Search Engine Journal

No End Near in the Search Engine Peeing Contest
Google to Overture: Mine’s Bigger
Overture and Google have fired new salvos in the search engine size wars, expanding their databases of searchable web pages by millions of pages.
Overture announced last week that it had increased the size of its AlltheWeb database to 3,151,743,117 pages, claiming the […]

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FBI arrests MSBlast worm suspect | CNET News.com
The 18 year old Genius, Jeffrey Lee Parson, was arrested by the FBI yesterday- accused of constructing the MSBlaster Virus.
Federal law enforcement officials confirmed on Friday that they have arrested a suspect in the MSBlast worm attack that compromised hundreds of thousands of computers earlier this year. […]

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From Tristam Bielecki at NooMeeja
Google is number 1 web property in Germany
According to the latest Ranking from ORM, Google now has the strongest reach in Germany, knocking the once mighty T-Online off top spot. This is an increase of 4.7% from the previous ranking. Ebay stays at number 3, however with growth of almost 5% […]

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Trademarks cast shadow on paid search: ZDNet Australia: News & Tech: E-Business
Netflix built its popular Internet DVD rental store on the backs of small online marketing partners. Now it’s concerned that those same affiliates are infringing its trademark in the hottest marketing channel on the Web: keyword-search advertising. At the Search Engine Strategies conference here […]

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seattlepi.com Buzzworthy: Building a better Google
What Should Google Do? is marketing and strategy guru Seth Godin’s latest thought experiment. A 77-page PDF brainstorming session by Godin and readers of his blog on how the dominant search engine can build a better tomorrow.
It’s a fast-paced, sometimes exhilarating read with people tossing out imaginative ideas on how […]

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Overture Tops Google with Largest Search Index
Overture Services, Inc., a commercial search service, today announced the launch of the world’s largest search index of approximately 3.2 billion documents. The index was developed by the former Web search unit of Fast Search and Transfer (FAST), which Overture acquired in April.
The expanded index delivers new levels […]

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Yahoo Korea has launched the new Yahoo Blogs (in Korean only)
If you use AltaVista’s Babelfish (a Yahoo company- acquired in theOverture Acquisition) to translate from Korean to English, the translated title of the page is:
“Yahoo Blows”
Here’s the example: http://www.bloggertalk.com/showthread.php?p=359&goto=postid

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How to get your site into DMOZ
Everyone talks about getting their site listed in the Open Directory Project, better known as DMOZ, but not everyone knows what to do about it.
Here’s some help.
The Open Directory Project is probably the single most important internet directory. Its listings are used by Google, and by many other search […]

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Yahoo! Inc. and ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT, the #1 entertainment newsmagazine in the world, today launched ET on Yahoo! Entertainment (http://et.yahoo.com or ETonline.com). ET viewers and Yahoo! users will enjoy an exclusive cross-platform entertainment experience where they can delve deeper into breaking entertainment and celebrity news at this full-featured, one-stop entertainment destination.
The relationship was jointly announced […]

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Blogger Talk Forums - Yahoo! Blogs Preview
Rumor has it that Yahoo is about to break into the Blog market and perhaps dominate, taking advantage of Google’s Blogger being overrun with blogs and no customer service or sound and uniform pro-program.
Here is a link to Yahoo Korea’s Blog Page: http://kr.blog.yahoo.com
blog.yahoo.com and blogs.yahoo.com are active URLs but […]

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