Monthly Archives: July 2007

Brand matters when it comes to search engines

July 26, 2007 – 7:53 am

A research study at Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) – placed identical search results taken from Google into four different results templates – Google, MSN Live and Yahoo! as well as an in-house search engine.
When these pages were shown to the experimental subjects and asked which pages results were more relevant [...]

By nilhan | Posted in Google, MSN, SEO, research | Comments (0)

Rel=nofollow fixed says Matt Cutts

July 22, 2007 – 11:25 am

The first time the major engines collaborated, it was to introduce the rel=nofollow tag to combat comment spam on blogs. Comment spam where anyone can add a link in the comment section of blogs was getting to the point, where it was almost impossible o administer a blog without spending hours deleting unrelated comments [...]

By nilhan | Posted in Google, Internet, MSN, SEO, Uncategorized, Yahoo!, advertising | Comments (0)

Search history and privacy

July 21, 2007 – 9:53 pm

Both Google and Ask announced their plans to improve privacy protection for the user. A search engine needs to identify and track the user for a variety of reasons, from being able to service search preferences like how many results should be returned on a page to returning contextual results through personalisation and detecting click [...]

By nilhan | Posted in Ask, Google | Comments (0)