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Seen that? - It's a Fake
in House of Nintendo, on October 31, 2009
It's a Fake at House of Nintendo That's right, boys and girls, the hyrule.net image was a complete fake. The hyrule.net webmaster himself admitted to creating it, as you can read here. Pretty messed up, right? Maybe not. The way the image cre...
How Search Engines Judge Links
in The Search Engine Weblog, on October 25, 2009
© Max Klingensmith
Randfish had a good piece a while back on how search engine's decide the value of your links.
Randfish looks in detail at what search engines are are doing with their link metrics at the moment. Top of the list is teh value of links from outside your domain. As y...
Seen that? - The weekly trend in US stocks
in The Hedge Funds Weblog, on October 24, 2009
The weekly trend in US stocks at The Hedge Funds Weblog The Major US index`s ( Dow 30 , SP 500 and NASDAQ 100 ) Closed in Weekly sells. They joined Russell 2000 which has been in a Weekly Sell for 3 weeks. The action in the Markets have reflected...
Seen that? - Intel Capital Makes Swift Investments Post-Alibaba Deal
in China Venture News, on October 24, 2009
Intel Capital Makes Swift Investments Post-Alibaba Deal at China Venture News Intel Corporation's $200 million China Technology Fund has wasted little time making an undisclosed investment in three companies. Although industry analysts speculate that the i...
Seen that? - AOL, Yahoo Plan Paid E-Mail Service
in I got Spam?!, on October 21, 2009
AOL, Yahoo Plan Paid E-Mail Service at I got Spam?! Antone Gonsalves: America Online Inc. and Yahoo Inc. on Monday said they planned to launch certified email services that would bypass spam filters and deliver messages directly to subscribers. ht...
Seen that? - O2 Mobile TV Trial Hailed a Success
in The Mobile Technology Weblog, on October 21, 2009
O2 Mobile TV Trial Hailed a Success at The Mobile Technology Weblog O2 and Arqiva have announced the results of their trial of mobile TV in and around Oxford in the UK. Some 80% of people would subscribe to a mobile TV service, according to a tria...
Seen that? - Email Sucks
in I got Spam?!, on October 11, 2009
Email Sucks at I got Spam?! I'm now pretty much doing email by the seat of my pants. If you sent me an email in the last 24 hours, then I likely didn't read it. It all started about 17 hours ago, when I started receiving the same SPAM emai...
Seen that? - EMC adds Google Desktop search to Documentum
in On Storage, on October 12, 2009
EMC adds Google Desktop search to Documentum at On Storage "EMC Corporation [...] today announced the addition of google desktop for Enterprise as the newest information source available to users through a single query within EMC Documentum E...
Making AJAX Crawlable
in The Search Engine Weblog, on October 11, 2009
© Dmitry Baranovskiy
Google has released a proposal to make AJAX crawlable - and if it works, it would mean bringing tens of thousands of current websites not currently indexed by Google (or most other search engines) into search engine results and it would mean profound changes to ...
Seen that? - Microsoft Jumps into RFID
in The RFID Weblog, on October 9, 2009
Microsoft Jumps into RFID at The RFID Weblog You know RFID is going mainstream when Microsoft gets involved. Last week Microsoft announced that it intends to become a player in RFID. Part of those plans include providing RFID-enabled software for midsize comp...
Strands eCommerce Recommender Can Help Your Business Grow
in The Search Engine Weblog, on October 6, 2009
© Fosforix
If you're ready to move to the next level in online retailing, a good next step is a retail recommender widget.
It's a simple idea. People come to your web site to buy a product. How do you get them to buy two products? Or (better yet) three ? The answer is that you...
Seen that? - Google Sandbox - Myth or Reality
in The Search Engine Weblog, on October 4, 2009
Google Sandbox - Myth or Reality at The Search Engine Weblog Everybody keeps going on and on about the Google Sandbox. While it does take some time to get a new site listed, I have had particually good luck with getting my last few sites listed in...
Seen that? - A Dirty Word: Filtering
in P2P File Sharing, on October 2, 2009
A Dirty Word: Filtering at P2P File Sharing Filtering has become a dirty word in the entertainment vs. P2P war. The entertainment industry trots it out regularly as the solution for stopping copyright infringement. The RIAA says that it's just...
Net Neutrality is Here - Almost
in The Search Engine Weblog, on September 25, 2009
A number of sources ( PC World , PC Magazine , V3 , Mashable ) have been covering the Obama Administration's announcement that it would work to establish net neutrality as government policy.
Mashable describes the camps for and against net neutrality: It wasn't that long ago whe...
