Google Countersues Microsoft
Google has counter sued Microsoft claiming that under California law, Microsoft can’t restrain employees from “choosing where they want to work.” Google filed its lawsuit in state court in San […]
New Algorithm Measures Require New Means for Optimization
A lot has been happening over at Google lately. Last month we saw a substantial algorithm change, probably the biggest one since the “florida” update of 2003. And again this […]
Google, Browsers, and Bookmarkes
There have been rumors on and off for some time now about the possibility of Google getting into the browser game. For years Microsoft’s Internet Explorer has had a virtual […]
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 […]
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 […]
MSN Search To Go Live Soon?
Search Engine Watch is reporting that MSN beta search will go live Feb. 1. This is the first actual date I have heard, but we’ll have to wait for an […]
MSN to Compete on the PPC Front
This comes as no surprise to me, but rumors are getting out that MSN plans to compete with Google and Yahoo (Overture) with their own version of paid ad placement. […]
MSN Still in Beta
I was suprised to find that MSN Search is still in Beta. I didn’t have any specific information on when this was going to go live, however I figured it […]
MSN Desktop Search
MSN has rolled out its own version of desktop search. I can’t say I was immediately impressed as the indexing of my content literally took days and it seemed to […]
Ecommerce Shopping and Optimization
With the Christmas shopping season in full swing, I thought it appropriate to write about product shopping comparison search engines and optimizing to get your products listed. Shopping comparison search […]
MSN Offers New Tools
The MSN Sandbox offers previews of MSN’s current projects and BETA services. The following recent additions to Sandbox may be an indication of just how serious Microsoft is about competing […]
MSN Restricts Browsing
I recently attempted to access the MSN submit a site feature and received the following message: Please Upgrade Your Browser You are using: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; […]
MSN Rolls Out New Search Tomorrow!!!
The forums are a buzz about the news that MSN will be rolling out its new search tomorrow. Its not clear if this will be a beta version of their […]
Local and Personalized Search
The Sky is Falling For years I’ve been hearing about the death of SEO. So far, those predictions have never come true, but there are some changes on the search […]