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2005 in Review: The Year’s Top Search Terms
More proof that search engines are not all alike: The most popular search terms of the year varied quite a bit from engine to engine.
MSN Updates Live.com Site With Changes/Improvements to “Search Experience”
Word from Redmond on the Live.com blog that Microsoft has made several “search related” changes (they call them improvements) to their Live.com…
Google.org Site Updated With Info About Google’s Latest Grant
Those of you who track Google’s philanthropic activities might be interested to know that the Google.org page has been updated with information…
CiteSeer Offers New Feature; Mirrors of Database Also Added
Years before Google Scholar was launched, Professor Lee Giles, from Penn State University was online with a specialty database named CiteSeer (some…
Tracking Santa
Over on my personal blog, I mentioned how I loved to hear Santa tracked over the radio when I was a kid…
Happy Holidays!
Barring a merger being announced between Yahoo and Microsoft, we’re gone, done, outta here for the holidays! And we hope you are,…
Daily SearchCast, Dec. 23, 2005: Google’s Possible Second IPO; Google Promises AOL Won’t Create Compromises; Tag Search Via Wink; Top Searches Of The Year From Ask Jeeves & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Google putting its 5 percent share of AOL into a holding company that may go public in the…
German SEO Forums Launched
Sprechen Sie Deutsch? Heute hab Ich gelernen ThomasB hat ihre neue SEO "forums" hier: Online Marketing Talk. And now you know why…
MSN Getting Cleaner Look In The Microsoft Three Portal Strategy
I want Microsoft to pick a portal brand and go with it. We’ve had MSN. Then this year, we got the new…
Kung Fu Over Kai-Fu Between Google & Microsoft Ends
Microsoft, Google Settle Suit from Red Herring covering the fact that Google and Microsoft are no longer going to fight over Google…
Jews For Jesus Sues Google Over Blogger Blog
Jews for Jesus Group Sues Google from Reuters covers Google being sued by the group in New York to force it to…
Google’s AOL Stake Rolling Into Holding Company It Can Take Public In 2008
I got a research note from Ben Schachter over at UBS Investment Research flagging that Google has now filed an 8-K form…
Search Forums Roundup: Dec. 23, 2005
Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web:…
Google Says Don’t Worry, AOL Won’t Change Us – But There’s Wiggle Room
Seeking to reassure searchers that Google has not sold out to gain the AOL deal, About the AOL announcement from Google vice…
Ending The Year With A Google Sandbox Reexamination
Since everyone else is blogging about our Google Sandbox discussion at the Search Engine Watch Forums, guess I’d better get on it…
Daily SearchCast, Dec. 22, 2005: Traditional Marketer Worries Over Google, Scraper Sites Defined, WebmasterWorld Back In Search Engines, Google Sandbox Redux, Your Own Personal Google Zeitgeist & More!
Today’s search podcast covers traditional marketers worrying about Google encroaching on their territory; what exactly a scraper site is — you’ve seen…
Your Own Personal Google Zeitgeist
Setting trends on the Official Google Blog covers a great holiday gift, a way to see your own top searches on Google.…
Highlights from the SEW Blog: Dec 22, 2005
Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary search headlines from around the web.
Mid-December 2005 Search News Recap Posted
If you’re a Search Engine Watch member (thank you!), the latest edition of Search Engine Update newsletter has been posted. It recaps…
Google Worries Traditional Marketers & Google Print Ads To Enter New Phase
A twofer of stories out of MediaPost looking at how Google will be trying new things with its Google Publication Ads program,…
Power Searching with the Pros
The final installment of my compilation of SearchDay book reviews, A Compilation How-To Search Book Reviews, is online as today’s SearchDay.
The Search Engine Update – Number 211 – Dec. 21, 2005
Search Engine Watch editor Danny Sullivan's recap of top search engine stories from the first half of December 2005.
A Compilation How-To Search Book Reviews
Want to be a professional searcher, or at least have the skills of a pro? These books show you how.
Yahoo’s Mayer and Zawodny Ready to Debut New Webcast/Podcast on Webmaster Radio
Daron Babin, the man in charge of Webmaster Radio (the people who help us bring you our Daily Searchcast), has let us…
New Resource Pages About Google’s Content Network Now Available, Includes Optimization Tool
A note on the Inside AdWords blog points to this new page with a bunch of information about the Google Content Network.…
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