SERPs.
Microsoft Announces Changes To adCenter
The changes were announced at the adCenter blog. The most intriguing part of their announcement is that they are basing the changes on “user’s likely intent”. How you…
Voting Helps Dining Search, But Not Enough
Voting is one of the methods that we all accept for refining search results. While voting helps from a directional standpoint, results…
Buying Your Way In: Search Engine Advertising Chart
Do search engines sell listings? Yes. Should searchers fear this? Not necessarily. Paid listings generate revenue for search engines, which in turn…
Google to Index Subscription Based Content
In the Google Groups, Adam Lasnik posted a comment that included a statement that Google is working on something to allow crawling…
Personalization, SEO, and Web Marketing
Gord Hotchkiss recently interviewed Matt Cutts in a discussion that focused on personalization and the future of SEO. Kevin Newcomb also comments…
Google and the Site: Command Glitch
Is this worth a 4.0 on the SEO Richter scale? Probably not. Just a rumble really, but oh how nothing shakes up…
Google Mixes Videos in Organic Result
Looks like Google is experimenting with including videos in the organic results. Razvan Antonescu while searching in Google for “nightwish videos,” was…
Krugle Adds Microsoft CodePlex to its Index
Krugle seems to be on a roll of late. Hot on the heels of their announcement about providing code search integrated into…
HotFrog Brings Web 2.0. to U.K. Business Lookups
The curiously named Australian online directory HotFrog launched today in the UK. Like its Austrailian forbearer, the site brings the buzzcloud concept…
Google Image Search Redesigned
Users of Google Image Search will find a changed, redesign results page. The search results no longer present the image, file name,…
Improve Your WordPress Search Results
Getting a WordPress blog up and running is easy. However, getting the best search results from your WordPress blog has typically required…
New Social Search Engine Targets Boomers
Eons, a social network for the over-50 crowd launched last year by Monster.com founder Jeff Taylor, has launched a new Web search…
Search YouTube Content with Podzinger
Podzinger, the speech-to-text video and audio search engine, has announced the extension of their technology to searching the content in YouTube videos.…
Google Search Appliance adds new features to customize enterprise search
Earlier today, Google announced some new features for the Google Search Appliance that give enterprise customers the ability to customize search results…
Ask.com Using Ask X As Testing Ground
As the about page explains, this is Ask’s “double-secret sandbox for testing Ask experiences of the future”. The layout is new with…
Google Blog Results Search Creep
Andy Boyd found Google testing blog search results at the bottom of the Google search results. He posted a screen capture here,…
Yahoo Asking Users To Rate Usefulness Of Search Results
SEOdisco has screen captures of Yahoo asking him to rate how useful he finds the first two organic results for his search…
Customized Search From Optevi And Microsoft
In writing about the launch of Google Custom Search Engine, I neglected to mention a couple of other companies doing similar things.…
Ask.com Using Paid Search On Google As Promotion
I reported at the Search Engine Roundtable that Ask.com Advertises on Google.com To Promote Search Quality of Engine. A search on Raccoon…
Citysearch Adds SMS-Based Local Search For Mobile Phones
Citysearch formally launched its text-based mobile local search service today: CS411 (27411). There’s also a send-to-phone feature (see, e.g., “Hotels, Burbank CA“).…
Google Wins Case Against Maughan Over Search Results Snippets
Eric Goldman reports that Google has won the Maughan v. Google case where Mark Maughan filed a suit against Google for the…
Microsoft Partners With Blinkx On Video Search
Blinkx signs Microsoft pact from Reuters covers how video search company Blinkx is expected to announce today a partnership with Microsoft to…
Google’s Matt Cutts Answers Questions On PageRank
Ever since Google has become popular, SEOs and webmasters have been trying to uncover the hidden secrets of Google’s PageRank. Last night,…
Fun and Profit with Search Ad Arbitrage
Clever (some would say evil) search advertisers are taking advantage of price differences in search advertising programs by buying comparatively inexpensive paid…
Google News Archive Search Creep
Earlier this week Google released Google News Archive Search, and I just spotted that database being integrated into Google Search results. I…
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