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Search Engine Watch
August 2, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Search Engine Results Continuing to Diverge A new study suggests that the overlap between search engine results is less than it was even a few months ago, and that the voices of each engine are growing even more unique.   |
Search Engine Watch
April 28, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Exploring Search Engine Overlap A new comparison tool shows that the major search engines have surprisingly little overlap, even for popular search terms. |
InternetNews
August 2, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Dogpile: Search Engines Don't Have Much in Common Users of the meta-search service can now see results from MSN Search in addition to results from Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves and MSN Search. As part of its announcement, Dogpile demonstrated the diversity of results across the engines. |
Search Engine Watch
September 22, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Myriad Search: Meta Search Your Way A new meta search engine lets Internet marketers and others compare results from the four top web search engines, and tweak their relative importance in a cutomized result set. |
Search Engine Watch
December 4, 2003
Greg Jarboe |
Meta Search Engines are Back It's been a busy year for the major meta search engines, with a number of notable developments that have restored their usefulness as worthy search tools. |
Search Engine Watch
May 23, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Meta Search Or Meta Ads? A review of meta search services shows that some are providing results where more than half of their listings are paid links. A guide to what's paid, what's not and how to get the most from your meta search service... |
Search Engine Watch
January 5, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Search Resolutions for the New Year Now's an ideal time to reflect on your searching habits and ring in some changes that will make you a more effective searcher in the year to come. |
Search Engine Watch
February 26, 2004
Chris Sherman |
ZapMeta: A Promising New Meta Search Engine A new meta search engine offers speedy, relevant results, and some cool visualization features that actually make it easy to check out sponsored listings without leaving your result page. |
Search Engine Watch
April 11, 2006
Chris Sherman |
Searcher Behavior Research Update Two new studies examining how people search show that internet users are becoming more discriminating, with important implications for search marketers. |
Search Engine Watch
November 24, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Rating Search Engine Disclosure Practices Which search engines are adequately disclosing their paid placement and paid inclusion practices? Which ones are failing to do so? A new report offers some surprising insights. |
InternetNews
February 28, 2005
Rob McGann |
Majority of Searchers Use Multiple Search Engines What are the most popular search engines? |
InternetNews
August 17, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Sizing Up the Search Competition In the Google-Yahoo rivalry, does the bigger index do a better job? |
Search Engine Watch
May 6, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
The Bumpy Road To Maximum Monetization Most search engines come nowhere near monetizing all the links displayed on their search results pages. However, the quest for greater profits is likely to change this, especially if the search engines think it can be done without hurting the relevancy of their product... |
Search Engine Watch
June 2, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
The Paid Inclusion Dinosaur A look at the bet Yahoo's making and alternative plays they could have tried. |
Search Engine Watch
March 4, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Where Are They Now? Search Engines We've Known & Loved Looks at early search engines that have died, those that have been transformed and how the new players that are no longer so young are doing. |
Search Engine Watch
January 19, 2006
Chris Sherman |
Survey: Google, Yahoo Still Favorites in North America For the second year running, a Keynote Systems study says Google provides the most satisfying search experience among North American users, despite competitive maneuvering from all of the other major search services. |
Search Engine Watch
October 2, 2001
Danny Sullivan |
Surplus Of Search Engine Marketing Reports Three different publications released recently cover the issues of selecting a search engine marketing firm, which search engine marketing strategies seem to work and a review of how the web sites of Fortune 100 companies rate in terms of search engine friendliness... |
Search Engine Watch
February 27, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Search Engine Forums Spotlight Links to this week's topics from search engine forums across the web: Nice To See Google Back On Track! Will it last? - Anybody Experienced With URL Rewrite for IIS? - The -Noblog Option or Blog Tab: Can It Be Done? - SEMPO - Yahoo Recommends Keywords META and Image ALT Text - Yahoo Versus Google On Redirect Handling - Who Links to My Site? |
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
October 31, 2007
Steve Haar |
Search Quality Depends on Intention From a marketing perspective, we should try to keep in touch with the environments in which our ads and SEO efforts are seen by the users. |
Search Engine Watch
January 7, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Excite Goes To Overture The death of the old Excite search engine happened in December, when new owners InfoSpace dropped results from the Excite crawler in favor of a page heavily dominated by paid listings from Overture... |
Search Engine Watch
October 14, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
New Developments In Local Search: Part 1, Moves By Overture Local searching on web-wide search engines can be disappointing. New moves by some major players may improve this. This first of a three-part series looks at local search listings that Overture is testing. |
Search Engine Watch
