Articles on search engines and search engine positioning July 2006
Here continues our list of online articles on search engines and search engine positioning Pandia has found interesting.
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Introducing RSS Smart Answers
When you do a web search for many blogs, RSS feeds, or news sites, you'll often find the last three posts from that site’s feed. (Ask Blog July 20 2006)
Google to distribute MTV clips with ads
AP on Google offering clips of "Laguna Beach "SpongeBob SquarePants" and MTV's Video Music Awards.
Google's Accessible Web Search for the Visually Impaired
Google search portal specifically designed for the blind and visually impaired (SE Roundtable July 28 2006)
How Google News Indexes
Blogoscoped on how Google News selects sites and stories (July 28 2006)
Yahoo Search Launches New Slurp Crawler
Yahoo's new web site crawler is faster and more efficient (SE Journal July 28 2006)
About Web Metrics
Matt Cutts on the limitations of the Alexa statistics (July 27 2006)
What's in Google's Sandbox?
Ruscoe gives us a fascinating glimpse into possible new Google services (July 27 2006 via SEW)
Google rides the radio waves
Google-powered ads are now being played on at least one radio station in Detroit (Cnet July 27 2006)
TrustWatch Extension Puts Phishing Warnings Into Google, Yahoo & MSN Results
Danny Sullivan on new Firefox plug-in (SEW July 28 2006)
Portrait of a Blogger: Under 30 and Sociable
The average blogger is a 14-year-old girl writing about her cat (Washington Post via Andy Beal July 20 2006)
MSN Revenues Decline Slightly; Investments Continue
ClickZ on Microsoft's problems (July 21 2006)
Google’s U.S. Search Market Share Continues to Climb in June; Yahoo! Also Posts Gains
Google's lead is increasing in the US (press release July 18 2006)
Google’s secret and/or forgotten places
The Google site has a lot of strange forgotten places (Mezei July 21 2006)
How to Price an SEO Campaign
Delivering an accurate, reasonable price for your search marketing services is not an easy task. (SEOmoz Blog July 22 2006)
Google AdSense Site Diagnostics
Detailed diagnostic information about the pages Google crawls to display relevant ads. (Blogoscoped July 21 2006)
Independent report on invalid clicks released
Google has posted their Omnibus Response to Objections regarding PPC click fraud (Matt Cutts July 22 2006)
Social Search Optimization
On using social bookmarking services for search engine marketing (SE Lowdown July 18 2006)
"Let click fraud happen"? Uh, no.
The Google Blog puts out a fire. (July 17 2006)
Yahoo Search Index & Google PageRank Updates
<on Google updating PageRank and Yahoo making some changes to its search engine index (SE Journal July 14 2006)
Judge dismisses antitrust complaint vs Google
A federal court judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against Google Inc. by disgruntled advertising customer Kinderstart that had accused the Web search leader of monopolistic business practices. (Washington Post July 14 2006)
Kayak's New Ad Campaign
Kayak.com the travel site, by the creators Expedia, have launched a brand new ad campaign that had a price tag of $10 million. (The SEM weblog July 12 2006)
Seeing Red: Search Engine RedZeeTM Reviewed
The SEO Blog looks at the RedZee metasearch engine (July 12 2006)
A Peek Into the Google Algorithm
Last week, a gent by the name of Ruslan Abuzant, got a rare peak at a portion of the algorithm of Google (Stuntdubl July 11 2006)
Answers.com Adds Natural-Language Searching
To use it, just ask a question in Answer.com’s usual query box (ResearchBuzz July 12 2006)
Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 Available
The most interesting features of the new version are: inline spell checking (Google Operating System July 12 2006)
MySpace Pulls Ahead of Yahoo! In Page View Race
Social networking asserted its hit-getting dominance last week as MySpace knocked e-mail giant Yahoo out of the No. 1 US ranking for most page views (Topix June 12 2006)
Microsoft, Yahoo IM services to test talking with each other
Yahoo and Microsoft will open up their instant-messaging networks to each other early today in a limited public test (Topix June 13 2006)
Google Announces New Landing Page Standards for AdWords
Google is tweaking the landing page quality score algorithm to weed-out those advertisers trying to get cheap traffic to poorly designed landing pages. (Andy Beal July 10 2006)
Windows Live news
The Windows Live home page now allows you to toggle between a search only experience and a personalized home page experience (ResourceShelf July 11 2006)
Yahoo! Travel Update: Trip Planner Goes GA
Thanks to the use and feedback of beta users over the past 9 months, Trip Planner from Yahoo! Travel is now ready for prime time. (Yahoo! Search Blog July 10 2006)
Search Engine Strategies Latino Conference
Barry Schwartz reports from Miami, Florida (SEW Blog July 10 2006)
Google's Binary Search Helps Identify Malware
Thousands of malicious Web sites pinpointed thanks to a little-known capability in Google's search engine. (PC World July 7 2006 via SEW)
Google CEO on click fraud: 'let it happen' is perfect economic solution
Google CEO Eric Schmidt discussed how the pay-per-click advertising model is inherently “self-correcting” in regards to click fraud (ZDNet July 9 2006)
Linking out - The overlooked link neighborhood.
