Inktomi, Google Win In Recent Relevancy Test
April 17, 2003 - In December, I called for search engines to get beyond the hype of who is biggest or freshest and develop a commonly-accepted means of measuring actual relevancy. Now, the first such third-part test like this in ages has been done.
Harvard Criticizes Google's Adult Content Filter
April 16, 2003 - Google's SafeSearch porn filter was found to exclude non-porn sites such as the American Library Association, in a recent test conducted by the Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society.
Link Popularity and the Myth of the Guestbook Link
April 15, 2003 - Link popularity is crucial for your pages to rank well in search engines, but the value of guestbook links is questionable, at best, and potentially lethal, at worst.
Searching Images of Popular Culture
April 14, 2003 - Want a look at a Time Magazine cover from 1923? How about album covers for Blue Note records, or Chateau Mouton Rothschild Wine Labels? A searchable image database lets you view all of these, and more.
Search Engine Forums Spotlight
Premium ads officially over
Webmaster World Forums
"Apparently the first and second position of Premium becomes the first and second of AdWords, and the current first position of AdWords will be the third one of the new AdWords system."
Writing a Boolean search query using Google
Free Pint
"How can I write a Boolean expression in Google that allows me to do the following..."
All I have learned from this forum...
Webmaster World Forums
"...all the posts read over the last few months has changed the way I look at websites."
Cool feature on AlltheWeb - search spy
Webmaster World Forums
"I wish that they would have a function that you enter a search term and they spit out how many times it has been searched and from where."
Does AdWords count unique clicks or any clicks?
Webmaster World Forums
"If one user searches on Google and clicks on my AdWord ad more than once within the same few minutes/hours, does each click count towards my daily CTR [click through rate” or will it only charge you for one click?"
Harvard report critical of Google adult filters
Webmaster World Forums
"If a choice has to made between pleasing Harvard Law School or a dad surfing with his 5 year old daughter, I would strongly recommend siding with dad!"
The underscore vs. hyphen debate for file names
ihelpyou Forums
"...Google doesn't treat an underscore the same as it does a hyphen (or any various other delimiters) as a SPACE so that the keywords can be parsed."
Search Engine Forums Spotlight courtesy Search Engine Guide.
Search Headlines
NOTE: Article links often change. In case of a bad link, use the publication's search facility, which most have, and search for the headline.
Introducing SES Online
Want to view one of the sessions you missed or listen to an especially informative presenter a second time? SES New York sessions are available for purchase on ClickZ Academy's new e-Learning site. SES is now Online!
