Articles on search engines and search engine positioning October 2006

Here continues our list of online articles on search engines and search engine positioning Pandia has found interesting.

Go to Part 1: Recommended Search Engine Reading

See also:

• The latest articles (see right hand column of the search engine news page)
• Older articles on search engine positioning,
• Scientific papers on search engine development.
• Pandia's feature articles on search engine marketing

Ad Campaign For Microsoft Live Search
Microsoft have launched a major ad campaign on 27th October for promoting Microsoft Live Search (Unofficial SEO Oct 31 2006)

Rampant Malpractice Among Health Searchers
Health searchers fail to check the quality of the information they find, Chris Sherman reports (Oct 31 2006)

Yahoo's dilemma: Deal or no deal?
Yahoo! is flirting with AOL, Fortune reports. (CNN Oct 28 2006 via SE Watch)

Pluck RSS Reader, RIP
The Pluck RSS reader is dead (Mashable Oct 27 2006)

AOL Launches FullView Results
This search interface will automatically integrate local, multimedia, news and other kinds of content with Google-powered web search results. (Unofficial SEO Oct 27 2006)

Long List of Link Searches
SEOMoz on on how to search for sites for links (Oct 27 2006)

Google Custom Search Engines - Who will be the Winners?
Sites with large audiences will be better equipped to develop large audiences for their CSEs (Ramblings Oct 27 2006)

Google Now 3rd Largest Technology Company in the World
Google bypasses IBM (SearchRank Oct 28 2006)

GDrive domain transferred to Google
Remember GDrive? It is software currently being used by Googlers under the codename Platypus — giving them online storage for their files. (ZD Oct 28 2006)

3 Link Bait Lessons From a Master Baiter
How to write an article that brings in links, links, links! (SEO Blackhat Oct 27 2006)

More Open Shortcuts!
A way to create your own custom keywords that take you directly to a site, a search, or start a task right from the search box (Yahoo! Blog Oct 27 2006)

You Do and/or May, In Fact, "Ask" (or "ask")
Ask.com Blog makes fun of Google's fear of "google" becoming a generic term (Oct 26 2006)

Girls’ Love Stories (2006)
Google Blogoscoped's new comic strip on love, despair and Pagerank (Oct 29 2006)

Top 10 research tools
Great services that help you go straight to expert sources and keep track of your research (CNet Oct 20 2006)

Google's Internal Company Goals Leaked
New Google News prototype, more Google Pack downloads for novice users and more (eW Oct 26 2006)

Amazon rejects Google search info request
Google can not show any substantial need to obtain Amazon's proprietary information (PC Pro Oct26 2006)

Google apologises for Blogger outages
Legacy hardware difficulties caused multiple outages this week, affecting many bloggers (ZD Oct 27 2006)

Social Networking The VOX Way
Vox includes extensive privacy controls, a tag cloud for blog posts and a beautiful WYSWIG composition page (WebPro Oct 26 2006)

5 Reasons Not To Use Flash
Building Flash-powered websites is wrong. (SE Journal Oct 27 2006)

Better Bookmarks, Better Toolbar
Yahoo on the new beta versions of the Yahoo! Toolbar (for IE) and Yahoo! Bookmarks (Oct 24 2006)

Do you "Google?"
Google Blog tries to tackle their lawyers wish to stop people from using the verb "google" with humor (Oct 25 2006)

Google Removes Dynamic Parameter Clause From Webmaster Guidelines
Google has removed the line that reads "Don't use "&id=" as a parameter in your URLs (SEW blog Oct 25 2006)

Yahoo! Search Weather Update and Support for 'NOODP'
Yaooh! now supports the 'NOODP' META tag to indicate to search engines not to DMOZ descriptions (Yahoo! Blog Oct 24 2006)

Digg Does The Acquisition Dance With News Corp.
San Francisco-based startup Digg has been in recent acquisition discussions with a number of companies, including News Corp (TechCrunch Oct 25 2006)

A Whole New Reason to Say Yahoo!
The Yahoo! Search Marketing Blog is officially launched (oct 25 2006)

Google Co-op Launches
Google just launched a customized search service that allows a user to create a search engine with just a few specific websites included. (TechCrunch Oct 23 2006)

Googlife – The good life
How Google is changing our lives ( Information. Integration. Distribution October 18 2006)

