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How Much Page Does Yahoo Search Index?

September 30, 2004 By +Loren Baker, see all posts by

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 spider will only index the first 101K of an HTML Web page; search Google for aardvark apple … [Read more...]

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 [...]

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Vivisimo Launches New Clusty Search Engine

September 30, 2004 By +Loren Baker, see all posts by

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 [...]

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Google Responds to Google News China Controversy

September 29, 2004 By +Loren Baker, see all posts by

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 [...]

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Google News Biased? Can Algorithms Take Sides?

September 29, 2004 By +Loren Baker, see all posts by

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 [...]

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Google Adwords Traffic Estimator Explained

September 28, 2004 By +Loren Baker, see all posts by

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 [...]

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Filed Under: Search Marketing

New Design for My Yahoo Adds Screen Real Estate

September 28, 2004 By +Loren Baker, see all posts by

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 [...]

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MoreGoogle : Enhances your Google Experience

September 28, 2004 By +Loren Baker, see all posts by

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 [...]

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Do Search Engine Spiders Pick Up Url’s in a Javascript Menu?

September 27, 2004 By +Loren Baker, see all posts by

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 [...]

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September 27, 2004 | 5 Comments | Read Story

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Virgin Music Download Service Aims to Bite Apple, MSN, Yahoo

September 27, 2004 By +Loren Baker, see all posts by

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. [...]

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September 27, 2004 | 1 Comment | Read Story

Filed Under: Search Marketing

Search Engine Marketing and Trademarks

September 25, 2004 By +Loren Baker, see all posts by

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 [...]

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