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Jux2 Goes Offline

Some sad news to report. Jux2, the winner of the Search Engine Watch 2004 best meta search engine award, is no longer available. Over the weekend, Aaref A.…

By Gary Price · 31 May 2005

Industry

Submitting RSS Feeds To Yahoo

Yahoo has been accepting RSS feeds for some time. However, it recently released a Publisher's Guide To RSS that formalizes some submission…

By Danny Sullivan · 30 May 2005

Industry

Search Forums Roundup: May 27, 2005

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 · 27 May 2005

SEO

Types Of Links To Lead Search Engines To Your Site

Threads of the Web – Linking for Success from Scottie Claiborne at Search Engine Guide is a nice overview to the types…

By Danny Sullivan · 27 May 2005

Industry

Information Week Publishes Interview With Eric Schmidt

Information Week has just published a three page Q&A interview with Google CEO, Eric Schmidt. The article focuses on Google’s involvement in…

By Gary Price · 26 May 2005

Industry

Booting Copyright Infringers From Search Listings

Pursuing Copyright Infringers from Scottie Claiborne over at Search Engine Guide has a nice rundown on what to do if you find…

By Danny Sullivan · 26 May 2005

Video

BitTorrent Search Opens; Ask Jeeves Ads There Actually From Google

The BitTorrent search engine that Wired reported on Monday is now live on the BitTorrent home page and at search.bittorent.com. When I…

By Gary Price · 26 May 2005

Industry

Forget Google Print Copyright Infringement; Search Engines Already Infringe

Gary blogged earlier about the Association of American University Presses having concerns that Google Print’s digital library program may be equal to…

By Danny Sullivan · 25 May 2005

Industry

An Upstart Challenger to Web Search Giants

You don’t see many new general purpose search engines emerge these days—the major players pretty much dominate, and it takes a lot…

By rumo · 24 May 2005

Mobile

Personalization for the Mobile Web Searcher

TheFeature’s Peggy Ann Salz conducts an interview with search engine personalization expert Barry Smyth about using personalization to improve the online experience…

By Gary Price · 23 May 2005

Industry

BitTorrent Plans to Launch Search Engine & Carry Ask Jeeves Ads

While several earch tools exist to find BitTorrent material (movies, music, software and other files), the service itself has not offered its…

By Gary Price · 23 May 2005

Industry

Search Forums Roundup: May 23, 2005

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 · 23 May 2005

Industry

New South African Web Engine Now Online

If you track regional search engines you might be interested in a new service that searches only pages from the South Africa…

By Gary Price · 22 May 2005

SEO

Don’t Blindside Disabled Users with Snarky SEO

If you’re using even seemingly harmless search engine optimization techniques, your pages may be perceived as spam or even worse by users…

By rumo · 19 May 2005

SEO

Time For Search Standards For Titles & Description?

I’ve written before about how it is becoming more noticeable that Google may substitute titles and descriptions from the Open Directory for…

By Danny Sullivan · 19 May 2005

Analytics

RustySearch Search Relevancy Challenge: Everyone’s Pretty Average, So Far

Barry Schwartz’s Search Engine Relevancy Challenge is still going strong at RustySearch. How’s it going so far? He’s had 5,000 rated search…

By Danny Sullivan · 17 May 2005

Analytics

New Estimate Puts Web Size At 11.5 Billion Pages & Compares Search Engine Coverage

It has been ages since I’ve seen anyone try to estimate the size of the web. Now a new paper puts it…

By Danny Sullivan · 17 May 2005

Analytics

Questions Raised On ClickTracks Use Of Alt Text

Over on Threadwatch, Clicktracks Inserting Hidden Links in Customers Pages? has discussion of how ClickTracks tracking code made use of an ALT…

By Danny Sullivan · 17 May 2005

Content

Search Engines and King Content

Thousands of articles, books and forum entries detail how to make your site search engine friendly, but ultimately, one rule stands above…

By Tony Wright · 16 May 2005

Industry

Don’t Like Google? Declare Your Site A Google Free Zone!

It’s not unusual to hear people express all types of gripes about Google, but it is extremely rare for someone to actually…

By Danny Sullivan · 16 May 2005

Industry

Search Forums Roundup: May 13, 2005

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 · 13 May 2005

PPC

Study On How Much Search Screen Real Estate Devoted To Paid Content

How Much of It is Real? Analysis of Paid Placement in Web Search Engine Results is a study now out that looks…

By Danny Sullivan · 13 May 2005

Industry

Singingfish Gains Reuters News Clips

Singingfish, AOL’s multimedia search engine, is now carrying content from Reuters. The new deal means that breaking and archived video news clips…

By Danny Sullivan · 13 May 2005

Industry

Dogpile Gets New Look, Overlap Comparison Tool & Study

Dogpile has released a significant upgrade to its meta search engine, allowing easy comparison of search results across the major search engines.…

By rumo · 12 May 2005

Industry

Dogpile Enhances Meta Search, Offers Comparison Tools

Dogpile has redesigned its meta search site and introduced a nifty new utility that visually displays the overlap (or lack thereof) of…

By Chris Sherman · 11 May 2005

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