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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. |
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 July 1, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
The Search Engine Report - Number 80 Search Engine Watch News... SES San Jose Agenda Now Available... Microsoft's MSN Search To Build Crawler-Based Search Engine... Overture's Content Match Takes On Google's Contextual Ads... Google AdSense Expands Contextual Ad Placement Program To Small Sites... etc. |
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 August 5, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
The Search Engine Report Search Engine Watch News... Early Bird Deadline For SES San Jose Tomorrow!... LookSmart Opens Deep Listings Option To Small Businesses... Yahoo To Buy Overture... Search Engine Resources |
Search Engine Watch April 25, 2004 Danny Sullivan |
Google In Controversy Over Top-Ranking For Anti-Jewish Site Google has added a disclaimer to the search results that come up in a response for a search on jew, to counter complaints about an anti-Jewish site that until recently ranked number one. |
Search Engine Watch September 2, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
The Search Engine Report Search Engine Watch News... SES Dates For 2004 Set... Search Engine Size Wars IV & Google's Supplemental Index |
Search Engine Watch October 14, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
New Developments In Local Search: Part 1, Moves By Overture Local searching on web-wide search engines can be disappointing. New moves by some major players may improve this. This first of a three-part series looks at local search listings that Overture is testing. |
Search Engine Watch May 18, 2004 Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Reawakens The Paid Inclusion Debate Yahoo drew widespread criticism for new paid inclusion programs launched in March. What is Yahoo doing? How does it impact the advertiser and searcher? Are there changes Yahoo should be making? The first in a series of articles looking at paid inclusion. |
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. |
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... |
ONLINE May/Jun 2002 Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update Changes at Altavista, Fast Search, Google, Teoma, iLor, Lycos, WiseNut, Yahoo!... |
PC World June 2003 Steve Bass |
Maximum Google Google is fast, accurate, and fun to use, but you can get even more out of the boss of search engines. |
Entrepreneur August 2004 Catherine Seda |
In the Click Want all the right people to notice your business? Gone are the days when adding keywords in meta tags to your site produced rankings. You need to make the most of today's hottest marketing method--search engine optimization. |
Search Engine Watch July 2, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
The Evolution Of Paid Inclusion Paid inclusion has always been a tricky concept to explain, but understanding it is important to both webmasters and searchers, as recent changes have suddenly made paid inclusion commonplace with search engines... |
Search Engine Watch May 6, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
The Search Engine Report Search Engine Watch News... Search Engine Strategies Coming To London, San Jose... Yahoo's Search Engine Continues Evolving... Google Buys Applied Semantics... Harvard Criticizes Google's Adult Content Filter... Inktomi, Google Win In Recent Relevancy Test... etc. |
Search Engine Watch April 4, 2000 |
Google Adds Directory Users continue to rave about the quality of Google's search results, and that's testimony that its link analysis system works well at delivering relevant information. Now Google is applying link analysis in a new way, to the human powered information of the Open Directory. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch May 1, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
Overture & Inktomi Out, Google In At AOL Google has been selected by AOL to provide editorial search results and paid listings to AOL's various search properties in the United States, including AOL Search, Netscape Search and CompuServe Search.... |
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 May 6, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
The Mixed Message Of Paid Inclusion Pages pitching webmasters on the advantages of paid inclusion end up hurting search engines that run these programs, because they imply that the search engines have out-of-date, incomplete listings of the web... |
Search Engine Watch November 11, 2008 Mark Jackson |
Google AdWords Quality Score -- That's Old-School for SEO By optimizing your Web site for organic search, and building out a bunch of pages for each keyword that you're honestly interested in targeting, you'll likely end up improving your Quality Scores as well. |
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... |
Search Engine Watch April 27, 2004 Danny Sullivan |
Spam Rules Require Effective Spam Police How effective rule enforcement by the search engines regarding spam would help matters, and the impact better spam disclosure would have for searchers and marketers alike. |
InternetNews November 4, 2005 Brian Livingston |
'Googlewashing' Makes Your Site Invisible A growing number of content-based businesses face a serious new threat to their publishing rights and search rankings. |
