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Search Engine Watch
August 15, 2006
Chris Sherman |
What's the Big Deal With Social Search? Social search is garnering a lot of attention these days, but despite all the hoopla it's not likely to displace traditional algorithmic search any time soon.   |
BusinessWeek
April 11, 2005
Heather Green |
Picking Up Where Search Leaves Off Websites like del.icio.us and Flickr allow people to tag and share content, providing an alternative to search engines for finding things. |
Information Today
August 4, 2008
Paula J. Hane |
Options, We've Got Search Engine Options! With Ask.com scaling back and Yahoo! in disarray, will it come to a web search showdown between Google and Microsoft? |
Search Engine Watch
June 28, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Yahoo Integrates Personal & Social Search with MyWeb 2.0 Yahoo's just-launched MyWeb 2.0 lets you search both your own 'personal web' and pages saved by members of a trusted community of contacts. |
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.... |
InternetNews
June 29, 2005 |
Yahoo Search Gets Social Yahoo released a limited beta of My Web 2.0, a search personalization play that uses elements of social media to improve search results. |
D-Lib
April 2005
Hammond et al. |
Social Bookmarking Tools (I): A General Review Just as long as old links are managed, tagged, commented upon, and published onto the Web, they represent a user's own personal library placed on public record, which - when aggregated with other personal libraries - allows for rich, social networking opportunities. |
InternetNews
June 20, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Searching For The Wisdom of The Crowd Yahoo prepares for the next battle frontier with search giant Google: social search. |
Information Today
April 25, 2005
Paula J. Hane |
Search Engines Roll Out New Personalization Options Several major search engines, such as Ask Jeeves and Yahoo!, are offering personalization upgrades to retain searchers. |
Search Engine Watch
September 19, 2007
Jim Parent |
8 Ways to Improve Your Local Search Results If you have not taken steps to ensure your business' online presence in local search results is complete and accurate, you're missing a big opportunity. |
Search Engine Watch
July 26, 2006
Chris Sherman |
Diigo Offers "Social Annotation" Tool Combining bookmarks with sharing, tagging, annotation and very powerful search tools, Diigo is an appealing, evolutionary step forward in how we find, consume and share information on the web. |
InternetNews
October 20, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Why Is Video Search So Bad? And who can grab the brass ring and reap the billions? |
T.H.E. Journal
September 2005
DeWitt Clinton |
The Art of Effective Web Searching There are specific things that we can do to unlock the secrets buried beneath the search command line. Here are six advanced search techniques that will help you find the best results faster. |
ONLINE
May 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Avoid the Void: Quick and Easy Site Submission Strategies "If I build it, they will come."
This is one of the worst assumptions a Webmaster can make. No one will come unless you also promote your Web site, and search engines are one of the most important places to do this.... |
Search Engine Watch
June 8, 2006
Danny Sullivan |
Look Out Wikipedia, Here Comes Yahoo Answers! New stats add fuel to the idea that Yahoo Answers is perhaps becoming a social interacting phenomenon like YouTube or MySpace. A look at the service's growth and how it works. |
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. |
InternetNews
May 25, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Yahoo's del.icio.us Tag Trip Yahoo bought the social book-marking site del.icio.us in December. It's been nearly six months. Is anything going on over there? |
Search Engine Watch
January 31, 2008
Kevin Newcomb |
Search Marketers' Wish Lists, Part 2 Predictions of the future of Internet marketing from several search marketers and social media marketers. |
Search Engine Watch
December 20, 2005
Mary Ellen Bates |
A Pair of Web Pathfinding Gems Though we rely heavily on search engines these days, sometimes a good 'old fashioned' human edited directory is a better choice for helping us locate high quality information on 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
October 2002
Gary D. Price |
Specialized Search Engine FAQs: More Questions, Answers and Issues An introduction to specialized search engine searching |
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. |
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
February 9, 2009
Ron Jones |
Link Building 101, Part 2 Last week, we looked at on-site linking best practices. Today, we'll look at off-page factors, with five methods you can start using right now to build links. |
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 Magazine
October 21, 2005 |
Share and Play Tag on the New Web Playground Somewhere between Web and desktop search engines lies a new breed of "community" search engines: Clipmarks... del.icio.us... Jeteye... Shadows... My Web 2.0... |
Information Today
October 8, 2007
Greg R. Notess |