Google unveils election mashup
Mashup combines Google Earth with information about the U.S. congressional races (News.com Oct 23 2006)

YouTube and copyright round 2
A weblog has been sent a 'cease and desist' letter, NOT because it was hosting content that infringed copyright, but because it was linking to YouTube. (P Bradley Oct 22 2006)

Who Invented the Term “Search Engine Optimization”?
We still don't know (SE Journal Oct 22 2006)

'Click Fraud' Threatens Foundation of Web Ads
Dozens of Web sites offer to pay people to sit and click on ads (Washington Post Oct 22 2006)

Grayboxx: A Better Local Search Engine?
Grayboxx algorithm and methodology has allowed the site to compile hundreds of reviews on even the most ordinary and mundane categories. (SEW oct 22 2006)

Google Official: Personal Blog
A Google employee accidentally posted her personal blog on Google blog (Unofficial SEO blog Oct 20 2006)

Ask.com Uses Google Adwords For Its Promotion
Search ‘Raccoon‘ at Google and AdWords will bring up an ad from Ask.com. (Unofficial SEO Blog Oct 18 2006)

The rise and rise of Google's stocks
Wall Street admires the internet search leader as it continues to make extraordinary growth look routine (Mail and Guardian Oct 21 2006)

The Seductive Danger of Alexa Numbers
The Alexa site popularity numbers are not to be trusted (Paul Graham undated)

Making Search More Relevant
Search engines are experimenting with personalization, new search result pages and the human touch (SE Guide Oct 18 2006)

A Closer Look At Microsoft's Instant Answers
Brian Smith on Microsoft looking for opportunities to delight searchers. (Oct 19 2006)

Google Diving into Indexing the Deep Web
Google with patent on how to index and rank information located in the hideden web (SEO by the Sea Oct 19 2006)

Internet Explorer 7 Arrives
Yahoo sends out its own version IE7 before Microsoft (Monkey Bites Oct 18 2006)

A Closer Look at Google Docs & Spreadsheets
These two products aren't really directly competitive with Word or Excel (SE Watch Oct 18 2006)

Google rules!
Google is on the cusp of establishing a virtual dynasty (Mike's Oct 17 2006)

No Turning Back: Panama Goes Live
The first wave of advertisers are converting over to Yahoo’s new Panama ad system. (Traffick Oct 17 2006)

Political Bloggers Fed Up with Google News
Get rid of the blogs, the no-name sites, the conspiracy sites, and the rest of that crap...(eWeek Oct 17 2006)

Training Link Developers on the Link Building Cycle
Better. Stronger. Faster. It’s important to constantly redefine link training techniques. (Stuntdubl Oct 17 2006)

Yahoo Acquires Fysix Corp, Enters Partnership with Right Media
AdInterax specializes in the creation of advertisements rich in sight, sound, and movement (SEO by the Sea Oct 17 2006)

List of Web Directories : PageStrength 5 and Above
Almost any good web site promotion and launch begins with paid listings in Yahoo.com, Business.com, Best of the Web, and bCentral. (SE Journal Oct 17 2006)

Search Macros: LinkfromDomain
Using LinkFromDomain in your search includes all sites that are linked from a given domain (Live Search Blog Oct 16 2006)

Google to install one of nation's largest solar power projects
Google plans to put about 9,200 solar panels on buildings at its headquarters (San Jose Mercury News Oct 16 2006)

MSN Belgium Drops Some Newspapers, Negotiating On Inclusion After Cease & Desist
Belgian newspapers are looking for a share of ad revenue from news search engines (SE Watch Oct 17 2006)

Windows Live Search Adds linkfromdomain Command
A new linkfromdomain command designed to show you all the sites that a particular domain links to (SE Watch Oct 17 2006)

Buy Google, Sell Yahoo!
Or so the expert says (The Motley Fool Oct 16 2006).

