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Search Engine Watch May 25, 2004 Sullivan & Sherman |
Search Engine User Attitudes With so much interest in search, it's amazing how relatively little research has been done into how people interact with search engines, especially from a search marketing perspective. That's finally changing. |
Search Engine Watch January 19, 2006 Chris Sherman |
Survey: Google, Yahoo Still Favorites in North America For the second year running, a Keynote Systems study says Google provides the most satisfying search experience among North American users, despite competitive maneuvering from all of the other major search services. |
Search Engine Watch August 2, 2005 Chris Sherman |
Search Engine Results Continuing to Diverge A new study suggests that the overlap between search engine results is less than it was even a few months ago, and that the voices of each engine are growing even more unique. |
InternetNews March 3, 2005 Tim Gray |
Google Maps Local Search Game Google Maps enables users in the United States and Canada to find location information, navigate maps and get directions to neighborhood businesses. |
Search Engine Watch October 31, 2006 Chris Sherman |
Rampant Malpractice Among Health Searchers Although most internet users turn to general-purpose search engines to find health related information, the majority don't bother to check the source and date of the information they find, according to a new study from the Pew Internet Project. |
InternetNews December 14, 2004 Susan Kuchinskas |
Search Industry Gains Clout Search engines are now recognized as full-fledged media companies and search engine marketing is no longer a cottage industry. |
InternetNews August 2, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Dogpile: Search Engines Don't Have Much in Common Users of the meta-search service can now see results from MSN Search in addition to results from Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves and MSN Search. As part of its announcement, Dogpile demonstrated the diversity of results across the engines. |
InternetNews October 6, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Google Mashes Up Local Maps and local search merge into Google Local. |
Search Engine Watch January 24, 2005 Chris Sherman |
Survey: Searchers are Confident, Satisfied & Clueless The vast majority of searchers say they are confident about their searching skills and are successful at finding what they're looking for far more often than not, yet most don't understand how search engines work or present results. |
Search Engine Watch February 5, 2001 Danny Sullivan |
WebTop Search Rage Study A study conducted on behalf of search engine WebTop in the middle of 2000 sheds light on how often Internet users in the United States search, what they look for and the satisfaction or frustration they encounter, when searching. |
InternetNews April 30, 2004 Robyn Greenspan |
Searching for Balance Not all search campaigns are created equal, as Internet users reveal which engines provide the most relevant organic and paid results. |
Search Engine Watch January 13, 2005 Chris Sherman |
Yahoo & MSN Closing the Google Gap While Big G continues to maintain its leadership position in the eyes of web searchers, a new study finds that Yahoo, MSN Search and Ask Jeeves have all made significant improvements over the past year and are narrowing Google's mindshare advantage. |
InternetNews August 3, 2004 Parker & Rodgers |
Yahoo!, Ask Jeeves Bow Local Search Tools The news follows closely on the heels Google's own local Web search offering. |
Search Engine Watch December 5, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
In Search Of The Relevancy Figure Where are the relevancy figures? While relevancy is the most important "feature" a search engine can offer, there sadly remains no widely-accepted measure of how relevant the different search engines are. Turning relevancy into an easily digested figure is a huge, but necessary, challenge. |
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 6, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo's Search Engine Continues Evolving A new page dedicated just to Yahoo Search has been added, allowing those who want to bypass all the Yahoo portal and network information that crowds the regular Yahoo home page. The Yahoo Search page presents a Google-like pure search face to the world. |
Information Today January 2003 Paula J. Hane |
Web Search Trends At Internet Librarian 2002, Danny Sullivan examined what's happening with Web searching tools. He said the past year had not seen huge developments, but rather incremental changes, in our evolving Internet technologies. |
PC World July 2005 Laurianne McLaughlin |
New Search Stars What's the trend in Web search? Newcomers and search giants cook up specialty services that get you information faster than ever. |
Search Engine Watch May 5, 2005 Anne Kennedy |
What Clicks with Web Searchers How do searchers find what they want online? Not the way most people might think, studies show. For example, more than 92 percent of searchers never use brand names as search terms. |
InternetNews February 28, 2005 Rob McGann |
Majority of Searchers Use Multiple Search Engines What are the most popular search engines? |
ONLINE Nov/Dec 2004 Greg R. Notes |
Internet Search Engine Update Ask Jeeves joins the push for local search... Google and Yahoo! now have their own blogs... Lycos has introduced two new focused search engines: People Search and Discussion Search... MSN Search's technology preview of its new search engine is now gone ... etc. |
The Motley Fool July 1, 2004 Alyce Lomax |
Microsoft's Still Searching Today, Microsoft unveiled an upgrade to its MSN search capabilities, as well as a preview of search functions to come. |
