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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
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. |
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
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
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
March 28, 2008
Marty Weintraub |
Google Bombs, Jew Watch News & the Hypocritical Linking Universe The author's examination of "google bombing" and how this technique intersects with search engine optimization. Is Google hypocritical in its solutions to the problem of using links to determine relevancy? |
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
February 6, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Bush's Dubious Victory At Google For the past three months, if you did a search on Google for a particularly insulting phrase -- think dumb Oedipus -- the top result was to the official George W. Bush campaign store. How on earth did this happen? |
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
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. |
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
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
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
September 27, 2005
Danny Sullivan |
End Of Size Wars? Google Says Most Comprehensive But Drops Home Page Count Google is dropping from its home page the famous count of pages in its index while simultaneously claiming it has the most comprehensive collection of web documents available to searchers. |
Search Engine Watch
December 7, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Google Dance Case Studies Real life stories of how sites were impacted by the recent Google ranking changes, with an analysis of factors that may be in play. |
Search Engine Watch
March 18, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Google Bombs Aren't So Scary It sounds frightening. Google Bombs are now going off, where web sites are influencing Google's search results by controlling where they link to and what they say in their links... |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
November 4, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Google Filtering Of French & German Web Sites Revealed Google does not include certain web sites in the French and German versions of its search engines, in particular neo-Nazi or white supremacy sites that have content that might be deemed illegal to publish in France and Germany. |
PC Magazine
October 28, 2003 |
20 Great Google Secrets You already love searching with google. These tips can make finding what you need even easier. |
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
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, 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
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
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
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. |
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. |
InternetNews
August 17, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Sizing Up the Search Competition In the Google-Yahoo rivalry, does the bigger index do a better job? |
Search Engine Watch
September 16, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
China's Great Wall Against Google And AltaVista So can people in China get to Google or not? Yes, apparently so. However, there are still reports of trouble when conducting particular searches, which suggest that some selective blocking is happening. Meanwhile, the situation with AltaVista being blocked appears to continue. |
Search Engine Watch
November 18, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Google Scholar Offers Access To Academic Information Google has launched a new Google Scholar search service, providing the ability to search for scholarly literature located from across the web. |
Salon.com
August 29, 2002
Farhad Manjoo |
Meet Mr. Anti-Google A crusading webmaster says the popular search engine's page-ranking algorithm is "undemocratic." |
CIO
July 1, 2004
Megan Santosus |
An Online Battle Between Hate and Tolerance For three years, an anti-Semitic website was the first search result listed when anyone typed the word 'jew' into leading Web search engine Google. |
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. |
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
November 10, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Google Personalized Search Leaves Google Labs Google's personalized search has graduated from Google Labs and is now available to users on 39 worldwide Google domains in addition to Google.com. |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
A Webby, More Images, Date Range Search & Search Voyeurism At Google Google has enlarged its image search service, added a new date range searching option and unveiled a way to discover popular search topics at the service. The service also received its third Webby award in July... |
Search Engine Watch
February 18, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Google Buys Blogging Company - But Why? Why did Google buy Blogger? Most likely for ad distribution and almost certainly not to improve search quality. |
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
December 5, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
In Search Of The Relevancy Figure Where are the relevancy figures? While relevancy is the most important "feature" a search engine can offer, there sadly remains no widely-accepted measure of how relevant the different search engines are. Turning relevancy into an easily digested figure is a huge, but necessary, challenge. |
Search Engine Watch
May 3, 2000 |
AltaVista Launches New Search Site AltaVista has launched a search-only site today which follows on improvements the company made to its core database of web pages about a week ago. Called Raging Search, the new site delivers fast and uncluttered listings. |
AskMen.com
Jacob Franek |
5 Things You Didn't Know: Google As the mother of all search engines, Google has come a long way since its early beginnings. |
Search Engine Watch
April 2, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Google Embroiled In Scientology Debate Google found itself accused of censorship last month, after it removed some pages from an anti-Scientology web site in response to a legal request made by the Church of Scientology... |
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
August 16, 2005
Danny Sullivan |
Screw Size! I Dare Google & Yahoo To Report On Relevancy The search engine companies are once again arguing about which search engine has a larger or fresher index. But there is still no metric to measure whose results are most relevant. |
Search Engine Watch
May 14, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Google Confirms Automated Page Removal Bug Microsoft, Adobe and some other web sites had pages removed from Google without their consent, due to a bug with Google's page removal tool. And WhenU gets pulled for cloaking. |
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
November 21, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Dropping Google Bombs Against Hate Why a Google search for 'Martin Luther King' might surprise you. |
Search Engine Watch
June 18, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
New Google WebSearch Program Pays Publishers For Searches Google has released two new services allowing site owners to install web search capabilities on their own sites, including one that pays. |
Search Engine Watch
April 2, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Search Privacy At Google & Other Search Engines This article examines what Google and other search engines record about your searches. |
Search Engine Watch
March 29, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Google Loses Tabs In New Look, Gains Web Alerts & Personalized Search Results Google has rolled a new look that involves dropping its famed search tabs, along with debuting a web alerts service and a personalized search results option. |
