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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 July 6, 1999 |
Netscape Search Gets Rebuilt Netscape released a new version of its Netscape Search service in June. Previously powered by Excite, the new service now draws on the Open Directory and Google for its listings. It's a powerful combination that makes Netscape Search worth considering among your top search choices. |
Search Engine Watch October 2, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Changes Results, Increases Submission Price Last week, Yahoo's search results pages underwent probably the most significant change since the service began. Yahoo also increased the price of its Yahoo Express submission service to $299, last month... |
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 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. |
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.... |
ONLINE July 2000 Chris Sherman |
Humans Do It Better: Inside the Open Directory Project many who take on the daunting task of cataloging the Web find themselves hopelessly ensnared. The crew of the Open Directory Project (ODP) has avoided this unfortunate fate, and in the process have seen their efforts gain an unprecedented acceptance. |
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 April 2, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Google Adds Languages, Phone Book And More Want your search engine to talk to you like a Swedish chef? The new Bork Bork Bork option is just one of new language interfaces you can set for Google. The search engine has also unveiled a new page translation option and a phone book feature. |
Search Engine Watch February 4, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
AOL Switches To Inktomi AOL Search has switched over to Inktomi results for its main listings, relegating the Open Directory's presence to having category-only links appearing at the bottom of the page... |
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. |
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 November 3, 2000 Danny Sullivan |
New Go Site Goes Up Having given up its goal of being a portal to please all people, the new Go site was formally unveiled last month. So far it retains features that may appeal to general 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. |
Entrepreneur September 2007 Amanda C. Kooser |
What's the 411? New services from Google and Microsoft are stepping up to put the squeeze on the old 411. |
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. |
Information Today January 2003 Paula J. Hane |
Web Search Trends At Internet Librarian 2002, Danny Sullivan examined what's happening with Web searching tools. He said the past year had not seen huge developments, but rather incremental changes, in our evolving Internet technologies. |
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 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 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 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 March 3, 2000 |
Growing Pains At Volunteer Directories The use of volunteers generates a different set of problems that webmasters may encounter during the submission process at the Open Directory and Go Guides. |
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 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 May 2, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Google Improves Newsgroups, Makes Inroads To Japan Google has now made the full archives of newsgroup postings it acquired from Deja available via its Google Groups service. They date back to March 29, 1995. The company has also launched a new Japan edition and signed deals with major Japanese portals... |
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 February 17, 2009 Carrie Hill |
Marketing your SMB with Time & Elbow Grease, Part 1 This is the first in a series of articles that will give actionable advice on how to improve your rankings or revenue from search with no dollar investments - aside from the time and effort it takes to research and implement these changes. |
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 |
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.... |
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 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 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.... |
The Motley Fool May 25, 2007 Mac Greer |
Fool Video Take: Should Investors Say Yahoo? Everyone is ga-ga over Google. But is it time to get excited about Yahoo? |
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 3, 2000 |
Google Speaks Languages, WAP, Adds Other Features Google has unveiled beta versions of its site for non-English speakers and those accessing the web using wireless devices. The search engine has also added new features to its search results and launched a new "university" search engine. |
Search Engine Watch July 5, 2000 |
Community Search Blossoms - Part 1 The popularity of the Open Directory has not been lost on new search companies. Several are trying to tap into human power both as a means to locate, reorganize and rate information. Here's a summary of new players looking to leverage communities into better search. |
Search Engine Watch December 3, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Expands Paid Placement Listings Yahoo is now carrying paid placement listings on its search results pages, rather than just within its category pages, through a deal cut with Overture (the former GoTo) last month... |
Wired February 25, 2008 Chris Anderson |
How Can Directory Assistance Be Free? Google is giving it's telephone competitors a run for their money by not charging for directory assistance. |
ONLINE May/Jun 2002 Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update Changes at Altavista, Fast Search, Google, Teoma, iLor, Lycos, WiseNut, Yahoo!... |
Search Engine Watch October 2, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Google's New Look & New File Types Google's home page, known for its elegant simplicity, has gotten a little more complex. New tabs were introduced yesterday, to give users easier access to the search engine's features... |
The Motley Fool June 26, 2007 Mac Greer |
Fool Video: Too Late to Buy Google? Shares of Google hit a new high. Is it too late to buy? |
Search Engine Watch September 4, 2000 Danny Sullivan |
Search Engine Roundup Various changes at search engines, such as the new "Most Popular" feature at AOL to a WAP search engine from AltaVista. |
Search Engine Watch March 17, 2004 Chris Sherman |
Google Pushes Local Search Into the Limelight Google has officially moved local search out of Google Labs and into beta, introducing several noteworthy new features at the same time. |
Search Engine Watch November 5, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
New At Google: More File Types, Page Snapshots For Some, & Webmaster Help Not content with being the only major search engine to list PDF files, Google now lists Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents from across the web, as well as Rich Text Format and PostScript files... |
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... |
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... |
Searcher March 2001 Richard Wiggins |
Behind the Screen: Google, Disintermediation, and the Palm Beach Ballot When art meets design, the question always arises of whether form follows function. But good designers care a great deal about whether a given design --- for a ballot, or the radio controls in a Lexus RX-300, or a Web form --- misleads users... |
Search Engine Watch July 2, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Make Room For Teoma After the loss of Go earlier this year and the expected departure of NBCi, you might have thought it was all over in the search engine game. However, just as consolidation seemed inevitable, new player Teoma has stepped up with an impressive debut of its new search service... |
Search Engine Watch January 25, 2006 Greg Jarboe |
Beyond Beta: Google News Graduates Google News -- the search engine of choice for journalists and news junkies -- has finally graduated from beta status, and with some shiny new features. |
Search Engine Watch February 19, 2004 Chris Sherman |
Easy Power Searching with Google Soople is an elegant control console for Google's many powerful advanced features, bringing them all together in a well-designed, easy to use interface. |