Articles Sorted By Search Engine(3094) Articles in this category are broken down by search engine. These articles primarily cover business oriented issues.
Legal Issues(129) From lawsuits, to dealing with governments, the articles in this category cover the domestic and international legal issues facing search engines.
Copernic is alivepop
Date: 2002-10-16 Source: Montreal Gazette
Search-Engine firm sneaks up on google. With more than $10 million in sales last year, Quebec firm hunts for corporate clients. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
New Search Engine Resource Center
Date: 2002-08-28 Source: Search Engine Watch
The Law Library Resource Xchange (LLRX) offers an excellent collection of articles, links and news that should be on every serious searcher's short list of must-read resources. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
European Search Engine News
Date: 2002-08-05 Source: SearchEngineWatch.com
Yahoo makes paid submission mandatory for businesses in the UK and a new option for those in Italy. LookSmart UK begins powering former rival UK Plus and has launched a paid placement service of its one. And Excite is back -- at least in some European countries, powered by FAST. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
FTC Recommends Disclosure To Search Engines
Date: 2002-07-02 Source: SearchEngineWatch.com
The US Federal Trade Commission has made an important recommendation to major search engines suggesting that they better disclose their paid content. This came in response to a complaint made last year by the watchdog group Commercial Alert. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Letter From Australia
Date: 2002-07-01 Source: SearchEngineWatch.com
Danny Sullivan was in Sydney last month for the Search Engine Strategies conference and shares things both Australia-specific and in general that came out of the event. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
RealNames To Close After Losing Microsoft
Date: 2002-06-03 Source: SearchEngineWatch.com
RealNames, which provided a pioneering alternative to the domain name system, announced last month that it would cease operations as of June 28 after failing to renew an important distribution partnership with Microsoft. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
The Bumpy Road To Maximum Monetization
Date: 2002-05-06 Source: SearchEngineWatch.com
The quest for greater profits is likely to cause search engines to monetize even more of the links displayed on their search results pages. LookSmart's recent switch to cost-per-click pricing for small business listings is the first real test of maximizing monetization this way. Unfortunately, the change and others over the past year have created consumer concerns. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Keeping Current with the World of Search Engines
Date: 2002-05-02 Source: Search Engine Watch
Ironically, many people feel that staying current with the world of search is a major source of information overload. It needn't be, if you rely on this baker's dozen list of excellent newsletters and weblogs. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google, Open Directory Get Foolish
Date: 2002-04-02 Source: The Search Engine Report
Google's secret page ranking mechanism is pigeons? The Open Directory taken over by Microsoft? Both search engines had fun on April Fool's day with these made up stories. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Google Quits Search, Focuses on Waste Management
Date: 2002-04-01 Source: Search Engine Watch
Internet poster child Google has abandoned its efforts to create the world's most comprehensive web search engine, and is setting its sights on the lucrative world of waste management. (April Fools Issue) [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Search engine newsletters
Date: 2002-03-18 Source: Pandia
The search engine industry is in a constant flux, and if you want to stay up to date with the latest developments, you'll have to subscribe to at least one of the available search engine newsletters. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Search Engine Smackdown
Date: 2002-03-18 Source: Search Engine Watch
Google rules, and other search engines and directories are faded has-beens, says one search industry veteran. Nonsense! scoffs another, putting Google in its place and singing high praises for AltaVista. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Search Engine Formula for Success
Date: 2001-12-27 Source: Search Engine Guide
Many search engines are struggling for survival these days and all are monetizing the search every way they can. How can they remain profitable in hard times? [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Search Engines Are Still in the Model 'T' Era
Date: 2001-12-26 Source: Search Engine Guide
Search engine companies are often portrayed as fragile weakling in the financial press. This doesn't do justice to their current potential and their revolutionary impact on our daily routines. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Surfboard Holding BV launches Startpage.com
Date: 2001-11-13 Source: URLwire
All the links which are selected are only at one page, and grouped by category. The links are very descriptive and are often linked to “deep” content. Which will help people find handy stuff with just one click instead of ten. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Is The Internet Becoming A Commercial Directory?
Date: 2001-07-31 Source: InternetNews.com
Paid listings are increasingly becoming the norm for search engines. With growing consumer acceptance, what steps must search engines take to further consolidate this goodwill? What changes to existing listings products must be made? [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Consumer Group Asks FTC To Investigate Search Ads
Date: 2001-07-17 Source: The Search Engine Report
Is it deceptive advertising to include paid listings in your search results and not clearly label them as ads? A group backed by consumer advocate Ralph Nader believes so, and it's asking the US Federal Trade Commission to take action against seven major search companies. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Can Portals Resist The Dark Side?
Date: 2001-06-04 Source: Search Engine Watch
The battle now raging over profits in the search space may not be as dramatic as the Star Wars epic, but there's definitely an element of the Dark Side as two more search engines -- iWon and Canada.com -- have shifted over to using paid placement listings. Will other search engines follow this trend, which was begun by Go.com earlier this year? [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
