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Search Engine Watch
July 6, 1999 |
Google Goes Forward While I've considered Google a "major player" in the search space for some time, the deal with Netscape gives it a mass audience for the first time, along with its first business deal.   |
Search Engine Watch
April 2, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Google News It was another busy month for Google, so here's a compilation of stories that cover its new news search service, a new Search Microsoft feature, how the Google Toolbar is being used to solve genetic puzzles and other items... |
Search Engine Watch
September 3, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Google: Can The Marcia Brady Of Search Stay Sweet? Does search dominance by Google mean that the company is destined to be hated, in the way that Microsoft endures a poor reputation due to its dominance of operating systems, office software and browsers? Such a fate is not preordained. |
Search Engine Watch
December 7, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
What Happened To My Searches On Google? Many webmasters have found that recent changes at Google have hurt them. But does all the hue and cry over Google's recent algorithm change have any impact on searchers? There are some developments worth noting, and this article takes a Q&A approach to examine them. |
Search Engine Watch
November 5, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
New At Google: More File Types, Page Snapshots For Some, & Webmaster Help Not content with being the only major search engine to list PDF files, Google now lists Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents from across the web, as well as Rich Text Format and PostScript files... |
Search Engine Watch
December 7, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
What Happened To My Site On Google? The outcry from webmasters about Google's recent ranking algorithm change has been unprecedented. This article takes a Q&A-style approach to examine many of the issues and questions that have arisen from the change. |
InternetNews
July 1, 2004
Sean Michael Kerner |
Hungry Bot Behind Microsoft's New Search Redmond tips its hand on its growing search plans as website operators notice increased traffic from MSNbot. Microsoft suggests a modification to the robots.txt standard. |
Search Engine Watch
October 9, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Renews With Google, Changes Results After months of speculation, Yahoo announced today that it has renewed its relationship to use Google's results as part of its search listings. In addition, Yahoo made a substantial change to end its historic barrier between human-powered and crawler-based search results. |
Search Engine Watch
November 5, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Surprised Google & Microsoft Talked Takeover? You Shouldn't Be! No one should have been surprised that the companies have talked about a possible purchase. It made sense then. As for now, a more realistic possibility is that the two companies might partner in the short term. |
Search Engine Watch
November 4, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Google Sued Over PageRank Decrease Google finds itself now being sued by a site owner who saw a decrease in the PageRank score reported to those who use the Google Toolbar. |
PC World
September 25, 2002
Linda Rosencrance |
Google Search Leads to Gates of 'Hell' A devilish phrase typed into the search engine reaps Microsoft's Web site as top result. |
Search Engine Watch
July 29, 2008
Aaron Shear |
When's an Outage More than Just an Outage? In SEO for major sites, one of the most overlooked factors is uptime. How does an outage impact your SEO efforts? |
Search Engine Watch
January 7, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Google Gets Bigger, Fresher, Offers Better News In December, Google became the first crawler-based search engine to break the 1.5 billion web page mark. In addition, the service rolled out changes designed to improve the freshness of its results and the ability for users to find news... |
Search Engine Watch
May 6, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Overture Wins Yahoo, What Will Happen With Google? Overture had a major win last month by extending its initial five-month deal to provide paid listings to Yahoo for an additional three years. In addition, Overture's being named Yahoo's exclusive paid listings provider may impact Google's editorial partnership with Yahoo... |
InternetNews
July 1, 2004
Sean Michael Kerner |
MSNbot Crawling For MSN Search Microsoft shows its hand on how it plans to compete with other search engines, as its bots fan out to more Web sites. |
Search Engine Watch
February 6, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Google Does PDF & Other Changes Google now includes listings of Adobe PDF files from across the web, a first for any major search engine and a feature long overdue for them to offer. By including PDF content in its listings, Google makes its service even more useful for those trying to get into the nooks and crannies of the web... |
Search Engine Watch
May 6, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Google Launches Answers Service, API Program Google introduced two new interesting features last month. The first, Google Answers, is a beta program that allows users to get personal answers from a professional researcher, in exchange for a fee. The second allows programmers to use the new Google Web APIs... |
Search Engine Watch
October 21, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Local Search Part 2: Google & Mobilemaps Bring Back Geosearching How Google and Mobilemaps are making it possible to search the web yet filter results to a local level |
Search Engine Watch
December 3, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Going Beyond HTML Raises Security Concerns With Google Now that Google is indexing a wide range of document types beyond HTML and plain text formats, potential security concerns are cropping up, both for searchers and webmasters... |
The Motley Fool
May 25, 2007
Mac Greer |
Fool Video Take: Should Investors Say Yahoo? Everyone is ga-ga over Google. But is it time to get excited about Yahoo? |
Search Engine Watch
January 22, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Google Releases Orkut Social Networking Service Google has quietly launched a social networking service called orkut, named after Orkut Buyukkokten, a Google employee who developed the project during personal time allowed to him by Google. |
InternetNews
August 15, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Get Your Coupons on Google Maps Google today announced it will soon be displaying printable coupons for local businesses in its Google Maps search results and business listing pages. |
Search Engine Watch
December 5, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Google Offers SEO Selection Guidelines At the end of last month, Google rolled out a new page offering advice to those seeking a search engine optimization firm. Since being unveiled, there's been both support and criticism of the tips and recommendations that Google has posted in various SEO forums. |
