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Search Engine Watch
August 16, 2005
Danny Sullivan |
Screw Size! I Dare Google & Yahoo To Report On Relevancy The search engine companies are once again arguing about which search engine has a larger or fresher index. But there is still no metric to measure whose results are most relevant.   |
Search Engine Watch
July 5, 2000 |
Google Announces Largest Index Another milestone in the search engine size wars was hit when Google went live with a full-text index of 560 million URLs in June, making it the largest search engine on the web.... |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
February 18, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Yahoo! Birth of a New Machine Yahoo is launching a brand new search engine today, with its own index and ranking mechanisms, casting aside its long-standing use of Google-powered search results. The move is bound to roil the industry and sets in motion a new race for the claim of web search champion. |
InternetNews
August 17, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Sizing Up the Search Competition In the Google-Yahoo rivalry, does the bigger index do a better job? |
Search Engine Watch
March 22, 2004
Greg Jarboe |
Yahoo News Upgrades To Take On Google News Yahoo released a new version of its news search engine late last week, a new move in what may be a modern-day version of the great newspaper wars. |
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. |
InternetNews
September 27, 2005
Tim Gray |
It's Google's Party, It Can Index if it Wants to Google celebrated its birthday this week with a youthful boast appropriate for a seventh birthday party: We're better than you! |
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
July 5, 2000 |
Good For Google Does Not Equal Bad For Inktomi The loss of big portal Yahoo to Google's search service doesn't necessarily mean Inktomi is a big loser, just because Google is a big winner. |
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. |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2004
Greg R. Notess |
On The Net - The New Yahoo! Search With all the changes at various search engines, Yahoo! has now risen to the top as one of the major places to look beyond Google. |
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
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
July 5, 2000 |
Yahoo Partners With Google Yahoo has selected Google to take over from Inktomi in powering Yahoo's secondary results.... |
InternetNews
February 28, 2005
Rob McGann |
Majority of Searchers Use Multiple Search Engines What are the most popular search engines? |
Search Engine Watch
April 29, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Google IPO To Happen, Files For Public Offering As many expected, Google filed to go public today. A quick update on the news and pointers to more information. |
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
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. |
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
January 7, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Yahoo To Buy Inktomi If all goes as planned, Yahoo will become the proud owner of Inktomi by the end of March or earlier. The company announced its intention to buy Inktomi for $235 million on December 23. A look at how the deal may help Yahoo bring in more searchers, as well as search revenue. |
InternetNews
February 17, 2004
Pamela Parker |
Google Boasts of Biggest Index Search giant Google fired a shot across competitors' bows Tuesday by boasting of a 6-billion-item index, featuring more Web pages, images, and book-related information. |
Search Engine Watch
August 2, 1999 |
Search Engine Coverage Study Published In 1998, a landmark study published in Science magazine found that search engines fell well-short of listing everything on the web. Last month, a repeat to this study was published. Once again, search engines were found to contain only a small percentage of the web pages available. |
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
May 6, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Overture Wins Yahoo, What Will Happen With Google? Overture had a major win last month by extending its initial five-month deal to provide paid listings to Yahoo for an additional three years. In addition, Overture's being named Yahoo's exclusive paid listings provider may impact Google's editorial partnership with Yahoo... |
Search Engine Watch
April 5, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Google Tops, But Yahoo Switch Success So Far New WebSideStory stats say Google's most popular, but they also reveal that Yahoo's recent replacement of Google results with its own technology doesn't appear to have cost it visitors. |
Search Engine Watch
July 21, 2004
Christine Churchill |
Meet The Crawlers Representatives of Yahoo, Google, Ask Jeeves and Looksmart offer an inside glimpse of recent developments at the major search engines. The general focus for the major search engines continues to be on the user experience. |
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 |
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. |
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
March 3, 2000 |
Numbers, Numbers -- But What Do They Mean? Some search engines now tell you both how many pages they've spidered and what they've kept. This article helps you make sense of the numbers. |
The Motley Fool
May 25, 2007
Mac Greer |
Fool Video Take: Should Investors Say Yahoo? Everyone is ga-ga over Google. But is it time to get excited about Yahoo? |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
March 21, 2006
Danny Sullivan |
Google Launches Google Finance For years, those seeking specialty financial information via Google have been sent to competitors such as Yahoo and MSN. Now Google's providing financial information directly to its own users. |
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
July 31, 2008
Sage Lewis |
Link Building: Understand Where You Are To Know Where You're Going In link building, if you don't know where you're going, you'll probably end up someplace else. |
Search Engine Watch
July 6, 1999 |
Google Goes Forward While I've considered Google a "major player" in the search space for some time, the deal with Netscape gives it a mass audience for the first time, along with its first business deal. |
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. |
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
November 1, 1999 |
Who's The Biggest Of Them All? AltaVista is now claiming to have the largest index of the web, at 250 million pages. But is its claim true? Does the service deserve the title of biggest? Probably -- or certainly it and FAST Search share the title. But it's not possible to say so definitively. |
InternetNews
October 23, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Google Gets Social Search Religion Google's Custom Search Engine is for individuals, organizations or business that want to add customized Google Web Search to their Web site or blog. |
ONLINE
Jul/Aug 2004
Greg R. Notess |
Internet Search Engine Update As expected, now that Yahoo! has launched its own Yahoo! Search database, this has meant the death of unique databases at older search engines, including AltaVista and AlltheWeb. |
Search Engine Watch
February 16, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Changes Afoot at Yahoo & MSN Yahoo switches from Google to its own search, and MSN drops LookSmart listings. |
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. |
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
October 14, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Google Desktop Search Launched The company released a new Google Desktop Search tool that allows people to scan their computers for information in the same way they use Google to search the web. Its ease of use, plus how it enhances the Google search experience, make it a compelling product to use. |
Search Engine Watch
July 1, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
The Search Engine Report - Number 80 Search Engine Watch News... SES San Jose Agenda Now Available... Microsoft's MSN Search To Build Crawler-Based Search Engine... Overture's Content Match Takes On Google's Contextual Ads... Google AdSense Expands Contextual Ad Placement Program To Small Sites... etc. |
Search Engine Watch
May 14, 2004
Danny Sullivan |
Return To The Sad Days Of More Than A Search Engine? Yahoo says it is "more than a search engine" in the same week Google adds a new portal feature. Are the sad days of search being a neglected child about to return? |
AskMen.com
January 31, 2001
Justin Becker |
How To: Use Search Engines Well, no need to feel lost anymore -- here is a map of which search engines I highly recommend, and which ones to use for specific searches. And since information is power, you'll feel like king of the world in no time... |
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. |