The SEO Article You Shouldn't Read
The first winner of Andy Beal's SEO scholarship competition (Oct 9 2006)

Webcast: Google’s Omid Kordestani, Speaks to Business School Students at Stanford
Resourceshelf has the link (Oct 16 2006)

Google Says "No Ranking Soup for You"
Many forums are commenting about recent heavy use of a -30 ranking penalty in Google. (Threadwatch Oct 13 2006)

India’s First Local Search Engine Launched Today
It’s called ‘Guruji’ (Hindi version of ‘Master/Teacher’) and the domain name is www.guruji.com (Kichus Oct 13 2006)

Ten Sad Signs Your Writing is Web-Influenced
Thanks for inviting me to dinner Friday night. The lasagna you made was del.icio.us. (SEOMoz Oct 13 2006)

Yahoo! Will Now Support the NOODP (No Open Directory) Tag
Yahoo follows Google in helping webmasters stop the search engine from using the ODP description i search results (Searchrank Oct 11 2006)

India court accuses Google's Orkut of spreading hatred
News.com on Indian complaints about Orkut sub site (Oct 11 20069

Google Launches Teacher Training Program
The Google Teacher Academy is a pilot program designed to help K-12 educators (Stepforth Oct 12 2006)

Wikipedia Unblocked in China for All Languages But Chinese
Maybe Wordpress strict policy vis-a-vis the Chines has paid of (SE Journal Oct 13 2006)

Crunch, Click, Touchdown!
Yahoo Search Blog on the new Yahoo Jumpcut video making site arranging a commercial competition (Oct 13 2006)

Create your own search engine (an update to Live Search Macros)
Live Search Blog on building personalized search engines for any topic area of interest (Oct 11 2006)

Get out of my dreams. Get into my phone. Ask.com Mobile is here.
A brand-new service specifically designed for searching the web from your phone (Ask Blog Oct 12 2006)

Google Gdrive Client Leaked
The Google Gdrive for online file sharing is real and goes under the name of Platypus (Blogoscoped Oct 13 2006)

How Google Should Monetize YouTube With AdWords & AdSense
You could alienate the viewership by suddenly tacking 30 second ad spots at the beginning of every YouTube video (JenSense Oct 11 2006)

A List of Every Website Statistic Publicly Available
Every piece of website data available to marketers, researchers and the curious (SEOMoz Oct 11 200&

Google launches classroom project
Google has started courting K-12 teachers with a resource guide on how to use its applications in the classroom. (CNET Oct 11 2006)

Better together: Docs & Spreadsheets
Google took Writely, the Web word processor, and integrated it with Google Spreadsheets. The result is Google Docs & Spreadsheets (Google Blog October 11 2006)

Google Blog for Mac Users
SE Journal on Google's approach to Apple Macintosh users (Oct 10 2006)

Google Docs joins word processor with spreadsheet
Google to present information-sharing software that combines the company's Web-based Google Spreadsheets with online word processor Writely (Reuters Oct 10 2006)

Google to buy YouTube for $1.65 billion
It is a rumor no more (CNN Oct 9 2006)

Google to acquire YouTube for $1.65 billion in stock
Deal leapfrogs Google into a leading role in a burgeoning Internet marketplace (MarketWatch Oct 9 2006)

Google's source code search gives hackers a field day
Google's new search engine can be used to search for software bug (Inquerer Oct 9 2006)

Publishers wary on Google archives
Google entry to news archive market could improve consumption of news archive information (IWR Oct 9 2006)

Hello Natural Language Search, My Old Over-Hyped Search Friend
Danny Sullivan is tired of all the talk about "natural search" (Oct 5 2006)

Publishers: Google Scan Plan Actually Helps Book Sales
Publishers are speaking up to say that Google Book Search has actually helped increase book sales. (eWeek Oct 6 2006)

Google Personalization Methods
This last week, Google published six new patent applications that look at personalization (SEO by the Sea Oct 9 2006)

Google Puts Lid on New Products
Realizing that its myriad services are confusing users, it will focus on refining what it has. (LA Times Oct 6 via SEW)

Official Google Blog Gets Hacked After Message On Security
Cracker posts anonymous message saying that Google's click-to-call project had been cancelled on Google's blog (SEW Oct 9 2006)

Wetpaint : social network wikis
Wetpaint is in the vain of Hubpages, fanpop, squidoo, and zimbio...basically create your own topic page. (LibraryClips Oct 6 2006)

Completely Unsubstantiated Google/YouTube Rumor
TechCrunch on the Wall Street Journal story (Oct 6 2006)

PureVideo.com : Meta Video Search Engine
Search Engine Jorunal on new metasearch engine for video (Oct 6 2006)

