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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.