Search Engine Watch
December 6, 1999 |
Google Loses Virginity But Gains A Virgin And so finally it's come -- advertising on Google. They promised something other than banners when the site came out of beta, and Google delivers on that promise. |
InternetNews
November 16, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Google Base: Toward a Walled Garden Google launched a beta version of Google Base on Wednesday. The tool, in testing since October, lets users upload all kinds of content to Google's servers. |
The Motley Fool
June 26, 2007
Mac Greer |
Fool Video: Too Late to Buy Google? Shares of Google hit a new high. Is it too late to buy? |
Search Engine Watch
October 2, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Sponsored Listings To Take On Google & Overture LookSmart has relaunched its Sponsored Listings program using a new bid-for-placement model, a move it hopes will let the company win distribution partners from rivals Overture and Google, as well as increase its advertising revenues. |
InternetNews
February 2, 2009
Kenneth Corbin |
Forward Slash Led to Massive Google Glitch Questions arise about how a little forward slash led to a bogus Web-wide security warning over the weekend. |
Search Engine Watch
October 6, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Google Print Opens Widely To Publishers Google's nearly year-old Google Print program is set for a huge expansion of content through the launch of a new program today allowing publishers to more easily submit material for inclusion. |
Search Engine Watch
March 4, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Google Takes On Overture With Pay Per Click Ads Google introduced a new pay-per-click payment option for its "AdWords" program that will make Google more attractive to some advertisers -- as well as establishing the company as serious competitor with Overture... |
Search Engine Watch
March 21, 2006
Danny Sullivan |
Google Launches Google Finance For years, those seeking specialty financial information via Google have been sent to competitors such as Yahoo and MSN. Now Google's providing financial information directly to its own users. |
InternetNews
November 13, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Google Updates Apps For Domains Starting today, Google is updating its Google Apps for Your Domain product. |
Search Engine Watch
June 3, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Coping With GDS, The Google Dance Syndrome On a roughly monthly basis, Google updates its index of web pages and introduces new tweaks and changes to how its ranking algorithm works. For some, the changeover period that's come to be known as the "Google Dance" may reveal what seems like dramatic changes in Google. |
Search Engine Watch
December 3, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
New Google Toolbar Lets Users Rate Pages A new version of the Google toolbar now in beta testing sports a new look -- happy and sad faces that let toolbar users rate web pages... |
Search Engine Watch
January 7, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Google Launches Catalog Search In December, Google rolled out a completely unexpected offering: Google Catalogs. The new service allows you to search through the contents of catalogs from over 600 companies... |
The Motley Fool
May 25, 2007
Mac Greer |
Fool Video Take: Time to Buy Google? Is now the time to own a piece of the dominant search giant? |
Search Engine Watch
April 5, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Google Tops, But Yahoo Switch Success So Far New WebSideStory stats say Google's most popular, but they also reveal that Yahoo's recent replacement of Google results with its own technology doesn't appear to have cost it visitors. |
InternetNews
April 26, 2006
Sean Michael Kerner |
Are Google Results More Relevant? New third party evidence adds fuel to the fire as to whether Google, MSN or Yahoo! actually provides searchers what they want. |
Search Engine Watch
November 18, 2003
Shari Thurow |
Search Engines and Web Server Issues What is the best way to move a site from one server to another without affecting search engine visibility? After a site redesign, how can you communicate to the search engines that old URLs should be redirected to new URLs without affecting positioning? |
Search Engine Watch
December 1, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Google Dance Syndrome Strikes Again There's been a new outbreak of Google Dance Syndrome, causing some web sites last month to lose top positions for some search terms. However, unlike previous outbreaks, a cure exists that makes it easy to compare results from old to new Google. |
Information Today
December 22, 2003
Barbara Quint |
Google Beta Tests Book Search Service "Google's mission is to provide access to all the world's information and make it universally useful and accessible." Such conservative goal-setting has now led the world's busiest search engine to a new set of content -- books in print. |
Search Engine Watch
June 2, 2000 |
Google Gets Kid Safe, Suggests Maps Google has added a new feature to filter adult content out of its listings, and the search engine now also provides links to online maps in response to relevant queries. |
Search Engine Watch
July 5, 2000 |
Google Announces Largest Index Another milestone in the search engine size wars was hit when Google went live with a full-text index of 560 million URLs in June, making it the largest search engine on the web.... |
Search Engine Watch
April 29, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Google IPO To Happen, Files For Public Offering As many expected, Google filed to go public today. A quick update on the news and pointers to more information. |
The Motley Fool
June 2, 2004
Alyce Lomax |
Google Goes Corporate The corporate market is Google's plan to open another revenue channel. |
InternetNews
October 23, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Google Gets Social Search Religion Google's Custom Search Engine is for individuals, organizations or business that want to add customized Google Web Search to their Web site or blog. |
ONLINE
November 2001
Greg R. Notess |
On the Net, Freshness Issue and Complexities with Web Search Engines Understanding the currentness (or freshness) patterns of the search engines' databases helps the searcher to better understand the results and what might not be found... |
Search Engine Watch
April 2, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Google And The Big Brother Nomination This article explores allegations by Google Watch that Google is a threat to privacy and Big Brother like. |
InternetNews
April 20, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Search and My History Shall Find My Search History, which went live on Wednesday, lets users access and manage their Google search history from any computer. |
InternetNews
May 2, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Google, Microsoft Face to Face After all the talk, direct competition is finally escalating between Google and Microsoft. It's to a point now that Google even gets mentions in Microsoft company memos. |
