Search Engine Journal

RSS Use Increasing Says Slashdot
Slashdot commissioned a survey of readers of its RSS (Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary) feed to determine just how its readers are using RSS technology now and detect future plans and platforms for accessing content via RSS. While most of the tech blog’s readers acquire their Slashdot RSS feed […]

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Ask Jeeves Adult Content Filter Not So Good: Users Accept Fault
Eric Scheske from Crux Magazine, a normal Internet searcher, wrote up an entry complaining about a particular search experience. Basically he searched on the question (Ask answers questions) What’s the name of the famous black transvestite? and arrived at the “Your search is likely to […]

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File Swappers Go Beyond Downloading
File swappers are developing new and innovative ways to trade songs and videos now that Napster has gone legit, Apple, Yahoo, and MSN are getting into the paid per download game, and record industry lawsuits are targeting users of peer to peer file sharing devices. According to a Pew survey of […]

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Yahoo Mail, Blogs, and Flickr Challenge Google
Yahoo has been on an upgrading spree recently with a major acquisition, two major upgrades and a beta-release of a new blogging tool. It’s no secret the execs and techs at Yahoo have been working overtime to re-brand and upgrade Yahoo’s various services. Yahoo has made several major announcements […]

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Google News Stirring Up Controversy
The three months of 2005 is turning out to be a cursed quarter for the PR department at the Googleplex. This week, the public spotlight focused on Google News for two less-than -honourable mentions.
First, Google News has been forced to remove materials from Agence France Presse (AFP) after AFP filed suit […]

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Google’s AdSense Soon To Have New Rival?
A large part of Google’s multi-billion dollar annual turnover comes from its nifty AdSense advertising program. The software enables website owners to drop in a piece of code to their pages that then serves advertisements provided by Google.
How Does Google AdSense Work? It all works dynamically and the adverts […]

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Pinning Relevancy Versus Optimization
There is a thread over at Search Engine Watch forums named SE Relevancy vs. SE Optimization - Round 1 where a member named “relevancy” (yea i know), wanted to pin “Optimization” versus “Relevancy.”
As you can imagine, many other members had an issue as to “why these need to be mutually exclusive?” Grumpus, […]

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FeedBeep Mobile Blog Monitoring Powered by PubSub
PubSub and Santa Cruz Tech today announced the launch of FeedBeep, an Internet-driven service providing real-time RSS alerts to Short Message Service (SMS)-enabled phones and mobile devices. FeedBeep utilizes PubSub’s prospective search technology to monitor RSS feeds and the blogosphere - using keyword search. FeedBeep then forwards important […]

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Gigablast Offering Related Pages
Gigablast has added a Related Pages feature to their search engine offering. “Related Pages are highly relevant search results which do not necessarily contain the searcher’s query terms. A lot of these related pages are never even returned by other search engines for that reason.,” said Matt Wells, CEO & founder […]

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Yahoo Offers Creative Commons Search Engine
Yahoo has released a search service for searching the Creative Commons database of content which is available for reuse and redistribution. Most material on the Internet comes with a full copyright, Yahoo Creative Commons search helps developers and site owners find content published by authors that want sites to share […]

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