GMail Fighting Spam with Oomph!
GMail is already the seventh largest (1 month back) email service with roughly a million users. As and when it goes public, signups will increase exponentially. It will probably relegate Yahoo! Mail to the third spot and occupy the second spot by November next year (with the first still being Hotmail.)
Having […]
Entries from November 2004
GMail Fighting Spam with Oomph!
November 29th, 2004 by Sushubh | 1 Comment
Yahoo Update or Changes do to Clusters
November 29th, 2004 by GuestColumnist | 5 Comments
Yahoo Update or Changes do to Clusters
There is a thread at WebmasterWorld named Yahoo Update? where members have noticed major shifts in Yahoo’s search results pages for competitive keywords. GetBot in message number four says that he has been watching Yahoo! Search and noticed that Yahoo! has been serving up basically two sets of search […]
MSN Improves Search with Rosette Linguistic Analysis
November 29th, 2004 by GuestColumnist | No Comments
MSN Improves Search with Rosette Linguistic Analysis
Found by way of a WebmasterWorld featured post, an article named Basis Technology Enhances Multilingual Search in MSN Search Engine. An other, more detailed article on this can be found at Yahoo! News, which is basically a copy of the offical press release.
The Rosette Linguistics Platform provides MSN the […]
Mamma Search is Buying Copernic
November 29th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | No Comments
Mamma Search is Buying Copernic
Mamma.com Inc., the paid search company, and Copernic Technologies Inc. announced that Mamma has signed a letter of intent where they will acquire all of the shares of Copernic Technologies for a combination of cash and shares of Mamma.com Inc. The closing of the acquisition will be effected by the parties […]
Yahoo’s New Front Page and Shortcuts
November 29th, 2004 by GuestColumnist | 3 Comments
Yahoo’s New Front Page and Shortcuts
I know this kinda stuff has to happen, but it makes me very sad. Yahoo has a new front page. Go look at it. It’s at http://www.yahoo.com. See anything odd about the page? The odd thing I see is that the pointer to the directory is crammed all the way […]
Reciprocal Links Are Not Evil
November 24th, 2004 by GuestColumnist | 5 Comments
Reciprocal Links Are Not Evil
I will repeat, reciprocal links are not evil. All this discussion in the forums about how people only want one-way links because they heard reciprocal links are bad and can get you kicked out of the search engines is taken way out of proportion. One example of such a thread is […]
Creative Commons Search Engine Integrated into Firefox 1.0
November 24th, 2004 by Loren Baker, Editor | 2 Comments
Creative Commons Search Engine Integrated into Firefox 1.0
Creative Commons today unveiled an updated beta version of its search engine, which scours the web for text, images, audio, and video free to re-use on certain terms a search refinement offered by no other company or organization today. Creative Commons’ announcement coincides with the Mozilla Foundation’s release […]
Google and the History of Link Building
November 24th, 2004 by GuestColumnist | 4 Comments
Google and the History of Link Building
I can’t begin to tell you how sick I am of reading articles and posts that mention the two words “Google” and “penalty” in the same sentence!
So many webmasters are walking on eggshells these days when it comes to Google, and it just doesn’t need be.
The most common question […]
Ask Jeeves and Lycos Enter the Search Engine Optimization Field
November 24th, 2004 by JimHedger | 3 Comments
Ask Jeeves and Lycos Enter the Search Engine Optimization Field
In a highly surprising move, two well known smaller search engines have entered the organic search engine optimization market! Ask Jeeves and Lycos are both offering services in a sector has traditionally maintained a symbiotic but arm’s-length relationship with search firms. While both firms have […]
Ask Jeeves Asks Google’s AdWords
November 24th, 2004 by GuestColumnist | 8 Comments
Ask Jeeves Asks Google’s AdWords
Have you ever spoke with an expert in a field and asked them a question about a topic they should have the answer to, but they respond that they need to ask someone else? Well, what about Ask Jeeves? You do a search at Ask Jeeves, and then you find Mr. […]
