Articles on search engines and search engine positioning November 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

Brett Tabke Interviewed on Bot Banning
Brett explains why he decided to close Webmaster World to SE robots (SE Roundtable Nov 28 2005)

Google or Yahoo Manchester United’s New Sponsor?
Will Ole Gunnar wear the Google logo? (SEJournal Nov 29 2005)

Hello, this is Google, your operator, speaking
Google tests pay per call ads (ZDNet Nov 28 2005)

Shopping Search Week 2005
Chris Sherman on comparison shopping search engines (Nov 29 2005)

WebmasterWorld's Brett Tabke Speaks On Rogue Spidering Woes, Plus The Need For Expanded Feeds
On WMW banning Google (Danny Sulivan at SEW Nov 28 2005)

Google’s Jagger Update Completing Cycles
Jim Hedger at Search Engine Guide on the Google update (Nov 28 2005)

Xooglers - new blog for ex-Googlers
A day in the life of a Google employee (Xooglers Nov 27 2005)

Search Engine Optimization Myths
Bragadocchio at Cre8asite Forums debunks 23 SEO myths (Nov 27 2005)

NetLibrary: Over 100,000 Digitized and Searchable Books Available Online
100000 ebooks available (Gary Price at SEW Blog Nov 27 2005)

Search Engine Optimization For MSN Search
Explains some of the SEO requirements unique to MSNBot as the engine strives to have its own identity (Small business strategies, November 24 2005)

Search Engine Optimization For MSN Search
it's important to note some of the subtle differences in SEO requirements unique to MSNBot as the engine strives to have its own identity.

Advertizing moves to RSS
RSS, the rapidly proliferating process for syndicating web sites, wins the true mark of popularity: advertising (Red Herring, November 2005)

Separate bidding on content network introduced by AdWords
Different pricing/bids for Google text ads in search results vs. sites (JenSense Nov 20 2005)

WebmasterWorld Bans Spiders From Crawling
So how are we now going to search this great SE forum? (SEW Nov 21 2005)

Sam Walton Taught Google More About How to Dominate the Internet Than Microsoft Ever Did
On Google's new mobile data centers and more (i, cringely Nov 17 2005)

Google Launches Google Base
Google allow users to upload pretty much any information that they want (SEGuide Nov 16 2005)

Linkbaiting for Fun & Profit
Rand Fishkin on creating content for link-savvy bloggers and web content creators (SEJournal Nov 18 2005)

Blog Comment Spamming Leads to Google Banning
Automatic blog submission software will probably get you banned. (SE Journal Nov 15 2005)

Google's Tough Call
Google is digitizing printed books. This is fair use, Wired argues. (Nov 2005)

Social Commerce via the Shoposphere & Pick Lists
The Yahoo! Search Blog on adding shopping lists published by searchers (Nov 14 2005)

The Flickrization of Yahoo
Business 2.0: Yahoo sees user-generated content a key weapon in its war against Google (Nov 11 2005)

Google Analytics Launches to Enhance Conversions
Google turns web analytics software Urchin into the online Google Analytics service (SEJ Nov 14 2005)

How digg Uncovers the News
Business Week on a new site that lets readers suggest news links (Nov 21 2005)

IBM Software Tracks Blogs to Capture Buzz and Spot Trends
Attentio.com gets some competition (Influx Nov 7 2005)

Learning About and Understanding Web Spam
New papers on search engine spam (Gary Price SEW Nov 11 2005)

eBay Unveils Service With New and Historical Info About Popular Search Terms
Access business intelligence from the eBay database (Gary Price SEW Nov 12 2005)

Google tests newspaper ads
Yepp, Google expands its AdWords text ad concept to pld fashioned paper, apparently testing them in Chicago newspapers

A Journey to the Center of Yahoo
The New York Times visits Yahoo! (Nov 6 2005)

Google Wants to Dominate Madison Avenue, Too
Google is preparing to disrupt the advertising business (New York Times Oct 30 2005)

Yahoo, TiVo team up to blend their services
Online content will be available to users of digital video recording (MSNBC Nov 7 2005)

15,000 Blogs Added to Topix.net Database
News site adds blogs (including Pandia!) to its database (SEW Nov 6 2005)

MSN Book Search and the British Library
MSN Book Search makes 25 million pages from the British Library’s collection available (MSN blog Nov 4 2005)

New AJDS updates
The Ask Jeeves blog presents an update of AJ Desktop Search (Nov 2 2005)

Amazon Mechanical Turk, Artificial Artificial Intelligence
Amazon Mechanical Turk provides a web services API for computers to integrate "artificial, artificial intelligence" directly into their processing by making requests of humans (Huh!?)

Google Local for Mobile
Google Local is now available for US cell phones (Google Blogoscoped Nov 7 2005)

Search Engine Logo Generating Silliness
Make your own Yahoo- og Google-like logo (ResearchBuzz Oct 31 2005)

Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft in Revolution 2.1
According to ISEDB, the second Internet revolution has clearly started to take shape (November 2005)

Googling Books
Intellectual property rights in the digital age (The Monitor November 3 2005)

New Research from Stanford on the Truthful Auction Pricing of Keywords
(SEW November 1 2005)

Peter Pawlowski, Software Engineer and Lead Linguist, Vivisimo, Inc.
Vivisimo provides clustering technology used to enhance search results. "Our product, Vivisimo Velocity, organizes results of a search task for our customers," says Peter Pawlowski (EContentMag.com November 2 2005)