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Searcher
September 2002
Tara Calishain |
URL Inclusion Programs New Revenue Generator for Search Engines   |
Search Engine Watch
January 3, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Go Gains Paid Inclusion System Go.com has become the second major crawler-based search engine to roll out a paid inclusion program. Its new US $199 "Premium Service" will add any URL submitted to its crawler-based results within 48 hours and revisit that URL on a weekly basis, for one year. |
Search Engine Watch
March 5, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Network Solutions Launches Inktomi Paid Inclusion Network Solutions was Inktomi's first paid inclusion partner, announced way back in the middle of last year. Finally, that partnership has gone live, with Network Solutions now offering guaranteed inclusion in the Inktomi web index through its web site... |
Search Engine Watch
November 3, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Inktomi Debuts Self-Serve Paid Inclusion In a landmark move, Inktomi announced a new partnership with Position Technologies this week that allows site owners to pay for guaranteed inclusion in the Inktomi index... |
Search Engine Watch
September 4, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Inktomi Expands Inclusion Partners In conjunction with last month's Search Engine Strategies conference, Inktomi announced a number of new partners who are reselling its paid inclusion programs... |
Search Engine Watch
February 6, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Inktomi's Free Add URL Penalty Submitting your page to Inktomi via the free Add URL pages of its partners such as HotBot causes them to incur a ranking penalty. Relax, it's not as bad as it sounds, though disclosure of this change, made in the middle of last year, would have saved us some confusion... |
Search Engine Watch
November 3, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Submitting For Free Now that all of LookSmart's major partners are offering the paid LookSmart Express Submit program on their own Add URL pages, a number of people believe that they must also pay a fee to be listed in the non LookSmart-powered portions of these search engines... |
Search Engine Watch
October 1, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
AltaVista Sales Pitch Suggested Paid Inclusion Boost An AltaVista sales pitch tells Traffick.com's Andrew Goodman that paid inclusion will boost his pages. AltaVista then recants and says it was all just a misunderstanding. |
Search Engine Watch
March 4, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Ask Jeeves Launches Paid Inclusion For Teoma Ask Jeeves went live last month with a beta program that allows paid inclusion into the Teoma index... |
Search Engine Watch
July 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
The Evolution Of Paid Inclusion Paid inclusion has always been a tricky concept to explain, but understanding it is important to both webmasters and searchers, as recent changes have suddenly made paid inclusion commonplace with search engines... |
Search Engine Watch
April 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
AltaVista Submission Changes & Other Developments AltaVista has a new Add URL system that promises faster addition of web pages to the index, as long as you are not using automated submit software... |
Search Engine Watch
May 6, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
The Mixed Message Of Paid Inclusion Pages pitching webmasters on the advantages of paid inclusion end up hurting search engines that run these programs, because they imply that the search engines have out-of-date, incomplete listings of the web... |
Search Engine Watch
January 4, 2000 |
MSN Search Changes To Inktomi MSN Search has returned to using Inktomi to power the "Web Pages" section of its results. Inktomi was dumped in favor of AltaVista earlier this year |
Search Engine Watch
November 4, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Paid Inclusion Listings May Get Boosted At AltaVista It turns out that Trusted Feed content at AltaVista may indeed get a bump into the top results, in the right circumstances. |
Search Engine Watch
April 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Inktomi Launches New Paid Inclusion Program, Search Improvements Inktomi has rolled out a new paid inclusion program aimed at large content providers. In addition, the company has also unveiled new changes to how the service indexes and ranks web pages... |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Inktomi To Offer Paid Submit Option In the wake of LookSmart's new pay-for-consideration system, Inktomi has just announced that it will offer a pay for inclusion service later this year. |
InternetNews
December 26, 2003
Sean Michael Kerner |
Outlook: Paid Inclusion Needs to Change its Ways Jupiter Research looks at the market outlook for the paid inclusion search model, and finds plenty that needs fixing before growth returns to the sector. |
Search Engine Watch
October 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Inktomi Spam Database Left Open To Public Inktomi suffered an embarrassing lack of security last week, when it was discovered that a copy of its database of spam and porn sites was left open to the public... |
Search Engine Watch
November 5, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Is AltaVista's Stale Index The Last Blow? Earlier this year, it emerged that AltaVista had not refreshed any of its country-specific web page indexes for months. Now, it turns out that the main global database is also several months old... |
Search Engine Watch
July 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Paid Inclusion Program, Other Changes Coming To FAST FAST Search is launching a trial version of its paid inclusion program this month. Called PartnerSite the program guarantees that submitted pages will be included in FAST's web index. They will be revisited and reposted to the FAST index every 24 hours... |
Search Engine Watch
March 4, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
New Look, New Features At AltaVista That ever-changing service AltaVista has once again altered its appearance, as well as having added some new features... |
Search Engine Watch
March 4, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Lycos & FAST Launch Paid Inclusion After months of beta testing, FAST has finally opened its paid inclusion program to the general public. However, FAST is not selling inclusion into its web index directly. Instead, FAST is allowing its search partners to resell the service to web site owners and site promoters... |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart First To Charge Commercial Sites After months of beta testing, LookSmart has become the first major search service to charge commercial sites to be reviewed for inclusion in its listings. In addition, the revenue-generating move appears to have helped LookSmart win back its former position as AltaVista's directory provider. |
Search Engine Watch
November 1, 1999 |
Beyond The Hype: Dissecting AltaVista's Claims In conjunction with its relaunch, AltaVista made several claims about its new search capabilities that don't currently hold up. Here's a look at where the service isn't yet matching promises made in a recent press release. |
Search Engine Watch
May 3, 2000 |