FitForCommerce Brings eCommerce Solutions to You
in The Search Engine Weblog, on September 21, 2009
Today, no business goes far without at least considering ecommerce. So where can you find ecommerce answers for your business?
A huge number of companies and consultants out there today will gladly offer you ecommerce software and then pretend to have provided you with solutions. But they usuall...
Bing Takes 10% Market Share, Goes Visual
in The Search Engine Weblog, on September 15, 2009
Search Engine Land reported yesterday that Microsoft's new Bing search engine has now climbed past a 10% market share for seach traffic. While that's a long way from Google's 65% market share, it's a new landmark for MIcrosoft - closing in on Yahoo's current 16% market share.
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You Can Solve Your Marketing Problems with Manticore Technologies
in The Search Engine Weblog, on September 7, 2009
Like so many marketplaces today, Search Engine Optimization is a competitive business. If you're looking for a forceful marketing solution to turn your marketing program into actual sales, you may be looking for Manticore Technology.
For many businesses, the solution to their sales problems co...
Link Baiting: a Key to Building Traffic
in The Search Engine Weblog, on August 23, 2009
Link Baiting : if you want to build traffic, it's an essential skill.
SubmitEdge published a list of tips this week for attracting links. It's one of the better such lists I've come across. Tip number one? The "useful gadget" baiting strategy: If you offer a useful tool or g...
Yahoo-Microsoft Deal
in The Search Engine Weblog, on August 9, 2009
A number of sources ( BusinessWeek , Inc.com , Red Herring , HPost ) commented on the Microsoft-Yahoo deal at the end of July. And now that the dust has settled...
Don't everyone get too excited. The deal isn't that great for Yahoo and it may take as long as two years to come into full e...
Time to Regulate SEO?
in The Search Engine Weblog, on July 23, 2009
Congress is talking about reform and new regulations for the health insurance industry. We're discussing new regs for the venture capital industry. And the banking and credit card industry has seen a few new rules recently. TechCrunch seems to think that perhaps the time has come to regulate s...
Is Yahoo Really Top Dog?
in The Search Engine Weblog, on July 17, 2009
Search Engine Land pointed out something to me recently that I don't think much about...
Google dominates the search engine market. Microsoft dominates the software market. And that's it, right? Not really.
The truth is that in many ways Yahoo dominates the web with content and services....
Google Pushes the World Toward Cloud Computing with Its New Operating System
in The Search Engine Weblog, on July 10, 2009
Michael Gray is looking forward to a Google operating system (despite his distrust of Google) because he's a fan of cloud computing.
Everyone has covered the announcement of Google's coming operating system: Google Insider , BusinessWeek, Lifehacker , CNN - I could go on...
The uno...
NetworkingForPros.com Helps People Find You on the Web
in IfEnergy, on June 30, 2009
© Aaron Gustafson
I've been contributing over the last few months to the content of a vibrant and growing site that points toward the future of the Internet and has profound potential for users interested in business and industry. The site is NetworkingForPros.com .
When I look across the...
Explaining Page Rank
in The Search Engine Weblog, on June 29, 2009
If you haven't seen the piece Matt Cutts did recently on page rank, you should take a look.
Matt provides one of the best explanations of page rank I've ever read. After a good look at how to think about page rank, Matt walks through a Q&A that touches on the differece between dof...
Googling Twitter?
in The Search Engine Weblog, on June 21, 2009
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Everyone ( VentureBeat , Mashable , the Blog Herald ) seems to think that Google will soon have a search Twitter function. Google is definitely collecting data on the web every second these days so the question is when, not if, Google will come out with its own microblogging search...
Creative Commons Images: Coming to a Search Engine Near You...
in The Search Engine Weblog, on June 11, 2009
Flickr has long had a search tool designed to filter images so that you only see the ones with Creative Commons licenses. A few weeks ago Yahoo! added a similar tool . Now Google wants to get in on that search market, and they've added their own CC filter .
The Google tool isn't avail...
Aneesh Chopra, Chief Technology Officier
in The Search Engine Weblog, on June 8, 2009
VentureBeat had a fascinating article a few days ago on Aneesh Chopra's appointment as chief Technology Officer. It looked at a simple question that has probably occurred to many of you: What exactly does a Chief Technology Officer for the U.S. government do , anyway?
Part of the ...
One Visitor Wonders
in The Search Engine Weblog, on May 31, 2009
Remember Looking Glass ( Brandy, You're a Fine Girl )? How about David Essex ( Rock On )? Now for the tough question: Can you remember even one other song by either of them? Probably not. So, is your website a one visit wonder ...?
