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New Flavor Of Expand & Collapse Results
Back in April, Google was testing expand and collapse results that contained more detailed information about a site when expanded. Then, Google used an…
Search Companies Energetically Seeking Electricity
The Wall Street Journal reports that the search companies, including Microsoft, Yahoo, Ask and possibly Google are looking to find cheap electricity to power…
Duplicate Content Solutions
Yesterday, Bill Slawski wrote about some of the issues with duplicate content and how it can hurt your rankings. Todd Malicoat (aka Stuntdubl) followed…
Submitting Your News Site To Google News
Google News can drive a nice amount of traffic to a site. A few months ago, I had the privilege of having my site…
Tips On Across The Engines Ranking From SEO Book
People are beginning to remember again that there are search engines beyond Google. This reawakening is one reason why I added the Can You…
Google Earth Won’t Have Distribution Blocked
Google Earth is out in a new version with new features, as Greg Sterling will be detailing more on the blog later today. But…
A Real Estate Vertical Search Roundup, Part 2
This concludes our roundup of a number of the most popular new real estate search verticals.
Search Headlines & Links: June 12, 2006
Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged separately: From…
Schmidt: Google Still A Tech Company Despite The Billboards
Figuring everyone’s had enough Google exec interviews at the moment that cover the same old ground, I put the Los Angeles Times interview today…
Rumor: Google Caller ID Via Google Talk Coming Soon?
Garett Rogers discovered that Google added the directory /call to the Google robots.txt file. So when he checked out https://www.google.com/call he noticed that it…
‘Search: Thy Name Is Google’
Last week, MediaPost reported on an Outsell report, “How Information Providers Can Keep Pace With User Demands For Time-Saving Solutions,” which showed Google increasing…
The Downside Of Google?
I’m all for keeping a close and critical eye on search engines, but the Observer article “The readers editor on … the downside of…
Is Duplicate Content Killing Your Rankings?
A paper presented at the 10th International Conference on Extending Database Technology conference in Munich near the end of March, Indexing Shared Content in…
SimplyHired Powers MySpace Jobs
A number of people have talked about the potential power of MySpace getting into search. Well, the company put its toes in the water…
Reflecting On Direct Hit, The Google Rival
Perspective: The man who would be Sergey from News.com talks with Gary Culliss, formerly of Direct Hit, on cashing out of search early on.…
Google GBuy Launch Later This Month To Challenge PayPal?
Google’s GBuy Could Be ‘Revolutionary’ from Forbes covers news from RBC analyst Jordan Rohan that Google’s existing payment system — Google Payments — may…
Trovetopia – Yahoo Shopping Test Bed Site
Gary Price at ResourceShelf noticed that Yahoo registered two trademarks: “Trovetopia” and “THE N9NE,” with Trovetopia also being the name of an active Yahoo…
How Google Is Killing The Internet
Seth Jayson has written an interesting piece “How Google is killing the internet” over at The Motley Fool. It’s a lengthy analysis which takes…
eBay AdContext To Promote Auctions Via Contextual Based Ads
I covered this morning the news that eBay is launching a contextual advertising program named eBay AdContext. The program uses contextual based technology to…
Robert Scoble Departs Microsoft To Startup Podtech
Blogvangelist Robert Scoble is leaving Microsoft to work for start-up Podtech.net. Robert’s not been tied into the Microsoft search efforts, but he has commented…