Search Engine Journal

Google and Instant Messenger
Google already dominates the search engine market, where once Yahoo! ruled user’s browser. With GMail and Google Desktop Search, they are entering prime time Microsoft domain. Speculation prevails that it will not be long before Google enters the instant messaging market. We have discussed before that Google already has a working Instant […]

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Clash of the Titans - When Search Engines Collide
Billions of pages going to trillions. Most of the information available online is replicated again and again, then twisted, corrupted and re-entered. When one search question retrieves one million answers, the system fails — results have little or no value.
Now that the titans of e-commerce have been […]

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Google’s GMail Resembling Desktop Mail Client
The more I use GMail and Google keeps on enhancing this webmail service, the more I look at it as a replacement to desktop mail clients. I have been using GMail for my personal mails and I cannot hide the fact that I am loving it. It is fast, it […]

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Desktop Search from AOL, Google & Others
Search engines, portals and browser systems are trying to get off of the Internet and your desktop and into your hard drives, email, and private files. By taking advantage of a basically lame Windows Search tool used by Microsoft since the dawn of MS Windows, huge public monsters like […]

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Search Engines and Block Analysis with Image Retrieval
What are some of the methods to combat the issues with linkage data, that search engines often depend upon for ranking one page over the next? If you’re reading this, you most probably know all too well about how sites exchange links with each other, how people buy […]

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Using Keyword Selection Guidelines To Improve Website Conversion Rates
I’ve been under pressure lately to come up with more articles on organic search engine optimization with regards to how an effective keyword strategy can improve website conversion rates. Well, here is my take on it, based on the Web analytics evidence of our own keyword strategy.
Use […]

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FCC Ruling Brings Broadband to the Power Lines
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has given the OK for US based utilities to provide broadband over power lines in a move which the FCC hopes will increase the availability of high-speed broadband access and increase competition. This will add electric companies to the list of broadband […]

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Google for your Desktop Search
Google has been working on this one since some time now. We speculated in May that Google would be getting on with the Desktop Search in the coming months, and it is finally out in a beta release today. It is called Google Desktop Search and it practically rocks.
It comes […]

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Looking at Yahoo Local and Google Local
I love New York City. More than any other city on the planet, New York is exciting, expansive and always interesting. As Earth’s unofficial capital city New York is home to many of the world’s largest entities, some even bigger than Donald Trump’s ego. No other city has captured […]

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Google Desktop Search Has Launched
Google quietly launched its Google Desktop Search today and a slew of bloggers have tested it, reviewed it, and are currently testing it, including yours truly. Google Desktop is a frightfully fast application which searches desktop documents, web browser history, and chat room conversations (in AOL’s AIM) along with email and […]

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