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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.   |
Salon.com
August 29, 2002
Farhad Manjoo |
Meet Mr. Anti-Google A crusading webmaster says the popular search engine's page-ranking algorithm is "undemocratic." |
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. |
Wired
January 2003
Josh McHugh |
Google vs. Evil The world's biggest, best-loved search engine owes its success to supreme technology and a simple rule: Don't be evil. Now the geek icon is finding that moral compromise is just the cost of doing big business. |
Search Engine Watch
July 30, 2008
Eric Enge |
Google vs. Yahoo on Paid Links Google created a firestorm in the industry with its Paid Links directive. So where does Yahoo stand in the Paid Links debate? |
Search Engine Watch
August 5, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Google Adds More Fresh Pages, Changes Robots.txt & 403 Errors, Gains iWon Over the past month, Google has stepped up the number of pages that it is spidering on a daily basis in an effort to increase the freshness of its database. The search engine has also picked up iWon as a new customer for its search results. |
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... |
Search Engine Watch
December 3, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
New Google Toolbar Lets Users Rate Pages A new version of the Google toolbar now in beta testing sports a new look -- happy and sad faces that let toolbar users rate web pages... |
Search Engine Watch
December 1, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Google Dance Syndrome Strikes Again There's been a new outbreak of Google Dance Syndrome, causing some web sites last month to lose top positions for some search terms. However, unlike previous outbreaks, a cure exists that makes it easy to compare results from old to new Google. |
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
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. |
Search Engine Watch
November 7, 2003
Chris Sherman |
Google's Deskbar A new Google Labs experiment called the Google Deskbar is a search application that lets PC users perform Google searches at any time from any application. Like the HotBot Deskbar, the Google Deskbar is a free software download that appears as a search box in the Windows taskbar. |
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
March 21, 2006
Danny Sullivan |
Google Launches Google Finance For years, those seeking specialty financial information via Google have been sent to competitors such as Yahoo and MSN. Now Google's providing financial information directly to its own users. |
Search Engine Watch
March 5, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Search Engine Forums Spotlight Links to this week's topics from search engine forums across the web: Google Brain Implants? - Yahoo! Search Launches Free AddURL - Will Tracking Bad Bots Hurt Ranking? - Have You Been Asking Jeeves? - Developing Google AdSense Tracking Script - How Do You Start Your Own Directory Like Dmoz? - Yahoo's New Program Pricing Announced... - Search Conference Round-Up |
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
February 18, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Google Buys Blogging Company - But Why? Why did Google buy Blogger? Most likely for ad distribution and almost certainly not to improve search quality. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
November 18, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Google Scholar Offers Access To Academic Information Google has launched a new Google Scholar search service, providing the ability to search for scholarly literature located from across the web. |
Search Engine Watch
February 6, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Bush's Dubious Victory At Google For the past three months, if you did a search on Google for a particularly insulting phrase -- think dumb Oedipus -- the top result was to the official George W. Bush campaign store. How on earth did this happen? |
Search Engine Watch
April 2, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Google And The Big Brother Nomination This article explores allegations by Google Watch that Google is a threat to privacy and Big Brother like. |
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. |
The Motley Fool
February 14, 2008
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Is Google Lying Again? Is Google spurning Yahoo!'s business? Don't believe it. |
Search Engine Watch
April 2, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Google News It was another busy month for Google, so here's a compilation of stories that cover its new news search service, a new Search Microsoft feature, how the Google Toolbar is being used to solve genetic puzzles and other items... |
Search Engine Watch
April 29, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Google IPO To Happen, Files For Public Offering As many expected, Google filed to go public today. A quick update on the news and pointers to more information. |
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. |
