Search Engine News
This section provides a daily dose of regularly updated Search Engine News.How Much Search Traffic Do You Get from Google?
Ad: Convert visitors with Google Analytics - free There's a poll going on at DigitalPoint Forums to discern how much search traffic comes to a variety of sites versus other search engines. And surprisingly, Google has come out the victor, claiming the majority of the vote: 90% of search traffic comes from Google (14 votes). In second place, 50-80% of search traffic has only garnered 7 ...
11/19/2007 8:54:43 AM
• Social Bookmarking Sites Which Dont Use NoFollow : Bookmarks and Search Engines
Social bookmarking allows web users to search, share, organize, and store the bookmarks of different web pages. This can be done publicly or privately (in private groups), or a combination of the two.
11/18/2007 10:01:50 AM
Google Favored Over Other Search Engines By Webmasters
Website policy makers who use robots.txt files as gatekeepers to specify what is open and what is off limits to Web crawlers have a preference for Google over other search engines, say researchers whose study of more than 7,500 Websites revealed Google's advantage. "With the preference, Google can index some information which other search engines can't," according to one of the researchers.
11/16/2007 10:03:27 AM
Webmasters Robot.txt files Prefer Google Over Other Search Engines
A study conducted by some Penn State University researchers revealed that webmasters who use robot.txt files to determine which part of their sites are open or close to web crawlers, favors Google’s spiders and bots over other search engines. Using a new search engine which the researchers themselves have created specifically for the study, it [...]
11/16/2007 12:55:44 AM
Study shows Google favored over other search engines by webmasters
Web site policy makers who use robots.txt files as gatekeepers to specify what is open and what is off limits to Web crawlers have a bias that favors Google over other search engines, say Penn State researchers whose study of more than 7,500 Web sites revealed Google's advantage.
11/15/2007 11:21:21 AM
Searchboth.com Combines Search Results of Search Engines
Searchboth.com, a search engine that previously displays search results for both Google and Yahoo search side by side on a split screen has expanded its reach and now includes an option to display search results from other search engines. Users of the site now have the option to choose results from other search engines which [...]
11/14/2007 10:26:21 PM
SearchBoth.com Enables Users to Search Both Google and Yahoo or Your Choice of Any Two Search Engines, and Any Two ...
SearchBoth.com Enables Users to Search Both Google and Yahoo or Your Choice of Any Two Search Engines, and Any Two Travel Sites at the Same Time by Placing Both Sites on a Split Screen.
11/14/2007 6:42:46 AM
Search Illustrated: Podcast Optimization
Optimizing your audio files takes more than just recording your message. Today's infographic details the steps needed to ensure your podcasts have the best potential of being found by the listeners and search engines alike: Click to continue reading...
11/13/2007 12:14:30 PM
• Australian Online School Launches Worlds First Search Engine Wiki
Australian online training institution Search Engine College has recently launched Search Engine Wiki (BETA), the world's first vertical wiki dedicated to search engines and search engine marketing.
11/13/2007 3:01:50 AM
Live Search Plunges Into Electronics Vertical
Holiday shopping patterns mean all kinds of businesses can profit from the fourth quarter shopping frenzy. That includes search engines, as Microsoft demonstrated more of its vertical search strategy. You have to fish where the fish swim, and as we noted in October, Microsoft plans to swim in the vertical search market. Their Live Search blog stated previously that the company would ...
11/12/2007 12:32:23 PM
Search Engine College Launches World First: Search Engine Wiki (BETA)
Online training institution Search Engine College, has today launched Search Engine Wiki (BETA), the world's first vertical wiki dedicated to search engines and search engine marketing. The idea behind Search Engine Wiki is to provide a collaborative online library of search engine marketing (SEM) resources. (PRWeb Nov 12, 2007) Post Comment:Trackback URL: ...
11/12/2007 2:21:42 AM
Current and Future Search Trends: What the Top Internet Search Engines Are Doing
The future of search is unclear - what is clear is that change is rapidly happening for all of the top Internet search engines. Google as always is the frontrunner for many of these search trends, but even little guys like Ask.com are making waves. In this article, I will attempt to cover some of the more interesting search trends that are occurring today with the top Internet search engines - ...
