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Brand matters when it comes to search engines
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 […]
Rel=nofollow fixed says Matt Cutts
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 […]
Microsoft to acquire TellMe
Microsoft has announced that it will be buying the voice recognition company TellMe. A leading player in the field of voice operated phone services, TellMe announced the launch of the first Voice search service earlier this year. So not very surprising that Microsoft wants to acquire their technology. This acquisition makes perfect sense for both […]
Bush Google bomb fixed?
Finally Google has changed their algorithm to prevent Google bombing from working. All the old favourites like a search for ‘miserable failure’ which returned the George Bush page on the White house site, and ‘liar’ which returned the Blair page on the number 10 site have been cleaned up.
According to Google, they have made […]
One sitemap protocol for Google, Yahoo! and MSN
The three big players in search have finally agreed to a single protocol for submission into their indices. Google Sitemaps was is a system for enabling site owners submit their web site through a XML version of their URL feed. While, Yahoo! Introduced their own version soon after, the two systems required different formats which […]
MediaWhiz acquires Text Link Ads
New York based ad firm Media Whiz has bought Text Link Ads. These guys are in the business of brokering links, which can help sites to rank in search engines. I’ve seen Patrick Gavin many times at various search marketing events, but have managed to stay away from buying their services. I’m very surprised about […]
Blinkx to power MSN video search
Microsoft signs deal with Blinkx who will provide search functionality for MSN video. According to Suranga Chandratillake Blinkx co-founder and CTO, this could mean millions of dollars in additional revenue.
Blinx goes way beyond searching through text titles, descriptnios and user defined tags, into decoding words from speech and even attempting to recognise images. In […]
On-page optimisation
I realised, for a search blog, this one was starting to forget it’s roots. So, thanks Dave N for bringing some sanity back into the the world of SEO with his breakdown of important on page factors for a ‘good ranking’
Couldn’t really argue with any of it - top man.
