Articles on search engines and search engine positioning June 2006
Here continues our list of online articles on search engines and search engine positioning Pandia has found interesting.
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Inside Google's New-Product Process
Business Week interviews Google's product-launch czar Marissa Mayer (june 30 2006)
Link Building Guide
The purpose of this article is to help you in your link building using 5 steps (Jim Westergren June 5 2006)
Find it with Google. Buy it with Google Checkout.
Google Blog on the new shopping payment system (June 29 2006)
Google opens up the secrets of search
Google is pledging to demystify the hidden workings of its search engine (Times June 28 2006)
Google launches payment service
Google Checkout offers some free order processing to Google's advertisers, but will initially be available only to stores in the US ( BBC June 29 2006)
SEO Buzz Box interviews Todd Malicoat aka Stuntdubl
Very interesting reflections on how Google ranks search results (June 26 2006)
More of the world in your pocket
French, Italian, German, Spanish, Dutch, Russian, Chinese, and Turkish interfaces to mobile Gmail, News, and Personalized Home (Google Blog June27 2006)
New Search Patent Applications: June 27, 2006 - Searching Amongst Malicious Web Sites
Search Engine Watch June 27 2006
New Players in Travel Search
Search Engine Watch on travel search engines (June 27 2006)
Injunction Junction: Google Rocked for Slow Response to Indexing Complaint
Searchviews on Google indexing the names, social security numbers and test scores of over 600 students (June 26 2006)
Is Yahoo Under the Influence of TrustRank?
On Yahoo's ideas on how to reduce the massive amount of web spam that litters the search engines (Kim Roach at SE Guide June 26 2006)
Startup Primed To Challenge Google CPC Ad Model
Lekkyfish.com: online marketplace where advertisers can bid directly to customers for their attention and patronage (Information Week June 26 2006)
Snap Speaks: CEO and COO talk CPA and Making it in Mainstream Search
Search Engine Lowdown interviews Snap's CEO, Tom McGovern and COO, Fred Walti (June 23 2006)
Yahoo Answers Grows Globally
Yahoo Answers in five new languages, including Argentina, Mexico, Italy and Brazil. (SE Journal June 23 2006)
France Launches A Google Earth Rival: Geoportail.fr
Geoportail will allow users to view ultra-high resolution images of France (Playfuls.com June 24 2006)
Jakob Nielson Needs Help With RSS
Andy Beal clears up some misunderstandings (June 22 2006)
Google details Mountain View Wi-Fi service
Google does not plan to use ads to pay for the free wireless Internet service it's offering in its hometown of Mountain View, California (CNET June 21 2006)
Google sells stake in rival Baidu
Google has sold its 2 percent stake in Chinese search engine Baidu.com (BizReport June 23 2006)
10 Things I Hate About Google
Alyce Lomax gets it off her chest (Motley Fool June 21 2006)
Anger over Yahoo outage
Yahoo users were unable to access email or IM services on Wednesday (ZDNet June 22 2006)
Google's Sending Out Shockwaves
Google Toolbar to be included in Adobe software (Motley Fool June 22 2006)
Updated - News: Google Pay Per Action Network Test
Battelle reports that Google is testing a pay per sale text ad system (June 21 2006)
Searching for Critical Acclaim
Chris Sherman helps you find what the movie, book and music critics say (June 22 2006)
Bigdaddy Got You Blue? - 3 Things You Should Know!
TextLinkBrokers on developing a sound link strategy (May 31 2006)
Yahoo! local now supports microformats
“microformats” are an open standard for structuring web page content in a meaningful and reusable way (Yahoo! Local Maps blog June 21 2006)
Duping search engines, even the big-G
Battelle on Google's junk results (June 20 2006)
Step-by-Step: How to Get BILLIONS of Pages Indexed by Google
In under 3 weeks, one person has managed to get one domain 5 billion pages indexed in Google (Monetize June 17 2006)
Microsoft’s Live.com Updates With New Themes and Templates
The service now enables the user to have a simple search page or a personalized home page with customized content. (SE Journal June 19 2006)
Google Censors Unwanted Questions in Google Answers
The question was, ""What percentage of Google searches are contextual?" (SEW blog June 20 2006)
Google's Orkut Hit By Personal Data Stealing Worm
A new Internet worm capable of stealing bank details and other personal data from users is circulating via Orkut, Google's social networking service (IW June 19 2006)
Company Branding Within Search Results
Using search engine result listings (title tags, descriptions and URLs) for branding (Stuntdubl June 17 2006)
Nielsen Finally Asked to Go Away?
When Google takes over your couch. On Google's plan to become an audience measurement compay. (SEO Speedwagon June 19 2006)
New York Times Allowed to Cloak Content?
Has NYT in its efforts to let search engines spider password protected content become a spammer? (SE Roundtable June 16 2006)
Google launches new Shakespeare site
Google makes all the bard's plays available online (ITNews June 15 2006)
An Alternative Interface to Google’s Image Search
If you want to search Google’s images but you want a bit of a different interface, check out Imagery (Researchbuzz June14 2006)
Microsoft Announces Plans for July 2008 Transition for Bill Gates
Bill Gates will transition out of a day-to-day role in the company to spend more time on his global health and education work at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (Microsoft June 15 2006)
Google ignores the meta robots noindex tag
Google is including pages with the content="noindex" metatag i search results (Webmaster World discussion July 2006)
Bill Slawski Interview on links and SEO
SEO by the Sea gives an excellent introduction to link related issues (SEO Buzzbox June 12 2006)
Getting The New York Times More Search Engine Friendly
The New York Times is helping the search engine spider their site (SE Watch June 15 2006)
Yahoo Directory Blog : The Spark!
