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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
August 5, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Google Adds More Fresh Pages, Changes Robots.txt & 403 Errors, Gains iWon Over the past month, Google has stepped up the number of pages that it is spidering on a daily basis in an effort to increase the freshness of its database. The search engine has also picked up iWon as a new customer for its search results. |
Search Engine Watch
February 16, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Changes Afoot at Yahoo & MSN Yahoo switches from Google to its own search, and MSN drops LookSmart listings. |
Search Engine Watch
October 7, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
MSN To Drop LookSmart LookSmart has announced that its deal to provide Microsoft with listings for its MSN Search service is not being renewed, leaving the company without its most important partner. |
Search Engine Watch
July 1, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Microsoft's MSN Search To Build Crawler-Based Search Engine In April, news emerged that Microsoft intended to make a huge new investment in web search. Now signs of that investment are appearing. |
InternetNews
May 3, 2007
Sean Michael Kerner |
Yahoo Makes Search Indexing Waves Yahoo is extending the robots.txt search exclusion standard to get better page relevancy, but will anyone follow? |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2008
Smith & Nelson |
Site Design Impact on Robots An examination of search engine crawler behavior at deep and wide websites. |
Search Engine Watch
February 20, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Search Engine Forums Spotlight What's The Next Step With Search Engines? Google and Semantic Web Search. |
Search Engine Watch
November 11, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Microsoft Unveils its New Search Engine - At Last After months of speculation and two 'preview' releases, Microsoft has taken the wraps off of its new MSN search engine, the first major competitor to join the big leagues of web search in nearly a year. |
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
July 1, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
MSN Search Gets New Look; Microsoft Gets New Search Engine Microsoft released a public preview of its long-awaited web search technology today. The company also gave a facelift to its popular MSN Search site that remains powered by Yahoo's search technology and dropped paid inclusion listings there. |
InternetNews
January 31, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
MSN Launching New Search Tuesday Microsoft's MSN division is to announce switchover to home-grown search technology. |
Information Today
August 3, 2004
Barbara Quint |
Microsoft Expands Search Skills with Newsbot The new beta test of Newsbot comes in the same month Microsoft announced changes to its search interface on MSN and began a beta test of MSNBot, a prototype search engine which allegedly marks early development of the company's future plans for competing with Google. |
InternetNews
July 27, 2004
Sean Michael Kerner |
MSN's Newsbot Unleashed Microsoft delivers search-driven news service for MSNBC, competing with Yahoo and Google for Web visitors. |
D-Lib
February 2006
Smith et al. |
Observed Web Robot Behavior on Decaying Web Subsites A description of the observed crawling patterns of various search engines, such as Google, Yahoo and MSN, as they traverse a series of web subsites whose contents decay at predetermined rates. |
Information Today
June 12, 2008
Avi Rappoport |
New Robots Exclusion Protocol Agreement Among Yahoo!, Google, and Microsoft Live Search The search engines banding together and the publishers proposing their own solutions make it likely that there will be more conflict in the future with end users and libraries stuck in the middle. |
Search Engine Watch
February 18, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Overture To Buy AltaVista Overture announced today that it intends to purchase AltaVista in a $140 million cash and stock deal. |
Search Engine Watch
February 1, 2005
Danny Sullivan |
MSN Search Officially Switches To Its Own Technology Nearly two years after announcing it would develop its own search technology, MSN Search began feeding the general public results found through its own internally developed search engine. |
InternetNews
November 16, 2006
David Needle |
Google, Microsoft and Yahoo as Partners? Competitors put aside their differences to agree on Web search standards. |
InternetNews
February 28, 2005
Rob McGann |
Majority of Searchers Use Multiple Search Engines What are the most popular search engines? |
Search Engine Watch
March 25, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
New Look In July, New Search Engine Later, Says MSN MSN announced a redesign for its MSN Search service last week, a cosmetic change that better delineates paid placement listings. But the July release will not coincide with the launch of new underlying technology. |
Search Engine Watch
July 16, 2008
Kevin Ryan |
Google's Path to Domination And you may ask yourself, 'how did we get here?' Today's search landscape is a result of Yahoo trying to integrate large acquisitions too fast, while Google focused on core disciplines, small complimentary acquisitions, and smart build-outs. |
InternetNews
May 6, 2005
Sean Michael Kerner |
Tips From the Search Crowd You want to make sure the search engines find your site and rank it well? Follow some basic rules of the information highway, search experts say. |
The Motley Fool
July 1, 2004
Alyce Lomax |
Microsoft's Still Searching Today, Microsoft unveiled an upgrade to its MSN search capabilities, as well as a preview of search functions to come. |
Search Engine Watch
March 16, 2005