Ben McKay had a fairly lengthy piece not long ago on how...
NetworkingForPros.com Helps People Find You on the Web
in The Search Engine Weblog, on May 30, 2009
© Aaron Gustafson
I've been contributing over the last few months to the content of a vibrant and growing site that points toward the future of the Internet and has profound potential for users interested in search engines. The site is NetworkingForPros.com .
When I look across the web at...
Wolfram Alpha: the Next Big Thing?
in The Search Engine Weblog, on May 10, 2009
Stephen Wolfram is a mathematician and physict extrodanaire. And now he's start a search engine that many people think will be the next big thing (and maybe even a Google-killer).
Mashable had a recent story on the new search engine, Wolfram Alpha - which is not up quite yet and has ...
Tips for Optimizing for Both Singular and Plural Key Words
in The Search Engine Weblog, on April 22, 2009
Search Engine Land had some tips not long ago for optimizing your your title when you have both singular and plural possibilities. Most SEOs will agree that the title element is your strongest on-page element, and optimizing the title is critical for rankings and traffic. However when the keywor...
Google Phone Book Results (and Privacy on the Web)
in The Search Engine Weblog, on April 13, 2009
Google Inside 's author noticed recently that you can now do a reverse phone book look up straight from the front page of Google. He says he got a hang up call, typed the number into Google's search window, hit enter, and got the name and address of the Phone's owner. Am I the only one ...
Time Lines on Cuil Organize Responses to Your Queries
in The Search Engine Weblog, on April 4, 2009
Search Engine Land had a piece this week on a new feature at Cuil - time lines on some search results.
Cuil is a search engine founded by two former Google employees. It "organizes web pages by content and displays relatively long entries along with thumbnail pictures for many results,...
Middlespot: Visual Searching
in The Search Engine Weblog, on March 27, 2009
TechCrunch had a piece this past weekend on a new search engine that seeks to make searching the web a more visual experience.
TechCrunch rightly points out that Middlespot isn't the first search engine to try this approach. But the site is an enjoyable experience.
The format is simpl...
BlackHatters Beware... There ARE Consequences
in The Search Engine Weblog, on March 20, 2009
SubmitEdge (which bills itself as "an ethical Search Engine Optimization firm") had an interesting article earlier this month on "What Happens to BlackkHatters."
Some definitions:
Search engine optimization (SEO) - the process of improving the volume and quality of traffic t...
Google's VoIP Move
in The Search Engine Weblog, on March 14, 2009
Just about Everyone ( Google Inside , Search Engine Land , TechCrunch , GigaOM , VentureBeat , Mashable , LifeHacker ) had something to say this week about Google's move into VoIP, or voice-over-Internet-protocol.
Adam Pash over at LifeHacker noticed on Thursday that Google now reserves...
Protecting Your Content
in The Search Engine Weblog, on March 11, 2009
Nothing destroys your traffic in quite the same irritating manner as having someone else copy your content and divert your traffic to their site. That makes copyright violation an SEO issue...
The Blog Herald had a piece last month on a content tracker called FairShare . FairShare creates a ...
Three Major Engines Now Recognize Canonical URL Tag
in The Search Engine Weblog, on February 26, 2009
The canonical url tag has been around for a while, but it is about to become much more important in optimizing your websites for use by search engines, according to SEOmozBlog .
Search Engine Journal carried a news story earlier this month on the announcement by Google, Yahoo!, and Live regard...
Pipl.com Takes the US People Search Market
in The Search Engine Weblog, on February 9, 2009
TechCrunch broke the news recently that Pipl.com has taken over the top position in the people search niche in the U.S. - though Spock still leads that market globally.
Roi Carthy at TechCrunch calls the new Pipl.com scary. It produces not only links to all of your profiles on social networks...
Can You Get Links Out of Just Helping People? Probably...
in The Search Engine Weblog, on February 4, 2009
Donna Fontenot sums up the dilemma many bloggers and writers on the web are now faced with: These days, we have to actually create content worth linking to! Oh my, what a concept... She looked at what she calls bartering for links in some detail over at Search Engine People earlier this week...
Tools for Measuring Traffic
in The Search Engine Weblog, on January 30, 2009
While you can rely on page rank along to tell you how you're doing with your web page, the chances are good that you'll eventually want to measure actual traffic at our site, too.
Mashable had a useful piece earlier this month on tools to help you measure traffic. And there are plenty o...
Personality as an SEO Factor
in The Search Engine Weblog, on January 24, 2009
It's easy to think of search engine optimization as a set of rules and statistics. Like, what's your keyword density? Or, are your outgoing links producing incoming links that could help improve your page rank? The simple truth is that it's not just a game of numbers...
