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.
Search engines delete adware company
Date: 2004-05-14 Source: News.com
Yahoo and Google have disabled links to controversial adware maker WhenU after the company was accused of engaging in unauthorized practices aimed at boosting its search rankings, WhenU's top executive confirmed Thursday. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Searching Data: Browsers, Toolbars and the Desktop
Date: 2004-05-14 Source: TechNewsWorld
"There is little value-added service derived from desktop searching," Leslie Grandy, vice president of product management for InfoSpace's Search & Directory division, told TechNewsWorld. "It remains a challenge figuring out how to drive a business model." [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Why Writing Your Own Search Engine is Hard
Date: 2004-05-11 Source: ACM Queue
This article is aimed at those individuals or small groups that are considering this endeavor for their Web site or intranet. It is fun, but a word of caution: not only is it difficult, but you need two commodities in short supply—time and patience. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Verizon Launches Self-Service Tool
Date: 2004-05-10 Source: ClickZ
Verizon is catching up with other players in the pay-per-click space, launching a self-service application Monday enabling marketers to start and manage their pay-per-click ad campaigns on Superpages.com. Until now, advertisers had to call or meet with a representative. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Search Wars: Battle Of The Search Superpowers
Date: 2004-04-29 Source: SearchDay
We've long had competition in search, so why are we hearing so much about the search wars now? Because the few left in the wake of the portal wars are embarking on a new quest to secure their destinies on the search front. A look at how and why the current situation erupted, one that will no doubt gain further attention in the wake of expected public financial releases from Google. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
The weakness of Google
Date: 2004-04-29 Source: Economist.com
Not only is Google less strong than it looks, but an IPO might make it even weaker at a crucial moment, since Google is about to face simultaneous onslaughts from two fearsome rivals—Yahoo!, an internet portal that offers free e-mail and other services, and Microsoft, computing's software superpower, which runs an internet portal of its own. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Search Has Found Itsel
Date: 2004-04-28 Source: BizReport
Only a few short years ago, Sullivan recalled, nobody was talking much about search engines, at least not in financial terms. Now, he finds himself editing a growing newsletter and presiding over a Web site, searchenginewatch.com, that tracks how a nascent trend has grown into a moneymaking juggernaut. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Tacoda Forms Behavioral Ad Network, Challenges Paid Search Players
Date: 2004-04-26 Source: ClickZ
Behavioral targeting technology player Tacoda Systems is developing a pay-for-performance network of content sites that will run text ads and leverage its audience-profiling technology, ClickZ News has learned. The program, slated to launch in late spring or early summer, is a clear challenge to the contextual ad programs run by paid search players like Google and Overture. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
IAB: Search Boosted 2003 Ad Jump
Date: 2004-04-21 Source: ClickZ
With keyword search leading the charge, Internet ad revenue rose nearly 21 percent in 2003, totaling almost $7.3 billion, according to figures released Wednesday by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
NPR Launches Web Site, Series "Search Engine Wars"
Date: 2004-04-19 Source: URLwire
Companies like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are battling to be the main gateway to the Internet. These companies have gained unprecedented influence over what people see and learn, and have created an industry with brave new rules for business. In a five-part series, NPR's Rick Karr took a look at the business of search engines. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Peter Da Vanzo - An Interview
Date: 2004-04-19 Source: internet-marketing-research.net
I think the best advice I could give to webmasters is to take a step back and define a) who the audience is b) what they want and c) what you need to tell them. Then make sure all aspects of your strategy work together in order to deliver to that audience. It's no use having high rankings if your copy sounds like it was written by a ten year old, of if your site is impossible to use. Get the links, write great copy, and, above all else, keep the visitor clearly in mind at all times. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
Searching in the Third Dimension
Date: 2004-04-15 Source: Wired
The mind-boggling speed and reach of Internet search engines mask a severe limitation: They are powered by words alone. But the world is full of objects and patterns. Now computing researchers have developed search engines that can mine catalogs of three-dimensional objects, like airplane parts or architectural features. [Recommend Article] [Open In New Window]
