Articles on search engines and search engine positioning October2005

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

Ask España: Out of Beta
Ask Jeeves Spain is out of beta, and it is named Ask only (Ask Jeeves blog Oct 25 2005)

Yahoo Gives Danny Sullivan Button Share
Yahoo has made a new feature available for people who use its My Web service. The 'Save To My Web' share is a simple button that can be added to a web site. Clicking the button saves that content to the pages stored on My Web 2.0 (WebProNews October 28 20

Google's book initiative gets mixed reviews
Some critics in the book industry fear the library program will spark the kind of piracy problems that have beset the music and film industries (Indystar.com October 30 2005)

IBM partners with Google on information service
The agreement is part of IBM's new strategy to make it easier to find and use data across various formats and locations (Bloomberg October 30 2005)

Google Base Was Sort of Live
Google to launch online database service (Google Blogoscoped Oct 25 2005)

Google's Blogs, and Googler Blogs
List of blogs published by Google and Google employees (Google Blogoscoped Oct 23 2005)

Frank talk from MSN Search
Video with MSN experts talking search (MSN blog Oct 20 2005)

Yahoo launches new podcasting service
Test release of a service that will let users download and review online radio programs (Reuters October 10 2005)

Yahoo Blog Search Gets RSS Feed
Yahoo! News includes blog results (SEW October 12 2005)

Microsoft, Yahoo hook up instant message networks
This deal will allow users of MSN Messenger and Yahoo Messenger to swap text messages and make voice calls to each other (Reuters October 12 2005)

Google, Comcast in talks to invest in AOL
An alliance with Time Warner will strenghten Google vis-a-vis Yahoo! and MSN (Reuters October 13 2005)

Google Merges Local and Maps Products
Google Local is out of beta in North America (Google press release Oct 6 2005)

What's Upcoming at Yahoo! Local
Yahoo! acquires the Upcoming.org social event calendar (Yahoo! Blog ct 4 2005)

Search Engine Ranking Factors
This article contains a large list of the factors that can influence a web document's rank at the major search engines (SEOmoz.org)

PubSub LinkRanks Measures Blogs, Links, and RSS Feeds
New tool for racking the popularity and influence of blogs and websites (SE Journal Sept 26)

Google Says Farewell to Size Wars
Another article on Google's new index update (SEW Sept 27)

Google Announces New Index Size, Shifts Focus from Counting
Google claims its index is three times the size of Yahoo! (Battelle Sept 26 2005)

Tale of the Broken Light Fixture: A Target Audience Analogy
Scottie Claiborne on fixing the web site usability issue (SEG Sept 23 2005)

Flash and SEO - Using Flash on Websites
Rob Sullivan recommends a moderate use of Flash only (Sept 25 2005)

Human Rights Lawyer Questions Yahoo!’s Aid to China in Arresting a Journalist
Attorney of imprisoned Chinese journalist questions Yahoo's excuses for co-operating with Chinese authorities (Epoch Times September 23 2005)

Get the Bug: Viral Marketing Unmasked
A nice how-to by Kent Lewis (SitePoint September 12 2005)

Web Giants Face Issues In Content
How to marry digital media content with technology (Yahoo! News September21 2005)

Google to Put Copyright Laws to the Test
Atout Google's ambitious program to scan millions of books and make their text fully searchable on the Internet (Netscape Gadgets & Tech September18 2005)

Year of the rat / Yahoo helps China catch a journalist
If the Internet is dedicated to democratizing the flow of information throughout the world, can it fulfill its mission in countries still under the grip of communism? (Post-gazett.com September 19 2005)

Zabasearch.com People Search
About on a new people search engine (undated 2005)

MrSapo.com - All In One Search Engine Meta-Interface
Wendy Boswell on the metasearch engine (About 2005)

Old fashioned Webmaster World Pub conference in London
Webmaster World arranges another UK SEM conference, September 30 2005.

Webmaster World Conference
The next US Webmaster World SEM conference is in Las Vegas November 15 - 17 2005

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