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January 06, 20062005 Search Engine Trends and a Pile of Predictions
The search engines have done their usual trend-looking for 2005, so let's take a brief look ourselves, shall we? Google has their 2005 Zeitgeist at http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist2005.html. The first page has just a few listings -- the top gainers for Google...
Continue reading "2005 Search Engine Trends and a Pile of Predictions" » December 24, 2005A Search Engine Based on Site Maps
This is kinda interesting. There's a search engine that's doing nothing but taking submissions of Google-type sitemaps. Try it out at http://www.sitemapengine.com/index.php. There's a link to upload the site map, a page explaining the search engine, and pointers to...
December 23, 2005Gravee: Get Your Context Indexed, Share Ad Revenue
There's a new search engine in town. Gravee, at http://www.gravee.com/, offers to share ad revenue with content owners who allow their content to be indexed. Initially I thought this was a cool idea but the more I think about it...
Continue reading "Gravee: Get Your Context Indexed, Share Ad Revenue" » October 31, 2005Search Engine Logo Generating Silliness
If you're not content with the Google and Yahoo logos as they are, then visit http://googlefor.com and http://yahoofor.com/, respectively. These two sites will take the text that you specify and generate it in Yahoo or Google font. Beyond that, they'll...
Continue reading "Search Engine Logo Generating Silliness" » September 25, 2005Angels and Pinheads and Search Engine Page Counting
When I was at Web Search University someone started talking to me about the negative-only searches I was doing in Google - like -the -the -the -the -the - and affectionately pointed out that I'm a total nerd. Which I...
Continue reading "Angels and Pinheads and Search Engine Page Counting" » September 12, 2005Ask Kalena For SEO Information
I would get around to covering this when she takes a week off. Ask Kalena ( http://www.searchenginecollege.com/blog.htm ) describes itself as the first agony aunt for the search engine industry. I don't do much SEO and I don't know much...
March 05, 2005People Are Using More Than One Search Engine
Nielsen//NetRatings sent out what was to me a very heartening press release on February 28. The press release stated that "a minority of searchers exclusively use only one of the top three search engines-Google Search, Yahoo! Search and MSN Search."...
Continue reading "People Are Using More Than One Search Engine" » December 01, 2004eWeek 2004 Search Roundup
eWeek has a roundup of what happened in search in 2004. Get all the skinny at Story.news.yahoo.com. My prediction? You thought 2004 was something, 2005 is going to be even more hectic. The Microsoft hat is officially in the ring...
November 15, 2004Developer Contests A Go-Go
Both Feedster ( http://www.feedster.com ) and Technorati ( http://www.technorati.com ) have developer contests going. Oh, if I weren't such a neophyte perl programmer... Information on Feedster's is at http://feedster.blogs.com/corporate/2004/11/feedster_is_giv.html (entries are due December 5, so hurry up. They're giving away...
MSN Has Its Own Blog, Official Search Engine Blogs Abound
And did I mention that MSN now has its own blog for holding forth about search? For those of you playing along at home, the official search engine blogs go like this: MSN -- http://blogs.msdn.com/msnsearch/ (read about the first MSN...
Continue reading "MSN Has Its Own Blog, Official Search Engine Blogs Abound" » October 28, 2004Let's Talk Search/SEO Topics
If you're looking for a place to talk searching/SEO, check out ThreadWatch.org (http://www.threadwatch.org). The site is a sorta-cross between a blog in that SEO/searching news is posted blogstyle (it's mostly SEO -- designed for people interested in SEO) and then...
August 16, 2004Take A Search Engine Survey
Sid Yadav has opened up a survey on the future of search engines. It'll be up through mid-November. Take it at http://www.nextsearchsurvey.com/....
July 20, 2004BBC To Launch their Own Search Engine?
Is the BBC going to launch their own search engine? Well, I've certainly liked their content so far. You GO, Beeb. The more the merrier....
July 14, 2004Web Search Garage!
Well, it's official. Amazon page....
June 24, 2004SearchFight
Remember GoogleFight? SearchFight is like that only you can try your fight across multiple search engines. This is a good way to get a sense about the size of different search engines too. Why does potatoes always beat stuffing?...
June 09, 2004Search Engine Watch Adds Forums
SearchEngineWatch.com ( http://searchenginewatch.com ), has added some forums. These new forums include general search engine chatter, a place for SEO, and a spotlight forum for featured post. You can get full information about the new forums at the forum announcement:...
April 20, 2004Ideas for an Open Search Engine Index
If you're interested in the idea of a community-built search engine, you may want to wander over and investigate the offerings at Open Index ( http://www.openindex.org/ ). This site is not a specific project for building an open search engine...
February 03, 2004Dipsie Search Engine Stirring Some Buzz
It hasn't launched yet. There's not much on the Web site. I can't even find a press release. And yet Dipsie ( http://www.dipsie.com/ ) is getting a bit o' buzz around the Internet. It's got some interesting claims, but I'd...
Continue reading "Dipsie Search Engine Stirring Some Buzz" » December 09, 2003New Software to Block Sponsored Ad Results
InfoWorld is reporting ( http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/12/08/HNadsubtract_1.html ) that the new AdSubtract PRO Version 3 will include a feature called "Search Sanity," which will block paid advertisement results on search engines. While you hear of plenty of pop-up blockers, I don't recall...
Continue reading "New Software to Block Sponsored Ad Results" » February 08, 2000Popularity Engines
Traffick has an article looking at "Popularity Engines" like Direct Hit: http://www.traffick.com/story.asp?StoryID=53...
February 05, 2000I thought I saw that before
Ditto.com ( http://www.ditto.com ) is an image search engine that allows you to both browse by category or search by keyword. They claim to have no pornography: ""Human filters" preview every picture ditto.com shows, eliminating objectionable material and applying editorial...
February 02, 2000Better Internet Search Engines, part 3
Online Journalism Review columnist Paul Grabowicz has a column on his favorite search engine features at http://ojr.usc.edu/content/story.cfm?request=320 . If you like this article be sure to check out the other two parts (you'll find links at the right hand side...
August 19, 1998Search Engine Review
Wandering around the media... there's a good overview article that covers general search engines at http://www.editors-service.com/articlearchive/metasearch98.html ....
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