Articles on search engines and search engine positioning February 2006

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

Search Engine Strategies Conference 2
SearchViews is also following the SES conference (Feb 2006)

The Search Engine Strategies Conference
SEO Roundtable is following the conference. Read the summaries. (Feb 2006)

Test Versions of New Windows Live Services Arrive
Windows Live Expo and updated Windows Live Local available now; other betas coming in March. (PC World Feb 28 2006)

Going deeper into the Wikipedia
Yahoo! adds links directly to the main sections of Wikipedia entries (Yahoo! Blog Feb 23 2006)

MSN adCenter Increasing Search Advertising Volume by 70%
MSN is switching from using Overture to its own PPC text ad service (SE Journal Feb 24 2006)

Jeeves Retires
Search Engine Watch on the butler leaving Ask (Feb 20 2006)

Website Value 101 - How to Appraise a Website
What is a website worth and how much should you pay for it? (Stuntdubl Feb 20 2006)

Search Engine Strategies New York
The next SES conference is in New York on February Feb 27 to March 2.

Google Pages web site creator
Google lets you make mini web sites (Matt Cutts Feb 23 2006)

Lexxe -- Natural Language Search Engine With Clusters
ResearchBuzz has more (Feb 23 2006)

Meet The Google Guys
Google is the cover story in Time Magazine (Time.com February 12 2996)

Technorati Adds Authority Slider to Blog Search
Blog search engine lets you filter results based upon the authority ranking of a blog (SE Journal Feb 14 2006)

Google Changed Another Help Entry
Does Google ever manipulate its search results? (Goolge Blogoscoped Feb 14 2006)

Never Poke a Dragon While It's Eating
Battelle on the search engines fighting over China (Feb 13 2006)

Danny Sullivan Sings Too!
SE Guru becomes pop star (SE Roundtable Feb 10 2006)

New on your Desktop, Google on version 3 of Google Desktop
You can search across multiple computers to find your information (Google Blog Feb 9 2006)

PayPal Prepares For a Challenge From Google
For the last nine months, Google has recruited online retailers to test GBuy (WSJ Feb 6 2006)

Yahoo helped jail another Chinese 'net dissident, Li Zhi
Reporters Without Borders is reporting that Yahoo! provided Chinese authorities with personally identifying data on yet another customer in China (boingboing Feb 8 2006)

Google Offers New Search Feature
New Google Desktop will transfer files from one computer to another, but there is a catch...(baltimoresun.com Feb 9 2006)

Amazon Enters Contextual Ad Market
Amazon has started a beta test where it places contextual ads on third-party published sites (WebProNews February 7 2006)

Dell pre-loads Google toolbar
PC maker Dell confirmes that it is shipping new PCs with Google software pre-installed (bit-tech.net February 8 2006)

What's Your Link Reputation?
Popularity-based search results can be spammed so page rank is not sufficient in itself (SitePoint January 13 2006)

GMail Integrates Google Talk’s Chat
Google adds IM functionality to email service (SE Journal Feb 7 2006)

Former Altavista CEO to launch new ad network
AdSense to get even more competition, now from Turn Inc (BW Feb 6 2006 via Battelle)

Gmail's New Chat History
GMail has a new section called “Chats” which allows you to save your Google Talk chat history (Google Blogscoped February 7 2006)

PayPal Prepares For a Challenge From Google
Google is building its own Internet-payment service (Wall Street Journal February 6 2006)

Google Sitemaps Team Interview
The Sitemaps program, crawling and indexing in general, handling of vanished pages and URL removal (Smart IT Jan 2006 via M Cutts)

Ramping up on international webspam
German BMW and Ricoh removed from Google index due to spam (Matt Cutts Feb 4 2006)

And we'll have FON, FON FON
Skype, Google to help fund global WiFi network (ZDNet Feb 5 2006)

Amazon to launch contextual advertising program
Amazon are actually creating a full contextual advertising network - a clone of AdSense (Planitax Feb 5 2006)

Do Your Users Trust You?: 21 Tips for Improved Website Credibility
Stuntdubl on how to increase conversion (Jan 31 2006)

Google: Cyber saints or sinners?
It brought order out of online chaos and illuminated the outer reaches of darkest ignorance. Then Google made the huge mistake of political expediency when it agreed to censor itself for a Chinese audience (The Tepegraph Febuary 4 2006)

Google Tags & Bookmarks : SEO Implications
(Search Engine Journal February 3 2006)

Search firms surveyed on privacy
To find out what kind of information the four major search companies retain about their users, CNET News.com surveyed America Online, Google, Microsoft and Yahoo (CNET February 3 2006)

myGeek to Provide Private Label Advertising Management Platform for Lycos
(Lycos.com February 2 2006)

Search engines challenged on ‘theft’
A group of newspaper, magazine and book publishers is accusing Google and other aggregators of online news stories of unfairly exploiting their content (FT.com Jan 31 2006)

Google's Human Rights Caucus briefing
Google tries to explain (Google Blog Feb 1 2006)