Jim Boykin looks at the SEO effect of linking to relevant quality sites (July 7 2006)
Blogging Search With a Twist — Talk Digger
ResearchBuzz on Talk Digger, a blog meta-search that offers in-search-results previews (July 8 2006)
EBay Management Overhaul Viewed With Concern
Head of PayPal, Jeff Jordan, will be leaving EBay as part of a major overhaul of senior management (Forbes July 6 2006)
eBay decides that Google Payments is not safe for them
eBay/PayPal has now bannished using Google Payments for checkouts (Webmaster World July 6 2006)
"Google" Officially a Verb, We've Got More For You
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary says "google" is a Verb (Andy Beal July 7 2006)
Is The Answer Outer Space?
Yahoo! Blog on Dr. Stephen Hawking answering questions through Yahoo! Answers (July 6 2006)
Smarter.com Updates Site
Smarter is one of the little guys in the shopping comparison engine industry (SEW July 6 2006)
H W Wilson launches new web site for libarians
Standardcatalogs.com is a free clearinghouse for tools for collection development: “Best” lists, Editors’ picks, hot topics, and more (ResourceShelf July 6 2006)
dirSpace Directory Review : SEO & Links
dirSpace looks to be an up and coming site which is proving to be of value to the pages indexed within (SE Journal July 5 2006)
Google To Launch Book Search Service In China
The People's Daily Online reports that Google will be launching an on-line book search service in China (SEW blog July 5 2006)
Can an Algorithm be Intimidated?
Strange news from the KinderStart.com lawsuit against Google. a lawsuit against Google - a complaint regarding low rankings in search results (SEO Speedwagon July 4 2006)
Click fraud a huge problem, study finds
Internet advertisers paid $800 million for bogus clicks on their marketing messages last year, shaking confidence in the industry ( San Francisco Chronicle July 5 2006)
Google Pages Allowing Google AdSense Ads
Google Page Creator, the site building and hosting service offered by Google , is now allowing Google ads (SE Journal July 3 2006)
SEO Book tests SEO toolbar for Firefox
Includes data on PR, links, site age, Alexa data and much more into search results (SEOBook July 4 2006)
The Internet Knows What You'll Do Next
On using Google for trend analysis (New York Times July 5 2006)
A Search Engine That's Becoming an Inventor
Google is as much about infrastructure as it is about the search engine. They are building an enormous computing resource on a scale that is almost unimaginable (New York Times 3 July 2006)
Music industry to sue Yahoo China
The music industry is to sue Yahoo China for allegedly providing links to pirated tracks. (BBC July 4 2006)
Fast Facts: Fourth of July 2006
In another one of their great “Fact For Features” releases, the U.S. Census serves up a healthy portion of U.S. stats relating to the holiday. (Resourceshelf July 4 2006)
Now, This Reads Wrong to Me
"Google is constantly evaluating Web sites for standards and quality, which is entirely subjective," says Google lawyer. Really? (Battelle July 3 2006)
A Search Engine That's Becoming an Inventor
Ney York Times on the Google Internet servers and much more (via Battelle July 3 2006)
