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

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 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

Look out Google. Nokia is working on its own Mobile Search Engine!
Nokia seems to be working on it’s own visual search engine (Unwired News March 30 2007)

Microsoft’s Live Search Shutsdown Advanced Search Queries
Microsoft takes away the link: command. Big mistake. (Andy Beal March 29 2007)

Future of SEM: What will and will not matter
Search engine marketing will focus on other problem areas (Web Analytics World March 29 2007)

More on GoogleClick: It Will Be Free, And Partners Worry
Apparently Google is planning a free banner ad service (Battelle March 29 2007)

How To Shoot Yourself in The Foot With Bad Plan and a Bad CMS Implementation
Do not publish your articles on more than one URL (Graywolf March 30 2007)

Inside Scoop Pt. 1
How Do Top Internet Search Marketers Crack Open Cool Info Outside of Blogs? (SEOcritique March 28 2007)

Serph Leaves Beta To Take Over Social Search Media
ACS is launching a new personalized social media search tool (Unofficial SEO March 29 2007)

Microsoft on Poprank and Indexing Objects for Vertical and Web Search
Search Engine Land: Web indexing changes focus from page level, to that of objects found upon pages (March 29 2007)

Yahoo expands newspaper content
Yahoo has signed a deal with McClatchy, the third largest US newspaper group (BBC March 29 2007)

Google seeks world of instant translations
In the future, people will be able to translate documents instantly into the world's main languages (The Age March 28 2007)

Yahoo Mail to offer unlimited storage
Yahoo will begin offering unlimited storage for its free Web-based e-mail in May (CNet March 27 2007)

Introducing the Yahoo! Mail Web Service
Yahoo! allows developers to make applications including Yahoo! Mail (Yahoo! Developer Network March 28 2007)

EyeTrack07: The Myth of Short Attention Spans
People do read full articles on the Web (Poynteronline March 28 2007)

Yahoo! to use new search ranking system in the UK
Travolution reports on a new pay-per-click ranking system (March 23 2007)

Yahoo names executive to combat online ad fraud
Reggie Davis, a seven-year veteran of the company, will take on the newly created post of vice president of marketplace quality (Reuters March 22 2007)

Dear Clown Co.: Name This Thing Fast Before Its Too Late
On the YouTube "killer" (TechCrunch March 23 2007)

Yahoo! Launches Widgets 4.0
Yahoo! is relaunching its previously named Yahoo Widget Engine with a faster, lighter, and sleeker 4.0 version (SE Journal March 22 2007)

Google offer themes for personalized home pages
Google is initially offering six different themes that allow users to further customize GPH. (SE Land March 20 2007)

How Google Blog Search Ranks Results
Google uses indicators to reflect the quality of a blog or of a blog post. (Google OS March 19 2007)

Yahoo Expands Its Mobile Search
oneSearch will now be accessible on more than 85% of all US mobile phones (SeekingAlpha March 20 2007)

Lycos, Early Search Engine, in a U.S. Remake as Jubii
Lycos is remaking itself for the American market as Jubii, a Danish brand (NYT March 19 2007)

Snipitron Building a del.icio.us for Research
(Mashable, March 17 2007)

Wikipedians Promise New Search Engine
More than 700 volunteer developers are "already hacking away", but Google is likely to be a far harder target than Encyclopaedia Britannica (MIT Technology Report March 16 2007)

Five Link Development Experts: A Group Interview
Eric Ward, Rand Fishkin, Roger Montti, Todd Malicoat and Rae Hoffman on link building (Sugarrae March 14 2007)

Microsoft Follows the Money to Find Spammers
Bill Slawski on a Microsoft study of search engine spam (March 15 2007)

Get a more complete picture about how other sites link to you
Google will show you the complete phrases sites use to link to you, not just individual words (Google Webmaster Blog March 15 2007)

Q&A With Ask.com's Gary Price
Gary Price, director of online information resources at Ask.com, speaks out (SE Watch March 15 2007)

Welcome to the Social Community for Search Marketers
On security holes in MyBlogLog and more (SE Journal March 12 2007)

Will MySpace launch social news search?
MySpace News will aggregate real-time news and blogs from top sites around the Web (SE Watch March 12 2007)

Another Step towards Google News - Blog Search Integration
Google News has changed the right sidebar to look more like Blog Search. (Google OS march 8 2007)

New pictures of the Google Phone
There is absolutely no way of telling if this story is true! (ZD March 12 2007)

Google & Dish Network in Video Advertising Deal?
Search Engine Journal on Google's new video ads (March 12 2007)

Search results in search results
se robots.txt to prevent crawling of search results pages or other auto-generated pages that don’t add much value (Matt Cutts March 10 2007)

Google Earth urged to remove "Mount Hitler" name
Germans ask Google to use post-WWII names (Reuters March 9 2007)

Yahoo Answers Adds Social Networking
Users can connect and ‘make friends’ with other Yahoo Answers members (SE Journal March 8 2007)

Google Desktop 5 offers more gadgets
A new sidebar interface for gadgets, a tool for searching available gadgets, a preview tool, and new security features. (News.com March 7 2007)

Wife of Chinese Cyber Dissident to Sue Yahoo
Yu Ling said police arrested her husband partly because Yahoo gave Chinese authorities information about his e-mail accounts. (VOA March 8 2007)

Google Book Search wins backing of German library
The Bavarian State Library joins Google's book scanning project (ZD March 8 2007)

Censored Google China Book Search Launches
Google launched a local Chinese book search (Blogoscoped March 2 2007)

Microsoft takes aim at Google project
Microsoft says Google is "systematically violates copyright" thorugh its book-scanning project (AP March 5 2007)

Firefox 3 to bring offline support for some web applications
One disadvantage of using online services is that if you are offline, you cannot write new mails or get access to existing ones (Software Journal Feb 28 2007)

IBM teams up with Google over gadgets
IBM allows business users to access Google gadgets from IBM's WebSphere Portal software. (March 1 2007)

34 Reasons Why Readers Unsubscribe from Your Blog
problogger lists reasons given by its readers (March 1 2007)

Google Defends Its Clicks
Forbes on how Google fends off click fraud attempts by Web crooks (March 1 2006)