Microsoft and Yahoo! Update Search In the evolution of Web searching, 2007 has become the year of multimedia integration, as major Web search engines have incorporated images and videos into the results for some searches. |
Information Today
Barbara Quint |
Yahoo! Answers Relies on the Kindness . . . of Strangers Yahoo! has introduced a new beta service that expands its search engine and community-building offerings with a free service "where people can ask questions and get answers from real people on any topic." |
Search Engine Watch
June 16, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Google Gains in Popularity, But Will It Last? Over the past year, Google took significant market share from Yahoo and MSN, according to a new report from industry analyst Hitwise. But the increasing popularity of vertical search sites poses a big threat to all of the major search engines. |
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. |
PC World
February 2006
Scott Spanbauer |
New, Improved Web Ready for the next online revolution? Powerful tools help you work, search, communicate, and share data your way; usually for free. |
Search Engine Watch
January 16, 2007
Greg Jarboe |
In the Third Week of New Year's, My SearchDay Gave to Me: Four conferences, three key trends, two hyperlinks, and a ranking in the top three. Some of the events, trends, challenges and opportunities that will shape the search engine industry in the coming year. |
Search Engine Watch
July 27, 2005
Mary Ellen Bates |
Thinking Outside the Search Box Sometimes, looking beyond search engines is the best way, if not only way, to find the information you're looking for. To do this effectively, you need to use different thought process and search strategies, especially with the steps you take after using search engines. |
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. |
InternetNews
June 2, 2006 |
Did Yahoo! Video Flickr to Life? Yahoo is re-launching Yahoo! Video, in a bid to compete with Google Video and the increasingly popular video sharing site YouTube.com. |
ONLINE
Nov/Dec 2004
Deborah Lynne Wiley |
Hardcopy: Recommended Reading on the Library Field Book reviews of: Google: The Missing Manual by Sarah Milstein and Rael Dornfest... Web Search Garage: The Definitive Guide on How Best to Search the Internet by Tara Calishain... Google and Other Search Engines by Diane Poremsky... etc. |
Search Engine Watch
June 6, 2006
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo MyWeb Gets New Look, Easier Browsing & Viewing Features Yahoo's given its MyWeb bookmarking service a new look and new features, making it easier than before for people to find what others are saving and sharing on the service. |
InternetNews
June 6, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Your Web Can be Yahoo's Latest MyWeb Is Yahoo taking another step ahead of Google in social search integration? |
PC Magazine
September 14, 2005
Pike et al. |
The Experts' Guide to Google Yahoo MSN and AOL A review of the search, Web mail, instant-messaging services and uncover other features of the four largest portals. |
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... |
PC World
December 22, 2006
Ryan Singel |
The Web's Most Useful Sites You have lots of stuff to get done. And these next-generation services can help with everything from wrangling passwords to throwing a party. |
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... |
InternetNews
December 31, 2007
David Needle |
'Social Search Engine' Claims Better Results EarthFrisk.org, which today launched the first "Meta-Social-Hybrid Search Engine," lets users vote on results that are gleaned from top search engines. |
Search Engine Watch
November 2, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Where Tagging Works: Searching for a Good Game A new site jumps on the tagging bandwagon and actually ends up with useful search results. Why? Because it's narrowly focused on a specific topic and has a large degree of agreement among its user community. |
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. |
ONLINE
May/Jun 2006
Greg R. Notess |
On The Net - The Terrible Twos: Web 2.0, Library 2.0, and More So what is a searcher to make of the recent spate of sequels and twos on the Net? |
Information Today
July 21, 2003
Paula J. Hane |
Yahoo! to Buy Overture for $1.6 Billion Yahoo!, one of the first subject directories on the Web and now a major search portal, has announced it will purchase the commercial search company, Overture Services, Inc., which specializes in Web advertising and operates the AltaVista.com and AlltheWeb.com sites. |
ONLINE
July 2000
Greg R. Notess |
Search Engine Update Altavista integrates OpenDirectory and Looksmart; Excites launches Photo Search; Google adds new directory, several new features; Inktomi extracts 5x10^6 record GEN3 database; etc. |
Search Engine Watch
April 20, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Google Personalizes the Web Say goodbye to bookmarks: Google's My Search History feature automatically keeps track of web searches and every page viewed from search results by saving your "search behavior," not web pages. |
PC World
August 2004
Tom Spring |
Search Tangles Internet search is big business. But the drive for profits by search firms and the sites they index is taking its toll on the results in your browser. |
