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Comment Spam? How About An Ignore Tag? How About An Indexing Summit!
Bloggers seem increasingly upset at the comment spam they have to deal with, something driven primarily by those who seek higher search…
Update: Google on 60 Minutes
The Google story on 60 Minutes just aired and a summary of the story is now available here. This summary was posted…
Asking Search Engines Who’s The Top Search Engine
It’s been done before, but Gord Hotckiss takes a fresh look at what comes up tops for a search for “search engine”…
Happy Belated Birthday to AltaVista
A bit of web search history! Last week, December 15th to be precise, was the ninth anniversary of AltaVista’s launch. + In…
Forrester Stats, Search Defection & Vertical Search
Charlene Li shares some stats from internal Forrester research about search loyalty in The battle for search loyalty drives innovation. Is Google…
Wishing For Better Anchor Text Searching
I’ve written before that on my wishlist would be for Google and its competitors to offer the ability to search for links…
Rating Search Engine Disclosure Practices
Which search engines are adequately disclosing their paid placement and paid inclusion practices? Which ones are failing to do so? A new…
Search Engine Size Wars V Erupts
As Chris blogged, Google has raised the stakes in the search engine size wars by claiming an index of 8 billion pages.…
MSN Search Technology To Debut (Again) This Week
Rumors are swirling that MSN plans to release its new search technology this week. But why’s that big news? After all, hasn’t…
Firefox, Google and Web Search
Mozilla Firefox has Google, Yahoo and other search tools baked in, but they are just the tip of the iceberg when it…