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Search Engines Handle No Index Inconsistently

Matt Cutts has a nice illustrated survey of how various major search engines deal with the meta noindex tag in Handling noindex meta tags. He finds inconsistency, with…

By Danny Sullivan · 31 Aug 2006

Industry

New Search Patent Filings: August 29, 2006 – Yahoo looks at Interactive TV and VOIP

Yahoo patent filings include one detailing bidding for placement in paid search, another describing a method of soliciting consumer reviews.

By Bill Slawski · 29 Aug 2006

Industry

Update On Coupon Shortcut, Yahoo Adds Cheap Shortcut

Last week I told you about Yahoo’s new Coupon Shortcut. In that post, I said that the comments on Adam Viener’s Revenews…

By Brian Smith · 29 Aug 2006

SEO

InsiderPages’ ‘Answers’

InsiderPages, one of the top “social directory” sites, has launched its equivalent of Yahoo!’s Answers: “Insider Advice.” It’s only available to members…

By Greg Sterling · 29 Aug 2006

Industry

eBay Signs International Paid Search Deal With Google

The Wall Street Journal reports that eBay has reached a deal with Google to offer up paid search ads “on eBay’s auction…

By Barry Schwartz · 28 Aug 2006

Industry

Google, Yahoo, & MSN Update Search Results

It appears that all the major search engines have been reported to be updating their indexes in some way. Google is updating…

By Barry Schwartz · 25 Aug 2006

Industry

Yahoo Search Integrates Flickr Images In Search Shortcuts

The Yahoo Search Blog announced that they have integrated Flickr images into their search results. So a search on funny photos or…

By Barry Schwartz · 24 Aug 2006

Industry

Hitwise Search Engine Ratings

The latest Hitwise ratings for search engines, showing which search engines are most popular, based on visits.

By Danny Sullivan · 22 Aug 2006

Industry

Nielsen NetRatings Search Engine Ratings

The latest Nielsen NetRatings statistics for search engines and portals, with a look at reasons for gains and losses.

By Danny Sullivan · 21 Aug 2006

Analytics

comScore Figures Show First Google Decline For Nearly A Year, But What To Believe?

The latest search engine share figures from comScore are now out, and Google’s nearly year-long continued rises have came to a halt…

By Danny Sullivan · 21 Aug 2006

Industry

Human Rights Group & UK House of Commons Demand Google, Yahoo, & Microsoft To Stop Censorship

Earlier this week, GameShout.com published an article reporting that Human Rights Watch group in New York told Google, Yahoo and Microsoft to…

By Barry Schwartz · 17 Aug 2006

Industry

Expose: Search Engine Bloggers Tell All

There is nothing like getting good scoop, and this is exactly what the panelists served up during the 2006 SES San Jose…

By Sara Holoubek · 16 Aug 2006

Industry

Yahoo Partners With Go2 For Mobile Search Ads

Forbes reports that Yahoo has signed an agreement with Go2, a mobile Yellow Pages directory service, to offer Yahoo sponsored search listings…

By Barry Schwartz · 16 Aug 2006

Industry

Yahoo Releases Yahoo Answers API

The Yahoo Search Blog announced the release of the Yahoo Answers API. The API will allow developers to pull questions from the…

By Barry Schwartz · 16 Aug 2006

Analytics

Yahoo, MSN, & Google Fall In Customer Satisfaction Survey

The American Customer Satisfaction Index has been released and Yahoo, MSN and Google all fell in points from last year’s results. If…

By Barry Schwartz · 15 Aug 2006

Industry

Search Headlines & Links: August 14, 2006

Below, a recap of stories posted today and over the weekend to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve…

By Danny Sullivan · 14 Aug 2006

Industry

Yahoo Hires Away comScore Executive

ClickZ reports that Yahoo has hired Peter Daboll, the president and CEO of comScore Media Metrix, to be the chief of insights…

By Barry Schwartz · 14 Aug 2006

Industry

Highlights from the SEW Blog: August 14, 2006

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

By Chris Sherman · 13 Aug 2006

Analytics

New Keyword Suggestion Tool Uses AOL Data

SEO Scoop spotted a new keyword suggestion tool that estimates the volume of traffic you can expect for a given query based…

By Barry Schwartz · 11 Aug 2006

Industry

Search Headlines & Links: August 10, 2006

Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged…

By Barry Schwartz · 10 Aug 2006

Industry

University of California Joins Google’s Book Scan Project

As expected the University of California is partnering with Google on the Google library scanning project. Reuters reports that Google will be…

By Barry Schwartz · 09 Aug 2006

PPC

Google Fights Claims Of Some Third Party Click Fraud Studies

The Google Blog just posted a report on how they feel some of the independent third party click fraud reports published are…

By Barry Schwartz · 08 Aug 2006

Analytics

Yahoo News Gains Search Engine News Market Share

comScore released a report showing Yahoo News has “31.2 million unique visitors” with 33 percent of all news traffic. Followed by Yahoo…

By Barry Schwartz · 08 Aug 2006

Industry

Google & MySpace In $900 Million Deal On Search & Contextual Ads

Just in, an announcement that Google and MySpace have reached a deal for Google to provide search and contextual ads to MySpace,…

By Danny Sullivan · 07 Aug 2006

Industry

Search Forums Roundup: Aug. 4, 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 · 04 Aug 2006

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