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Overture To Buy FAST Web Search Division
Overture announced today that it intends to purchase AltaVista in a $140 million cash and stock deal.
The Search Engine Update, Feb. 18, 2003, Number 143
Edition of the Search Engine Update newsletter, available to paid subscribers of searchenginewatch.com.
Singingfish Grows As Multimedia Search Provider
Looking for audio or video files from across the web? Singingfish has offered its multimedia search engine to help you in this since mid-2000,…
Search Engine Results Chart: Feb. 2003
Chart shows how major search engines get their results from crawlers, human directories or via payments, for Feb. 2003.
Who Powers Whom? Search Providers Chart: Feb. 2003
Shows which major search providers power the web's major search engines, in chart format, for Feb. 2003.
Wikipedia – A Collaborative, Multilingual Encyclopedia
Wikipedia is an ambitious project to produce a free and complete encyclopedia in every language, written by hundreds of volunteers working collaboratively together. Wikipedia…
Google Offers SEO Selection Guidelines
At the end of last month, Google rolled out a new page offering advice to those seeking a search engine optimization firm. Since being…
Search Engine Results Chart: Nov. 2002
Chart shows how major search engines get their results from crawlers, human directories or via payments, for Nov. 2002.
Search Engine Marketing Shop Talk Forum
The Shop Talk forum at the Search Engine Strategies conference featured lively discussion and a wealth of tips and techniques from pros for maximizing…
Search Engine Strategies: Looking at Links
Link analysis is one of the most important, and widely misunderstood techniques search engines use to determine relevance, and a key element of successful…
Search Engine Results Chart: October 2002
Chart shows how major search engines get their results from crawlers, human directories or via payments, for October 2002
Death Of A Meta Tag
Now supported by only one major crawler-based search engine -- Inktomi -- the value of adding meta keywords tags to pages seems little worth…
Who Powers Whom? Search Providers Chart: Sept. 2002
Shows which major search providers power the web's major search engines, in chart format, for Sept. 2002.
Search Engine Results Chart: Sept. 2002
Chart shows how major search engines get their results from crawlers, human directories or via payments, for Sept. 2002.
The Search Engine Report September 3, 2002 – Number 70
About The Report The Search Engine Report is a monthly newsletter that covers developments with search engines and changes to the Search Engine Watch…
Find It Online: A Searcher’s Baedeker
The third edition of Alan Schlein’s “Find It Online” is both a guided tour of the web’s most interesting and exotic information resources, and…
How Ask Jeeves Works
In-depth explanation of how the Ask Jeeves search engine works, for Search Engine Watch members
Compare & Contrast: Ad Guidelines At Overture & Google
This article explores the editorial guidelines at Overture and Google for advertisements.
Goole Paid Listings: Premium Sponsorships & AdWords
In addition to Google's free crawler-based results (marked A and B), Google also has two types of paid listings.
The Search Engine Update, June 3, 2002, Number 126
Greetings to all of you in the United Kingdom and Commonwealth countries who are celebrating Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee today.