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Time Warner Keeping AOL

Via Threadwatch, Time Warner Head Says AOL Is the Company’s Future from the New York Times covers how Time Warner sees AOL as a key asset for Time…

By Danny Sullivan · 23 Sep 2005

SEO

Your Chariot Awaits

If this doesn’t prove online advertising is back, I don’t know what does. Remember a couple of years ago when you were…

By rumo · 22 Sep 2005

Analytics

Microsoft Quashes Search Relevancy Report

New Search Engine From Microsoft Gets Cool Welcome from the Wall Street Journal (paid reg. required) delves into the rumors we heard…

By Danny Sullivan · 22 Sep 2005

SEO

Meta Searching for Relevancy, Using Your Own Rules

Myriad Search is a new tool from Aaron Wall’s Free Open Source SEO Tools site that allows you to play around with…

By rumo · 22 Sep 2005

Industry

Myriad Search: Meta Search Your Way

A new meta search engine allows you to compare results from the four top web search engines, and tweak their relative importance…

By Chris Sherman · 21 Sep 2005

Industry

Save the Time of the Searcher: Yahoo’s New “Quick Links”

On Search Engine Roundtable, Barry blogs about Yahoo’s new Quick Links feature that you’ll now find included in some Yahoo web results…

By Gary Price · 21 Sep 2005

Industry

Daily SearchCast, Sept. 20, 2005: Google’s Internet Access Plans, Yahoo Trust Questions, Google’s Stealth Partner Event, “Miserable Failure” Result Just A “Prank,” Getting Unbanned On Google & More!

Today’s search podcast covers Google growing its own broadband network and offering secure wireless connections, Google’s philosophical truisms being in need of…

By Danny Sullivan · 20 Sep 2005

Analytics

Search Drives One In Five Visits To Car Sites

Yahoo!: One In Five Land On Car Sites Via Search from MediaPost looks at a new study from Yahoo finding that one…

By Danny Sullivan · 20 Sep 2005

Industry

Google Earth Gains National Geographic Content Links

Running the Google Earth software? The Google Blog notes that there are new "National Geographic" layers you can enable. Switch these on,…

By Danny Sullivan · 19 Sep 2005

Industry

Yahoo Cache Now Offers Direct Links to Wayback Machine

It appears that Yahoo has joined Gigablast and Clusty and is now providing direct links to “archived” versions of pages via The…

By Gary Price · 18 Sep 2005

Industry

Search Forums Roundup: Sep. 16, 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 · 16 Sep 2005

Industry

Microsoft Talks To Time Warner About Acquiring a Piece of AOL

Via a post in our forums, we learn of a NY Post article: AOL’s Time May Be Up, about Microsoft talking with…

By Gary Price · 15 Sep 2005

PPC

Class Action Suit On Click Fraud STILL To Stay In Arkansas

Google Suit Sent Back to State Court from the Associated Press notes that a class-action lawsuit against Google, Yahoo and other search…

By Danny Sullivan · 15 Sep 2005

Industry

New Yahoo Instant Search Gives Answers Directly — No Results Page Required

A weird one for you, but sounds pretty cool. Yahoo’s given the heads-up that a new Instant Search feature is to be…

By Danny Sullivan · 14 Sep 2005

SEO

Pokemon Meets Advertising Week?

Fond of advertising spokes-characters and slogans? Collect all 52! That’s the idea behind a digital trading cards game cooked up by Yahoo!…

By rumo · 13 Sep 2005

Industry

Daily SearchCast, Sept. 13, 2005: Microsoft Challenges, Yahoo’s Own Media Content, Fight Over Gmail, New Blog Search Tool, Katrina Missing Persons Search From Google, An API Search Tool, Google Force One & More!

Today’s search podcast cover Ask Jeeves’s CEO on future growth, Microsoft’s growth issues, Yahoo doing its own media, Geico telling competitors not…

By Danny Sullivan · 13 Sep 2005

Mobile

Mobile Search Done By Few, But Still Popular Mobile Internet Activity Overall

How’s search as a mobile internet activity? The Utilitarian Life of the Mobile Internet at ClickZ cites stats saying it’s the third…

By Danny Sullivan · 13 Sep 2005

Analytics

Fathom Launches Online Marketing Analytics Tool

Fathom Breaks Into Analytics from ClickZ covers Fathom Online offering a new tool to give advertisers and agencies a “dashboard” to analyze…

By Danny Sullivan · 13 Sep 2005

Industry

Challenges Microsoft Faces

Microsoft’s Midlife Crisis from Forbes looks at challenges ahead for Microsoft as sales for the first time show less than double-digit growth…

By Danny Sullivan · 13 Sep 2005

Video

Looking for Katrina Images On Google & Yahoo

Over the weekend I went searching for Hurricane Katrina imagery in the Google Images and Yahoo Images databases. It’s been two weeks…

By Gary Price · 12 Sep 2005

SEO

WebPosition 4 Released

Long-time rank checking and page analysis tool WebPosition is out now as WebPosition 4. Haven’t seen any reviews yet, from the company…

By Danny Sullivan · 12 Sep 2005

Industry

New Katrina Missing Persons Meta Search Site & Spidering Issues With Red Cross Site

Katrina Search is another new service designed to let you meta search from a variety of web sites that have information about…

By Danny Sullivan · 12 Sep 2005

Industry

Ask Jeeves CEO: We Rock, & Will Only Get Better

Many people wondered what fate would befall Ask Jeeves once it was subsumed into Barry Diller’s sprawling InterActive Corp online empire. Would…

By rumo · 12 Sep 2005

Industry

New Technique To Count All Pages In Google Index, Sort Of

Further to my previous post on the Google index update/size increase, there appears to be a new way to count all the…

By Danny Sullivan · 09 Sep 2005

Analytics

Squeezing The Search Engine Loaf For Freshness

Phil Bradley points to this research paper, The Freshness Of Web Search Engines’ Databases (PDF), out of Heinrich-Heine-University in Dusseldorf that analyzed…

By Danny Sullivan · 08 Sep 2005

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