There is a lot of mis-information going around on the search engine forums and other SEO news sources. Much of it coming from respected SEO professionals. Most is simply speculation […]
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One-Way vs. Reciprocal Links
“These days, I’ve heard alot about one-way links being better than reciprocal and worth more in respect to pr rankings. If possible, could you please offer me some insight on […]
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Google Algorithm Change
Many across the search engine forums are noticing some substantial ranking changes taking place across Google. Speculation is wild about what, exactly, did change. The two most common theories are […]
Ask offers Blog Search
Ask Jeeves now offers a Blog aggregation service resulting from its recently finalized aquisition of Bloglines. The service is designed to scrape information from a variety of sources like News […]
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Y!Q Search Tool
Yahoo! has rolled out a contextual search tool called Y!Q, which allows users to launch Yahoo searches by highlighting words or phrases in viewed documents. The tool also allows you […]
Google's Webmaster Guidelines: Technical Guidelines
Today I continue my discussion of Google’s Webmaster Guidelines and what they mean to making sure your site is search engine (in this case Google) friendly. While the guidelines discussed […]
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MSN Search is Official!
As suspected MSN officially launched its new search engine today. The ‘beta’ has come off and the results from the main MSN search are identical to searching at beta.search.msn.com. Search […]
Search in 2005
Every year the search industry changes pretty significantly. 2004 brought us the roll out of the new Yahoo engine and search algorithms that look for natural language, rather than keyword […]
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Google to Allow API for Adwords
The Silicon Valley Watcher is reporting that Google will allow users to have an API key to access their adwords accounts. This, I’m sure, will be a great benefit to […]
MSN Rolling Out Beta
For the past several days individuals have been reporting getting MSN beta results when performing a search from MSN.com. There is speculation who is getting these results and who is […]
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Wireless "Dummy" Internets
Users of Wi-Fi wireless internet technology were warned today of a new internet fraud risk that is being dubbed the “evil twin”. Apparently hackers have been constructing artificial internet environments, […]
Search Engines add "nofollow" tag
Search Engine Watch has confirmed that Google, Yahoo and MSN plan to support a new ‘nofollow’ link tag. For all the obvious reasons, and stated in the above linked article, […]
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Microsoft – Yahoo Alliance
On January 6th, Yahoo announced that they have made an agreement with Microsoft Corporation to include Yahoo! services in Microsoft’s Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, the newest release of […]
Introduction to Semantic Analysis in Modern Information Retrieval Systems
As search engines attempt to furnish increasingly relevant results for searchers, many fascinating technologies have emerged. Among the most important are those which relate to language interpretation. From what was […]
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Google's Webmaster Guidelines: Design and Content Guidelines
Over the next several issues I’m going to go over Google’s Webmaster Guidelines. Many of the guidelines posted here are no-brainers, however some are often over looked are considered no-so-important. […]