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Google, House Ads & Competing With The Hand That Feeds

Andrew Goodman has a brief complaint about doing a search on Google and finding one of the horizontal ad positions used as a house ad to promote how…

By Danny Sullivan · 08 Dec 2004

Industry

My Letter To Playboy

Dear Playboy. I never thought I’d be writing you a letter, but I was in my dorm room one day, and… Seriously,…

By Danny Sullivan · 07 Dec 2004

Industry

Accoona, Artificial Intelligence and Hype

Gary blogged yesterday’s launch of new search engine Accoona, and has followed up with a closer look in today’s SearchDay article, Accoona…

By rumo · 07 Dec 2004

SEO

Wishing For Better Anchor Text Searching

I’ve written before that on my wishlist would be for Google and its competitors to offer the ability to search for links…

By Danny Sullivan · 07 Dec 2004

Industry

Accoona Launches, But Isn’t Ready for Prime Time

New search engine Accoona launched with great fanfare last night, but hold the applause. It's a promising start, but testing shows Accoona…

By Gary Price · 07 Dec 2004

Industry

Spin the MSN Search Wheel

IMediaConnection offers a look at one part of Microsoft’s ad campaign for their new search engine offering comments from two experts and…

By Gary Price · 06 Dec 2004

Industry

Former Compaq CEO Takes Top Job at Search Company

Eckhard Pfeiffer, the former CEO at Compaq, has been appointed as CEO at new business search engine Accoona. Accoona, set to launch…

By Gary Price · 03 Dec 2004

Industry

Search Forums Roundup: Dec. 3, 2004

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 Dec 2004

SEO

MSN Rank Checker & Other Gadgets

Search engines have generally disliked rank checking tools, so what a surprise to read on the official MSN Search Blog a tip…

By Danny Sullivan · 02 Dec 2004

Industry

Shopping Search Tips For Advertisers & Merchants

Chris has blogged earlier about articles appearing this week as part of SearchDay’s Shopping Search Week 2004. In addition, he’s also drafted…

By Danny Sullivan · 01 Dec 2004

Industry

What’s New at NexTag, PriceGrabber, Shopping.com and Yahoo Shopping

Shopping search isn’t just about finding the lowest price on products any more. The major shopping and product comparison services have significantly…

By rumo · 01 Dec 2004

Industry

Working With Google Scholar — And More Approved Cloaking

Leigh Dodds provides a great rundown in his Google Scholar piece about one aggregator’s experience in getting content prepared for entry into…

By Danny Sullivan · 01 Dec 2004

SEO

Microsoft Blogger Scoble Sticks With Google — Though MSN Deserves A Break

He might work for Microsoft, but blogvangelist Robert Scoble says he’s sticking with Google over his company’s own search engine for now.…

By Danny Sullivan · 30 Nov 2004

Industry

Lycos Reselling SEO

There’s discussion on our forums about Lycos reselling SEO services, causing some firms to wonder if more search engines will do the…

By Danny Sullivan · 30 Nov 2004

Industry

What’s New at Shopzilla, Froogle, and MSN Shopping

It’s been a busy year for the major shopping search services. BizRate re-engineered its search engine and changed its name to Shopzilla,…

By rumo · 30 Nov 2004

Industry

Snap.Com Profiled

The Pasadena Star-News offers has published a profile of Idealab’s Snap.com. [Snap.com] replaces the traditional “pay-per- click’ search model, in which an…

By Gary Price · 28 Nov 2004

Industry

Mamma Has Plans to Acquire Copernic

Mamma.com, the Montreal-based metasearch engine has signed a letter-of-intent to acquire Copernic. Copernic, also a Canadian company, offers several desktop and enterprise…

By Gary Price · 25 Nov 2004

PPC

More on Search Engine Disclosure

In yesterday’s Search Engine Disclosure: Better, but Still Wanting, I wrote about a new report by Consumer WebWatch, which evaluated the current…

By rumo · 24 Nov 2004

Social

Updated Version of Creative Commons Search Engine Now Available

A news release on the Creative Commons site lets us know that an “updated version of their Nutch-based search tool is now…

By Gary Price · 23 Nov 2004

SEO

Keeping Secure When Using Robots.txt

Many know that the robots.txt file is a way to prevent search engines from spidering content. However, using it may also cause…

By Danny Sullivan · 23 Nov 2004

Industry

Short Review Of Shopping Search Engines

From the San Jose Mercury News, Sites tell where to shop on the Web is a nice, short review of shopping search…

By Danny Sullivan · 23 Nov 2004

SEO

Site Building Blocks For SEO Success

Shari Thurow takes a look a key site architecture issues to consider if you’re looking for better performance with search engines. From…

By Danny Sullivan · 23 Nov 2004

PPC

Search Engine Disclosure Improving, says Consumer WebWatch

Back in 2001, consumer watchdog Commercial Alert filed a complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission against a number of prominent search…

By rumo · 23 Nov 2004

Local

PremierGuide Profile

The Silicon Valley Business Journal offers a profile of local search player PremierGuide in the article: Alchemy: Local ads good as gold.…

By Gary Price · 19 Nov 2004

Industry

Search Engine Forums Spotlight: Nov. 19, 2004

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 · 19 Nov 2004

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