Articles on search engines and search engine positioning April 2006
Here continues our list of online articles on search engines and search engine positioning Pandia has found interesting.
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See also:
Windows Live Now Powering a9.com Search Results
SE Journal on the Amazon.com search site leaving Google for Microsoft (April 30 2006). The same applies to Amazon's Alexa.
Yahoo Launches Tech News Channel
Battelle on Yahoo's site on information about choosing and using technology (April 30 2006)
Technorati Latest Search Engine Banned in China
Will Technorati now have to start doing the Chinese government’s censorship job for them if they wish to be seen in China once more? (Search Engine Journal April 28 2006)
AdCenter to Take Center Stage at MSN Summit
Microsoft is expected to show off its new advertising platform, expected in June, at next week's powwow, as well as share more Live Services tidbits (Microsoft Watch April 28 2006)
Widgets, BitTorrent, content blocking: Introducing Opera 9 Beta
Opera 9 brings powerful new features to enhance the Web browsing experience and empower Web 2.0 developers (Opera Press Release April 20 2006)
Quaeroless? Exalead CEO Says There'll Be No Quaero Site
Battelle argues that European Quaero is not a site, but a program (April 27 1006)
Sawafi Arab Language Search Engine to Launch
New search engine specially designed to meet the challenges of the Arabic language (SE Journal April 27 2006)
Say "Hello" to my little friend
Yahoo Blog on the Babelfish web page translator moving to Yahoo! (April 27 2006)
A great day for 3D
The Google Blog on Google's new free software (April 27 2006)
Google AdWords Broad Match To Act Differently For Commercial, Non-Commercial Terms
For those ads where you absolutely, positively want to show up, exact match is the way to go (SE Watch April 27 2006)
Yahoo! India introduces community-based search engine
Search engine that allows its users to get answers for any question on any topic (Monsters April 28 2006)
Google Releases SketchUp For Free
The first version of the 3D modeling software is absolutely free (WebProNews April 27 2006)
Crawl Caching Proxy
Matt Cutts on content from other Google bots showing up in the main web index (April 23 2006)
Yahoo Babel Fish Translation Tool
Search Engine Journal on Yahoo! adopting the Alta Vista tool (April 27 2006)
Google to notify some webmasters of penalizations!
Google is starting a trial program to notify some webmasters if their sites have been penalized (Threadwatch April 26 2006)
Google Maps in Europe
Google Blog on beta versions of Google Maps for France, Germany, Italy, and Spain (April 26 2006)
Google's GData, MySQL, and the Future of on-line Databases
Zawodny on Googles RSS-variant and more (April 25 2006)
Google Promotes First Non Google Product on Homepage
Battelle on Google promoting Firefox (April 26 2006)
IAC Appoints Jim Lanzone Chief Executive Officer of Ask.com
Press release April 24 2006
Artist's family asks Google to take down 'painted' logo
The Mercury News on the family of Miro (April 20 2006)
Back on the map
Google Local is again to be known as Google Maps (Google Blog April 21 2006)
Weather Report: Yahoo! Search Index Update
Yahoo! Blog reports on their new search index (April 21 2006)
Google On Cloaking & IP Delivery
IP delivery is fine, but don't do anything special for Googlebot (SE Roundtable April 21 2006)
Ask.com Chief Steve Berkowitz Jumps Ship To Microsoft's MSN
Steve will be senior vice president of MSN's Online Business Group (SE Watch April 22 2006)
My Decade Of Writing About Search Engines
Danny Sullivan goes down memory lane (SE Watch April 17 2006)
Google AdSense Text Size Expands With Site
Search Engine Journal on the font size of Google text ads (April 17 2006)
Study: 15% of Brand Searches Stray from Company's Site
After searchers type in a brand-name query on a search engine, only 85 percent end up at that brand's Web site (ClickZ April 17 2006 via SEW)
Google, Sony team for 'Da Vinci Code' promotion
"The Da Vinci Code" contest on Google homepage (News.com April 17 2006)
