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Google Increases Size A Smidge: Was Planned Before Current Size Dispute
Last week, prior to the Yahoo index size announcement, we were notified that Google was planning to increase the size of their web index. To be clear, the…
Microsoft Adds Local Search and MSN Spaces to MSN Mobile
MSN is joining many other players (the big names as well as many smaller companies) by adding local search* (listings from Yellow…
Yahoo Announces Total Size Count
Looks like we might have a search engine total size wars beginning. As I’ve said in the past total size numbers are…
Daily SearchCast, Aug. 4, 2005: Search Engine Watch & SES Sold, New MSN Keywords Paid Listings Program Details, Searching For A New Google Chef & More
Today’s Daily SearchCast covers the sale of Search Engine Watch by Jupitermedia, more on the penalty box, the upcoming launch of MSN…
More on Search Engine Penalties
Today guest writer Marcela De Vivo wraps up her look at search engine penalties, describing those applied by Yahoo and MSN. Yahoo’s…
Search Engine Penalties at Yahoo & MSN
In the second of a two-part article, we look at search engine penalties applied by Yahoo and MSN, and how webmasters can…
More Details On New MSN Keywords Program
Chris Sherman and I have been up at MSN today talking about a variety of things, including the new MSN Keywords program…
MSN Virtual Earth Team Answers Questions and Announces New Site for Developers
A post just up on the MSN Search’s WebLog shares some insights about and future plans for MSN Virtual Earth as it…
Coming in October: Microsoft To Begin Testing Paid Listings Program in U.S.
This week, new advertising programs from Ask and Yahoo. Next week (can you say SES announcement), this WSJ story (available to non-subscribers)…
Search Engine Results Continuing to Diverge
A new study suggests that the overlap between search engine results is less than it was even a few months ago, and…
New Ask Jeeves Sponsored Listings Program Lets More Advertisers Buy Direct
After weeks of rumors, Ask Jeeves unveiled a new automated paid listings service today -- Ask Jeeves Sponsored Listings -- that will…
View Google Maps & MSN Virtual Earth Side-By-Side
Spotted via Phil Bradley, Virtual Earth and Google Maps, side-by-side lets you see the same area’s satellite view in Google Maps and…
And More On Search Hiring!
At the end of my post about Yahoo raiding IBM for employees, I originally concluded, "Where have all the engineers gone? Off…
Technorati Founder and CEO Chats with BusinessWeek
Technorati’s Founder and CEO, David Sifry, chats with BusinessWeek about competition from the “big guys”, system architecture, growing pains, advertising, and a…
Hispanics Loving Search Sites
In a post titled: Search is HOT for U.S. Hispanics, Nacho Hernandez posts a chart (via Ad Age) that he’s been “waiting…
Microsoft Launches MSN Virtual Earth
Microsoft has released a beta version of Virtual Earth, a web-based application that combines local search with maps and aerial photography.
AOL & Ask Show Growth In Searches But Big Players Still Big
New quarterly statistics out from Nielsen//NetRatings show that AOL and Ask Jeeves had double-digit growth in the number of searches they handled,…
MSN Updates Start.com Site with New Features
Yesterday, MSN’s experimental Start.com customizable homepage received a few updates and bug fixes that you can read about on the Start.com blog.…
Ad Management: Do Humans Matter? – SES San Jose 2005
Cue soundtrack from The Terminator. Cue voice over: With search marketers handling hundreds or thousands of terms, it was only a matter…
Sight-Impaired Users Have Problems with Registration Process at Google
“Is Google Shutting Out The Blind?” by Susan Kuchinskas at InternetNews.com, reports that some sight-impaired Internet users are having problems with the…
Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask Jeeves, AOL, A9 Agree To Release Everything At Once
Worried that one of their competitors might release something that hasn’t yet been released this week, major players have agreed in principle…
Government Report Says MSN Search Adult Filter Most Effective
A new report from the Government Accountability Office says that the adult filter at MSN Search is more effective at blocking adult…
NetRatings: Google Most Popular In May, But Trend Is No Real Trends So Far
Concluding what’s turned into a series of the latest search popularity ratings today (see also WebSideStory, Hitwise), new stats now posted from…
Hitwise: Google Tops In May
New stats now posted from Hitwise show Google has the highest share of visits by US web surfers of all search and…
WebSideStory: Google Continues Its Popularity Rise
New stats released today from WebSideStory show Google has continued to gain in popularity every year since 2001, while Yahoo is shown…
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