11/8/2007 8:15:33 PM
Copied Song Lyrics Outrank Originals In Search Engines
Report says that official Yahoo Music song lyric pages rank lower, even in Yahoo's own search engine, than copied lyrics pages.
11/7/2007 3:57:00 PM
Vertical Search & Tapping the B2B Tech-Buyer Market
The B2B audience: we know their needs are not being entirely met by general search engines and they are the buyers with the largest budgets. But do we truly understand their needs and tendencies? With the results of a recent survey by Enquiro, “Marketing to a B2B Technical Buyer” we are now closer to tapping [...]
11/7/2007 1:11:15 PM
Microsoft Live Search Site Submission Working Again
If you still take the time to actually submit new sites to search engines (as opposed to informing their bots that the new site exists via linking to it, bookmarking it, leaving a comment on a blog or registering it), mark down on your to-do list that Microsoft’s Live Search Site Submission Form is working [...]
11/7/2007 1:10:56 PM
Top Search Engines to Launch infoUSA(R) Business Photo Database
OMAHA, Neb.----infoUSA® , the leading provider of proprietary business and consumer databases, sales leads, direct marketing, and email marketing, today announced that four of the top five search engines will launch infoUSA business photographs in their online directory applications by the end of 2007.
11/7/2007 12:54:00 PM
The Quaero project - new European search technology
In the first of several articles on European search engine research, Pandia takes a look at the French search engine Quaero.
11/4/2007 11:23:25 AM
Chinese attack on Western search engines
Several sites report today that Chinese ISPs are redirecting searches made on Google Blogsearch and other search engines to the Chinese search engine Baidu.
11/4/2007 11:22:35 AM
GetItNext Builds eBay Search Engine from Scratch
GetItNext is a search engine pitched as an easier way to find items on eBay. A new feature on the site is targeting PowerSellers looking for inventory on eBay to resell.
11/4/2007 8:00:21 AM
What is Behind the Speed of Google's Search Engine?
When search engines parse through billions of websites to find results that are relevant, it's somewhat miraculous, to say the least. A WebmasterWorld thread asks, "how does Google do it?" There are a few parts to this answer: the Google File System is "a scalable distributed file system for large distributed data-intensive applications. It provides fault tolerance while running on ...
11/2/2007 10:17:43 AM
lastminute.com Selects Pixsy for Multimedia Travel Search
Pixsy Corporation, a media search platform that powers private label video and image search engines, announced an agreement with online travel and leisure retailer lastminute.com.
11/1/2007 11:01:04 PM
Building Your Own Local Search Engine
Quite a few bloggers out there have clued-in to how using Eurekster’s Swickis on their blogs can be a cool feature enhancement, providing custom thematic search engines for their users. If you have a blog that focuses on particular subject matter, inclusion of useful links and other features like these custom search engines can help to build loyalty and return visits. But, for webmasters ...
11/1/2007 3:17:15 PM
Are You Endorsed By The Search Engines?
Each of the major search engines has a certification program that an individual or agency can use to show their accreditation status to prospective clients. While it takes a bit of time and effort to achieve accreditation with Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, there are several important ways in which these certifications can be used, and all have payoffs for those willing to go the extra ...
10/30/2007 4:58:54 AM
Dogpile(R) Does It Again - Outranks Other Search Engines in Customer Satisfaction for Second Consecutive Year
BELLEVUE, Wash.----Dogpile.com, the search engine that combines the top results from the leading search engines, ranked highest in customer satisfaction among search engines for the second consecutive year, according to the J.D.
10/30/2007 2:01:00 AM
lastminute.com opts for Pixsy for multimedia travel search
Pixsy is a media search platform that powers private label video and image search engines. Pixsy's media search technology enables lastminute.com to operate a vertical multimedia search engine, giving users the ability to search millions of travel photos and videos while simultaneously shopping for travel services.
10/29/2007 2:49:02 AM
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