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July 1, 2004
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Hungry Bot Behind Microsoft's New Search Redmond tips its hand on its growing search plans as website operators notice increased traffic from MSNbot. Microsoft suggests a modification to the robots.txt standard. |
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Tools for Discovering and Archiving the Mobile Web Many websites are adapting their content for users who are accessing the Web using smartphones and tablets. The growth of this Mobile Web has required web archivists to change their practices in order to collect this ephemeral web content. |
Search Engine Watch
February 16, 2004
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Changes Afoot at Yahoo & MSN Yahoo switches from Google to its own search, and MSN drops LookSmart listings. |
InternetNews
July 1, 2004
Sean Michael Kerner |
MSNbot Crawling For MSN Search Microsoft shows its hand on how it plans to compete with other search engines, as its bots fan out to more Web sites. |
Search Engine Watch
November 11, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Microsoft Unveils its New Search Engine - At Last After months of speculation and two 'preview' releases, Microsoft has taken the wraps off of its new MSN search engine, the first major competitor to join the big leagues of web search in nearly a year. |
Searcher
October 2001
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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... |
Information Today
June 12, 2008
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New Robots Exclusion Protocol Agreement Among Yahoo!, Google, and Microsoft Live Search The search engines banding together and the publishers proposing their own solutions make it likely that there will be more conflict in the future with end users and libraries stuck in the middle. |
InternetNews
May 6, 2005
Sean Michael Kerner |
Tips From the Search Crowd You want to make sure the search engines find your site and rank it well? Follow some basic rules of the information highway, search experts say. |
InternetNews
November 16, 2006
David Needle |
Google, Microsoft and Yahoo as Partners? Competitors put aside their differences to agree on Web search standards. |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
February 20, 2004
Chris Sherman |
Search Engine Forums Spotlight What's The Next Step With Search Engines? Google and Semantic Web Search. |
Search Engine Watch
November 18, 2003
Shari Thurow |
Search Engines and Web Server Issues What is the best way to move a site from one server to another without affecting search engine visibility? After a site redesign, how can you communicate to the search engines that old URLs should be redirected to new URLs without affecting positioning? |
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
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
September 19, 2007
Jim Parent |
8 Ways to Improve Your Local Search Results If you have not taken steps to ensure your business' online presence in local search results is complete and accurate, you're missing a big opportunity. |
InternetNews
May 3, 2007
Sean Michael Kerner |
Yahoo Makes Search Indexing Waves Yahoo is extending the robots.txt search exclusion standard to get better page relevancy, but will anyone follow? |
Search Engine Watch
May 11, 2010
Adam Audette |
Crawl, Index, Rank, Repeat: A Tactical SEO Framework A framework for SEO strategy that captures the three primary elements of search engine optimization. First up: SEO and search engine crawling analysis. Part one of a three-part series. |
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
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. |
D-Lib
Mar/Apr 2012
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An Overview of Web Archiving This overview is a study of the methods used at a variety of universities, and international government libraries and archives, to select, acquire, describe and access web resources for their archives. |
Technology Research News
October 22, 2003
Kimberly Patch |
Queries guide Web crawlers Search engines approach the problem of sorting out the vast amount of information on the Internet by casting their nets as widely as they can, then sifting through the catch. An algorithm that analyzes what people are looking for could point search engines toward more relevant pages. |
Search Engine Watch
July 29, 2008
Aaron Shear |
When's an Outage More than Just an Outage? In SEO for major sites, one of the most overlooked factors is uptime. How does an outage impact your SEO efforts? |
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May 2000
Danny Sullivan |
Avoid the Void: Quick and Easy Site Submission Strategies "If I build it, they will come."
This is one of the worst assumptions a Webmaster can make. No one will come unless you also promote your Web site, and search engines are one of the most important places to do this.... |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2011
Ariel Bleicher |
A Memory of Webs Past The Web is a rollicking, revealing record of life in the 21st century. But preserving it for future historians is a monumental technical challenge |
Search Engine Watch
August 5, 2002
Danny Sullivan |
Google Adds More Fresh Pages, Changes Robots.txt & 403 Errors, Gains iWon Over the past month, Google has stepped up the number of pages that it is spidering on a daily basis in an effort to increase the freshness of its database. The search engine has also picked up iWon as a new customer for its search results. |
D-Lib
December 2002
Julien Masanes |
Towards Continuous Web Archiving: First Results and an Agenda for the Future An outline of the contribution of the national library of France (BnF) to a general discussion of web archiving. |
Search Engine Watch
August 3, 2005
Marcela De Vivo |
Coping with Search Engine Penalties Search engine penalties are present and pervasive, and are a primary method used by search engines to control webmasters. Unless webmasters understand what they are and what to do about them, their websites could easily trigger a penalty, losing traffic and revenue. |
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. |
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. |
InternetNews
November 11, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
MSN's Latest Search Beta Launched Microsoft's MSN released the latest version of its homegrown search technology on Thursday (beta.search.msn.com), offering multiple ways to narrow results, including providing local results and natural language search. |
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 1, 2003
Danny Sullivan |
Microsoft's MSN Search To Build Crawler-Based Search Engine In April, news emerged that Microsoft intended to make a huge new investment in web search. Now signs of that investment are appearing. |
InternetNews
November 12, 2004
Susan Kuchinskas |
MSN Fights for Google Search Share MSN Search is the latest entrant in a crowded market. Can it stand up to the competition? |
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
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. |
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. |
PC Magazine
September 14, 2005
Pike et al. |
The Experts' Guide to Google Yahoo MSN and AOL A review of the search, Web mail, instant-messaging services and uncover other features of the four largest portals. |
Search Engine Watch
September 27, 2005
Danny Sullivan |
End Of Size Wars? Google Says Most Comprehensive But Drops Home Page Count Google is dropping from its home page the famous count of pages in its index while simultaneously claiming it has the most comprehensive collection of web documents available to searchers. |
D-Lib
February 2006 |
A Research Library Based on the Historical Collections of the Internet Archive As digital libraries expand, we can look forward to a day when humanities and social science scholars replace much of the tedious manual effort with computer programs. Here is a description of a library that is being built for such research. |
InternetNews
September 19, 2006
Nicholas Carlson |
Closed Captioning Hits Google Video Google puts closed captions on selected videos. Could it help search too? |
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. |
Search Engine Watch
August 4, 2005
Marcela De Vivo |
Search Engine Penalties at Yahoo & MSN A look at search engine penalties applied by Yahoo and MSN, and how webmasters can avoid them, or at least get them removed once sites are in the penalty box. |
PC World
February 28, 2002
Tom Spring |
Are Search Results For Sale? Analysis: Search engines walk a tightrope, seeking profit while helping you find what you want... |
BusinessWeek
November 29, 2004
Stephen H. Wildstrom |
Microsoft Is No Threat To Google -- Yet The software giant's unparalleled ability to integrate its search tools into Windows, Internet Explorer, Outlook, and other Microsoft Office components could give it a huge competitive advantage. But first it must greatly improve the quality of its new search service. |
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.... |
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. |
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
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
April 4, 2011
Adam Audette |
Technical SEO: Tools and Approach Where do you start? What types of areas should you be investigating, and why? What factors really matter? What tools should you use? Your questions answered here. |
