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Search Engine Results Chart: April 2004
Chart shows how major search engines get their results from crawlers, human directories or via payments.
Search Wars: Battle Of The Search Superpowers
We've long had competition in search, so why are we hearing so much about the search wars now? Because the few left…
Google IPO To Happen, Files For Public Offering
As many expected, Google filed to go public today. In this story, we provide a breakdown of facts and figures from the…
Who Powers Whom? Search Providers Chart – April 2004
Shows which major search providers power the web's major search engines, in chart format
Exploring Search Engine Overlap
Think all search engines provide essentially the same results? Think again. A new comparison tool shows that the major search engines have…
Spam Rules Require Effective Spam Police
Rules about spam mean nothing without effective enforcement by the rule makers, the search engines. Will they ever publish an offenders list?…
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…
Revisiting The Meta Description Tag
A major tour of how page descriptions are currently formed at several major search engines. The meta description tag largely remains useful.
GoogleGuy Says Becomes GoogleGuy Paraphrased
One of Google's most famous employees -- GoogleGuy -- asks the GoogleGuy Says web site to stop quoting him. Quotes will continue,…
The Search Engine Update – Number 171 – April 23, 2004
Search Engine Watch editor Danny Sullivan recap of top search engine stories from early April 2004.