Articles on search engines and search engine positioning September 2006
Here continues our list of online articles on search engines and search engine positioning Pandia has found interesting.
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Google Reader Updated: More Friendly to Power RSS Users
Matt Cutts on the update of the Google Reader (via SE Roundtable Sept 29 2006)
Alexa : Worthless & Easy to Manipulate?
For lack of any other tool e-businesses is using Alexa to determine the popularity of a site (SE Journal Sept 30 2006)
Yahoo Teams Up With HP on Search Engine
Yahoo has struck a deal with Hewlett-Packard to plant its Internet search engine on millions of computers (AP Sept 28 2006)
Librarians’ Internet Index Adds New Search Technology
The new Librarians’ Internet Index database is online today powered by t Siderean faceted search technology (Resourceshelf Sept 27 2006)
Evil Matt Cutts: Matt's Evil Twin Brother
Someone launched an alter ego to Matt Cutts's blog at evilmattcutts.com (SEW Blog Sept 27 2006)
Jumpcut Joins the Yahoo! Video Family
A community of users and a great suite of online video editing capabilities joins Yahoo! (Yahoo! Blog Sept 27 2006)
Google Clarifies Philosophy Re: Content
Battelle: I sense that Google is starting to truly declare its position relative to content creation companies (Sept 26 2006)
History of Search Engines: From 1945 to Google 2006
Updated version of Aaron Wall's search engine history paper (Sept 25 2006)
Secrets to Beating the Sandbox 2.0
Link Building Blog on how to lift your site our of Google Limbo (Sept 24 2006)
Google Leads In Dead & Old Pages
Google appears to contain the largest number of dead pages (SE Watch Sept 25 2006)
Google Changes Mind, Posts Belgian Ruling
Ruling on Google violating copyright posted on Google Belgium home page (SE Watch Sept 25 2006)
Wink has the right idea, but...
A search engine for the human indexed web (Library Clips Sept 22 2006)
Top 21 Signs You Need a Break from SEO
The S, E, and O keys on your keyboard are broken (Small Business SME Sept 22 2006)
Microsoft to put Works Suite onto Web
To web-enable that and bundle it as a suite would be a step above what both Microsoft and Google currently offer (ZD Sept 22 2006)
See Google’s Redesign Experiment
I don't want navigation bars in search results, and I don't like how the navigation switches from the top to the left (Blogoscoped Sept 22 2006)
Extra $600m for Google's State Funded European Competitor
Few creative class capabilities are being harnessed by the Quaero consortium (Eucap Blog Sept 21 2006)
Facebook in talks to sell itself to Yahoo
Social-networking Web site Facebook.com is in talks to sell itself to Yahoo for an amount that could approach $1 billion (Reuters Sept 22 2006)
New Spreadsheets fun
Google Blog on the Google online spreadsheet with a list of new features (Sept 21 2006)
Microsoft Fixes Referral Bug in Windows Live Search
Live.com is now passing referer information (Sept 21 2006)
Yahoo warns slower ad growth will hurt third-quarter results
Officials cite drop-off in auto, financial services marketing (AP Sept 20 2006)
Wize.com Offers Online Shopping with Social Media Twist
Wize.com consolidates expert and consumer-written reviews (Marketing Pilgrim Sept 19 2006)
Google’s Quiet Acquisition of Transformic, Inc.
The aim of Transformic was to build search engines for the deep web (SEO by the Sea Sept 20 2006)
Quigo: The next Google?
