Articles on search engines and search engine positioning November 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:
The Search Marketer’s Guide to Digg
On using Digg for search engine marketing (Stuntdubl Nov 29 2006)
And then it's over...
Danny Sullivan says goodbye to Search Engine Watch (SEW Forums Nov 30 2006)
Google Audio Ads Sign-Up Page Live
Google ads go radio (SEW Nov 28 2006)
Russia Agrees To US Request To Shut Down AllofMP3.com
ussia has agreed to close down AllofMP3.com, and any sites that “permit illegal distribution of music and other copyright works.” (TC Nov 28 2006)
Google Settles Dispute With Two Belgian Media Groups
Google's settlement with Belgian photographers and journalists in a copyright dispute over how the company's news service links to newspaper content. (Blooberg Nov 24 2006)
From Search Engine Watch to Search Engine Land
Danny Sullivan is not the only one leaving Search Engine Watch. So is Barry Schwartz. (Nov 21 2006)
Google Integrating Blog Posts Into Search Results
It looks like Google Blog Search is now getting integrated with regular search results (BoydCreative vis SEWatch Nov 24 2006)
Court to hear Google-newspaper fight
Google to defend itself against Belgian newspapers regarding Google News (seattlepi Nov 24 2006 via SE Watch)
Ten Worst Internet Acquisitions Ever
(SeekingAlpha.com November21 2006)
Search Popularity Stats, Sliced & Diced
Danny Sullivan on the latest search statistics. MSN is falling. (Nov 22 2006)
Dead Plagiarists Society
Using Google Scholar to uncover literary crimes (Slate Nov 21 2006 via SE Watch)
Enhanced Answers Integration in Yahoo! Search Results
Yahoo has been integrating knowledge from the Yahoo! Answers community into search (Yahoo! Blog Nov 22 2006)
Google Book Search Update
Google Book Search received a major update today, including the Information and Viewing pages. (Blogoscoped Nov 22)
New study on Web sites ranks most popular sites among college students
MySpace, Facebook and YouTube popular (The Exponent Online November 21 2006)
Yahoo Search Growth Beats Google
Yahoo's share of search traffic has grown faster than Google's in the last year (eW Nov 20 2006)
Yahoo! Answers & Answers.com Working Together; For All the Answers!
Question and answers from Yahoo! Answers will now be integrated into Answers.com (SE Jorunal Nov 20 2006)
Simplicity and power
New version of Google Pagecreator (Google Blog Nov 20 2006)
176 Newspapers to Form a Partnership With Yahoo
Yahoo and newspapers to share content, advertising and technology (NYT Nov 20 2006)
Hotel Reservation Service
Enjoy Food and Travel reviews hotel search and reservation site (Nov 15 2006)
Yahoo Peanut Butter Memo : Cut Workforce by 20%, Build Focus
A very interesting insight into Yahoo's crisis management (SE Jorunal Nov 19 2006)
WebmasterWorld PubCon Vegas 2006 Roundtable Coverage
Search Engine Watch points to reports from the pubconference (SEW Nov 17)
Revenge of the meta-tag!
Sites with generic, or absence of, meta-description tags, may find themselves going supplemental (SEOmoz Nov 17 2006)
Google buys Israeli spreadsheet company iRows
Google is buying iRows, a provider of a browser-based spreadsheet service, iRows wrote on its company blog. (News.com Nov 16 2006)
Microsoft, Google, Yahoo! Unite to Support Sitemaps
Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! are coming together in support of the SiteMaps protocol. (Live Search blog Nov 15 2006)
YahOUCH!
For the past few quarters, many of us have sensed something of a malaise brewing inside Yahoo. (Battelle Nov 18 2006)
Wink Launches First Social Network Search Engine
A search engine that allows people to search across multiple social networks (Yahoo News November 16 2006)
PriceFight Search Engine Steps Into The Ring
The PriceFight beta may need to spend a little more time in the gym before it's truly useful (Webpronews November 17 2006)
Next generation shopping search engine: TheFind.com
When you put the cursor over an item, a lengthy description of the product from the merchant's site pops up next to it (Popgadget November 17 2006)
Chinese Search Engine Baidu Cleared on Charges of Linking to Free MP3s
A Chinese court has cleared Internet search firm Baidu.com of copyright charges in connection with providing links to sites that offer unauthorized free MP3s for download (Digital Media Wire November 17 2006)
Know The Number Of Pages That Googlebot Crawls!
