Search Engine Journal

Search Engines Helping with Tsunami Relief Effort
As the tragic news of the December 26th Tsunami spreads across the web, so do initiatives by those who are working to help the tsunami relief effort. Along with blogs and other popular sites, search engines have also played their part in helping to raise money. Google has put […]

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Yahoo’s URL Normalization Issues
Yesterday I wrote on the topic of URL Normalization: Is a Trailing Slash the Same Page, discussing how search engines normalize a URL and what are the SEO implications.
Today I found an interesting real life case of the issues with URL normalization with our friendly search engine Yahoo. The Yahoo Festive Bowties […]

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Microsoft Passport Dumped By Ebay
Microsoft’s technology for identity-management on the Internet in the form of Passport took another major beating today when eBay announced that they are discontinuing their support for it. Users of eBay would not be able to use their Passport Ids to login to eBay starting late January. This news comes just […]

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Gmail Rounds Out 2004: Giving Away 12 Free Invites
As Gmail rounds out the 2004 year, I will be giving out 12 free gmail invites to those who leave a comment with their full name and valid email address. If the email address is invalid then you will not get the invite. Invites are sent via […]

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Opera, Mozilla Ready for Prime Time
Early Internet surfers, which of course means something less than a decade ago for most of us, will remember the days when Netscape was the only real browser in town. For those who don’t remember, there was a time when Netscape was for sale in the computer stores, for anywhere […]

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Tsunami Blogs Rally Support for Disaster Victims
Bloggers are rallying for support and providing coverage of the devestation across Asia and the Sub-continent. The South-East Asia Earthquake and Tsunami Blog is providing news and coverage from the Region The Command Post is providing coverage on how to donate to those in need in the Region.
Brand New […]

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Linking Schemes for Achieving Google Rankings
Google slowed the spread of selling PageRank when they penalized SearchKing and also brought about a keen eye on link spamming. Google stands behind the branding / marketing angle of letting the democratic nature of the web determine relevancy, but just like all other engines they hand edit at least […]

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Dear Santa, An SEO’s wishlist for Google
Dear Santa, I would like to assure you that my colleagues and myself have all been reasonably good this year. I would like to thank you in advance and on behalf of my colleagues for all the candies and toys I know will be found in our respective homes […]

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Search Engines are Ready For Broadband
The past year saw immense growth in the search sector. Search is bigger today than it was twelve months ago in every respect. With the Internet becoming a larger part of people’s lives and broadband access becoming the norm around the world, 2004 was the year that big-business fully recognized […]

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Yahoo Stealing the Top Search Engine Result?
Over at SEO Chat a member is complaining about Yahoo! including a relevant result to a Yahoo property at the top. Do a search on Beatles at Yahoo and you will see under the sponsored ad, a Yahoo Shortcut. The Yahoo Shortcut for this result leads you to either […]

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