Articles on search engines and search engine positioning December 2006

Here continues our list of online articles on search engines and search engine positioning Pandia has found interesting.

Go to Part 1: Recommended Search Engine Reading

See also:

• The latest articles (see right hand column of the search engine news page)
• Older articles on search engine positioning,
• Scientific papers on search engine development.
• Pandia's feature articles on search engine marketing

Interview: John Markus Lervik
Part 2 of the Fast Forward Blog's interview with the Norwegian search engine CEO (Dec 28 2006)

Google Breaks The Ten Commandments
Google has long claimed to follow its own set of commandments, or what it calls "Ten Things". (Internet Marketing Monitor Dec 29 2006)

Search engines stall on specifics according to survey
Twenty-one percent of professionals feel search engines understand their queries, and only one in 10 find exactly what they want on the first attempt. (The Enquirer Dec 27 2006)

New Patent Application - Spam Detection Based on Phrase Indexing
Webmaster World discussion on new Google patent (Dec 29 2006)

Google Ranks Second In Merriam-Webster's Word Of 2006 List
Google is beaten by "truthiness" (SE Land Dec 28 2006)

Google buys Endoxon
Company to give Google Earth a European mapping boost (Infoworld Dec 18 2006)

Eurekster Swicki Improvements
The improvements allow much greater input from each swicki user community (SE Land Dec 14 2006)

Search 2.0 - What's Next?
On the next big thing in search (Read/Write Dec 13 2006)

Google launches new service to register Web site addresses
Google teams up with GoDaddy.com and eNom (AP Dec 15 2006)

Click Fraud for the Hundredth Time: When Balance Tips Over to Fatuous
Andrew Goodman comments on Andy Beal's article (Traffick Dec 14 2006)

Wikipedia offers free web hosting - free as in free beer!
Wikipedia is offering free web hosting for community groups - that's free as in free beer - on the condition they don't charge for their services (IT Wire December 12 2006)

China Removes Block To English-Language Wikipedia, But Chinese-Language Version Still Blocked
Reporters Without Borders says it's a step in the right direction, and applauds Wikipedia for standing up to Chinese censorship (InformationWeek December 12 2006)

Google, Click Fraud, and Invalid Clicks
Shuman Ghosemajumder on the 2 percent click fraud rate and what he really said (Dec 12 2006)

Yahoo Releases New Ad Software in Google Challenge
On Yahoo!s new pay-per-click text ad software: Panama (Bloomberg Dec 12 2006)

Forward Links - Because who you link to matters
Think about the trust value of who you link to (Jim Boykin Dec 12 2006)

Google's Truthiness: Click Fraud Only 2 Percent
Click fraud only represents 2 percent of all clicks, Google says (Google Watch Dec 11 2006)

Welcome To Search Engine Land!
Danny Sullivan on his new home on the Web (Dec 11 2006)

November Search Trend Data Released by Compete.com
A bounce back in traffic for Google after a small slide, and a decrease for Yahoo (SE Watch Dec 10 3006)

HuriSearch: The Human Rights Search Engine
New search engine officially launched on December 10th, Human Rights Day (SE Land Dec 11 2006)

Debunking: Toolbar doesn’t lead to page being indexed
Matt Cutts goes debunking SEO myths (Dec 10 2006)

Google News Norway Removes Images
Google Norway gives in to media pressure (PoynterOnline Dec 9 2006)

Yahoo’s Semel Says No Layoffs, Sort Of
He says “They talk about laying off 15-20% of our workforce. That’s not at all the case.” (TechCrunch Dec 7 2006)

Rand Fishkin’s 7 tips for Link Bait Success
Where to go to generate inbound links (Ramblings Dec 7 2006)

How do you Manage Relationships with Search Engine Employees?
When I first sat down with Matt Cutts in San Jose, I felt pretty much the way you feel when the pretty girl in high school sits down next to you (SEOMoz Dec 8 2006)

Sunnyvale and Mountain View...so close, yet so far
Yahoo’s web search share took a big tumble in November, while Google continues to grow (Compete via Battelle Dec 8 2006)

Yahoo! Re-Aligns Organization to More Effectively Focus on Key Customer Segments and Capture Future Growth Opportunities
Press release on a major reorganization of Yahoo! (Yahoo! Finance Dec 5 2006)

Next-Gen Keyword Research Tools
Review of Keyword Discovery, from Trellian. (SE Watch Dec 5 2006)

SES Chicago Day 1 Roundup
List of reviews of the Chicago Search Engine Strategies conference (threadwatch Dec 4 2006)

How Google handles hacked sites
Interesting story about how Google discovered a site that had been hacked by spammers (M Cutts Dec 4 2006)

Ask.com takes local search to higher level in battle with Yahoo, Google
Ask gathers it local search under the AskCity umbrella (USA Today Nov 4 2006)

Search Engine Property Stats: Google & Yahoo
Will Google catch up with Yahoo! Search Engine Land has the info (Dec 1 2006)