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WebTrends Improves Links With WebPosition

The new version of the WebTrends web analytics tool now boasts improved integration with the WebPosition rank checking tool that WebTrends parent NetIQ purchased…

By Danny Sullivan · 24 Jan 2005

Industry

Look to Non-Commercial Directories

Even though commercial web directories might be in decline, I’ve mentioned several times that general knowledge web directories from the university and librarian communities…

By Gary Price · 24 Jan 2005

Analytics

OneStat Says Google Stays On Top In Global Search

Visitor tracking service OneStat says Google remains the search engine sending the most users to sites making use of its measuring service. On average…

By Danny Sullivan · 24 Jan 2005

Industry

Google AdWords API Said Coming

Silicon Valley Watcher reports in Google to provide AdWords API to Advertisers that Google is to provide a way for advertisers to control exactly…

By Danny Sullivan · 24 Jan 2005

Industry

SEO Doesn’t Equal Being Cheap

Aaron Wall in Why Many People Buy Shitty SEO Services has a nice look at someone apparently making tons of money off search-related sales…

By Danny Sullivan · 24 Jan 2005

Local

Testing Travel Search

The Organized Shopping Blog puts some travel search engines to the test in Travel Search Engine Shootout – Las Vegas Strip Hotels. Conclusion? The…

By Danny Sullivan · 24 Jan 2005

Industry

ODP Founder Comments & Moving Past Directories

From SearchEngineBlog.com, Rich Skrenta Interview has Rich Skrenta sharing thoughts on how he went from being a founder of the Open Directory to starting…

By Danny Sullivan · 24 Jan 2005

Industry

Baby Yahoo Story Was Made Up

Do you remember the Reuters story (and blog post) about a baby in Romania being named Yahoo? Well it turns out that story was…

By Gary Price · 24 Jan 2005

Industry

Wild Speculation On Google Internet Phone Service Launch?

The Times Of London is reporting that Google will launch a free internet telephone service: Google gears up for a free-phone challenge to BT.…

By Danny Sullivan · 24 Jan 2005

Industry

AOL Search Enhancements Now Publicly Available

The enhancements at AOL Search that Chris and I wrote about last week (AOL Search: Playing In the Big Leagues Now) and were only…

By Gary Price · 24 Jan 2005

Industry

Survey: Searchers are Confident, Satisfied & Clueless

The vast majority of searchers say they are confident about their searching skills and are successful at finding what they're looking for far more…

By Chris Sherman · 24 Jan 2005

Industry

Searchers Say, Damn I’m Good!

A new survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project finds that 92% of search engine users are confident in their searching skills,…

By rumo · 23 Jan 2005

Industry

Survey: Manufacturers Plan Search Engine Marketing

A new study from SVM E-Business Solutions in cooperation with the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce informs us that manufacturers plan to increase their…

By Gary Price · 23 Jan 2005

Mobile

Ask Plans Mobile Search In 2005

I said several times in ’04 that mobile search and access to info would continue to grow in both usage and the number of…

By Gary Price · 23 Jan 2005

Industry

Google Increases Maximum Number of Query Terms

Some exciting news for Google searchers. Since Google’s introduction the maximum number of search terms you could include in a query string was 10.…

By Gary Price · 23 Jan 2005

SEO

More On Link Condom & Blogger Worries Over Nofollow

Earlier, I posted about the Link Condom site that went up, which pokes some fun at the new nofollow attribute. Six Apart’s Anil Dash…

By Danny Sullivan · 21 Jan 2005

Industry

Special Logos, Smart Search, Ask Jeeves, and Google

Have you noticed a “special” logo on Ask Jeeves this afternoon? You’ll see Jeeves “thinking” about a visit to the slopes to do some…

By Gary Price · 21 Jan 2005

SEO

SEO Versus SE Ads

When I do my introductory talk about search marketing at our Search Engine Strategies shows, I explain that search marketing it is the combination…

By Danny Sullivan · 21 Jan 2005

Industry

Yahoo Filtering Search For China

There’s no end to stories about how Google either does or is suspected to filter its results for China (with news, it does; with…

By Danny Sullivan · 21 Jan 2005

Industry

Threadwatch Has UK Pub Meet

Into SEO? In the UK? Threadwatch is having a get-together. Details here: SEO Pub Meet – 28th May London Stansted.

By Danny Sullivan · 21 Jan 2005