Quigo, competing with the text ad systems of Google and Yahoo! (CNN Sept 18 2006)
8 Social Shopping Sites + Ideas for Testing their Marketing Value
Shopping guideance based on online shopper input (SE Lowdown Sept 19 2006)
Writely Switching To Google Account Logins
Online word processor Writely is intergrated with Google as you must use your Google ID to log in (SE Journal Sept 19 2006)
Belgian court orders Google to dump links to newspapers
Google calls copyright lawsuit unnecessary (SF Gate.com Sept 19 2006)
Google Updates Picasa Photo Sharing
Picasa Web Albums let you post and share your photos online for free with just one click (Search Engine Journal Sept 19 2006)
A Fork in Wikipedia’s Road: Say Hello to Citizendium.org
An alternative version of Wikipedia that will give the final word on its entries to credentialed experts (Resourceshelf Sept 19 2006)
The Power of Text Navigation - a case study
Why text is better than graphics and javascript (Webmaster World discussion Sept 19 2006)
Changes in URL queries
Google changes the way it treats a search for www.example.com vs. info:www.example.com (Matt Cutts Sept 18 2006)
Microsoft to launch video service to rival YouTube
Microsoft will start testing on Tuesday an Internet video-sharing service called Soapbox (Reuters Sept. 18 2006)
ClipBlast Aggregates Video from Around the Web
ClipBlast aggregates content from sites that are not as large as YouTube and other such sources but carry video content (ResearchBuzz Sept 13 2006)
Make Room on the Couch for Steve
Google Video may be included in the new Apple iTV TV-box (Newsweek Sept 25 2006)
How To Create Your Own Wikipedia Page
Todd Mintz argues that the best way to get a Wikipedia link is to write a proper article (SE Guide Sept 15 2006)
Satellites betray military secrets
Amateurs using Google Maps have revealed Chinese military secrets (Topic Sept 17 2006)
Live.com Is Not Passing Referer Information
Oops! There is no way to tell how much traffic Microsoft's new search engine is generating for your site (SE Roundtable Sept 15 2006)
Yahoo! Mail Beta Released - Gmail Now Has a Solid Competitor
"Yahoo! Mail is chock full of temptations that I can only hope Google will emulate to some degree." (Stepforth Sept 14 2006)
Behind Google's German courtroom battle
ZDNet on Google fighting for the Gmail name in Germany (via SEWatch Sept 14 2006)
Mattcuttsarama: 21 Great SEO Tips From Google’s Matt Cutts
SEO Egghead sums up the advice given by Matt Cutts (Sept 13 2006)
The best stories on Earth
Featured Content for Google Earth on Google Earth (Google Blog Sept 14 2006)
Surfing the Internet for Spoken Words
Software that will search every word spoken in Web-borne video soundtracks or Internet audio programs (WSJ Sept 14 2006)
Google Personalized Home Tabs
Google now allows users to add tabs to their Personalized Home page (G Blogoscoped Sept 14 2006)
Brett Tabke interviews Danny Sullivan
A DC/Marvel superhero crossover. Sullivan is to attend PubCon. (Webmaster World Sep 12 2006)
Live Search is Live
Live Search, Microsofts new search engine, is no longer in beta, and powering searches on both Live.com and MSN (Live Search's Weblog September 11 2006)
Google’s Local Search Patent Application
SEO takes a (long) look at how Google intends to solve the problem of local search (Sept 9 2006)
View where your ad is showing around the world
Inside AdWords: Preview your ads no matter where they're geotargeted (Sept 8 2006)
Windows Live & Live Search Leaves Beta In The UK
Microsoft Corp. today announced the release from beta of Live Search and of Live.com in the UK (SEW Sept 11 2006)
Amazon.com Launches Unbox Movie Download Service
Video on demand from Amazon (too bad about the file standard and the prices, though...) (SE Journal Sept 8 2006)
Were you looking for ... the Yahoo! Toolbar for Firefox?
The toolbar now gives you the most popular searches that are relevant to what you've typed. (Yahoo! Search Blog Sept 7 2006)
Windows Live QnA beta goes public!
MSNs question-and-answer service is now online (MSN Search Blog Sept 1 2006)
Yahoo! launches 'social search' in Britain with multimillion-pound ad campaign
Yahoo! Answers has arrived in the UK (Guardian Sept 4 2006 via SE Watch)
Google Analytics and Bigtable
250 terabytes of Google Analytics data are stored in Bigtable. Google is able to handle enormous amounts of data. (Greg Sept 1 2006)
Google Gives Brazil Orkut Data on Criminals
Google has made the decision to work with the Brazilian authorities (SE Journal Sept 4 2006)
A Day of Google
An hypnotic view of a day of Google traffic on a map (O'Reilly Sept 1 2006 via Cnet)
Google AdSense sued by woman who admits clicking her own ads
Clicking your own site's ads for any reason is clearly against the AdSense terms & policies (JenSense Aug 30 2006)
