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Should Google Sitemaps Take Pings? How About More General Compatibility Generally?
Jeremy Zawodny says he’s scratching his head over the new Google Sitemaps system and wondering why Google doesn’t adopt a ping-based page updating system instead. And why didn’t…
Easy Multi-searching with Firefox
Firefox provides a lot of built-in search tools, but using them requires a two-step process of typing search terms and then selecting…
Variation on a Theme: A New George Bush Linkbomb?
Poltics aside, the classic “linkbomb” continues to tell us that President G. W. Bush is a “miserable failure.” Today, I spotted this…
Forbes Announces Deal With Search Vertical IT.com
Media Post has a short article today about Forbes.com users now having access to search vertical IT.com directly from search boxes located…
New “Google Sitemaps” Web Page Feed Program
Today, Google has unveiled a new Google Sitemaps program allowing webmasters and site owners to feed it pages they’d like to have…
New Article Looks at SEO “Gone Bad”
Companies subvert search results to squelch criticism from the Online Journalism Review looks how companies are trying to squash bad public relations…
New Technical Report from Stanford Discusses Link Spam
The Stanford InfoLab has just posted a new 22 page technical report titled, “Link Spam Alliances.” It might be of interest to…
Jux2 Goes Offline
Some sad news to report. Jux2, the winner of the Search Engine Watch 2004 best meta search engine award, is no longer…
Wall Street Journal On Search-Funded Spam
I’ve written before on the ironic situation of Google AdSense funding some of the spam Google has to eliminate from its indexed.…
Stanford Daily Removes Paid Links
In April, I wrote about how Stanford University’s student newspaper and many other student papers were selling offtopic links to advertisers almost…
Types Of Links To Lead Search Engines To Your Site
Threads of the Web – Linking for Success from Scottie Claiborne at Search Engine Guide is a nice overview to the types…
Take The SEO Quiz
Rand Fiskin has created the SEO Quiz. It’s fun — give it a whirl. Then check out whether you’re at the top…
Digimarc Desktop Image Search Beta Opens
Not happy with the image search capabilities of your existing desktop search application? A new free beta of Digimarc Image Search software…
Google’s Own Listing Gets Hijacked
I spent yesterday sending four or five emails with a reader who couldn’t believe that search listings on Google actually could get…
Don’t Blindside Disabled Users with Snarky SEO
If you’re using even seemingly harmless search engine optimization techniques, your pages may be perceived as spam or even worse by users…
Time For Search Standards For Titles & Description?
I’ve written before about how it is becoming more noticeable that Google may substitute titles and descriptions from the Open Directory for…
Yahoo Declares Media RSS 1.0 Official
Yahoo says that the Media RSS 1.0 specification that it launched in December is now officially released. The spec is here.
Clusty Now Offering Links to Cached Copies of Pages
I just noticed that Clusty, the meta search engine that provides dynamic clustering of results, is now offering cached copies of every…
How Major Search Engines Regionalize
An overview to how regional editions of the major search engines are created.
Dictionary Spam, Meet Number Spam
Dictionary spam is when someone creates a web page that seeming has every word in the dictionary, in hopes of capturing someone…
Koders Offers Search For Open Source Code
Currently in beta, Koders will be formally launching on Monday as a way to search for open source software. The site claims…
New Web Archive Launches in the UK
A new and growing web archive of “social, historic and culturally significant web-based material from the UK domain” is now online. It’s…
Syndic8 Gets Outed for Spamming
Remember the WordPress spamming search engines story (some might use stronger terms) from a few weeks ago? Via Google Blogoscoped we read…
Meet the Webfeed Search Engines
At a recent Search Engine Strategies conference, representatives from some of the major webfeed and news syndication services sat down talked about…
Your Logs May Show If You’ve Been Naughty
Been up to no good with your SEO? Your logs might give you a clue before your pages disappear! David Naylor’s Things…
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