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. |
Information Today April 25, 2005 Paula J. Hane |
Search Engines Roll Out New Personalization Options Several major search engines, such as Ask Jeeves and Yahoo!, are offering personalization upgrades to retain searchers. |
Search Engine Watch June 16, 2004 Chris Sherman |
Google Gains in Popularity, But Will It Last? Over the past year, Google took significant market share from Yahoo and MSN, according to a new report from industry analyst Hitwise. But the increasing popularity of vertical search sites poses a big threat to all of the major search engines. |
Search Engine Watch December 2, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
Searching With Invisible Tabs Behind the scenes, search engines will one day automatically push the correct tab for your query and retrieve specialized search results. This should ultimately prove an improvement over the current situation where everything is answered by web page matches. |
Search Engine Watch May 6, 2002 Danny Sullivan |
Google Tops In Search Hours Ratings What's the most popular search engine? There's a new metric available for determining this, the total number of search hours users spend at a site, a figure that sees Google leading by far over other search engines |
Entrepreneur September 2007 Amanda C. Kooser |
What's the 411? New services from Google and Microsoft are stepping up to put the squeeze on the old 411. |
InternetNews October 12, 2006 Nicholas Carlson |
Ask.com Intros Mobile Search Ask.com has introduced Ask Mobile, a new service for searching the Web from mobile devices. |
Search Engine Watch September 14, 2004 Heather Lloyd-Martin |
Delving Deep Inside the Searcher's Mind Industry experts from Enquiro, Vividence, iProspect and Google asked searchers, "What are you thinking?" Their research unearthed some surprising results that will help site owners better understand their customers. |
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 August 26, 2004 Chris Sherman |
Search Engine Executive Roundtable, Part 2 How do the search engines view search marketing firms? What are the growth drivers of the industry? And Is the search 'bubble' going to pop soon? Danny Sullivan continues his discussion with four top search executives. |
ONLINE Mar/Apr 2006 Greg R. Notess |
On The Net - Tracking Your Search History Commercial databases and traditional online systems have offered a search history feature for decades. Web search engines are finally catching up. The options vary greatly among them, but all raise a number of privacy issues. |
InternetNews February 25, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner |
AOL Searches Go Local Beyond just address information, AOL's CityGuide feature adds editorial reviews for local hot spots. |
ONLINE Jan/Feb 2004 Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update About.com sold its Sprinks ad network to Google... Amazon has entered the search field in a big way... AOL has renewed its use of the Google Web and ad databases... Ask Jeeves added an advanced search page... Gigablast has removed the date sort option... etc. |
PC Magazine September 14, 2005 Michael J. Miller |
Web Portals Make a Comeback Google, Yahoo, and MSN are constantly adding more features to their portals... The community is taking a role in search engines... Microsoft's PlaysForSure concept isn't completely accurate... |
Inc. June 1, 2003 Robert X. Cringely |
What's Next: Do One Thing Right Smart companies are finding ways to make money on the Net. |
Search Engine Watch October 21, 2003 Danny Sullivan |
Local Search Part 2: Google & Mobilemaps Bring Back Geosearching How Google and Mobilemaps are making it possible to search the web yet filter results to a local level |
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 February 1, 2005 Danny Sullivan |
MSN Search Officially Switches To Its Own Technology Nearly two years after announcing it would develop its own search technology, MSN Search began feeding the general public results found through its own internally developed search engine. |
InternetNews August 16, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Yahoo, Google Tops in Satisfaction Study Users like what they find on Google and Yahoo and are increasingly pleased with AOL, a new study finds. |
PC Magazine December 20, 2006 |
Quack Alert People searching for health information online need to be reminded that the Internet is not a library and that they need to check the quality of the source. |
Search Engine Watch April 18, 2005 Gary Price |
A Roundup of Local Mobile Search Tools Google's new local search for mobile devices is garnering a lot of press, but there are a lot of other alternatives that are worth a look. |
InternetNews August 24, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas |
Battle for Search Share in Lower Tier The latest search engine share rankings show Google maintaining its lead over Yahoo, with upstarts gaining points. |
InternetNews April 26, 2006 Sean Michael Kerner |
Are Google Results More Relevant? New third party evidence adds fuel to the fire as to whether Google, MSN or Yahoo! actually provides searchers what they want. |
InternetNews August 1, 2005 Sean Michael Kerner |
MSN Shopping Updates Storefront Microsoft's comparison shopping site expands search and personalization. |
PC Magazine October 28, 2003 |
20 Great Google Secrets You already love searching with google. These tips can make finding what you need even easier. |
PC World August 2004 Tom Spring |
Search Tangles Internet search is big business. But the drive for profits by search firms and the sites they index is taking its toll on the results in your browser. |
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 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 |