AltaVista Launches New Search Site AltaVista has launched a search-only site today which follows on improvements the company made to its core database of web pages about a week ago. Called Raging Search, the new site delivers fast and uncluttered listings. |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 1999 |
Paid Links Dropped, Other Changes At AltaVista There were a number of developments at AltaVista last month, and here's a rundown to the major ones: |
Search Engine Watch
February 6, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
AltaVista Tightens Belt, Stays Hopeful On Search AltaVista had another round of layoffs in January, losing 200 people, which cuts the company workforce to about 600 total. AltaVista is retaining its search engineering staff and says it fully intends to continue developing its own web wide search product, rather than outsourcing this... |
Search Engine Watch
September 4, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
AltaVista Regional Listings Left To Rot It turns out that AltaVista hasn't updated its regional indexes since April of this year, and the situation is likely to continue for the next two or three weeks... |
ONLINE
January 2001
Greg R. Notess |
Search Engine Update Recent months have seen a spate of announcements about paid submissions and other commercial endeavors... AlltheWeb has added several multimedia databases from Fast Search and Transfer... AltaVista will add "Sponsored Listings" from GoTo... etc. |
Search Engine Watch
June 4, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Fourth Time Lucky For AltaVista? AltaVista could give Madonna a run for her money in the changing your image game. Earlier this month, the service once again significantly changed the look and feel of its service, the fourth such redesign in just over a year. Fortunately, AltaVista may have gotten it right, this time... |
Search Engine Watch
November 3, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Paid Inclusion At Search Engines Gains Ground Paid inclusion, now in place at Ask Jeeves, LookSmart and Inktomi, guarantee to site owners that they will be included in a search engine's listings in greater depth than might ordinarily occur... |
Search Engine Watch
November 1, 1999 |
The "New" AltaVista With great fanfare, the "new" AltaVista was launched last week. Now owned by CMGI, the revamped service is being firmly targeted as a challenger against more established portals such as Yahoo, Excite and Lycos. |
Search Engine Watch
March 3, 2000 |
Numbers, Numbers -- But What Do They Mean? Some search engines now tell you both how many pages they've spidered and what they've kept. This article helps you make sense of the numbers. |
Search Engine Watch
December 5, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
AltaVista Relaunches Site AltaVista again rolls out a new look and renews past promises that it is firmly focused on providing the best quality search possible. |
Search Engine Watch
March 3, 2000 |
AltaVista Unveils New Search Centers AltaVista has added three new "Search Centers" that cater to those seeking multimedia files and a fourth "Advanced Search" center with content designed to help searchers and webmasters alike. New country specific versions of AltaVista have also been added. |
Search Engine Watch
May 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
AltaVista Europe Debuts Helpful Search Features AltaVista Europe has rolled out a helpful search management feature and new thumbnail images that appear next to some search results... |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 1999 |
FAST Announces Largest Search Engine FAST Search is now claiming an index of 200 million web pages, which would make it the largest search engine on the web. |
Search Engine Watch
July 6, 1999 |
Many Changes At AltaVista t was a busy month for AltaVista -- a new owner, a new direction, new paid links auction and a freshness guarantee were among the major developments for the service. Here's a wrap up: |
Search Engine Watch
April 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo, GoTo Top Ways For Paid Traffic Yahoo and GoTo offer the most popular programs for site owners to obtain traffic from search engines, a survey of 94 marketers has found. Respondents to the I-Search mailing list survey also sound off about what they hate, what they like and what they wish to see... |
Search Engine Watch
June 29, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
FTC Recommends Disclosure To Search Engines The US Federal Trade Commission has made an important recommendation to major search engines suggesting that they better disclose their paid content. This came in response to a complaint made last year by the watchdog group Commercial Alert. |
Search Engine Watch
June 17, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Going Beyond FTC Paid Inclusion Disclosure Guidelines A look at how Yahoo might go beyond FTC guidelines about paid inclusion as a means of rebuilding faith in the impact of paid inclusion on relevancy and its listings in general. |
Search Engine Watch
June 2, 2000 |
Inktomi Reenters Battle For Biggest It's been over a year since one could consider Inktomi among the largest search engines on the web. The company's crawler-built index of web pages has stayed static at 110 million, while competitors such as AltaVista, FAST and Northern Light have pushed past the 200 and 300 million marks. Now Inktomi says it's back. |
Search Engine Watch
February 3, 2000 |
Feb. 2000 Search Engine Briefs Brief items about new info tool Octopus, Inktomi's web size measurement, Excite enlarging its index and free internet access at AltaVista and Excite. |
Search Engine Watch
April 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Time For The Search Dividend? We may be seeing the beginning of a search dividend coming to searchers, now that several of the major search engines are maturing their new business models... |
Search Engine Watch
March 5, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
LookSmart Submission Data Was Left Vulnerable Information in LookSmart's submission queue has been left open to the public, giving access to the names, phone numbers and email addresses of those who have submitted sites to the service. Credit card data, however, was not exposed... |
Search Engine Watch
October 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Free Search Engine Submission Is Still Alive! Despite the rise in paid participation programs, it is still possible to get listed in search engines for free... |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2000
Danny Sullivan |
AltaVista Redesigns, Again AltaVista has once again undertaken another major redesign of its service, the fourth in less than a year. Highlights of major changes. |
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 3, 2000 |
AltaVista Opens Affiliate Program, NOT Its Source Code AltaVista has launched a new program that allows affiliates to place search boxes on their sites and get paid 3 cents US per use. |
ONLINE
July 2001
Greg R. Notess |
Search Engine Update AltaVista continues to make changes to its site... Google has added automatic translation capability... Google Groups has expanded its advanced search capabilities and the depth of its Usenet archive... iLor has received much press lately for its innovative addition of features to Google... etc. |
