Articles on search engines and search engine positioning December 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

73 things for online marketing
73 things I have observed, believed, or practiced in 2005 (Web Professor Dec 30 2005)

Mobile Web & Search from Google and Opera (SE Journal Dec 30 2005)
Google becomes default search engine on the Opera Mini browser (SE Journal Dec 30 2005)

How women and men use the Internet
Men like the internet for the experiences it offers, while women like it for the human connections it promotes (PDF report PEW Dec 28 2005)

Interview: For AOL/Google, The Devil Is In the Details
More on the AOL/Google deal (Battelle Dec 28 2005)

Revisiting The "No Banners On Google" Declaration
Banner ads are out, but other graphical ads may appear on personalized pages (Danny Sullivan Dec. 28 2005)

2005 Year End Google Zeitgeist
What people have been googling for in 2005

40 SEM 2006 Predictions - Search Engine Marketing Trends and Opportunities
Things to keep in mind for the upcoming year (Stuntdubl Dec 27 2005)

Google Acquisitions
A review of companies bought by Google (SEO by the Sea Dec 20 2005)

Celebrating 10 years of SEO
Brett Tabke on 101 Signals of Quality (Webmaster World Dec 19 2005)

Brett Tabke's starts blog in the Webmaster World robots.txt file
After having banned search engine spiders using this file, he is now using it for his blog! (Dec 20 2005)

Word Up from the Ask Jeeves blog
Ask Jeeves adds translation, dictionaries and synonyms (Dec 19 2005)

Time Warner's AOL and Google to Expand Strategic Alliance
It's official. Google to Invest $1 Billion for a 5% Stake in AOL (Time Warner Dec 20 2005)

Hear me on WebmasterRadio.fm, Wednesday at 8pm EST
Jeremy Zawodny and Tim Mayer starts their own podcast (Dec 20 2005)

Time Saving Search Shortcuts
Create your own Yahoo shortcut (Yahoo Blog Dec 19 2005)

Top Searches 2005 - Britney's Back!
Searchers have been looking for a lot of beautiful women in 2005 (Yahoo! Blog Dec 14 2005)

Analyzing One-Way vs. Reciprocal Links
Stoney deGeyter argues that reciprocal links may still work SEO wise (SE Guide Dec 16 2005)

Google to create 700 Dublin jobs
Google expands in Europe (The Post Dec 11 2005 via threadwatch)

A Gangbuster Year for News Aggregator Topix.net
Gary Price on the Topix search engine for news (SEW Dec 19 2005)

Japan plans own Internet search engine
Japan's government, high-tech firms and universities will develop their own search technology (AFP Dec 18 2005, via Marketing Pilgrim)

5 Questions with MSNs David Jakubowski
The General Manager of Search Strategies and GTM for MSN talks to SearchViews (Dec 16 2005)

Blogger Web Comments for Firefox
Google is testing a Firefox plugin that makes it easy to see what bloggers are saying about a page you're viewing.

Zawodny Says No to Link Condoms
Yahoo's Jeremy Zawodny sells links on his blog. What is the big deal? WebGuerilla has the answer (Dec 11 2005)

Hotwiring Your Search Engine
Newsweek discovers the white hat vs. black hat controversy (Dec 19 2005)

Gmail Web Clips: Mixing RSS with Ads
Google includes RSS feed in GMail to get people interested in ads? (Google Blogoscoped Dec 9 2005)

Project Gutenberg Fears No Google
WSJ.com interviews Project Gutenberg's founder Michael Hart on online access to books (Dec 10 2005)

Vote : Search Engine Journal’s 2005 Search Blogs Awards
Yes, you may even vote for Pandia ;) (SE Journal Dec 9 2005)

Good cloaking: straight from the search engines’ mouths
You may actually cloak to get rid of superfluous session IDs in URLs (S. Spencer Dec 8 2005)

Google 2.0 - Part II: A Look Into the Future
SearchViews speculate as to what Google may do in the future (Dec 8 2005)

Cleaning up Froogle - One Post at a Time
Is Google's shopping search engine full of spam? (Comparison Engines Dec 8 2005)

Public transit via Google
With Google Transit Trip Planner commuters may access public transit schedules and plan trips. (Google Blog Dec 7 2005)

New Windows Live Local Service Delivers State-of-the-Art Advances for Web-Based Mapping and Local Search
Press release from Microsoft announces new local map search (SEW Blog Dec 8 2005)

Google's Empire, Privacy, and Government Access to Personal Data
The US government may get search data from Google, often with a mere subpoena (Concurring Opinions Nov 29 2005)

Google: Ten Golden Rules
Eric Schmidt and Hal Varian on hiring and keeping good knowledge workers (Newsweek Dec 2 2005)

Search Engine Strategies Conference Chicago, summaries
Search Engine Roundtable presents some of the sessions (Dec 5 2005)

The 70 Percent Solution
John Battelle interviews Google's Eric Schmidt (Business 2.0 Nov 28 2005)

Times About Ready to Relaunch About.com Brand
DMNews on About's use of search engine marketing and more (Dec 6 2005)

Danny Sullivan launches Daggle, his own blog
Search Engine Watch guru writes about more than search engines (Dec 1 2005)