Search engines are like mothers: they are built to understand you. In August 2011, of the 27 billion searches conducted on desktops in the United States, more than one-third occurred on non-search engines.
Are the topics driven by genuine interests of readers of the site, or does the site generate content by attempting to guess what might rank well in search engines? We'll dig more into this post and its implications next week, and see if it jives...
The owners of South Korea's largest search engines have filed complaints against Google with the country's Fair Trade Commission, alleging that local phone carriers and manufacturers were banned from embedding their search applications on mobile...
Google is king, Bing is inching up, Yahoo is still around -- and the rest of the 69 search engines Hitwise tracks aren't even worth mentioning by name.comScore Releases February 2011 U.S. Both major search engines admitted today they have 'white...
Documents relating to competition from vertical search engines, including but not limited to the following companies: Worth Point, myTriggers, Foundem, TradeComet.com, SourceTool.com Documents relating to the impact of changes in AdWords prices or...
The Top Ten Comparison Shopping Engines Compared - Q4 2010 - CPC Strategy It appears as though the engines (in particular Google) may be responding to an increase in manipulative social activity. Here's a recap of this week's columns and news...
Vertical search engines also got a separate questionnaire, featuring questions such as: Is your company aware of the existence of the features in Google's natural search-ranking algorithm which, in your view, might penalize the ranking or display...
How to create content and link connectivity that sends the right signals to the search engines, telling them your site is relevant for users in those geographies. More 'Me Too' Search Engines in China?
As more results shift to real-time search, expect the engines to also try integrating the same results into paid search. The festival is packed with sessions covering PPC management, keyword research, search engine optimization (SEO), social media...
Although search engines cropped up in the early days, the quality of results simply weren't good enough in the beginning to drive people to use search as their main channel for web navigation, and "portals" became the primary channel for exploration.
I would argue that vertical search has not only already "taken off," but has been an integral part of the search engine landscape for years - and indeed has experienced its biggest success through integration into global engines in the form of...
People use search engines to find relevant information based primarily on need or interest. It's this phenomena which explains why some of the largest brands on the Web often have no PPC ads running alongside them -- advertisers simply are...
As the OTA's and the meta travel/comparison engines have become so firmly entrenched, the only thing to do is build upon the experience and create added value around the basic layer of content you have.
McClure also notes the other problem with the e-mail-centric view of the deal: social search engines like Facebook and LinkedIn already have built-in (crude) e-mail systems. Google's still trying to find ways to compete with the Yahoo/MSN vertical...
Despite all the search options available, only 33% of consumers find videos to watch through search engines. Offers Video SitemapsA few days ago SEW Blogger Deborah Richman wrote an article about how tough it was to find videos through the search...
Smith, Comparison Engines; Sage Lewis, SageRock Web Marketing Blog; Gary Price, ResourceShelf; This includes Rebecca Lieb, Vice President and Editor-in-Chief of the ClickZ Network; Kevin Ryan, Global content director for SearchEngineWatch.com and...
Google Voice Local Search Launched - Pales In Comparison To Other Talking Search Engines, Read/Write Web Here we've collected today's top news stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with search-related headlines from around the Web:
However, if you "optimize" your web site, then you are likely to get even more traffic from search engines. It can put you in the top results of many major search engines within a short period of time.
Optimizing Blogs for the Search Engines, ClickZ Mobile Versions for the Major Search Engines, Google Operating System Until recently, it was difficult to find news archives on the web more than 30 days old.
For fun, my MSN Direct watch is set to show the stock prices of all the major search engines. Mobile Versions for the Major Search Engines, Google Operating System Web Picasa Web Albums Adds More Storage Options, InsideGoogle
