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Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Developments With Consumer Search

Danny Sullivan reflects on how this year, web search will morph into consumer search, where major search companies offer a robust range of ways to search for information…

By Danny Sullivan · 06 Jan 2005

SEO

Updates To SEW Search Term Research Resources

I’ve updated our long-standing What People Search For – Most Popular Keywords page to provide updated links to the ways major search…

By Danny Sullivan · 05 Jan 2005

Analytics

Survey Says: Google Workers Use Google 100 Percent!

In What Search Engines Do Search Engine Companies Use?, Nathan at InsideGoogle provides stats from Visitorville Intelligence showing what top search engines…

By Danny Sullivan · 05 Jan 2005

Industry

Talking About Search Engine Spam

Are white hatters naive by not being aggressive with SEO? Are black hatters unethical and subverting search quality by going too far…

By Danny Sullivan · 05 Jan 2005

Industry

Search Resolutions for the New Year

Now's an ideal time to reflect on your searching habits and ring in some changes that will make you a more effective…

By Chris Sherman · 05 Jan 2005

Industry

Yahoo!, SBC, and Others Partner to Create Home Entertainment Box

Convergence 2005! About six weeks ago I posted that Yahoo and SBC were planned to extend the types of services available via…

By Gary Price · 03 Jan 2005

Local

One-Stop Travel Search

2004 saw an increasing amount of attention given to travel search tools, particularly those that simultaneously search multiple databases. In fact, Yahoo…

By Gary Price · 27 Dec 2004

Industry

New Patents for Google, IBM, Yahoo & Others

I mentioned in a post about IBM yesterday that Big Blue has been racking up plenty of search patents. You’ll see several…

By Gary Price · 27 Dec 2004

Industry

Asking Search Engines Who’s The Top Search Engine

It’s been done before, but Gord Hotckiss takes a fresh look at what comes up tops for a search for “search engine”…

By Danny Sullivan · 23 Dec 2004

Analytics

Search Year In Review, With A Laugh

Peter Da Vanzo’s 2004: The Search Engine Year in Review article over at SearchEngineBlog.com (soon to gain the rightful tag, The Original…

By Danny Sullivan · 22 Dec 2004

SEO

Searching for Joy in All the Wrong Places

Here’s a trick question: When you’re looking up a phone number, would you use a dictionary or an encyclopedia? Neither? Good answer.…

By rumo · 22 Dec 2004

Industry

The Google/Yahoo Rivalry in 2005

The AP’s Michael Liedtke offers a look at what 2005 might bring to the Google/Yahoo rivalry. “We are compiling this collection of…

By Gary Price · 21 Dec 2004

Industry

Second-Tier Engines Provide Low-Priced Leads

Brian Morrisey at DM News writes that although second-tier engines don’t get the traffic Google and Yahoo offer, they do provide low-priced…

By Gary Price · 19 Dec 2004

Industry

Australia’s Sensis is Confident

The article: Sensis confident of online advertising success, takes a look at how the company’s ownership of content gives Sensis an advantage…

By Gary Price · 19 Dec 2004

Industry

Yahoo and Verity Announce Partnership

Some news that spans the enterprise and web search worlds. It’s also another example of the increasing importance of federated search tools.…

By Gary Price · 17 Dec 2004

Industry

Yahoo! About Ready to Open Development Centre in India

ExpressIndia lets us know that Yahoo will open a development centre in Chennai, India on December 24th.

By Gary Price · 16 Dec 2004

Industry

New From Yahoo!: Traffic Reports

Media Post has a news brief about Yahoo Local! making real-time traffic reports available for about 70 U.S. metropolitan areas. The real-time…

By Gary Price · 16 Dec 2004

Industry

Reports from SES: Day Two

Barry Schwartz (aka Rustybrick) continues offering highlights from various of SES sessions. Kudos Barry, keep up the good work. Here are links…

By Gary Price · 15 Dec 2004

Industry

Google Gets Another Magazine Cover

The new issue of Technology Review is out and guess who’s on the cover? Yes, it’s Google. Two covers in less than…

By Gary Price · 14 Dec 2004

Industry

Sullivan Speaks at SES

In: Search Industry Gains Clout, Susan Kuchinskas reports on Danny’s keynote address at SES. One big change in 2004 was the drop…

By Gary Price · 14 Dec 2004

Local

Say Hello to the Local Search Guide

Media Post reports on the launch of the Local Search Guide at SES in Chicago. The new online local advertising resource will…

By Gary Price · 14 Dec 2004

Industry

Yahoo Names Its First Chief Data Officer

Yahoo has named Dr. Usama Fayyad as Chief Data Officer and senior vice president of the Strategic Data Solutions group. Fayyad will…

By Gary Price · 13 Dec 2004

Industry

Google Suggest Offers Query Refinement

Google is long, long overdue to provide query refinement tools that other search engines have had for ages. You know, like if…

By Danny Sullivan · 10 Dec 2004

Industry

Yahoo Desktop Search Comes In January, Ask & MSN Later This Month

Yahoo has announced that it will release a desktop search product after the New Year, putting the search engine firmly in the…

By Danny Sullivan · 10 Dec 2004

Analytics

Forrester Stats, Search Defection & Vertical Search

Charlene Li shares some stats from internal Forrester research about search loyalty in The battle for search loyalty drives innovation. Is Google…

By Danny Sullivan · 09 Dec 2004

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