Steven Bradley ...
Keyword Density - an Idea You Should be Aware of...
in The Search Engine Weblog, on January 17, 2009
It is possible to write an article about flowers without ever using the word flowers . And while the result might be a monumental piece of literature, it wouldn't get a very good page rank when you searched for it in Google using the term "flowers." Perhaps it would rank a little high...
Getting Better Links
in The Search Engine Weblog, on January 13, 2009
SubmitEdge had a good article last week on getting better links for you website. And one of the keys is going social... The trick to really raking in the links is to be a social animal, with an eye to being helpful - cultivate a rep as a cool guy or gal, and you can see everyone starting to listen...
10 Tips for Higher Page Ranks
in The Search Engine Weblog, on December 30, 2008
Randfish has become one of my favorite sources for SEO tips. In case you missed it, he spent Christmas EVE offering up some easy ways to boost your traffic. Among them: Consolidate pages that are focused on the same set of key words. In his terms, those pages basically cannibalize each other, red...
Protecting Your Online Privacy
in The Search Engine Weblog, on December 26, 2008
Search engine privacy has gotten its fair share of attention in the media recently, partly because Congress took an interest in the matter during an election year.
If you don't fully understand the situation, it's simple. You're sitting there in your own den or livingroom in your PJ...
What Are Your Benchmarks?
in The Search Engine Weblog, on December 20, 2008
Randfish posted an excellent tip last month for anyone considering an SEO effort for their website: figure out what your benchmarks are before you hire someone to increase your traffic.
Randfish looks at some metrics to review before you start an SEO engagement. According to Randfish, many SEO...
Why Isn't Google Indexing Your New Site? (Some Possible Reasons...)
in The Search Engine Weblog, on December 4, 2008
SubmitEdge had a good piece online late last month about the possible reasons that your new site still isn't showing up in Google...
The number one possible reason is pretty simple: maybe no one has linked to you. While you can submit your site to Google, the people over there index you...
Mashable's Open Web Awards Shed Light on Search Engines
in The Search Engine Weblog, on November 26, 2008
Adam Ostrow over at Mashable has an interesting piece online this week about what the Open Web Awards say about search engines. While Google is among the top ten vote getters in the "favorite search engine" cetegory, it's not number one. Some smaller search engines seem to be m...
Information Architecture
in The Search Engine Weblog, on November 20, 2008
It's easy for laymen to develop the impression that search engine optimization is about keywords and tag and such, but I came across o very interesting article the other day by David Snyder that looks at a more foundational concept: information architecture.
According to Snyder: One of the mo...
Founder Jerry Yang Leaving Yahoo
in The Search Engine Weblog, on November 18, 2008
A number of news sources ( paidContent.org , NY Times , WIRED News ) are reporting that Founder and CEO Jerry Yang is stepping down as head of Yahoo - just as soon as the company can replace him.
Kara at All Things Digital has a copy of the memo from Jerry tendering his resignation.
We ra...
Buying Links without Actually Buying Links
in The Search Engine Weblog, on November 18, 2008
SEOmoz Blog had an interesting piece today about ways to "buy" links without getting slammed for it by Google.
We all know that traffic breeds traffic and the key to starting the process is coming up with some good external links - people linking to your content from outside your site....
The Vision of Yahoo... (or Lack Thereof)
in The Search Engine Weblog, on November 10, 2008
It's been the Week from Hell for Yahoo CEO and Founder Jerry Yang.
First, from CNET : "Bowing to federal regulators' antitrust concerns, Google pulled the plug on a search-ad partnership with Yahoo that would have given the latter major new revenue." According to CNET, that ...
Learning SEO is Just a "Must"
in The Search Engine Weblog, on November 2, 2008
Submitedge published a good post last week on the basic necessity of learning search engine optimization (SEO) even if you outsource the actual task of SEO to a consultant. Even if you hire your SEO out to experts, knowing what is good and bad SEO is necessary to be sure you are receiving proper...
Google Book Search Pays the Bill
in The Search Engine Weblog, on October 29, 2008
Google has reached a settlement with the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers in a lawsuit that dates back to 2005, according to paidContent.org .
Google will pay $125 million into a fund for authors. The Money "will be used to set up a Book Rights Registry that will let U...
The waves in mobile space
in The Search Engine Weblog, on October 3, 2008
Couple weeks back Google's grand mobile plan got into motion with the release of the G1 handset by T-Mobile . With Android software stack at its core, G1 is the first of the handsets that will seek to make the web experience take a whole new meaning. With desktops, the internet was about info...