Search Engine Watch March 3, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
Google Throws Hat Into The Contextual Advertising Ring Last week, Google unveiled a new method of distributing its paid listings, placing them on web pages, as opposed to the traditional means of inserting them into search results. |
Search Engine Watch January 7, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo To Buy Inktomi If all goes as planned, Yahoo will become the proud owner of Inktomi by the end of March or earlier. The company announced its intention to buy Inktomi for $235 million on December 23. A look at how the deal may help Yahoo bring in more searchers, as well as search revenue. |
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 June 2, 2004 Danny Sullivan |
The Paid Inclusion Dinosaur A look at the bet Yahoo's making and alternative plays they could have tried. |
Search Engine Watch November 3, 2000 Danny Sullivan |
Paid Inclusion At Search Engines Gains Ground Paid inclusion, now in place at Ask Jeeves, LookSmart and Inktomi, guarantee to site owners that they will be included in a search engine's listings in greater depth than might ordinarily occur... |
Search Engine Watch November 20, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
Local Search Part 5: Citysearch Brings Local To Searchers & Merchants Citysearch has long offered local content to searchers. But the company has made new moves to bring local merchants into the world of search advertising by introducing a cost-per-lead program. |
Search Engine Watch July 5, 2000 |
Yahoo Partners With Google Yahoo has selected Google to take over from Inktomi in powering Yahoo's secondary results.... |
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 August 5, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
Compare & Contrast: Ad Guidelines At Overture & Google Those new to paid placement listings might assume that it's anything goes. If you pay enough, you can come up tops for the terms you wish to target and with ads that say exactly what you want. |
ONLINE Sep/Oct 2002 Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AllTheWeb claims it has increased the size of its database to over 2 billion fully indexed Web pages... AltaVista now really defaults to a Boolean AND... Ask Jeeves has a new, simpler design... Google has been promoting its fee-based Google Answers... etc. |
Search Engine Watch August 5, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
Ask Jeeves To Carry Google's Ads A three year deal will see Ask Jeeves carrying paid listings from Google on its search properties, including Ask Jeeves-owned Teoma.com. |
Searcher June 2004 Paul S. Piper |
Google Spawn: The Culture Surrounding Google Just a few years back, the word Google existed as the name of a cartoon character and possibly among the random phonemes mumbled by toddlers. Today, one would be hard-pressed to find a person who hasn't heard of the search engine that bears this name. |
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 November 11, 2003 Elizabeth Osmeloski |
The Art of Advanced Link Building Advanced link building strategies are critical for achieving high rankings in search engines, according to two noted experts and representatives from Google and Teoma. |
Search Engine Watch November 16, 2005 Danny Sullivan |
Google Base Live, Accepting Content Google Base is now live for anyone to play with. Take a look at this new way for people to submit content to Google. |
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 October 24, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
Google Buys Sprinks, Plans IPO In a busy financial day for Google, the company purchased Sprinks, the former paid listings division of PRIMEDIA's About.com, while it was also revealed that an initial public offering is planned for early next year. |
Searcher September 2002 Tara Calishain |
URL Inclusion Programs New Revenue Generator for Search Engines |
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 June 29, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
FTC Recommends Disclosure To Search Engines The US Federal Trade Commission has made an important recommendation to major search engines suggesting that they better disclose their paid content. This came in response to a complaint made last year by the watchdog group Commercial Alert. |
Search Engine Watch November 4, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
Paid Inclusion Listings May Get Boosted At AltaVista It turns out that Trusted Feed content at AltaVista may indeed get a bump into the top results, in the right circumstances. |
Search Engine Watch May 6, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
Overture Files Patent Lawsuit Against Google Overture filed a lawsuit against Google last month, claiming that Google has infringed on its patents that apply to bid-for-placement search ranking and for account management tools... |
Search Engine Watch February 18, 2004 Chris Sherman |
Yahoo! Birth of a New Machine Yahoo is launching a brand new search engine today, with its own index and ranking mechanisms, casting aside its long-standing use of Google-powered search results. The move is bound to roil the industry and sets in motion a new race for the claim of web search champion. |
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 |