Worm automates Google AdSense fraud
Click-fraud menace spreads using IM (The Register Oct 6 2006)

Google CEO tells politicians the net is changing politics
It will become possible for people to check facts searching through information on what a politician speaks about (Earth Times Oct 6 2006)

What's Teoma, you ask? You could ask Jeeves, but he's become ... Teoma
USA Today covers Ask.com (via SE Watch Oct 3 2006)

Useful information you may have missed
Google Webmaster Central Blog sums up some useful advice for webmasters (Oct 5 2006)

GHN discovers how NoFollow really works
Hm. Google's code for the nofollow tag has an error (GreyHat Oct 5 2006)

Site Explorer Authentication - Some Improvements and Notes
Yahoo! webmaster service improved (Yahoo! Search Blog Oct 5 2006)

Google to Subpoena Yahoo, Microsoft on Book Scanning
Google will subpoena information from Yahoo, Microsoft and Amazon to help fight copyright book-scanning lawsuits (Bloomberg via SEW Oct 5 2006)

18 Questions Your CEO Forgot to Ask When Building Your Website
Why are you always retrofitting and re-optimizing? (Stuntdubl Oct 4 2006)

How Tasks and Gender May Influence How People Google
Researchers from Cornell and Stanford University put out a paper last year that has some intriguing statistics in it (SEO by the Sea Oct 4 2006)

A Gaggle of Google Wannabes
Business Week on Google challengers like Ask.com (Oct 5 2006 via Battelle)

The new Groups experience
New beta version, available to anyone at groups-beta.google.com (Google Blog Oct 4 2006)

Google Literacy Project
Google launches The Literacy Project, a combination of its products framed to promote literacy and aid educators around the globe (Battelle Oct 4 2006)

New Google Groups Beta
Google Groups mixes a usenet archive with Google’s homegrown discussion groups (Blogoscoped Oct 4 2006)

AOL Offers Popular Services In One Desktop App
OpenRide provides access to email, instant messaging, Web browsing, online search and a digital entertainment media center (IW Oct 4 2006)

Google launches search service for computer code
Google Code Search simplifies how software developers search for programming code (Reuters Oct 4 2006)

Point / Counterpoint on Ask Sponsored Listings
The 2.0 version of Ask’s paid search program, includes improvements to daily budgeting, billing, uploading, campaign management, and reporting (Searchviews Oct 2 2006)

Google's Chief Looks Ahead
In an interview with TIME, CEO Eric Schmidt explains what's behind the company's new push for partnerships (Oct 2 2006)

Does Google Reward Backlinks Buyers & Sellers?
Heated debate on pagerank at Webmaster World (ongoing Sept 30 - Oct 3 2006)

Now You Can Have Google Gadgets on Your Webpage
Google press release (Oct 3 2006)

Google Offering Gadgets for Web Pages
Researchbuzz: There’s tons of fun dynamic content to add to your site (Oct 3 2006)

Why It Doesn't Pay to Game Digg (or Other Link Aggregation Sites)
Spamming Digg carries virtually no value (SEOMoz Oct 3 2006)

Google offers mini-programs for use on other sites
Google Gadgets to add to your site (Reuters Oct 3 2006)

More info on Pagerank
Google's Matt Cutts answers some questions on PR of the Google kind (Oct 2 2006)

Clusty redesigns with focus on speed and simplicity
Metasearch engine Clusty redesigned (Oct 2 2006)

Ask.com Launches Earthquake Info Maps & Enhances Weather Info
Resourceshelf on Ask adding satellite imagery, radar imagery, and more (Sept 28 2006)

SearchMash, a New Google Search Site
Google is testing an alternative search site (Google OS Oct 2 2006)

Rebranding Ask.com
On Ask's approach to user research, usability testing and brand impact (SE Watch Oct 3 2006)

10 Steps to Guarantee You Make the Digg Front Page
SEO Blackhat gives away all the secrets. Hilarious! And yes, it made it to the front page. (Oct 2 2006)

A New Look and Focus for the A9.com Website
A9 redesigned. Drops support for bookmarks and diary. (A9 Sept 29 2006)

Google buys garage that launched Internet's top search engine
Steve Jobs, you know what to do! (AP Oct 1 2006)