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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 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
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. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2008
Smith & Nelson |
Site Design Impact on Robots An examination of search engine crawler behavior at deep and wide websites. |
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? |
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. |
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? |
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. |
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. |
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
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
November 16, 2006
David Needle |
Google, Microsoft and Yahoo as Partners? Competitors put aside their differences to agree on Web search standards. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
InternetNews
January 31, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
MSN Launching New Search Tuesday Microsoft's MSN division is to announce switchover to home-grown search technology. |
InternetNews
March 21, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Google Finance Sparks Portal Talk After launching Google Finance, is the company closer to becoming a portal? Does Wall Street care? |
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. |
InternetNews
October 5, 2006
Sean Michael Kerner |
Google Launches Code Search Billions of lines of code are now available for your searching enjoyment. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
March 28, 2006
Alyce Lomax |
Google Shores Up Search Google's lead widens, but challenges still remain. Investors should certainly be grateful for indications that the company is defending its territory, but it doesn't change the fact that the search giant will have to find new revenue channels. |
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
January 19, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Search Leaders, Bloggers Band to Fight Comment Spam Industry group says it will support Google's 'no-follow' tag that tells search engine spiders to lay off links. |
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 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. |
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
September 8, 2010
Ralph Tegtmeier |
The Daily Con Job: Rogue Spiders in the Wild If you thought that only humans were capable of pulling a fast one on you, think again: quite a few crawlers out there are not at all what they make out to be. |
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... |
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
February 28, 2005
Rob McGann |
Majority of Searchers Use Multiple Search Engines What are the most popular search engines? |
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
July 17, 2007
Sean Michael Kerner |
Spoofing Googlebot Superficially spoofing Googlebot, Google's Web crawler, is not a difficult thing to do and was recently the subject of a very popular post on the Digg site. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
February 19, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Jupiter Media Metrix Releases New Search Specific Traffic Figures For the first time, comprehensive estimates of search activity by Internet users is being made publicly available, and it sheds new light on which search engines are really the most popular... |
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.... |
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
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 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
March 19, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Search Engine Forums Spotlight Links to this week's topics from search engine forums across the web: Why Would Anyone Bid $5.00 Per Click - Search Engines and AdSense - Geo-Targeting Content - Search Engine Optimization Implications? - Google Shows a Map to Your House - Google Tweaks Local Search Out of the Labs - What Does Traffic Estimator Include? Indexing Pages in Hebrew - Yahoo, What Gives? How Do You Tell If You're Penalized? |
Inc.
June 1, 2003
Robert X. Cringely |
What's Next: Do One Thing Right Smart companies are finding ways to make money on the Net. |
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. |
InternetNews
October 26, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Google Base Could be Database For Everything Is a classifieds offering the next big thing from Google? |
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
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. |
The Motley Fool
September 22, 2006
Jack Uldrich |
Google's Growing Index A new patent could quadruple Google's searching capability. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
August 31, 2006
Tony Wright |
The Taming of the Bots All savvy search engine marketers know how to create a search-friendly site that can be easily read by a search engine spider, or bot. But what happens when those bots go bad? |
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
March 4, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Where Are They Now? Search Engines We've Known & Loved Looks at early search engines that have died, those that have been transformed and how the new players that are no longer so young are doing. |
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. |