Search Engine Journal covers the Spark, the blog for the Yahoo Directory (June 13 2006)
It’s all about the photos
Just pick a bunch of your photos from the photo management software Picasa and upload them into a web album in a couple of clicks (Google Blog June 13 2006)
Getting Into Google News Revisited
SE Roundtable tells you what it takes to get included in the Google News search engine (June 13 2006)
Google adds web photo albums
Google has launched online web albums for GMail users (June 2006)
Happy Birthday, Google Earth
New version of Google Earth available, with increased global coverage and more (Google Blog June 12 2006)
Library of Congress Launches Site for Web Capture/Preservation Information
ResearchBuzz on LOC's program to capture and preserve “historically important” web sites (June 7 2006)
Google's GBuy Could Be 'Revolutionary'
Forbes predict that Google's PayPal killer online payment system will be launched on June 28 (June 9 2006 via Battelle)
GOOOOAAAAL!
Interested in the FIFA World Cup football/soccer" tournament? In Yahoo! enter FIFA Brazil to see how Brazil's group is shaping up (Yahoo Blog June 10 2006)
New Search Patents
More Yahoo Concepts and Google Predictive Searches (Search Engine Watch June 12 2006)
Look Out Wikipedia, Here Comes Yahoo Answers!
Yahoo Answers is not only bucking the trend but perhaps becoming a social interacting phenomenon like YouTube or MySpace (Danny Sullivan June 8 2006)
Google Sandbox: Shari Thurow comes out to play
There is no such thing as a Google Sandbox. (SEOmoz June 8 2006)
AOL Inserts Ads Inside Email
AOL is displaying ads along with e-mail messages to its paying subscribers (SE journal June 8 2006)
Hitwise: Google Nearing 60% Of Queries In US
Yahoo scores 22%, MSN only 12% (SE Watch Jun 8 2006)
Google Browser Sync Turns Firefox Gives Firefox Consistency Across Computers
Google tool keeps your Firefox settings, bookmarks, cookies and passwords consistent across any computer (Inside Google June 8 2006)
8 Ways to Submit Your Site to Yahoo
Wendy Bosswell on how to get listed in Yahoo! There are no excuses after this! (About via SE Journal June 2006)
MSN and Yahoo! Search Tied for Second in UK
Google powered three-quarters of all UK searches in the four weeks ending 20th May 2006 - combining the .com and UK properties. (Heather Hopkins via SE Watch June 1 2006)
Google.com blocked as vice tightens on Chinese Internet users
Reporters Without Borders today condemned theunprecedented level of Internet filtering in China, which means the Google.com search engine can no longer be accessed in most provinces (June 6 2006)
How to Spam with Blogs: A Tutorial for Every Wanna-be SEO
Stoney deGeyter: Spammers love blogs only because blog spamming techniques work, thanks to the search engines and bloggers themselves. (SE Guide June 6 2006)
Google clashes with UK publishers over digital libraries
Google claims its Book Search helps publishers sell books, but publishers beg to differ (ZDNey UK June 6 2006)
Google Fixes Some of the Site Command Search
Back on May 22nd we reported that the Google's Site Command Search Being Fixed. When using the site command, for now, just don't append a trailing slash to the URL. (SE Roundtable June7 2006)
Yahoo MyWeb Gets New Look, Easier Browsing & Viewing Features
Anyone who enjoys systems like del.icio.us or Technorati's tagged pages, where you can see the latest material flow into different categories, will find MyWeb more accessible. (SE Watch June 6 2006)
Manage AdWords from your desktop.
AdWords Editor is Google's free, downloadable account management application for your computer. Download your AdWords account to your computer, make your changes, then upload your revised campaigns (Google via Webmaster World June 2006)
Brin says Google compromised principles
Google Inc. co-founder Sergey Brin acknowledged Tuesday the dominant Internet company has compromised its principles by accommodating Chinese censorship demands. He said Google is wrestling to make the deal work before deciding whether to reverse course.
Google to Release Web-Based Spreadsheet
A test version of the program, which is intended to make it simple to share lists and numeric information online, will be made available on Tuesday. (NY Times June 6 2006)
Google and startups mimic Wikipedia model
Google, Yahoo and the others, are trying to fuse together the user-generated Wikipedia model, the expert-driven About.com model and the social-networking model of MySpace.com (Investors June 6 2006)
Pew: Nearly 50 MM Americans Create Web Content
Forty-eight million American adults have contributed some form of user-generated content on the Internet, the Pew Internet & American Life Project reports (ClickZ May 30 2006)
Yahoo Video Social Sharing : YouTube & MySpace Features
All the major portals and engines are chasing breakout video star YouTube (the “MySpace of video”) and don’t really want to have to buy the site if they can avoid it. (SE Journal June 2 2006)
The New Yahoo! Video – Discover, and Be Discovered!
Yahoo! Video introduces Channels, which are groups of videos created by a common source, and more (Yahoo! Search Blog May 31 2006)
Live Local - What's REALLY New
MSN Search Blog announces some new features at MSN's Live Local search. Now 30 countries are covered. (May 30 2006)
Gnoos Blog Search Launches
A new blog search engine is born i Australia (Micro Persuasion June 1 2006)
Yahoo Defends China Cooperation
On giving user data to the Chinese government Yahoo's Terry Semel says: " I continue to be pissed off, outraged, and feel very very bad about it. But you have to follow the laws of the country you’re in.” (WSJ May 31 2006)
Yahoo boss faced with Nazi question
YAHOO boss Terry Semel got the "question from hell" from media hacks as he tried to justify his company's turning over data to the Chinese authorities. (The Inquirer June 2 2006)
Yahoo makes Web video search more like TV channels
Yahoo Inc. is making it easier for Web surfers to find videos by upgrading its search system to become more like saving favourite TV channels with a remote control. (Reuters June 1 2006)
