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.
What the Bubble Got Right
Date: 2004-09-29 Source: paulgraham.com
I had a front row seat for the Internet Bubble, because I worked at Yahoo during 1998 and 1999. One day, when the stock was trading around $200, I sat down and calculated what I thought the price should be. The answer I got was $12. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Find.com Business Search Engine Adds Content Providers
Date: 2004-09-24 Source: Search Engine Journal
Find.com, a search engine for business professionals, today announced that it has signed PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC, IBISWorld, IOMA, Datamonitor, and Mintel as new premium content providers for the business search engine. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Interview with Patrick Gavin from Text Link Ads Inc.
Date: 2004-09-22 Source: Search Engine Roundtable
The types of links that I recommend to my customers are text link ads that drive targeted traffic and deliver incoming links to the client's site from as many authoritative web pages as possible. The more relevant to the client's website the better as this better qualifies the traffic and could give the client an extra boost from what may be seen as a "relevant link" down the road. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Sensis patents its search engine
Date: 2004-09-22 Source: news.com.au
Telstra's highly profitable directories business, Sensis, has lodged global patents for part of its new internet search engine in a bid to stymie growing competition from global search giants Yahoo and Google. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Blinkx and the Future of Search
Date: 2004-09-17 Source: MediaPost
Blinkx takes the idea of search a step farther than the keyword bound interface used by Google and every other engine. Rather than asking the user to interpret what they're looking for into a string of keywords and then launch a query, Blinkx examines the context of their current activity and tries to distill the desired concept from it. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Search Engines 201
Date: 2004-09-13 Source: SearchDay
Want to dive deep -- really deep -- into the technical literature about search engines? Here's a road map to some of the best web information retrieval resources available online. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Reflections On SEMPO
Date: 2004-09-08 Source: Search Engine Report
Search Engine Watch editor Danny Sullivan recaps issues and concerns that marred the Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization's first birthday last month and looks at ways the group could go forward. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
FAST Debuts Local Search Tool
Date: 2004-09-03 Source: ClickZ
AdVisor allows companies with an existing database of advertisers to expose that content to the Web, and add to that content from third-party directories or advertisers' own Web sites. It also provides users with advanced navigation, linguistics, and multi-level sorting capabilities. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Blinkx set to challenge Google
Date: 2004-08-31 Source: This Is Money
The difference between Blinkx and other search engines is that it does not just search the web, it combs everything from personal emails on your desktop through to video clips from TV stations such as the BBC. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
PremierGuide Gets Social with Local Search
Date: 2004-08-26 Source: ClickZ
In the PremierGuide implementation, users can recommend a local business as "good", "very good" or "excellent". The company eschews negative reviews, feeling they might damage local businesses and therefore alienate potential advertisers. Users can filter by recommendations -- seeing, for example, only reviews posted by trusted friends. They can also sort by recommendations, so the most highly recommended business shows up first. There are also collaborative filtering functions, which let users see businesses recommended by people who like the same businesses they do. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Search Engine Executive Roundtable, Part 2
Date: 2004-08-26 Source: SearchDay
How do the search engines view search marketing firms? What are the growth drivers of the industry? And Is the search 'bubble' going to pop soon? Danny Sullivan continues his discussion with four top search executives. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Search Engine Executive Roundtable, Part 1
Date: 2004-08-25 Source: SearchDay
What's happening in search today, and where is it headed? Danny Sullivan grilled top honchos from AOL Search, Ask Jeeves, MSN Search and Yahoo for answers to these and other wide-ranging questions. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Search Engines Used to Find Self, Others
Date: 2004-08-17 Source: ClickZ
The Internet has spawned a population of private investigators, as a Harris Interactive poll conducted for Microsoft found that surfers use search engines to find information about themselves or someone they know. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Why Won't Local Search Carry Its Weight?
Date: 2004-08-16 Source: ClickZ
If [search engines] expect consumers to use local search tools, they must make those tools easy to find and easy to use. ...The engines will have to buck up and put that second geographic search box on their home pages if they want consumers to search this way. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Learn About A New Search Startup: Kozoru
Date: 2004-08-11 Source: ResourceShelf
It's always exciting to read about new efforts in search. This one appears to go into the natural language/answer engine category. Remember, most of the big names in search today started small, very small. One of them will soon go public. Of course, bigger doesn't always mean better and numerous small and specialized search tools do a great job and offer exciting innovations. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Paid search growth may slow
Date: 2004-08-09 Source: News.com
Advertisers will more than double spending on paid search to $5.5 billion in 2009 from $2.6 billion this year, but the annual growth rate will decelerate to 11 percent in 2009 from 65 percent in 2003, according to a report by JupiterResearch, due to be released on Monday. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
SEMPO Looks Back, Pushes Ahead
Date: 2004-08-04 Source: ClickZ
The Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization celebrated its first birthday this week, and while it's been a productive year for the fledgling association, the group has also had its share of growing pains. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
