Articles on search engines and search engine positioning August 2006
Here continues our list of online articles on search engines and search engine positioning Pandia has found interesting.
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The NoIndex Metatag Debate
The search engines treat the noindex tag and the robots.txt file differently (Ramlings Aug 31 2006)
Google Archives to Appear Soon?
Will Google launch a service similar to that offered by the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine? (SEO by teh Sea Sept 3 2006)
55 ways to have fun with Google
Free ebook to download from Google Blogoscoped.
Google Image Labeler
A new feature of Google Image Search that allows you to label random images to help improve the quality of Google's image search results. (Sept 2006)
Search Engines launch new link descriptor tags - clarification at last.
The nofollow tag is nofollowed by new tags courtesy of Grey Hat (Aug 31 2006)
The Search Pulse Live, Sept. 5th at 5PM EST
SE Roundtable to launch search engine marketing podcast (Aug 31 2006)
Buffy The Search Marketing Vampire Slayer
Vanessa Fox and Danny Sullivan using Buffy as a metaphor for search engine marketing. Great fun! (Blog entry for podcast Aug 31 2006)
A house as old as the hills
Tor Johnsen on an old Norwegian house where the Pandia team has spent quite a few weekends (Aug 30 2006)
Download the classics
Go to Google Book Search and download full copies of out-of-copyright books to read (Google Blog Aug 30 2006)
Google: Bringing Unreadable Texts to the Masses
Search Views on Google adding downloadable books to Google Books (Aug 31 2006)
Del.icio.us Leaves a Bad Taste
Del.icio.us say they are blocking the search engines from indexing, but they are not (SEO Speedwagon Aug 30 2006)
Google chief executive joins Apple board
Eric Schmidt, chief executive of Google, joins the Apple board (FT Aug 29 2006)
Testing Windows Live Search
MSN Search Weblog on the development of Windows Live Search (Aug 28 2006)
Google Services Loosely Joined?
Will Google ever get in trouble for violating laws due to too-close integration of its products? (Blogoscoped Aug 28 2006)
Flickr To Launch Geo Tagging Today
Sometime Monday Flickr will add geo tagging functionality and search to its pictures (TC Aug 28 2006)
Google & eBay Partner for ‘Click to Call’
eBay and Google will build a “click to call” advertising system that will use both Skype and Google Talk (SEJ Aug 28 2006)
eBay Falls Into Google's Sticky Arms
The companies join forces in an online advertising alliance outside of the United States. (Motley FoolAug 28 2006)
Google Patent Granted for "editorial opinion in the ranking of search results"
Webmaster World discussion on Google letting editors influence ranking (Aug 26 onwards 2006)
This Just In: Updates from Yahoo!, MSN
Search Views comments on the latest search engine database updates (Aug 25 2006)
Aggregation spam
About sites that live only to display content drawn from other sources (TimBoy via SEW Aug 24 2006)
Six Ways To Keep Your Search History Private
The Electric Frontier Foundation has issued a list of 6 ways to keep one’s search history private (SE Journal Aug 24 2006)
It’s a Flickr Moment!
Flickr pix to be included in regular Yahoo! search results (Yahoo! Blog Aug 24 2006)
Search Engine Football Challenge
Labitat challenges the Search Engine industry to play Search Engine Fantasy Football (Marketing Shift Aug 22 2006)
10 Powerism: The Art of Blog by Sun ZiLla
Great piece on zen and the art of blog maintenance (Black Hat SEO Aug 24 2006)
Google Launches a Google Trends for Music
Wondering what music Google Talk users are listening to? (ResearchBuzz Aug 21 2006)
A List of Active Google Domains and Directories
Directories, domains and subdomains Google is currently using (Resourceshelf Aug 23 2006)
12 Different Types of Links and How To Get Them
Stuntdubl Aug 21 2006 on how to get links the proper way.
Google MP3 Player Powered by GMail
Google evidently has an MP3 Player which publishers can use on their sites. (SE Journal Aug 22 2006)
Q&A with Raghu Ramakrishnan
Yahoo Search Blog interviews Yahoo's new Vice President and Research Fellow (Aug 22 2006)
CEO Schmidt: Many People are Very Happy with Google Search
Part two of Andrew Goodman's coverage of Danny Sullivan's SES keynote conversation with Google chief executive Eric Schmidt. (SEW Aug 23 2006)
Google CEO Maps Missions, Stays on Message
Google CEO Eric Schmidt on stage with SEW's Danny Sullivan (SEW Aug 22 2006)
Merchants on Google Checkout: undermines our customer relationships
Google Checkout to merchants: Give us your customers, and your advertising (ZDNet Aug 21 2006)
Nielsen//NetRatings gives Google more of search market
Google gets 49.2% of all US searches in July, above the 43.7% released by comScore Networks. (IT Wire Aug 22 2006)
Yahoo Gains Search Market Share As Google Dips One Percent
comScore says that Yahoo!’s search share shows a modest, fractional gain for the second month in a row (SE Journal Aug 21 2006)
ClickTracks to Merge with eMarketing Firm J.L. Halsey
ClickTracks Analytics has announced plans to join Lyris Technologies, EmailLabs and Hot Banana (Aug 21 2006)
AOL Employees Fired Over Data Leak
The AOL developer who posted the search logs online recently was fired (Blogoscoped Aug 22 2006)
Google’s Writely released; will another sector be squashed?