Google micropayments patent application published
SEO by the Sea on the possibility of Google launching a system for small online payments (April 13 2006)
Google Calendar Makes an Impressive Debut
Cris Sherman on the new online calendar from Google (SE Watch April 13 2006)
Google adds online Calendar
Yet another service from Google
Three Lesser Known Technorati Optimization Tips
Tips on getting your blog listed in the Technorati blog search engine (Technology Evangelist April 10 2006)
Microsoft Gets Social
Redmond has big plans for tools and partnerships that will let users consult a circle of friends when conducting Web searches (Business Week via SEW April 14 2006)
Google's Cache Being Helped By The AdSense Mediapartners Bot
The Adsense bot is sharing the results with the main Google search database (SE Watch April 17 2006)
Google’s New Chinese Name
Google is now "Corn Song" in Chinese (Blogoscoped April 12 2006)
Yahoo! Maps Adds Satellite & Aerial Photography
SE Journal on Yahoo! adding satellite and aerial imagery to its mapping product (April 12 2006)
DNS Cache Poisoning - PPC Hijacking - The Next Generation
SEO Consultants on the latest scare: redirects to other web sites (April 2006)
Yahoo's Farechase Travel Search Engine
Here's the link to Yahoo's new budget travel search engine. FareChase is a travel search engine designed to help you locate the best airfares and hotel rates. (April 2006)
Yahoo! launches cheap travel search engine
UPI reports on The FareChase program (April 12 2006)
WHOIS Lookup Service WHOIS.sc Becomes DomainTools.com
Resourceshelf on useful domain name resources (April 11 2006)
Microsoft Launches Windows Live Academic Search
Search Engine Watch on Microsoft connecting students and researchers with scholarly information (April 12 2006)
Google Snaps Up the Father of the Orion Search Engine
Google gets Israeli search engine developer (SEO/SEM Journal April 11 2006)
'Chinese Google' had stellar IPO, then a long slide
Baidu's American Depositary Receipts, which climbed as high as $153.98, now trade below $58 a share (The Mercury News April 7 2006).
Yahoo Linked to Spyware Click Fraud
Kalena on Yahoo's lik to spyware companies (April 7 2006)
This Boring Headline Is Written for Google
The New York Times on sites rewriting their headlines to get better rankings (April 9 2006 via Slashdot)
Welcome to the Search Marketing Standard magazine
Yes, it is printed on paper!
MyWeb Social Search Update
Now you can include the public bookmarks of any MyWeb user in your searches by adding them as a contact. (Yahoo Blog April 5 2006)
The Opposite of Good
Why do people buy from link directories that will hurt their rankings? (Traffick April 4 2006)
Yahoo!, MSN & Ebay recruiting - SEO hits the big time...
Search Engine War on SE companies looking for SEO experts (April 7 2006)
Google Related Links
Google launches service that lets webmasters display links related to their own site
Yahoo! Tests New Search-Engine Ad Model
Forbes on testing of Google like model in Scandinavia (April 6 2005)
Chinese Journalist’s Family May Take Yahoo to Court
Yahoo may become the target of legal action by the family of Shi Tao, a Chinese journalist who was leaking government information to others via his Yahoo Mail account (Search Engine Journal March 31 2006)
China buys Google
The People's Republic of China has acquired a controlling stake in the United States' fastest growing technology company, Google. (The Register April 1st 2006)
Cupid's algorithms
Google Blog on Google Romance, a cutting-edge personal search algorithms to help you find your soulmate (April 1st 2006)
Ask.com Introduces RhymeRank
Innovative search technology capable of producing related search results that rhyme with a searcher’s original query (Ask Blog April 1st 2006)
The Real Google Prank: Google Romance
Google Romance, a beta product currently incubating in Google Labs, uses cutting-edge personal search algorithms to help you find your soulmate (Google Operating System April 1st 2006)
All Your Web 2.0 Are Belong To Us
Yahoo is tired of buying one company at the time and buys all of Web 2.0 (Yahoo Blog April 1st 2006)
