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Search Engine Watch
October 19, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Searching for a Good Searching Book? Here's a compilation of reviews for books designed to help you sharpen your searching skills.   |
Search Engine Watch
March 2, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Newer, Fresher Google Hacks One of the best books about Google has just been updated with new content and useful tools that make it even easier to exploit the full power of the popular search engine. |
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
May 20, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Everything Google Underneath its simple, sparse interface, Google is loaded with useful tools and services, though they're not always easy to find. A new book How to do Everything with Google offers an insider's guide to maximizing the power of the search engine. |
Search Engine Watch
February 4, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Hack Your Own Search Engine Crawler Want to build your own customized search tool that can search the web, explore online databases, and mine virtually any other type of internet resource? A new book titled Spidering Hacks shows you how. |
Searcher
October 2001
Gary Price |
Web Search Engines FAQs: Questions, Answers, and Issues The Web search world changes on what sometimes seems like an hourly basis. What follows are a few selected tips and resources for some of the most well-known of engines... |
ONLINE
Jan/Feb 2004
Deborah Lynne Wiley |
Recommended Reading on the Library Field A look at two books to help you find business information on the Web, a great student guide to Google, and a book for those techies looking to implement RDF. |
PC World
September 1, 2000
Kim Zetter & Harry McCracken |
How to Stop Searching and Start Finding Tired of wading through useless search-engine results? We test 20 engines to pinpoint the ones that really deliver the goods.... |
Searcher
October 2002
Gary D. Price |
Specialized Search Engine FAQs: More Questions, Answers and Issues An introduction to specialized search engine searching |
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. |
Searcher
Nov/Dec 2003
Gary Price |
Webmastry What Google teaches us that has nothing to do with searching |
Search Engine Watch
November 3, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Tuning up Your Skills in the Web Search Garage Every now and then a book comes along that's a must-read for every serious searcher, and Tara Calishain's Web Search Garage falls squarely into that category. |
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. |
AskMen.com
January 31, 2001
Justin Becker |
How To: Use Search Engines Well, no need to feel lost anymore -- here is a map of which search engines I highly recommend, and which ones to use for specific searches. And since information is power, you'll feel like king of the world in no time... |
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
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
May 16, 2006
Chris Sherman |
Learning Google's Advertising Tools If you're new to search marketing and wanting a guide to help you get started with Google AdWords and AdSense, consider picking up a copy Google Advertising Tools. |
Information Today
April 22, 2002
Tara Calishain |
New Google Answers Service Raises a Few Questions of Its Own Have a burning question? Google Answers charges for the answers and has built a group of external researchers to respond to the questions... |
Search Engine Watch
January 5, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Search Resolutions for the New Year Now's an ideal time to reflect on your searching habits and ring in some changes that will make you a more effective searcher in the year to come. |
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. |
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
December 2, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Searching With Invisible Tabs Behind the scenes, search engines will one day automatically push the correct tab for your query and retrieve specialized search results. This should ultimately prove an improvement over the current situation where everything is answered by web page matches. |
ONLINE
Jan/Feb 2004
Greg R. Notess |
Toolbars: Trash or Treasures? Search engines have tripped over each other this past year in offering up toolbars. Yet the insidious fault of toolbars lies in the over-reliance on the search engine that their constant presence engenders. |
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. |
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. |
InternetNews
May 4, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
Love on the Grid Orange County-based SocialGrid wants to turn Google into a free dating service. |
ONLINE
Mar/Apr 2006
Greg R. Notess |
On The Net - Tracking Your Search History Commercial databases and traditional online systems have offered a search history feature for decades. Web search engines are finally catching up. The options vary greatly among them, but all raise a number of privacy issues. |
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 |
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
January 19, 2006
Chris Sherman |
Survey: Google, Yahoo Still Favorites in North America For the second year running, a Keynote Systems study says Google provides the most satisfying search experience among North American users, despite competitive maneuvering from all of the other major search services. |
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
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. |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2003 |
Hardcopy: Recommended Reading on the Library Field The Enduring Library: Technology, Tradition, and the Quest for Balance... The Ultimate Digital Library: Where the New Information Players Meet... Google Hacks: 100 Industrial-Strength Tips & Tools... Super Searchers on Madison Avenue |
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
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. |
PC Magazine
March 31, 2004
John C. Dvorak |
Search Engine Mania Since Google is making money and is expected to bring in big bucks in a midyear IPO, suddenly search engines are the next big thing. |
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. |
ONLINE
May 2001
Greg R. Notess |
On the Net, Tracking Title Search Capabilities Web page title search capabilities have expanded somewhat, although to nowhere near the levels available in our more sophisticated bibliographic systems... |
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
October 24, 2006
Chris Sherman |
Google Launches Custom Search Engine Service Want your own Google-flavored specialized search engine for your web site or blog? With Google's new Custom Search Engine service, it takes just minutes to set up your own unique search engine. |
BusinessWeek
November 3, 2003
Ben Elgin |
Sharpen Your Internet Search All search engines are not equal. Knowing where and how to make your queries can help you avoid ads and get exactly the information you want -- fast. |
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
December 29, 2005
Danny Sullivan |
2005 in Review: The Top Search Industry Stories of the Year Your Search Utility: Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Developments With Consumer Search... Search Advertisers Deserve Better: Search Engine Ad Reps: Friend or Foe?... SEO Isn't A Criminal Activity... etc. |
InternetNews
February 28, 2005
Rob McGann |
Majority of Searchers Use Multiple Search Engines What are the most popular search engines? |
Search Engine Watch
September 14, 2004
Heather Lloyd-Martin |
Delving Deep Inside the Searcher's Mind Industry experts from Enquiro, Vividence, iProspect and Google asked searchers, "What are you thinking?" Their research unearthed some surprising results that will help site owners better understand their customers. |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2004
Greg R. Notess |
On The Net - Search Engine Prefixes and Shortcuts An online searcher offers tips and practical advice on efficient and effective online searching using shortcuts and prefixes. |
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 2, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Dogpile: Search Engines Don't Have Much in Common Users of the meta-search service can now see results from MSN Search in addition to results from Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves and MSN Search. As part of its announcement, Dogpile demonstrated the diversity of results across the engines. |
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. |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2005
Greg R. Notess |
Searching Books Between the Covers When and how to use Google and Amazon for full text book searches. Also, a comparison of the two resources reveals inconsistency with both. |