Online ajax-rich word processor Writely began accepting new accounts today (TechCrunch Aug 17 2006)
Should Web Search Data Be Stored?
Wall Street Journal on whether search engine should keep their search records (via Battelle Aug 15 2006)
101 Ways to Build Link Popularity in 2006
It's still the trump card for higher rankings (SEOBook Aug 15 2006)
What's the Big Deal With Social Search?
Social search tools are internet wayfinding services informed by human judgement (Chris Sherman Aug 15 2006)
New at Google: Local Coupons
Google will let any business offer discount coupons to people who use its Google Maps service (NYT Aug 15 2006)
Matt Cutts Confesses To Being GoogleGuy
GoogleGuy is out of the closet (Search Engine Watch Aug 14 2006)
How Whings work: Web Search Engines, Part 2
A presentation of how search engines work by David Hawking (Computer August 2006)
How things work: Web Search Engines, Part 1
A presentation of how search engines work by David Hawking (Computer June 2006)
Blogger.com unveils new beta version
There will be a new version of Google's blog service (TechCrucnh Aug 14 2006)
SES San Jose 2006 Coverage Round Up
Reports from the Search Engine Strategies conference (SE Lowdown Aug 14 2006)
Microsoft Researchers Inventing New Techniques to Improve Search Engine Accuracy and Relevance
Papers presented at the 2006 SIGIR conference describe new techniques for analyzing rich patterns of user interactions with search (Aug 7 2006)
Microsoft: Noise Improves Search Results
"Noisy behavior" -- where users click, how long they stay and whether they reformulate queries -- can improve search results Microsoft Research says. (Internetnews via SEW Aug 7 2006)
Google to Keep Storing Search Requests
AP on Google's repsonse to AOL's release of search query data (Aug 11 2006)
The alliance against Google
What today's internet firms can learn from 19th-century history (The Economist Aug 10 2006)
Google Video is the Future of Google
Google Video, now on the home page, represents the future of Google when it comes to 2.0 Style Web Community (SE Journal Aug 13 2006)
New Tool Determins Keyphrase Clickshare by SERPs Rank With the AOL User Data
New keyword tool using leaked AOL search data (SE Lowdown Aug 13 2006)
New: “Beer Index” Added to Yahoo Japan Weather Forecast
Weather forecasts with a twist (Resourceshelf Aug 14 2006)
Why Google Might "Ignore" a robots.txt Disallow Rule
What to do when Google starts indexing URLs banned by your robots.txt file (g1smd at Webmaster World Aug 13 2006)
One Trackback Mistake You Can’t Afford to Make
SEO Blackhat warns Wordpress bloggers: use the post slug to avoid trackback problems (Aug 13 2006)
Google Makes Some Homepage Changes
The Froogle link has been replaced by a Video link. (ResearchBuzz Aug 13 2006)
Corporate Complicity in Chinese Internet Censorship
Blogoscoped on Human Rights Watch's extensive report on corporate complicity in Chinese internet censorship (Aug 11 2006)
Google the Musical
The Minnesota Fringe Festival is putting on an electronic musical about Google (via Battelle Aug 10 2006)
New Yahoo Search Marketing Preview
The new Yahoo Search Marketing application launch schedule has been set with the new Application Launch in Q4 2006 (SE Journal Aug 8 2006)
Documentation from Matt Cutts '"Does WebSpam use Google Analytics"
Transcript of video by Google's Matt Cutts (ViperChill Aug 2006)
Documentation from Matt Cutts' "Supplemental Results" Video
Transcript of video by Google's Matt Cutts (ViperChill Aug 2006)
Documentation from Matt Cutts' "How to structure a Site" Video
Transcript of video by Google's Matt Cutts (ViperChill Aug 2006)
Documentation from Matt Cutts'"Dynamic Vs Static URL's" Video
Transcript of video by Google's Matt Cutts (ViperChill Aug 2006)
Matt Cutts - Qualities of a Good site, Documented
Transcript of video by Google's Matt Cutts (ViperChill Aug 2006)
AOL Gives Unprecedented Keyword Search Information
AOL has released some 20 million search queries conducted by users over the past three months (SE Guide Aug 7 2006)
Andy Beal Dares to Ask Google CEO About Click Fraud
On Google's lack of a unified user interface and much more (Marketing Pilgrim August 10 2006)
Yahoo Releases Updates To Site Explorer
Yahoo gives you more info on sites you own (SEW Aug 8 2006)
AOL Video: Close But No TiVo
The Time Warner unit's new video site gets high marks for content, but tests the patience with compulsory commercial viewing (BusinessWeek Aug 7 2006)
All Our N-gram are Belong to You
Google releases search data on DVDs (Google Research Blog Aug 3 2006)
Google feature flags dangerous sites
Google is to alert users whenever they click on a search result that may take them to a dangerous website. (MacWorld UK Aug 8 2006)
The Definitive Guide to Cloaking
Cloaking: what it is, what it does, how it works (I Hate Google 2 Aug 2006)
Google Sitemaps Becomes Google Webmaster Central; Preferred Domain Tool Launched
It has become a central place for Google to provide help information, statistics, reports and tools to help webmasters. (SEW Aug 4 2006)