December 5, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
In Search Of The Relevancy Figure Where are the relevancy figures? While relevancy is the most important "feature" a search engine can offer, there sadly remains no widely-accepted measure of how relevant the different search engines are. Turning relevancy into an easily digested figure is a huge, but necessary, challenge. |
Search Engine Watch
May 25, 2004
Sullivan & Sherman |
Search Engine User Attitudes With so much interest in search, it's amazing how relatively little research has been done into how people interact with search engines, especially from a search marketing perspective. That's finally changing. |
InternetNews
December 14, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
Search Industry Gains Clout Search engines are now recognized as full-fledged media companies and search engine marketing is no longer a cottage industry. |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2002
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AllTheWeb has had a redesign and new features added... AltaVista has begun a freshness initiative to bring its entire database more up-to-date... Answer Services have been popular... AOL Search will switch from Inktomi to Google this summer... Direct Hit no longer available... etc. |
ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2003
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AlltheWeb now offers suggested spelling corrections.... Altavista has loaded larger multimedia databases for its image, audio, and video searches... AOL Search has added an image search database... Ask Jeeves has sold off its enterprise search division... etc. |
Entrepreneur
August 2004
Catherine Seda |
In the Click Want all the right people to notice your business? Gone are the days when adding keywords in meta tags to your site produced rankings. You need to make the most of today's hottest marketing method--search engine optimization. |
Search Engine Watch
August 26, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Search Engine Executive Roundtable, Part 2 How do the search engines view search marketing firms? What are the growth drivers of the industry? And Is the search 'bubble' going to pop soon? Danny Sullivan continues his discussion with four top search executives. |
Search Engine Watch
September 2, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
The Search Engine Report Search Engine Watch News... SES Dates For 2004 Set... Search Engine Size Wars IV & Google's Supplemental Index |
Search Engine Watch
February 18, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Yahoo! Birth of a New Machine Yahoo is launching a brand new search engine today, with its own index and ranking mechanisms, casting aside its long-standing use of Google-powered search results. The move is bound to roil the industry and sets in motion a new race for the claim of web search champion. |
Search Engine Watch
January 26, 2006
Chris Sherman |
Searching For a Better Image Ask Jeeves has launched a brand-new image search service, using some innovative techniques to identify high-quality pictures on the web. See how it stacks up against the competition. |
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. |
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.... |
Search Engine Watch
January 13, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Yahoo & MSN Closing the Google Gap While Big G continues to maintain its leadership position in the eyes of web searchers, a new study finds that Yahoo, MSN Search and Ask Jeeves have all made significant improvements over the past year and are narrowing Google's mindshare advantage. |
BusinessWeek
May 8, 2006
Elgin & Greene |
The Counterattack On Google How Yahoo and MSN are scrambling to slow its search-ad juggernaut. |
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. |
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
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... |
Search Engine Watch
August 1, 2005
Danny Sullivan |
New Ask Jeeves Sponsored Listings Program Lets More Advertisers Buy Direct Ask Jeeves unveiled a new automated paid listings service today, Ask Jeeves Sponsored Listings, that will allow anyone to purchase ads directly on the Ask Jeeves network. |
Search Engine Watch
January 24, 2005
Chris Sherman |
Survey: Searchers are Confident, Satisfied & Clueless The vast majority of searchers say they are confident about their searching skills and are successful at finding what they're looking for far more often than not, yet most don't understand how search engines work or present 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
June 28, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Overture Launches Local Match Listings Program Overture launched a new Local Match program today to allow its advertisers in the United States to more easily target listings toward those with a local interest. |
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... |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 1999 |
Search Engine Coverage Study Published In 1998, a landmark study published in Science magazine found that search engines fell well-short of listing everything on the web. Last month, a repeat to this study was published. Once again, search engines were found to contain only a small percentage of the web pages available. |
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. |
ONLINE
Sep/Oct 2002
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AllTheWeb claims it has increased the size of its database to over 2 billion fully indexed Web pages... AltaVista now really defaults to a Boolean AND... Ask Jeeves has a new, simpler design... Google has been promoting its fee-based Google Answers... etc. |
Search Engine Watch
May 6, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
The Search Engine Report Search Engine Watch News... Search Engine Strategies Coming To London, San Jose... Yahoo's Search Engine Continues Evolving... Google Buys Applied Semantics... Harvard Criticizes Google's Adult Content Filter... Inktomi, Google Win In Recent Relevancy Test... etc. |
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
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... |
