Google & Yahoo Sucking Up Brain Power Slashdot has a great little write up named Google and Yahoo Creating Brain Drain? The /. links to a Business Week article where it says “In the second quarter alone, Google snapped up about 230 engineers.” In a Cre8asite Forum thread EGOL gives the perspective from a professor, …
Self Tagging by Ask Jeeves Ask Jeeves just deployed MyJeeves 1.2: Tagging Solution for Virtual Folders but it does not offer the community aspect focus that Yahoo! has done so nicely with MyWeb 2.0. I call asks version, self-tagging, because it doesn’t allow you to view your “communities” tags. For example, about a week ago, …
Search Engines and Issues With Session IDs A HighRanking Forums thread named Cookieless Sessions discusses one of the biggest issues with dynamically driven Web sites – the session id. Including a Session ID in a URL, will cause the search spiders to run around like chickens without their heads. Think of it this way. I …
Google Files Patent for Contextual RSS Ads I find it a bit funny that Google would file a patent for this, but I find most patents funny. MSGraph, an SEW Member known for posting patent applications, started a thread named Google’s Advertisements in RSS Patent App where he quotes an abstract from the patent application. …
Yahoo! Publisher Network Coming Soon? There has been some recent buzz at WebmasterWorld that YPN coming very soon. The thread creator used a conference call where Yahoo’s CEO Terry Semel, “apparently said that YPN would be rolled out “very soon.”” Nick at ThreadWatch then wrote a thread, Yahoo Publisher Network to Debut in August? In …
Jumping Into the Search Engine Optimization Game The SEM & SEO industry is flourishing. New SEO companies spring up each day. So what stops anyone from starting an SEO company? Well, nothing really. Since the industry is so unknown to the public, most people still don’t understand what SEO really is, anyone can really start …
Microsoft & Google Take it to the Courts If you haven’t heard, Google to Open Research and Development Center in China, where Google “Hires Dr. Kai-Fu Lee as Vice President, Engineering and President of Google China.” The issue is, where he is coming from and his non-compete : Dr. Lee, who is widely known for …
New Example of the Google Sandbox Randfish over at SEO Chat posted a thread named SEOmoz.org – In Google’s Sandbox – Hilarity Ensues! In that thread he describes how his SEOmoz.org blog has been sandboxed after moving it from socengine.com/seo to seomoz.org. Randfish describes that for searches he used to rank well for, he no …
Wayback Machine Sued for Copyright Infringement Wayback Machine is used so often by many of us for many reasons. Want to see the first RustyBrick Web site, use the wayback machine. But it is also used as a legal tool “to turn up old Web pages” that can be used in a legal case. Due …
Google Experimenting with More Site Results A member at Search Engine Watch forum discovered a new test Google is trying out. There is no official name for it yet, but we can nickname it “More Site Results”. Basically, you can see from the picture below, that Google is embedding more site results from a page. …
