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Search Engine Watch August 5, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
The Search Engine Report Search Engine Watch News... Early Bird Deadline For SES San Jose Tomorrow!... LookSmart Opens Deep Listings Option To Small Businesses... Yahoo To Buy Overture... Search Engine Resources |
Search Engine Watch September 2, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
The Search Engine Report Search Engine Watch News... SES Dates For 2004 Set... Search Engine Size Wars IV & Google's Supplemental Index |
Search Engine Watch May 6, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
The Search Engine Report Search Engine Watch News... Search Engine Strategies Coming To London, San Jose... Yahoo's Search Engine Continues Evolving... Google Buys Applied Semantics... Harvard Criticizes Google's Adult Content Filter... Inktomi, Google Win In Recent Relevancy Test... etc. |
Search Engine Watch December 7, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
What Happened To My Site On Google? The outcry from webmasters about Google's recent ranking algorithm change has been unprecedented. This article takes a Q&A-style approach to examine many of the issues and questions that have arisen from the change. |
Search Engine Watch September 3, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
Google: Can The Marcia Brady Of Search Stay Sweet? Does search dominance by Google mean that the company is destined to be hated, in the way that Microsoft endures a poor reputation due to its dominance of operating systems, office software and browsers? Such a fate is not preordained. |
Search Engine Watch November 5, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
Surprised Google & Microsoft Talked Takeover? You Shouldn't Be! No one should have been surprised that the companies have talked about a possible purchase. It made sense then. As for now, a more realistic possibility is that the two companies might partner in the short term. |
Search Engine Watch March 3, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
Google Throws Hat Into The Contextual Advertising Ring Last week, Google unveiled a new method of distributing its paid listings, placing them on web pages, as opposed to the traditional means of inserting them into search results. |
Search Engine Watch December 7, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
Google Dance Case Studies Real life stories of how sites were impacted by the recent Google ranking changes, with an analysis of factors that may be in play. |
Search Engine Watch February 18, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
Google Buys Blogging Company - But Why? Why did Google buy Blogger? Most likely for ad distribution and almost certainly not to improve search quality. |
Search Engine Watch March 4, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
Google Takes On Overture With Pay Per Click Ads Google introduced a new pay-per-click payment option for its "AdWords" program that will make Google more attractive to some advertisers -- as well as establishing the company as serious competitor with Overture... |
Search Engine Watch December 29, 2005 Danny Sullivan |
2005 in Review: The Top Search Industry Stories of the Year Your Search Utility: Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Developments With Consumer Search... Search Advertisers Deserve Better: Search Engine Ad Reps: Friend or Foe?... SEO Isn't A Criminal Activity... etc. |
Search Engine Watch April 2, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
Loving Each Other More: Search Engines & Blogs There's a good reason for Google or someone else to create a robust, blog-specific search engine. In addition, there are things bloggers could do to make their content more accessible to ordinary web search engines. |
Search Engine Watch December 7, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
What Happened To My Searches On Google? Many webmasters have found that recent changes at Google have hurt them. But does all the hue and cry over Google's recent algorithm change have any impact on searchers? There are some developments worth noting, and this article takes a Q&A approach to examine them. |
Search Engine Watch May 1, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
Overture & Inktomi Out, Google In At AOL Google has been selected by AOL to provide editorial search results and paid listings to AOL's various search properties in the United States, including AOL Search, Netscape Search and CompuServe Search.... |
ONLINE Sep/Oct 2003 Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AlltheWeb now offers suggested spelling corrections.... Altavista has loaded larger multimedia databases for its image, audio, and video searches... AOL Search has added an image search database... Ask Jeeves has sold off its enterprise search division... etc. |
Search Engine Watch May 6, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
The Bumpy Road To Maximum Monetization Most search engines come nowhere near monetizing all the links displayed on their search results pages. However, the quest for greater profits is likely to change this, especially if the search engines think it can be done without hurting the relevancy of their product... |