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
June 3, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Coping With GDS, The Google Dance Syndrome On a roughly monthly basis, Google updates its index of web pages and introduces new tweaks and changes to how its ranking algorithm works. For some, the changeover period that's come to be known as the "Google Dance" may reveal what seems like dramatic changes in Google. |
Search Engine Watch
March 3, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Google Throws Hat Into The Contextual Advertising Ring Last week, Google unveiled a new method of distributing its paid listings, placing them on web pages, as opposed to the traditional means of inserting them into search results. |
Search Engine Watch
December 5, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Google Offers SEO Selection Guidelines At the end of last month, Google rolled out a new page offering advice to those seeking a search engine optimization firm. Since being unveiled, there's been both support and criticism of the tips and recommendations that Google has posted in various SEO forums. |
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
March 31, 2008
Kevin Newcomb |
Highlights from the SEW Blog: March 24-28, 2008 Good Google bombs... Google webmaster tools... Google no longer a portal?... Search within a search... Yahoo and the future of search... Google video ads... Non-text contextual ads... Social media: one size does not fit all... etc. |
Search Engine Watch
April 5, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Google Tops, But Yahoo Switch Success So Far New WebSideStory stats say Google's most popular, but they also reveal that Yahoo's recent replacement of Google results with its own technology doesn't appear to have cost it visitors. |
CIO
January 15, 2006
Juan Carlos Perez |
Who Uses Google Google users tend to be richer and have more Internet experience than those who primarily use competing search services from Microsoft, Yahoo and others, according to a new study. |
Search Engine Watch
August 5, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
The Search Engine Report Search Engine Watch News... Early Bird Deadline For SES San Jose Tomorrow!... LookSmart Opens Deep Listings Option To Small Businesses... Yahoo To Buy Overture... Search Engine Resources |
PC World
September 25, 2002
Linda Rosencrance |
Google Search Leads to Gates of 'Hell' A devilish phrase typed into the search engine reaps Microsoft's Web site as top result. |
Search Engine Watch
April 2, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Search Privacy At Google & Other Search Engines This article examines what Google and other search engines record about your searches. |
Search Engine Watch
May 14, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Return To The Sad Days Of More Than A Search Engine? Yahoo says it is "more than a search engine" in the same week Google adds a new portal feature. Are the sad days of search being a neglected child about to return? |
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... |
The Motley Fool
May 31, 2006
Tim Beyers |
Google Still King of the World As great as Google is and may still be, the evidence doesn't support the king-of-the-online-world valuation that the stock sports today. |
Search Engine Watch
February 2, 2009
Ron Jones |
Link Building 101, Part 1 The concept of getting backlinks to a page internally is sometimes overshadowed by trying to acquire backlinks from external pages. Why not use the same concept and apply it to your internal linking structure and reap the rewards? |
InternetNews
November 4, 2005
Brian Livingston |
'Googlewashing' Makes Your Site Invisible A growing number of content-based businesses face a serious new threat to their publishing rights and search rankings. |
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. |
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
December 30, 2008
Mark Jackson |
The Paid Links Debate Rages On Should an ethical SEO recommend paid links to their clients? |
The Motley Fool
May 25, 2007
Mac Greer |
Fool Video Take: Time to Buy Google? Is now the time to own a piece of the dominant search giant? |
ONLINE
Jan/Feb 2004
Greg R. Notess |
Toolbars: Trash or Treasures? Search engines have tripped over each other this past year in offering up toolbars. Yet the insidious fault of toolbars lies in the over-reliance on the search engine that their constant presence engenders. |
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.... |
The Motley Fool
October 11, 2006
Mac Greer |
Gauging Google's Future: Part 1 An interview with David Vise, author of The Google Story, on Google's recent acquisition of YouTube, whether or not the Internet giant can navigate the possible legal challenges and what it means for competitors like Yahoo! and News Corp. |
The Motley Fool
July 29, 2008
Mac Greer |
Fool Video: Google's Real Competition Will new search engine Cuil find success as it competes with Google? What is the biggest threat to Google -- Baidu, Microsoft, Yahoo!, or some new, Cuil-like technology? These questions are discussed in this video. |
