Search Engine Journal

WordPress Found Spamming Search Engines
WordPress, a popular open source blogging software, was caught spamming search engines by using its link popularity and $3 per article company. I found this by way of Oilman’s blog, where he gives sage advice, “What have we learned from this? Negative divs are pretty freakin stupid - cloak your […]

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UnderGoos - Google Underwear Parody
Someone over at Search Guild has a lot of spare time on their hands and a questionable sense of humor. Enough to build a site called UnderGoos - a Google April Fools parody. Well, I covered the Cre8asite Forums Sale, so I might as well cover this foolery. Besides offering scenes […]

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Meta vs. Vertical Search Engines
LookSmart announced the launch of five consumer-facing vertical content sites that will serve up LookSmart advertisers. They are: teenja.com for teens, gradewinner.com for “tweens,” 24hourscholar.com for college students, and for parents there are parentsurf.com and gobelle.com.
LookSmart predicts that search is going to get increasingly vertical and personal. In this context, that’s […]

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Cre8asite Forums Up For Sale, Making Forums Sexier
Bill Slawski IM’d me today with the news that Cre8asite Forums is going up for sale and in preparation for the big sale, they are making changes to make it a more attractive takeover target for some Venture capitalists and suitors from some of the larger online publishers. […]

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Google Sandbox Explained - Information retrieval based on historical data
Msgraph at Search Engine Watch Forums does it again, he posted a thread named Google’s look into document scoring by historical data. In that thread, he points to a patent issued by Google on December 31, 2003 on the topic of “Information retrieval based on […]

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MSN Video Download Service Launched by Microsoft
Soon owners of Portable Media Centers, smart phones and pocket computers will be able to download daily programs and other video content from MSNBC.com, Food Network, Fox Sports, IFilm and other content providers, Microsoft said. SA Computer Mag reports that The company had announced plans for the MSN Video […]

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Copernic Upgrades Desktop Search
Copernic released its upgraded desktop search product, Copernic Desktop Search (CDS) version 1.5., today This production release, launched after five weeks of extensive beta testing, contains major enhancements to the company’s flagship product.
Critically-acclaimed since its introduction, previous versions of CDS have collected prestigious awards such as CNET Editors’ Choice, LAPTOP Magazine’s Editors’ […]

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Grokster and the Supreme Court - Dangers of P2P File Sharing
This week the Supreme Court heard arguments from MGM, StreamCast Networks and Grokster about file sharing software and the illegal trading of copyrighted material along with its effects on the music and film industries. We’ve covered P2P file sharing before on the Search Engine Journal […]

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Google GMail Now Offers Rich Text
Google GMail now supports fonts, bullets, highlighting, indenting and much more. Colors and few fonts are also available to be implemented on the text content. Impressively, forwarding HTML mails work fine as well. This was one area where Yahoo! had an advantage over Google GMail as forwarding messed up […]

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FedEx, UPS and USPS Package Tracking Added to Bloglines
This morning I revieved a press release from Ask Jeeves named “Bloglines is First to Go Beyond the Blog With Unique-to-Me Info Updates” with a subtitle “New FedEx, UPS and U.S. Postal Service Package Tracking Lands in the Bloglines Universal Inbox.” Keeps reminding me that this is […]

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