Search engines.
Searches Grow 55% & Google Gains 5.7% in Search Share
Late last month, Danny reported that the search share remained the “status quo.” The stats from Nielsen//NetRatings shows that search growth overall has increased 55 percent from December…
More European Automaker Sites Do Doorways & Should Search Engines Be Able To Enforce Spam Rules?
Dave Naylor’s been doing a tour of European automotive sites and finding others that are doing the doorway page dance that got…
Google Launches Robots.txt File Checker; Now We Need Robots.txt Standardization
Google now provides a way to check on that through the Google Sitemaps program. A real life example of how nice this…
France’s Exalead Continues Growing, Database Passes 4 Billion Page Mark
Throughout 2005 one of the most impressive new, general purpose, web engines was Exalead from France. Several of our posts are linked…
Search Forums Roundup: Feb. 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:…
Daily SearchCast, Feb. 2, 2006: US Congress Gets Statements, Not Search Reps On China; Google Bigdaddy Search Infrastructure Rolling Out & More!
Today’s search podcast covers search engines skipping a US Congress briefing on China censorship issues (but they’ll make the hearing later this month);…
Where on Earth?
Mapping and satellite imagery services from the major search engines have been getting a lot of buzz lately, but a number of…
New Study Reports that Search Sites Provides Twice the Conversion Rate When Compared With Other Acquisition Sources
The Dow Jones story: Search Sites Better At Getting Shoppers To Buy: Study, reports on new research from WebSideStory that shows search…
Search Forums Roundup: Jan. 27, 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:…
Microsoft Mix 06 Looks At Mashups, Web 2.0
Microsoft’s Mix 06 event in March doesn’t have much on search now other than letting Amazon pitch its Alexa Web Search Platform,…
Ask Jeeves’ New Image Search vs. the Competition
Image search is offered by all of the major search engines, and people tend to think it’s a fairly generic service, with…
Google & Search Engine Cached Pages Legal, If They Offer Opt-Out
Via Boing Boing and News.com, interesting news that a case saying the Google cache violates copyright has been ruled in Google’s favor.…
Latest NetRatings Stats Show Status Quo With Search Engines
I always warn not to worry much about month-to-month changes with search popularity stats. The now updated search engine popularity stats I’ve…
The Challenges of Marketing in the Search Tail
The search tail, the group of queries that are relatively unique, offer major opportunities for savvy search marketers, but effectively taking advantage…
Marketing in the Search Tail: Is the Pain Worth the Gain?
Popular search terms tend to dominate the headlines, but there are literally millions of unique searches conducted every day, and savvy search…
A Brief Look at Danny’s Appearance on Nightline
Danny’s appearance on ABC’s Nightline is over and within minutes of it ending I was able to access the transcript (thanks TVEyes…
Are Search Advertisers Paying More than they Need To?
Kevin Newcomb reports in the Clickz story: Search Ad Auction Models Flawed, Economists Say, that a new research paper reports that, “advertisers…
Keynote Says Google, Yahoo Preferred in North America
Keynote Systems has released the results of its annual study of North American searchers and their satisfaction with search engines. The study…
Survey: Google, Yahoo Still Favorites in North America
For the second year running, a Keynote Systems study says Google provides the most satisfying search experience among North American users, despite…
Report: Chinese Searchers Prefer Google Over Homegrown Baidu
Keynote Systems, a research firm that does annual studies of North American searchers and their satisfaction with search engines, has released its…
Nielsen//NetRatings Releases Top Engines (by share) and Top Search Terms for November 2005
Nielsen//NetRatings has just released (PDF) November 2005 search share rankings and top search terms. Search Share Google continued in first place with…
Search Marketing for Video Content
In today’s SearchDay article, Video Search: Still “Early Days”, guest writer Greg Jarboe offers coverage of a recent Search Engine Strategies panel…
Results from MSN Search Added to Jux2 Tool Metasearch and Results Comparison Tool
About a month ago I posted about the return of metasearch, search engine overlap and results comparison tool Jux2, after it was…
Jennifer Slegg Joins SEW Blog As Contextual Correspondent
I’ve written before that Search Engine Watch doesn’t focus on contextual advertising because it’s not search. Having said this, with two major…
Google-MSN Fight In Internet Explorer 7; Yahoo Pokes At Google In Firefox
Nacho points out in What? No Google on Vista? Google Strikes Back on IE 7! at Search Engine Roundtable a screenshot showing…
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