Search Engine Watch May 11, 2004 Danny Sullivan |
Google Launches Official Google Blog, Not Blog Search Google has launched its own official blog, promising much insight about the company though not yet delivering much. The company also says it has no news about long-discussed plans to offer blog or web feed searching at Google. |
Search Engine Watch March 4, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
Where Are They Now? Search Engines We've Known & Loved Looks at early search engines that have died, those that have been transformed and how the new players that are no longer so young are doing. |
Search Engine Watch November 20, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
Local Search Part 5: Citysearch Brings Local To Searchers & Merchants Citysearch has long offered local content to searchers. But the company has made new moves to bring local merchants into the world of search advertising by introducing a cost-per-lead program. |
Search Engine Watch April 2, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
Search Privacy At Google & Other Search Engines This article examines what Google and other search engines record about your searches. |
Search Engine Watch October 24, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
Google Launches Local Search Targeting & Search Forum Spotlight Google has rolled out a new Regional Targeting feature that lets advertisers have their AdWords ads appear in front of those searching from specific local areas in the United States. Also, a roundup of topics discussed at various search forums this week. |
Search Engine Watch March 4, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
Up Close With Google AdWords Forget the hype about what the new cost-per-click AdWords program means for Google, in terms of competing with Overture. What's in the program for advertisers, and how does the cost per click pricing fit in with the existing cost per impression ads? Let's take a look... |
Search Engine Watch October 9, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Renews With Google, Changes Results After months of speculation, Yahoo announced today that it has renewed its relationship to use Google's results as part of its search listings. In addition, Yahoo made a substantial change to end its historic barrier between human-powered and crawler-based search results. |
Searcher October 2001 Gary Price |
Web Search Engines FAQs: Questions, Answers, and Issues The Web search world changes on what sometimes seems like an hourly basis. What follows are a few selected tips and resources for some of the most well-known of engines... |
Search Engine Watch April 25, 2004 Danny Sullivan |
Google In Controversy Over Top-Ranking For Anti-Jewish Site Google has added a disclaimer to the search results that come up in a response for a search on jew, to counter complaints about an anti-Jewish site that until recently ranked number one. |
Search Engine Watch December 1, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
Google Dance Syndrome Strikes Again There's been a new outbreak of Google Dance Syndrome, causing some web sites last month to lose top positions for some search terms. However, unlike previous outbreaks, a cure exists that makes it easy to compare results from old to new Google. |
Wired March 2004 |
The Complete Guide to Googlemania! They named their new search engine Google, for the biggest number they could imagine. Today Google's a library, an almanac, a settler of bets. It's a parlor game, a dating service, a shopping mall. At more than 200 million requests a day, it is, by far, the world's biggest search engine. |
Salon.com August 29, 2002 Farhad Manjoo |
Meet Mr. Anti-Google A crusading webmaster says the popular search engine's page-ranking algorithm is "undemocratic." |
ONLINE Sep/Oct 2002 Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AllTheWeb claims it has increased the size of its database to over 2 billion fully indexed Web pages... AltaVista now really defaults to a Boolean AND... Ask Jeeves has a new, simpler design... Google has been promoting its fee-based Google Answers... etc. |
Search Engine Watch July 1, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
Letter From Australia I was in Sydney last month for the Search Engine Strategies conference, and in this article, I thought I'd share a few things that stood out in my mind as I listened to the various local speakers discuss search engine marketing. |
Search Engine Watch February 18, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
Overture To Buy AltaVista Overture announced today that it intends to purchase AltaVista in a $140 million cash and stock deal. |
Search Engine Watch April 29, 2004 Danny Sullivan |
Search Wars: Battle Of The Search Superpowers A look at how and why the current search wars erupted, one that will no doubt gain further attention in the wake of expected public financial releases from Google. |
