Articles on search engines and search engine positioning August 2005

Here continues our list of online articles on search engines and search engine positioning Pandia has found interesting.

Go to Part 1: Recommended Search Engine Reading

See also:

• The latest articles (see right hand column of the search engine news page)
• Older articles on search engine positioning,
• Scientific papers on search engine development.
• Pandia's feature articles on search engine marketing

Balancing the Link Equation
(Stuntdubl.com August 17 2005)

Google Registers "Movie" Related Domains
Gary Price speculates why (SEW August 16 2005)

Customer satisfaction among se users
By Susan Kuchinskas (Internetnews.com August 16 2005)

Screw Size! I Dare Google & Yahoo To Report On Relevancy
Danny Sullivan gets it off his chest (SEW August 16 2005)

Google library project runs into resistance
Google slows down the scanning of books (MyEarthLink August 15)

Quick SES San Jose 2005 Session Coverage Recap
Reports from the latest Search Engine Strategies conference (SE Roundtable August 11)

Why Yahoo Bought Konfabulator
Chris Sherman on Yahoo's purchase of desktop widgets (SEW August 10 2005)

Barry Diller helps Ask Jeeves get in shape
On how Ask Jeeves is to increase its market share (CNET August 9 2005)

Doing a Vertical Search
Susan Kuchinskas on topic oriented search engines (Internetnews.com August 9 2005)

146,000 Backlinks Woohoo!
The new Yahoo! database demonstrates the large number of backlinks content sites may get. This shows the futility of any link campaign, Andrew Goodman argues (Traffick August 9 2005)

Search Engine Strategies San Jose Coverage
Jennifer Laycock reports (SE Guide August 9 2005)

Google's Chief Is Googled, to the Company's Displeasure
Google bans CNET for article (New York Times August 8 2005)

Google Announces Plan To Destroy All Information It Can't Index
The Onion on Google Purge (August 31 2005 via @web)

Yahoo! accused of hosting 5,000 phishing websites.
Spam group Spamhaus claims most of these domains are linked to fraudulent website scams (Indian Hackers September 6 2005)

Yahoo! Local Adds Editorial Reviews
Yahoo! Local gets professional editorial style reviews (SE Journal September 6 2005)

Program hijacks Google searches, gives fake results
2Search hiljacks your Google results (Washington Post September 3 2005, via SEW)

New Orleans after the Flood
Google Maps presents satelite photos of post-hurricane New Orleans

Personalized search paper from MSR
About recent search engine research (Greg August 24 2005)

Microsoft CEO Threatens to Kill Google
Microsoft executive Mark Lucovsky cannot hold it back anymore (WindowsITPro September 6 2005)

No, you may not change my f'ing home page!
Jeremy Zawodny says no to Yahoo! Instant Messaging extras (September 1 2005)

AOL News Joins the Big League of News Search Engines
AOL News is more than 2.4 times larger than Google News says Greg Jarboe (SEW August 25 2005)

Yahoo Ad System Crashes, Angering Advertisers in the Process
David Wallace at Search Engine Guide. (August 25 2005)

Search Engine Spam?
Can buying a visible text ad on an unrelated site be called spam? (O'Reilly August 23 2005)

New Google Search Engine Results to Include Additional Site Links?
By Derek Vaughan (Thehostingnews.com August 12 2005)

Switching to a New Domain Without Losing Your Google Rankings
Useful tips from Scottie Claiborne (ISEDB.com August 18 2005)

Ecommerce And Search Engine Optimization
By Dave Davies (ISEDB.com August 18 2005)

Balancing the Link Equation
(Stuntdubl.com August 17 2005)

Google Registers "Movie" Related Domains
Gary Price speculates why (SEW August 16 2005)

Customer satisfaction among se users
By Susan Kuchinskas (Internetnews.com August 16 2005)

Screw Size! I Dare Google & Yahoo To Report On Relevancy
Danny Sullivan gets it off his chest (SEW August 16 2005)

Google library project runs into resistance
Google slows down the scanning of books (MyEarthLink August 15)

Quick SES San Jose 2005 Session Coverage Recap
Reports from the latest Search Engine Strategies conference (SE Roundtable August 11)

Why Yahoo Bought Konfabulator
Chris Sherman on Yahoo's purchase of desktop widgets (SEW August 10 2005)

Doing a Vertical Search
Susan Kuchinskas on topic oriented search engines (Internetnews.com August 9 2005)

146,000 Backlinks Woohoo!
The new Yahoo! database demonstrates the large number of backlinks content sites may get. This shows the futility of any link campaign, Andrew Goodman argues (Traffick August 9 2005)

A Buyer's Guide to Paid Search Advertising Agencies
Chris Sherman at Search Engine Watch on a companion to the Buyer's Guide to Search Engine Optimization Firms (July 20)

Yahoo's Brilliant Solution
Fortune on Internet advertising (July 2005)

Can Google Stay Google?
FastCompany interviews Sergey Brin. One point: Google is working on automated universal translation of web pages. (Predated August 2005)

Suit accuses Google of pregnancy bias
On the combination of kids and careers at Google (NYNewwsday, July 26 2005)

Tracking the Blogs
Blog search engine Technorati talks about big-name competition and the increasing number of blogs (BusinessWeek July 27).

Search Engine Results Continuing to Diverge
A new study finds that there is not much overlap between the search engines as regards results (SEW August 2 2005)

Google Sitemap for idiots
A simple intro to a complicated tool (Search Engine Journal 26 July 2005)

Search Plays a Dominant Role in B2B Sales
On the role of search engines in the B2B buying process. (ISEDB July 28).

Google's Chief Is Googled, to the Company's Displeasure
Google bans CNET for article (New York Times August 8 2005)

Search Engine Strategies San Jose Coverage
Jennifer Laycock reports (SE Guide August 9 2005)

Doing a Vertical Search
Susan Kuchinskas on topic oriented search engines (Internetnews.com August 9 2005)

Barry Diller helps Ask Jeeves get in shape
On how Ask Jeeves is to increase its market share (CNET August 9 2005)

Why Yahoo Bought Konfabulator
Chris Sherman on Yahoo's purchase of desktop widgets (SEW August 10 2005)

Quick SES San Jose 2005 Session Coverage Recap
Reports from the latest Search Engine Strategies conference (SE Roundtable August 11)