Articles on search engines, Internet searching and the search engine industry February 2007

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

7 Opportunities for “New School” SEO
Stuntdubl on the next generation of search engine optimization (Feb 22 2007)

Google on Letting Searchers Remove Pages from the Web
A new patent application from Google points at giving people the power to remove pages from web searches (SEO by the Sea Feb 22 2007)

FeedBurner's View of the Feed Market
My Yahoo! and Google the top web feed aggregators (Burning Questions Feb 22 2007)

SEMPO Board Named
The search engine marketing people have a new board (SE Watch Feb 26 2007)

Is Google News the Tail Wagging the News Search Dog?
Google News get the press. Yahoo! News get the visitors. (SE Watch Feb 13 2007)

Passionate Linking
Communicate enthusiasm to entice customers and industry experts to link to you (SE Land Feb 26 2007)

Yahoo Introduces a New Shortcut for Movie Information
Yahoo has introduced a shortcut to allow you to search on movie titles and location (Researchbuzz Feb 25 2007)

Millions of Videos, and Now a Way to Search Inside Them
NYT on video search company Blinx (Feb 25 2007)

Microsoft to Buy Medical Search Engine
Microsoft is buying Medstory Inc., a small start-up in Foster City, Calif. (Feb 27 207)

We Came. We Debated. We’re Experimenting... With Google’s New Apps Premiere
At $50/user per year, Apps Premier offers a huge savings to corporate financial departments (Internet Marketing Monitor Feb 22 2007)

Google sees video anti-piracy tools as priority
YouTube will soon offer anti-piracy technologies to help all copyright holders thwart unauthorized video sharing (Reuters Feb 22 2007)

Inspect-our-Gadget – Yahoo! Search Gadget for Vista
On the Yahoo! Search gadget for the Windows Vista Sidebar (Yahoo! Search Blog Feb 20 2007)

A Google Package Challenges Microsoft
Google Office for companies is here (NYT Feb 22 2007)

Google CSE Gets Supplemental Results
Google has added supplemental results to the results displayed in Google Custom Search Engines (Unofficial SEO Feb 22 2007)

Possible YouTube deal with CBS unravels
A deal between Google and CBS that would let YouTube users watch clips from CBS shows is a no go (Reuters Feb 21 2007)

2007: A Search Odyssey? Keynote Conversation with Matt Cutts
Google's Cutts had plenty of new information to share with the large audience (SE Watch Feb 21 2007)

Google Velocity: Froogle and Local are dying while Video and Blog are surging
Since January 2006 Google Web Search sessions have grown 23%. (Compete Feb 20 2007)

Google Closes Hold In Desktop Search Product
A potentially devastating hole in Google Inc.'s prevalent desktop search product could have exposed personal files on users' computers (cbs13 Feb 20 2007)

Google to Start Reporting Subscriber Numbers
Google to report the number of subscribers any RSS feed has through Google Reader and Google Personalized Homepage (TechCrunch Feb16 2007)

Understanding Link Reputation
Your site has a reputation based on your linking history (SE Land Feb 19 2007)

Site Downtime Can Delist You From Google
If the host is down when Googlebot tries to access your pages, then those pages may disappear from the index (SE Journal Feb 19 2007)

Scraper sites steal your content. Use them to Build Your Traffic.
The ultimate goals are to make sure that you are credited with your own writings and that someone can get from the scraped feed to your website. (eWhisper Feb 13 2007)

Wikipedia Third Only to Image Search and MySpace as Exit Points for Google Searchers
Hitwise on the traffic connection between Google and Wikipedia (Internet Marketing Monitor Feb 19 2007)

Finding Your Inner Jerry McGuire
Blog success? It’s the willingness to take a chance on that idea that keeps nagging at you in the back of your head (GrayWolf Feb 19 2007)

Dmoz Abuse Report Form up again - While the Rest of the System is still trashed
The Open Directory still has technical problems (SE Journal Feb 17 2007)

Google Agrees to Buy Adscape
Google enters in-game advertising for video games (Red Herring Feb 15 2007)

Affiliate Success in 11 Steps
Payday Loan on the wide spectrum of elements that is affiliate marketing (Feb 9 2007)

The Future Of Natural Search Is Here
Google recently announced that it will be going ahead with personalized search results. (Unofficial SEO Feb 15 2007)

The Story of Sergey Brin
The life of a Google founder and his family (Moment Feb 2007)

Molu the Search Spider
Researchbuzz looks at a new search engine (Feb 12 2007)

View All Your Google Supplemental Index Results
The types of pages stuck in supplemental results can tell you a lot about information architecture related issues (SEO Book Feb 13 2007)

13 Reasons Why NoFollow Tags Suck
Using NoFollow in blog comments, the original intent of the tag, does nothing to discourage comment spammers. (SE Journal Feb 14 2007)

Google Webmaster Central Leaves Beta; Its Blog Gains Comments
The Official Google Webmaster Central Blog becomes the first official Google blog to gain comments. (SE Land Feb 14 2007)

Microsoft Announces Three New Windows Live Products for Mobile Devices
Live Search for Windows Mobile and Live Search for Java (Press release Feb 12 2007)

Yahoo! Messenger and Mail...together at last!
Yahoo! Messenger integrated with Yahoo! Mail Beta (Yahoo! Mail Feb 12 2007)

Google accused of benefiting from sale of pirated movies
The companies have accused Google of being too cozy with two Web site accused of providing access to illegal download (Sify Feb 13 2007)

Belgian papers win Google copyright suit
Belgian newspapers stop Google from linking to them (AP Feb 13 2007)

New Web techniques throw into metrics into question
Ajax and similar technologies make the old pageview count unreliable, Mercury News argues (Feb 9 2007)

Google, Time To Re-take Marketing 101
Google has to market its products to win, Jason Lee Miller argues (WebProNews Feb 9 2007)

Criteria for Assessing Free or Paid Directories
Webmaster World discussion (Feb 7 2007 onwards)

Top 25 Web 2.0 Search Engines
New search engines based on Web 2.0 technology (Online Education Database Feb 6 2007)

Tools to Combine Multiple RSS Feeds into a Single Feed
Alternatives to Yahoo! Pipes (ResourceShelf Feb 9 2007)

Why people hate SEO... (and why SMO is bulls$%t)
The post that started the SEO is bull debate (Calcanis Feb 7 2007)

22 Links To Coverage About The SEO Is Bull Debate
Search Engine Land on the debate on Jason Calacanis's post calling SEO "bull." (Feb 9 2007)

Why The SEO Folks Were Mad At You, Jason
Is the search engine optimization industry filled with crooks? Danny Sullivan explains (Feb 8 2007)

3 tips on creating better writing for readers and search engines
There are a few guidelines that can help you create content worth reading and worth indexing (Internet Marketing Monitor Feb 2 2007)

Personally speaking
Google search gets more personalized (Google Blog Feb 2 2007)

Google Earth to blur key India sites
Google's satellite image service will blur strategic Indian locations such as government buildings and military sites (AFP Feb 4 2007)

Mobile giants plan secret rival to Google
Europe's biggest telecoms groups are aiming to create a mobile phone search engine that could challenge Yahoo! and Google, the US giants. (Telegraph Feb 3 2007)