ONLINE Jul/Aug 2002 Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update AllTheWeb has had a redesign and new features added... AltaVista has begun a freshness initiative to bring its entire database more up-to-date... Answer Services have been popular... AOL Search will switch from Inktomi to Google this summer... Direct Hit no longer available... etc. |
Search Engine Watch October 14, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
New Developments In Local Search: Part 1, Moves By Overture Local searching on web-wide search engines can be disappointing. New moves by some major players may improve this. This first of a three-part series looks at local search listings that Overture is testing. |
Search Engine Watch May 18, 2004 Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo Reawakens The Paid Inclusion Debate Yahoo drew widespread criticism for new paid inclusion programs launched in March. What is Yahoo doing? How does it impact the advertiser and searcher? Are there changes Yahoo should be making? The first in a series of articles looking at paid inclusion. |
Entrepreneur July 2004 Mike Hogan |
Release the Hounds With search engine competition on the rise, entrepreneurs stand to benefit, as both users and advertisers. |
Search Engine Watch August 5, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
Compare & Contrast: Ad Guidelines At Overture & Google Those new to paid placement listings might assume that it's anything goes. If you pay enough, you can come up tops for the terms you wish to target and with ads that say exactly what you want. |
Search Engine Watch June 2, 2004 Danny Sullivan |
The Paid Inclusion Dinosaur A look at the bet Yahoo's making and alternative plays they could have tried. |
Search Engine Watch August 2, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
Search Engine Marketing Finally Getting Respect To some degree, search engine marketing has been like the Rodney Dangerfield of online advertising -- it's gotten no respect. The positive financial performance of GoTo is making people take notice, though all the signs have been there for ages... |
Search Engine Watch June 29, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
FTC Recommends Disclosure To Search Engines The US Federal Trade Commission has made an important recommendation to major search engines suggesting that they better disclose their paid content. This came in response to a complaint made last year by the watchdog group Commercial Alert. |
Search Engine Watch November 4, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
Google Sued Over PageRank Decrease Google finds itself now being sued by a site owner who saw a decrease in the PageRank score reported to those who use the Google Toolbar. |
Search Engine Watch March 29, 2004 Danny Sullivan |
Google Loses Tabs In New Look, Gains Web Alerts & Personalized Search Results Google has rolled a new look that involves dropping its famed search tabs, along with debuting a web alerts service and a personalized search results option. |
Search Engine Watch April 2, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
Google News It was another busy month for Google, so here's a compilation of stories that cover its new news search service, a new Search Microsoft feature, how the Google Toolbar is being used to solve genetic puzzles and other items... |
Search Engine Watch April 2, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
Google And The Big Brother Nomination This article explores allegations by Google Watch that Google is a threat to privacy and Big Brother like. |
PC World June 2003 Steve Bass |
Maximum Google Google is fast, accurate, and fun to use, but you can get even more out of the boss of search engines. |
InternetNews April 29, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas |
Google Files For $2.7B Public Offering Market is agog -- and looking hard at financial details revealed in filing. |
Search Engine Watch March 31, 2008 Kevin Newcomb |
Highlights from the SEW Blog: March 24-28, 2008 Good Google bombs... Google webmaster tools... Google no longer a portal?... Search within a search... Yahoo and the future of search... Google video ads... Non-text contextual ads... Social media: one size does not fit all... etc. |
Search Engine Watch January 6, 2005 Danny Sullivan |
Looking Back, Looking Ahead: Developments With Consumer Search This year, web search will morph into consumer search, where major search companies offer a robust range of ways to search for information in specialized areas. |
Search Engine Watch February 4, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
Google Ousts Overture At Earthlink, Begins Ad Distribution Google has begun serving up search results to users of the Earthlink web site, taking over a partnership previously held by Overture and marking the first move to distribute its paid AdWords listings outside the Google web site... |
Search Engine Watch June 3, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
Coping With GDS, The Google Dance Syndrome On a roughly monthly basis, Google updates its index of web pages and introduces new tweaks and changes to how its ranking algorithm works. For some, the changeover period that's come to be known as the "Google Dance" may reveal what seems like dramatic changes in Google. |