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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.

By Danny Sullivan · 25 Feb 2003

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The Search Engine Update, Feb. 18, 2003, Number 143

Edition of the Search Engine Update newsletter, available to paid subscribers of searchenginewatch.com.

By Danny Sullivan · 18 Feb 2003

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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,…

By Danny Sullivan · 17 Feb 2003

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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.

By Danny Sullivan · 13 Feb 2003

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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.

By Danny Sullivan · 13 Feb 2003

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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…

By Sew Staff · 09 Feb 2003

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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…

By Danny Sullivan · 05 Dec 2002

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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.

By Danny Sullivan · 21 Nov 2002

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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…

By Jill Whalen · 14 Nov 2002

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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…

By Craig Fifield · 14 Oct 2002

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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

By Danny Sullivan · 08 Oct 2002

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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…

By Danny Sullivan · 30 Sep 2002

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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.

By Danny Sullivan · 11 Sep 2002

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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.

By Danny Sullivan · 11 Sep 2002

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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…

By Danny Sullivan · 02 Sep 2002

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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…

By Sew Staff · 26 Aug 2002

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How Ask Jeeves Works

In-depth explanation of how the Ask Jeeves search engine works, for Search Engine Watch members

By Danny Sullivan · 20 Aug 2002

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Compare & Contrast: Ad Guidelines At Overture & Google

This article explores the editorial guidelines at Overture and Google for advertisements.

By Danny Sullivan · 04 Aug 2002

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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.

By Danny Sullivan · 16 Jun 2002

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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.

By Danny Sullivan · 02 Jun 2002