional Style, From Danny Sullivan Himself
Danny Sullivan just wrote me this. OK, OK, Maryam, I'm coming, just one more post! Heh. Tried to post the below as comments, but the connection refused...
[2005-05-12] GoLexa.com Provides A Number of SEO Tools
The recently launched GoLexa.com offers users a completely ugly website that turns out, in spite of its appearance, to be completely useful, especially to those needing search engine optimization information.
[2005-05-12] Google Makes Slight Alterations To AutoLink
When Google first introduced the beta version of the Google Toolbar 3, it contained a feature that caused many heads to turn, as well as an outcry of disapproval.
[2005-05-11] Google's Chinese Cenorship Considered A Success
Because of China's strict information control and the compliance they demand from foreign businesses, Google was forced to allow Google News to be censored by the Chinese government. In order to release their search engine to the Chinese population, Google had to abide these methods.
[2005-05-11] Google Content Blocker?
In one of the more humorous gags to target the search engine marketing industry, specifically Google, in recent memory, someone has set up a fake web page offering a Google Content Blocker utility.
[2005-05-11] Googlism
Want to know what Google thinks of any person, place, thing or date? Googlism it! You call up the Googlism page and enter in the subject matter, and Googlism then lists snippets of information that is culls from the Google-indexed web pages of the world.
[2005-05-11] The Yahoo Music Engine
This post at Slashdot notes some cool stuff about the Yahoo Music Engine. As it says...
[2005-05-10] Web Accelerator Stopped At The Door
I was visiting Whackbag.com, the unofficial Opie & Anthony message boards, and was stopped cold by this message ...
[2005-05-10] Google Local Mobile Launches For UK
The United Kingdom has become the latest country to receive benefits from an upgrade being offered by Google search.
[2005-05-10] goWholesale Launches Blog Search Engine, Services
Because of a number of search engine relevancy discussions, vertical search engines have been a topic of conversations. Vertical search engines are niche-based engines, normally focusing on one industry.
[2005-05-10] Gmail Becomes Google Mail In Germany
A naming rights issue has forced Google to change the name of their German email service. Because another party owns the rights to "G-Mail," Google will now call the German service "Google Mail".
[2005-05-09] Personalize Your Google Search
When you search with Google, it sees you as any other Google user. It has no idea what your interests are. Therefore, for the same search words Google will deliver the same results to you and everyone else in the world searching with the same language and country selections.
[2005-05-09] Grokker.com Bring Visuals To Yahoo Search
Today, Groxis Inc., a search visualization company, announced the launch of Grokker.com, the first web-based version of Groxis' visualization software.
[2005-05-09] Google Working On Web Accelerator Fix
C|Net reports that Google has confirmed that one of the problems with Google Web Accelerator ...
[2005-05-08] Google Went Down ... Were They Hacked?
Google went offline for a while tonight. Google Blogoscoped was the first to report it, noticing that Google.com, Google News, and Froogle were down.
[2005-05-07] How Much Does Anchor Text Matter?
One of my all time favorite web searches is for the words "click here." Whenever someone asks how much anchor text matters, I tell them to search for those two little words.
[2005-05-07] Yahoo Yahoo Is Is The The Most Most Relevant Relevant
Jeremy Zawodny's post about the importance of anchor text, got me to thinking. Mainly, about what other time-wasting games I could play with major search engines.
[2005-05-06] Yahoo Brings Video Search Out Of Beta
Yesterday, Yahoo Search did something that may be considered quite foreign to other search engines: they brought one of their search features out of its Beta stage and officially launched it. I am referring to Yahoo Video Search and according to Yahoo; it offers "the most comprehensive video search product on the Web."
[2005-05-06] Google Web Accelerator and Security
The web is abuzz with talk of the pros and cons of the new Google Web Accelerator. Mostly the con, and the issue is privacy. I want to let you in on an immediate problem you must understand.
[2005-05-06] Web Accelerator and Your 404 Page
Google Web Accelerator's most useful function is that it, in theory, removes the Slashdot effect where you get a 404 "Page Not Found" error when visiting an overburdened site. But what happens when you type in an address that doesn't exist?
[2005-05-06] Another Site Caught Gaming Google
Yet another highly regarded site with high PageRank has been caught gaming Google. This time, its Syndic8.com, and once again, Andy Baio is on the case.
[2005-05-05] What Constitutes Search Engine Relevancy?
Relevancy. It's something that drives the search engine industry in almost every aspect. From providing quality search results to contextual advertising, relevancy is crucial to any search engine's success. The question is how do you define relevancy? More importantly, how do search engines define relevancy?
[2005-05-05] The Google Web Accelerator
Google has just released this product from Labs: The Google Web Accelerator (beta), which is designed to speed up your Internet Explorer browsing experience.
[2005-05-05] Newsmap Brings the Heat to Google News
We all love how Google News lets us see the top news stories at a glance. But, a clever programmer named Marcos Weskamp has created an even better way to see-actually, to visualize-these news stories.
[2005-05-05] Google Accelerates The Web
New software to be offered by the search engine company would route web requests through its computers to speed up retrieval.
[2005-05-05] I WANT MY YAHOO TV!
Yahoo took another search engine leap today by offering a video option when looking through Yahoo's search engine. With video clips from top names like CBS, Buena Vista Pictures(Disney), VH1, MTV and a whole host of others, Yahoo continues to add to their offerings.
[2005-05-04] Yahoo Seeking Contextual Search Scientist/Engineers
From time to time I post jobs here. We have a couple openings in our contextual search group.
[2005-05-04] Marketers Follow Viewers To The Web
US consumers have been putting aside television for a few years, and now marketers may be doing the same.
[2005-05-04] Which Desktop Search Tool Is The Best?
While the search industry continues to evolve, an area that's received a great deal of focus has to do with creating a successful desktop search tool. This mentality has led to a proliferation of desktop search (DTS) tools. Because of this, knowing which one is better can be a best-guess/trial-and-error scenario… until now.
[2005-05-04] Ask Jeeves Cutting Number Of Ads By 31%
AskJeeves last month began to implement a program to reduce the number of ads atop search results by 31%, a move intended to boost customer satisfaction and the bottom line.
[2005-05-03] Which Search Engine Drives The Most Traffic To Business Sites?
WPN Editor's Note: New information on the effectiveness of search engines was released recently. Things like market share and referral rates to various business. Google dominates the market holding nearly 50% of the total share. A recent story from Traffick.com covers this in great detail.
[2005-05-03] Google News to Get Quality Update
A patent application by Google aims to improve the results of its news searches by creating a news source credibility database.
[2005-05-03] XTRA Google
Here's a nice web page that you can use instead of the usual Google homepage that makes it easier to begin many types of searches that Google now offers.
[2005-05-03] Official Find Attempts To Cut Through Search Spam
One of the biggest complaints concerning the use of search engines is the amount of erroneous results appearing with normal keyword queries. Because of the explosion of search engine optimization, search results are often crammed full of useless results residing to only increase a company's SERP position.
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