Unofficial SEO Blog on Google Webmaster Tools (Nov 10 2006)
Does YouTube have any meaning at all?
This Norwegian video by Lasse Gjertsen proves that there is a point to it all (Nov 1 2006)
Like.com Unveils a Visual Search Engine
Searching for images using parts of images (Battelle Nov 8 2006)
Collarity Launches Personalized Results Engine
A search engine that automatically ranks search results based on an individual's interests. (Battelle Nov 8 2006)
Microsoft, Ask & Fox On Google At Web 2.0
Yesterday, Ask and Microsoft talked about taking on Google at the Web 2.0 Summit (SE Watch Nov 9 2006)
The search engine that would outdo Google
New SE Powerset has technology that analyzes the meaning and relationships of words in context (Marketwatch November 7 2006)
Yahoo Readies New Search Engine
Yahoo is preparing to roll out its second-generation search engine, dubbed "Project Panama," which will replace the platform it has used since acquiring Overture Services Inc. for $1.6 billion in 2003 (Law.com November 7 2006)
Most Internet Users Start at a Search Engine when Looking for Health Information Online, Says Pew
According to a Pew Internet Project report, "Online Health Search 2006" (Tekrati November 7 2006)
Indian Search Engine Acquired by Web Giant
Search ByIndia a is slated to be as popular as Baidu.com is in China (Nov 6 2006, Tech2)
Google Adsense Updating Quality Ranking Algorithm
Adwords is planning some updates to the algorithim that focuses on the quality score of landing pages. (SEM Gurus Nov 7 2006)
Google's sales pitch to newspapers
Google sells newspaper ads -- again (CNet Nov 6 2006)
Microsoft’s Live Search Virtual Earth 3D Goes Live
Currently Live Search offers 3-D results for 15 U.S. cities (SE Journal Nov 6 2006)
Better Shopping In Search
New Yahoo! Search shortcuts for shopping (Yahoo! Blog Nov 5 2006)
Yahoo Food : Munchies 2.0
Yahoo! Food looks like a pretty rich (no pun intended) site, with community, Answers and video among other features. (SE Journal Nov 2 2006)
Yahoo! Search Crawler (Yahoo! Slurp) - Supporting wildcards in robots.txt
yahoo has just updated Yahoo! Slurp to recognize two additional symbols in the robots.txt directives – '*' and '$'. (Yahoo Blog Nov 2 2006)
Gmail Offers to Open XLS in Spreadsheets
I guess we can expect much more of this cross-integration to be rolled out in the future (Google Blogoscoped Nov 3 2006)
The most Interesting Piece on the GooTube Merger . . . Ever!
Google's plan was to pile some lawsuits on competitors to slow them down and lock in Youtube’s position. (Black Hat Nov 2 2006)
Search Engines: Is Google Building on Shaky Foundations?
Phil Bradley in Ariadne Oct 2006: "There is almost an expectation that when something new is released it's going to be less than perfect, or that there are other, better resources available."
Web reaches new milestone: 100 million sites
Netcraft, an Internet monitoring company that has tracked Web growth since 1995, says a mammoth milestone was reached during the month of October. (CNN Nov 1 2006)
Ask.com Providing Search & Advertising to Lycos Network
Ask.com will provide branded algorithmic search, including Web Search, Image Search, and Zoom Related Search, as well as the Ask Sponsored Listings advertising product across Lycos. (SE Journal Nov 1 2006)
Hacking the Look and Feel of the Windows Live Search Box
You can use these hacks to make the search box fit better into the design of your site. (msdn Oct 31 2006)
What’s A ClickRiver?
New Pay-Per-Click Sponsored Ad Program from Amazon and A9 (Resourceshelf Nov 2 22006)
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