The Google iPhone Affair
in The Search Engine Weblog, on July 1, 2008
...shown that the access to the search engine from Apple's slick device is huge.
An excerpt from SearchEngineLand
...they found that 1.3 million searchers conducted 6.9 million searches for iPhon...
On Google Penalties
in The Search Engine Weblog, on May 24, 2008
Search Engine Journal has an informative post on Google penalties, a dressing down of sort that sites receive for not being regularly updated or for use of shady SEO practices. None of this has been accepted by Google ofcourse but these do provide a hint on whether your site has any issues that resu...
Community Tagging An Important Factor For Search Ranking
in The Search Engine Weblog, on May 17, 2008
The web is growing rapidly in a graphic sense and so the importance of relevance being attached to the presence of appropriate content on the sites other than just the text. There is a pointed to note that for blogs it is always good to include an image or two with the blog entries. A recent post at...
After Yahoo Deal Collapse, Microsoft Mulling Facebook?
in The Search Engine Weblog, on May 13, 2008
After the Yahoo deal debacle, Microsoft sits pretty with a load of cash and very many online properties as possible suitors .
An excerpt from EarthTimes
Top executives of Time Warner in New York sense a fresh opportunity to pretty up their subsidiary AOL, which has never been a happy piec...
Google Looking Forward To Deal With Yahoo
in The Search Engine Weblog, on May 13, 2008
Google is looking eagerly to getting into a deal with Yahoo. Microsoft had mentioned a possible partnership between Google and Yahoo as a reason for scuttling of the deal. Google on the other hand is looking forward to a deal to boost its profits above expectations in 2009.
An excerpt from Yahoo N...
Live Search Gets New UI
in The Search Engine Weblog, on May 8, 2008
Microsoft's Live Search sports a new cleaner simpler UI that seems to be some good learning it has taken from its competitors Google and Yahoo.
An excerpt from Live Blog
Search box near results The new Live Search header and search box is slimmed down from a heavy piece of UI into sleeker, ...
Mobile WiMax Gets A Major Push
in The Search Engine Weblog, on May 7, 2008
...t and Time Warner it looks like finally Mobile WiMax has got a new lease of life.
An excerpt from SearchEngineJournal
Thus far, deploying a nationwide Mobile WiMAX network has proven to be quite ...
Yahoo Teams With McAfee To Offer Safer Search
in The Search Engine Weblog, on May 6, 2008
... to your computer. This tools works upon McAfee's SiteAdvisor service.
An excerpt from SearchEngineJournal
Basically, when a user conducts a search on Yahoo, SearchScan will scan (no p...
Microsoft Does Not Want Yahoo
in The Search Engine Weblog, on May 4, 2008
Its the big anticlimax. Microsoft has announced that it no longer deems it worthy to pursue Yahoo. The message was made clear in a letter sent by their CEO to Jerry Yang , the CEO at Yahoo.
An excerpt from News.com
Although price was a key issue, Microsoft also had strategic concerns and...
Factors That Count In Making Images Relevant
in The Search Engine Weblog, on May 4, 2008
SEO by the Sea has a post on a Microsoft patent filing for the factors that count in the r anking of images for image search results. The patent filing and the post make a good reading for those who want a good idea on the kind of factors that search engines take into consideration while ranking im...
Using Age Of A Domain To Calculate Relevance
in The Search Engine Weblog, on April 28, 2008
At SEO By the Sea, Bill Slawski has a post on a patent filing by Microsoft in using the age of a domain to reduce the impact of link farming on search engine results. The concept uses the information obtained from the domain hosting a site to calculate the age of the website.
An excerpt from the ...
YouTube Adds A Suggest Feature
in The Search Engine Weblog, on April 28, 2008
YouTube has added a suggest feature to its video search similar to the Google Suggest at Google Labs.
An excerpt from Google OS Blog
The feature is enabled by default, but you can disable it in the "Settings". For now, YouTube Suggest seems to be live only for international sites lik...
Yahoo Going More Social With Its Y!OS
in The Search Engine Weblog, on April 28, 2008
...social elements binding together the various properties under the purple umbrella
An excerpt from SearchEngineLand
Rather than creating another social network, Yahoo will be seeking to create a s...
Google Scientists Apply A Ranking Algorithm To Images
in The Search Engine Weblog, on April 28, 2008
Called VisualRank, Google Researchers - Yushi Jing and Shumeet Baluja presented a paper at the International WWW Conference in Beijing detailing on a image search technique that would work on algorithmic detection of components in an image.
An excerpt from the article at TechCrunch
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