Danny Sullivan |
MSN To Launch Its Own Paid Listings Program MSN has announced it will enter the paid search arena with a full-blown self-service paid listing program similar to those run by Yahoo and Google. |
InternetNews
November 12, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
MSN Fights for Google Search Share MSN Search is the latest entrant in a crowded market. Can it stand up to the competition? |
BusinessWeek
November 29, 2004
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
Microsoft Is No Threat To Google -- Yet The software giant's unparalleled ability to integrate its search tools into Windows, Internet Explorer, Outlook, and other Microsoft Office components could give it a huge competitive advantage. But first it must greatly improve the quality of its new search service. |
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
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. |
InternetNews
November 11, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
MSN's Latest Search Beta Launched Microsoft's MSN released the latest version of its homegrown search technology on Thursday (beta.search.msn.com), offering multiple ways to narrow results, including providing local results and natural language search. |
InternetNews
July 30, 2004
Erin Joyce |
Orchestrating New Search With MSN From the development labs at Microsoft comes a preview of more search more quickly, and more sophisticated ads with more relevance. |
InternetNews
August 2, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
Search Versus Search in Silicon Valley The Search Engine Strategies conference focuses on optimizing Web pages so they'll rank higher in search results. |
Search Engine Watch
August 22, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Image Search Faces Renewed Legal Challenge A look at the issues behind a case coming up for appeal in Sept. 2001 involving whether search engines have the right to index images without explicit permission, along with tips on how you can keep your images out (or in) image search engines... |
PC World
February 28, 2002
Tom Spring |
Are Search Results For Sale? Analysis: Search engines walk a tightrope, seeking profit while helping you find what you want... |
Search Engine Watch
January 13, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Yahoo & MSN Closing the Google Gap While Big G continues to maintain its leadership position in the eyes of web searchers, a new study finds that Yahoo, MSN Search and Ask Jeeves have all made significant improvements over the past year and are narrowing Google's mindshare advantage. |
InternetNews
November 10, 2004
Erin Joyce |
Microsoft Ready to Rumble on Search Beta Microsoft is opening its latest search technology beta. The move represents the latest beta release of the company's search effort, which MSN released earlier this year. |
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
February 25, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Overture To Buy FAST Web Search Division Overture announced today that it intends to purchase AltaVista in a $140 million cash and stock deal. |
InternetNews
August 25, 2005
Sean Michael Kerner |
Microsoft Responds to Google Talk Redmond launches new MSN Messenger 7.5 the same day as GoogleTalk is launched. The latest version, which only supports Windows XP users, offers increased audio features. |
Technology Research News
October 22, 2003
Kimberly Patch |
Queries guide Web crawlers Search engines approach the problem of sorting out the vast amount of information on the Internet by casting their nets as widely as they can, then sifting through the catch. An algorithm that analyzes what people are looking for could point search engines toward more relevant pages. |
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. |
InternetNews
August 19, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
Post Google IPO: Now, the Really Hard Part With Google's IPO completed, the search leader must compete not only on its stock price, but on its core search technology and its search engine marketing offering. |
InternetNews
February 1, 2005
Roy Mark |
Microsoft Goes Live With Search Redmond hopes to compete with the likes of Google and Yahoo for a sizable share of the search market. |
PC Magazine
September 14, 2005
Michael J. Miller |
Web Portals Make a Comeback Google, Yahoo, and MSN are constantly adding more features to their portals... The community is taking a role in search engines... Microsoft's PlaysForSure concept isn't completely accurate... |
The Motley Fool
November 12, 2004
Seth Jayson |
Can Microsoft Kill Google? Online advertising is growing rapidly, but is still tiny compared to Microsoft's revenue, so what is the company's motivation for moving into the search engine arena? |
Search Engine Watch
August 3, 2005
Marcela De Vivo |
Coping with Search Engine Penalties Search engine penalties are present and pervasive, and are a primary method used by search engines to control webmasters. Unless webmasters understand what they are and what to do about them, their websites could easily trigger a penalty, losing traffic and revenue. |
InternetNews
May 5, 2005
Sean Michael Kerner |
MSN Search Share Anyone's Guess Is MSN gaining or losing search share to Google in North America? It depends who you ask. |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Search Engine Results Continuing to Diverge A new study suggests that the overlap between search engine results is less than it was even a few months ago, and that the voices of each engine are growing even more unique. |
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 19, 2007
Eric Enge |
Search Engine Visibility and Site Crawlability, Part 1 This is the first of two articles outlining and explaining the SEO problems two experts identified with dynamic Web sites and solutions. |
