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New French Relevancy Study Puts Yahoo & Google Tied For First But Search Overall As Disappointing

Jean Véronis has published the results of a relevancy study he conducted with his students at the Université de Provence showing that, at least for French searches, Google…

By Danny Sullivan · 07 Mar 2006

Industry

Google “Ashley Cole Gay” Results Suggestion Prompts Questions From His Solicitor

Google may face legal action over Ashley Cole searches over at Pink News covers how English footballer Ashley Cole might be upset…

By Danny Sullivan · 06 Mar 2006

Industry

Daily SearchCast, March 2, 2006: Special SES NY Edition, Search Advertising: Now & Future Panel

Today’s search podcast is the fourth of special editions out of the Search Engine Strategies conference in New York this week. It…

By Danny Sullivan · 05 Mar 2006

Industry

Search Forums Roundup: Mar. 3, 2006

Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web:…

By rumo · 03 Mar 2006

Analytics

Study: Offline Conversions Key to Understanding True Search Marketing ROI

New research from iProspect and Jupiter Research shows that even though shoppers are using search engines to research products, nearly half are…

By rumo · 28 Feb 2006

Industry

Department of Justice Rejects Google’s Claims of Privacy Threat

Internet.com reports in Google Search Request Not a Privacy Threat that the Department of Justice has rejected Google’s argument that handing over…

By Barry Schwartz · 28 Feb 2006

Industry

Ask Upgrades and Rebrands Flagship Search Engine

Ask has finally taken the long-expected step of retiring its mascot, Jeeves, and rebranding its search engine. But today’s rebranding goes far…

By rumo · 27 Feb 2006

Industry

Ask Jeeves Gets New Menu Sidebar, Maps; Retires Teoma

Chris Sherman will have a more formal write-up later in SearchDay about new changes you can now spot up on Ask, in…

By Danny Sullivan · 26 Feb 2006

Industry

Search Forums Roundup: Feb. 24, 2006

Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web:…

By rumo · 24 Feb 2006

Analytics

60% Oppose Search Engines Storing Search Behaviors

A study conducted by the University of Connecticut showed that 60% of users are opposed to search engines permanently storing their search…

By Barry Schwartz · 23 Feb 2006

Analytics

Google Tops Search Loyalty Study, Though Many Searchers Aren’t That Loyal

A new search loyalty study by Compete shows that Google leads its competitors by far in having the most loyal searchers, those…

By Danny Sullivan · 21 Feb 2006

SEO

Search Marketing for News and Blog Services

While a good search marketing campaign is obviously targeted first and foremost at the major search engines, other sources of traffic are…

By rumo · 21 Feb 2006

Industry

News Search Engine Optimization

News search engines offer companies a great way to receive targeted traffic related to breaking topics through press releases and other public…

By Shari Thurow · 21 Feb 2006

Industry

Farewell, Mr. Jeeves

Jeeves, the butler mascot for Ask Jeeves, is retiring, with the search engine slimming down to its long used but little promoted…

By rumo · 20 Feb 2006

Industry

Search Forums Roundup: Feb. 17, 2006

Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web:…

By rumo · 17 Feb 2006

Analytics

AOL Leads in Online Conversions; Google Falls in Last

WebSideStory conducted a new study that revealed Conversion Rates for Each Major Search Engine. For the month of January, AOL lead the…

By Barry Schwartz · 16 Feb 2006

Industry

Highlights from the SEW Blog: Feb. 16, 2006

Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary search headlines from around the web.

By Chris Sherman · 16 Feb 2006

Industry

Man’s Search Query to be Used in Court Case

The Associate Press reports on a story about Neil Entwistle searching at a search engine on the word “killing” days before “his…

By Barry Schwartz · 15 Feb 2006

Social

Filter By Authority is Added to Technorati Search

Search Engine Journal reports that Technorati added an “authority slider” to its search engine. The search slider enables you to set the…

By Barry Schwartz · 14 Feb 2006

Industry

Search Engine Roundtable To Provide Quadruple Coverage of SES NYC Conference

Search Engine Strategies NYC is coming up and with Barry Diller keynoting, hotel rooms are selling like hot cakes. This is one…

By Barry Schwartz · 13 Feb 2006

Industry

MSN Search Offers Prizes to Search

Today, MSN Search launched MSN Search and Win, an MSN search portal that allows you to search and win money. According to…

By Barry Schwartz · 13 Feb 2006

SEO

Yahoo! Issues “Beliefs”

Search engines are navigating rough political waters, both at home and abroad. They’re filtering search results in China and other countries that…

By rumo · 13 Feb 2006

SEO

Google Officially Confirms Traffic-Power Ban From Index

Google’s Matt Cutts has provided official confirmation of a ban on the Traffic-Power domain name and some Traffic-Power client sites. Matt writes…

By Barry Schwartz · 13 Feb 2006

SEO

Specialized Search Tools for Academic Content

When you’re looking for magazine or journal articles, search engines can be helpful, but other specialized search tools are often a better…

By rumo · 13 Feb 2006

Local

FareCompare Adds Flight Costs to Google Maps

Every want to just go fly somewhere but didn’t care where it was, as long as it wasn’t too expensive? SYS-CON Media…

By Barry Schwartz · 10 Feb 2006

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