Search Engine Journal

How Much Page Does Yahoo Search Index?
One of the lesser-discussed facets of Web searching is the spidering limits of search engines. Even if a search engine is a full-text engine, it may not search the entirety of a given page if it’s too large. In Google’s case the limit is 101K for HTML pages (its […]

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Vivisimo Launches New Clusty Search Engine
Vivisimo has launched a new search engine, Clusty. I’m going to get in a lot of trouble because I keep wanting to type “Crusty” instead of “Clusty” but let’s continue anyway. You can get it at http://www.clusty.com ; as you might suspect it’s in beta.
Clusty offers several different categories of […]

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Google Responds to Google News China Controversy
Recently Google, in the own words, explained their position on operating in China and their censorship of certain news stories on the Chinese version of Google News. Google News has also been looked into in the United States because of political bias reports. Some people seem to think that […]

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Google News Biased? Can Algorithms Take Sides?
Danny Sullivan posted a thread at SEW forums named News Search & Biases, where he points to an article written at OJR.org named Balancing Act: How News Portals Serve Up Political Stories. This blew my mind.
The article discusses how Google News seems to be favoring the conservative papers over […]

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Google Adwords Traffic Estimator Explained
Google added this great feature that helps AdWords customers figure out an estimated level of traffic that they should expect to see based on the CPC value and keyword phrase. But ad features are added, it adds an additional level of complexity for the end user. A thread at Search Engine […]

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New Design for My Yahoo Adds Screen Real Estate
Yahoo is now allowing My Yahoo users to test out the new My Yahoo layout. Yahoo! lists the new features to be found at the new My Yahoo here. Jeremy Zawodny has some great information on this in his entry named New My Yahoo Beta, Featuring RSS […]

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MoreGoogle : Enhances your Google Experience
Google seems to be the world’s favorite search engine. It is famous for its bare interface that focuses more on speed and accurate results than eye candy. And apparently some people find it to be too bare. That is why we have had tools like Viewpoint Toolbar and Girafa that […]

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Do Search Engine Spiders Pick Up Url’s in a Javascript Menu?
This subject has been discussed before in length, but solutions have remained personal opinion. A thread over at Highrankings addresses some interesting issues regarding whether or not a search engine spider can extract links from a javascript menu. If the javascript is external, then it […]

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Virgin Music Download Service Aims to Bite Apple, MSN, Yahoo
On Monday Virgin launched a digital music download service which is expected to challenge Napster, iTunes, MSN Music Store, and Yahoo as the first digital music download service with two big brother backing it up, the Virgin Music Store Chain and its own radio stations. Sir […]

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Search Engine Marketing and Trademarks
In today’s competitive markets, it’s a well-known fact that trademarks and well-known brand names can achieve a much higher conversion rate than with generic keywords. That statement makes a lot of sense. In fact, the direct response television (DRTV) advertising industry estimates that about 21% of consumers watching commercials for an […]

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