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Search Engine Forums Spotlight: Nov. 19, 2004
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 Launches…
Beta MSN Search Gains Submit Tool & Webmaster Info
Worried the new MSN crawler isn’t picking up your pages? Now you can submit to the service. As with most add URL pages throughout…
GoogleGuy On Google Link Counts
Many experienced with search engine optimization know that Google’s backlink feature, the link: command, has long not returned all the links Google actually knows…
Amazon & Microsoft Party At Google
Google opened its new offices near Microsoft in Washington State and Microsoft blogger Robert Scoble reports that Microsoft and Amazon employees were out in…
Tim Berners-Lee Presentation at MIT
In late September, Tim Berners-Lee gave the keynote at the MIT Emerging Technologies Conference. TBL’s presentation on a variety of issues issues is now…
The Search Engine Update – Number 185 – November 19, 2004
Search Engine Watch editor Danny Sullivan's recap of top search engine stories from the first half of November 2004.
Cash Back from Shopping.com
Shopping.com has launched its Smart Shopper Club, which refunds consumers up to 5% of the amount of each purchase, excluding shipping and tax, from…
SBC Will Offer Access to Some Yahoo Services via Television
More convergence. This time involving television and wireless access to some Yahoo services. I’m wouldn’t doubt that Yahoo television search (keyword access to actual…
Google Says Growth is Slowing
The AP article: Google Says Growth Is Slowing Down, that the search leader says that the growth that the company has seen so far…
Looking For Directories?
There’s been a number of posts on our forums and elsewhere where people are listing new and existing directories, all part of the general…
WebmasterWorld Conference Coverage: Day 2
More coverage out of the WebmasterWorld search conference in Vegas, from its second day. For the first day, see my earlier blog post. WebmasterWorld…
Google & Approved Cloaking
Last May, I wrote about how Google effectively approves of cloaking in the case of content from NPR. The new Google Scholar launch, while…
Google Scholar Launches
Google’s released a new Google Scholar site that provide easy access to searching for academic information. Today’s SearchDay looks at the new program, and…
Even More Search Patents
Earlier this week SearchDay published a list with several new search-related patents. Due to space limitation we were unable to run the full list.…
Overture Extends Deal With Microsoft As MS Builds Its Own Technology
A news release let’s us know that Overture has extended their relationship with Microsoft through June, 2006. Under the terms of the extension, Overture…
Google Scholar Offers Access To Academic Information
Google has launched a new Google Scholar search service, providing the ability to search for scholarly literature located from across the web.
Google & The Approved Cloaking Problem
Google needs to modify its policy on cloaking and provide more webmaster support, so programs like Google Scholar don't leave it open to accusations…
Let’s Talk Mooter
Here’s a web search tool we haven’t heard from in a long time, Australia’s Mooter. In: Searching your thoughts, from Red Herring, you’ll read…
Searching for Real Time Information
If search engines have an Achilles heel, it’s that the crawling process lags the content creation process. While content from some sites appears quickly…
The Return Of RealNames
Keith Teare, founder of the RealNames navigation system that died back in 2002, tells me via email that he’s regained the RealNames domain name…