Topic

Search engines.

How search engines work, compete, and change. 2,752 articles
Analytics

Web Ousts Print Yellow Pages At Top Local Shopping Tool

A telephone survey has found that 70 percent of US households now use the internet — and in particular search engines —…

By Danny Sullivan · 24 Mar 2005

Analytics

Shoppers Search For Deals, Then Buy

A study conducted by shopping service Shopzilla finds that 59 percent of consumers are starting shopping online at a search engine rather…

By Danny Sullivan · 24 Mar 2005

Content

Why Quality Content is Key For Search Engines

How did the subject of 'content' find its way onto the agenda of a search engine marketing conference? Because often, higher rankings…

By Fredrick Marckini · 24 Mar 2005

Industry

Kanoodle Ads Coming to Some RocketNews RSS Feeds

Via a news release we’ve learned that Rocketinfo, the providers of the RocketNews search engine, an impressive news and weblog search tool…

By Gary Price · 23 Mar 2005

SEO

Metacrawlers and Metasearch Engines

A list of major metacrawlers. Unlike search engines, metacrawlers don't crawl the web themselves to build listings. Instead, they allow searches to…

By Chris Sherman · 23 Mar 2005

Analytics

NetRatings Search Popularity & Loyalty Figures For Jan. 2005

I’ve posted new, improved search-specific stats from NetRatings painting a picture of search popularity in the US for January 2005. In the…

By Danny Sullivan · 22 Mar 2005

SEO

Get Your Facts Straight

When you need to quickly look up factual information, search engines typically aren’t the best tools for the job. Sure, the majors…

By rumo · 22 Mar 2005

SEO

Is Cloaking Deceptive Advertising? Not Necessarily

Search Marketing Techniques, Deceptive Advertising Laws & Other Laws from Alan Perkins at Search Engine Guide looks at how laws about deceptive…

By Danny Sullivan · 22 Mar 2005

Industry

Just the Facts, Please

While the major search engines continue to dabble with shortcuts to reference sources, Wikipedia and Answers.com have quietly evolved into two of…

By Mary Ellen Bates · 22 Mar 2005

SEO

Wikipedia Plus Dynamic Search Term Suggestions = WikiWax

Surfwax has just launched its LookAhead search term suggestion technology combined with Wikipedia into a new site calledWikiWax. Over 600,000 Wikipedia index…

By Gary Price · 21 Mar 2005