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If Your Site Could Talk, You’d Be Ashamed
User Experience and Search Engines: If Your Home Page Could Only Talk from Kim Krause Berg at Search Engine Guide is a very witty write-up of what a…
Wikipedia Plus Dynamic Search Term Suggestions = WikiWax
Surfwax has just launched its LookAhead search term suggestion technology combined with Wikipedia into a new site calledWikiWax. Over 600,000 Wikipedia index…
Fredrick’s Dad Makes Him A Believer In Local Search
Fredrick Marckini thought the hype over local search and getting little merchants online was just that, hype. But after watching the experiences…
Engine Manipulation, Verticals, and the Library
Adam Penenberg offers a profile of WebGuerrilla’s Greg Boser in the Wired article: Search Rank Easy to Manipulate. While I’m sure many…
Getting Answers From Answers.com’s CEO
The answer man from News.com has GuruNet CEO Bob Rosenschein — whose company runs Answers.com — answering some questions of his own,…
Poking At Search Marketing Myths
Popular Search Marketing Myths Debunked from Jennifer Laycock at Search Engine Guide takes a nice look at some of the popular search…
Big Brands Need To Do SEO, Too
Big brand? “Get over yourself,” says Shari Thurow, when it comes to SEO. In her Big Brands Equal Big SEO Opportunities column…
Bush “Miserable Failure” Bio Turns Link-Only On Google
File this under interesting but perhaps nothing, big on the perhaps nothing part. I was checking on the infamous miserable failure search…
SEO Big For About.com
What’s the value of organic search engine optimization? It apparently contributed quite a bit to the $410 million that the New York…
Tools for Exploring the Blogosphere
There’s a lot of great content being published in blogs these days, but it isn’t always easy to find. While many bloggers…
Google and Answers.com Announce Ad Deal
Word this morning that Gurunet (the parent of Answers.com) and Google have signed a deal that will place Google AdSense advertising on…
Web Research “Dashboard” Nextaris Formally Launches, New Services Added
Nextaris, a web-based “dashboard” for the researcher was formally released today. Chris had several positive thing to say about this feature-filled service…
Blinkx Profiled in Technology Review
The Technology Review article: Search for Couch Potatoes, offers a brief look at contextual/desktop/video search tool, Blinkx. According to the article, Blinkx…
Combating Web Spam with TrustRank
You know about PageRank and about two weeks ago I mentioned a new paper from Stanford’s Database Group discussing PeopleRank. Today, another…
Google’s Blogger and Unwanted Software
An eWeek article: Spyware Snags Blogger Users, reports on a new study by Harvard researcher, Benjamin Edelman that says that “dozens” of…
Oneupweb Study Finds Longer Search Phrases Convert Better Than Shorter
A study from search marketing firm Oneupweb finds that in general, longer search terms convert better than shorter ones. In particular: Conversion…
A New Version of Copernic Desktop Search is Now Available
Copernic has just released a new public beta of their desktop search tool. Copernic Desktop Search (CDS) 1.5 offers several new features…
Tiscali SEO Service Accused Of Spamming
Doorway pages are fine, says Tiscali South Africa, about a new search engine optimization service that the internet access provider and Google…
Getting Quality Links
Looking for ways to get quality links? Jennifer Laycock has a nice rundown on ideas to try, such as providing articles to…
New Releases of Web Information Managers
Paula Hane has written an excellent overview of two new releases in the web information management space. In her article: Two New…
On Personal Information Management
As web and other databases grow larger and the amount of non-web info (email, chat, spreadsheets, etc) in our lives continues to…
Bug Found in Some Releases of Blinkx 2.0
If you’ve been using the Blinkx beta (any 2.0 release before version 2.0.10 ) it might be a good idea to download…
Vertical Search Tools Getting More Attention
As someone who comes to web search with a librarian/researcher perspective, I’ve long known and understood the value of specialized (aka vertical)…
Jostling for Search Marketing Funds
As we’ve reported, search marketing is hot, with advertisers in the U.S. and Canada alone expected to spend more than $4 billion…
Fast Overture Counts For Final Word Lists
Want the volume of searches from Overture for different words? The Overture Keyword Selector Tool is well familiar to search marketers as…
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