Articles on search engines and search engine positioning January 2006
Here continues our list of online articles on search engines and search engine positioning Pandia has found interesting.
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Google at work on desktop Linux
Google is preparing its own distribution of Linux for the desktop, in a possible bid to take on Microsoft in its core business - desktop software (Channel Register January 31 2006)
Google in China
Google Blog: "Filtering our search results clearly compromises our mission. " (Jan 27 2006)
Gates defends China's internet restrictions
Gates says that censorship is no reason for technology companies not to do business in China (Times Online Jan 27 2006)
Google AdSense begins rich media beta test
The Google ad network for sites is testing rich media, including interstitials, expanding ads and floating ads (JenSense Jan 26 2006)
China Syndrome
Blog of news clippings on China and search engines
China Repression Cartoon: Google, Yahoo & MSN
Political cartoonist Mark Fiore released an animation iRepress regarding the three major search engines and their relationship with China (Justilien.com January 27 2006)
Sites Google Agreed to Censor in China
A selection of search results which Google.cn self-censors working together with the Chinese government (Google Blogscoped January 26 2006)
Nielsen NetRatings Search Engine Ratings
No changes in search engine ratings, Danny reports (SEW Jan 24 2006)
Google offers fee-based online ad analytics
Google and Zaas to provide support for Google Web metrics (News.com Jan 24 2006)
Are you kidding?!
Yahoo Blog sticks to the goal of becoming the leading search engine (Jan 24 2006)
Google agrees to censor results in China
Google accepts Chinese censorship at its new Chinese site (seattlepi.com Jan 24 2006)
Yahoo! gives up quest for search dominance
Yahoo! has capitulated to Google in the battle for market dominance (Seattle PI Jan 24 2006)
Marketing in the Search Tail: Is the Pain Worth the Gain?
50 percent of all searches are one-of-a-kind (Patricia Hursh, SEW Jan 24 2006)
Google News Adds Most Popular & Recommended Sections
SE Journal on new additions to Google News (Jan 23 2006)
Technology: Searching for Searches
Newsweek on the US government's use of search data (Jan 30 2006)
Search Privacy: Could the Government Take the Next Step?
On the US government getting access to search logs (Google Blogoscoped Jan 21 2006)
Yahoo admits it let White House access its databases
Yahoo gives the US Government search info (Times Online Jan 20)
Google Buys dMarc Radio Advertising, Expanding Adwords to Radio
Google acquires dMarc Broadcasting (SE Journal Jan 17 2006)
Mr. Ploppy’s Monday Tool List - Volume XXXIII - Weblog Promotion Tools
Stuntdubl on where to get your blog listed (Jan 16 2006)
MSN to Drop Yahoo! Within Six Months
SE Guide on MSN switching over to its own text ad system (Jan 13 2006)
AdSense pays publishers 78.5 cents on the dollar, according to NYTimes
JenSense on the New York Times story (Jan 15 2006)
On Fast Search & Transfer
Battelle talks to the Norwegian search company (Jan 14 2006)
Google offers personal home page for mobile phones
Personalized version of the Google home page for mobile phones (Reuters Jan 12 2006)
What? No Google on Vista? Google Strikes Back on IE 7!
The Google vs. Microsoft war goes on (SE Roundtable Jan 12 2006)
Court rules against Yahoo in Nazi speech case
French courts against American freedom of speech (Reuters Jan 12 2006)
St Lawrence of Google
Larry Page, the co-founder of Google, has always wanted to change the world (Economist Jan 12 2006)
The Great Firewall of China
A vast security network and compliant multinationals keep the mainland's Net under Beijing's thumb (Business Week Online January 13 2006)
European Tech Giants Craft Search Engine
Quaero is billed as Europe's answer to Google, but it has a lot to live up to (Washington Post January 11 2006)
Build Your Own Firefox Search Engine
O'Reilly on building Firefox search engine plug ins.
Blog SEO Tip #2: Your URLs
If you move from one blog platform to another, keep the rewritten URLs (Spencer Jan 10 2006)
Is Miva For Sale?
PPC FindWhat/Espotting successor is looking for capital (ClickZ Jan 10 2006)
Search Engines As Leeches, The Difference Between Paid & Free Listings & Keyword Price Rises
Danny Sullivan's response to Jacob Nielsen (SEW January 9 2006)
The Year in Consumer Generated Content
A look at the trends that made 2005 a breakout year for citizen's media (iMediaConnection January 11 2006)
Search Marketing's About People and Principles, Not Just Algorithms
Search marketing has come under fire in the mainstream press and elsewhere this year, and that's not good for the industry (Andrew Goodman at SEW January 11 2006)
Search Engines as Leeches on the Web
Search engines extract too much of the Web's value, leaving too little for the websites that actually create the content. Liberation from search dependency is a strategic imperative for both websites and software vendors (Jacob Nielsen's Alert Box January
The State of Search Engine Marketing
New research from SEMPO sheds light on what's happening in the search marketing industry today, from the size of the industry to key trends that will shape the year ahead (Chris Sherman at SEW January 9 2006)
Thoughts on Google Video Store, and Google Pack
John Battelle's take on the recent Google innovations (Jan 6 2006)
Google Faces Plenty Of Competition In Online Video Rental & Sales Marketplace
Gary Price on alternatives to Google Video (SEWatch Jan 6 2006)
Google Video Buggles My Mind
Andrew Goodman is not impressed (Traffick Jan 7 2006)
101 Signals of Quality - The WebPage Title
Brett Tabke on the "long tail" and how to write good title tags (WMWorld Jan 4 2006)
Making Search More Efficient: A little about caching and prefetching
William Slawski at SEO by the Sea discusses search engine result caching (Jan 4 2006)
Google Pack Software Bundle & Pay Per View Video Coming From Google
Google will offer pay-per-video downloads through Google Video (SEW Blog Jan 5 2006)
Dohop Search Engine Compares 667 Airlines
Researchbuzz on a new Icelandic airline search engine (Jan 2 2006)
Feedback on Bigdaddy data center
Matt Cutts on the Google preview test datacenter (Jan 4 2006)
5 Tips to Make it in the SEO Community
Andy Hagans on how to become a search engine optimization rock star (SE Journal Jan 3 2006)
Being A Big Voice In SEO
Danny Sullivan looks at search engine optimization celebrities (SEW Jan 4 2006)
Under Manual Review: Editorial Control and the Search Engines
Stuntdubl Jan 4 2006 on the fine line between SEO and spam.
Site offers US business search in foreign languages
Tyloon.com, El Monte, CA, in beta, lets users search its 15 million U.S. business database in English, Spanish and Chinese. (DMNews Jan 4 2006 via SEW)
Google Experiments with Dropdown Navigation
GB on Google testing a new home page interface (Jan 3 2006)
No Google Cubes Coming, Says Google
Google PR chieftain David Krane says there will be no Google PC (SEW Jan 4 2006)
Internet phoning is coming to Yahoo
Yahoo! is challenging Skype by offering lower prices and opening the technology to an established base of instant-messaging subscribers (3 January 2006)
Google to develop low price PC with Wal-Mart?
Industry Feeling Presence of the 800-Pound Google (latimes.com Jan 1 2006)
Yet Another SEO Contest Update
Oilman on the SEO Contest controversy (Dec 30 2005)
Yahoo Search Goes Down New Years
Search Engine Roundtable on the fact that Yahoo users met an error message (Jan 2 2o06)
