Search Engine Journal

Mobile Web & Search from Google and Opera
Google happens to be the world’s most popular search engine and the dominating player in the search engine market. And Opera Software ASA develops the Opera Web Browser, which despite its lack of market share in the desktop segment rules the mobile browser market. The two companies are […]

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NSA Gives New Meaning to ‘Spyware’
Politics don’t usually appear on this blog because of a variety of differing views at The Kelsey Group (and in most cases it’s not relevant to what we’re writing about). But I must say the National Security Agency has given new meaning to the idea of “spyware.” And the warrantless […]

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Long Tail Search & Web Analytics
There is a theory called “The Long Tail” that noted that a relative handful of blogs have many links going into them but “the long tail” of millions of blogs have only a handful of links going into them. It is very similar to the bowtie theory.
This same […]

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Best Search Engine Watch Forum Threads of 2005
Search Engine Watch Forums has released its end of the year round up of its most popular threads in the SEW Search Day article 2005 in Review: The Best Search Engine Watch Forum Posts.
Chris Sherman of SEW asked Forums Editor Elisabeth Osmeloski to declare the ‘most interesting […]

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SEO Contests : Win $1,000 for Google Ranking
The v7 Network is hosting a new SEO contest for sites around the globe to compete for the #1 thru #5 rankings of a currently non-existant term on Google. The contest is offering a first place prize of $1,000, $500 to the runner up, and $100 each for […]

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Search Engine Marketing Budget - Top Five Places to Spend
There is a nice new thread at Search Engine Watch Forums named SEO Top 5 money investments. The member asks, “which you consider the top five SEO techniques for money investment?”
The first few responses accurately reply that it is almost impossible to say on a generic […]

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Google Base’s New Interface
I’m feeling very rusty after being off for a week—a veritable enternity in “Internet time.” But I wanted to comment briefly on the new Google Base interface.
When Google Base launched and people said it’s the “Craigslist killer” or the “newspaper classifieds killer” I argued that might only be so if Google […]

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Jeremy Zawodny vs. Matt Cutts : Search Blog Award
In an unofficial tribute to two bloggers who represent their search engine employers on a sometimes official and sometimes unofficial basis, Aaron Wall and I decided upon adding this final ‘category’ to the Search Engine Journal 2005 Search Blog Awards; Matt vs. Jeremy : Which Search Employee […]

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2005 Best Search Engine News Blog : Search Engine Watch Blog
In a pretty tight race for the top three spots in the Best Search Engine News Blog of 2005, Search Engine Watch’s Blog, Search Engine Roundtable, and Threadwatch top the reader rankings in the Search Engine Journal 2005 Search Blog Awards voting. From an insider […]

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Best Search Engine Community Blog : 2005 Search Blogs Awards
Although Threadwatch and Search Engine Roundtable were both nominated for different awards for covering search engine news and search related issues, I felt that giving them their own category would help to differentiate these blogs a bit from the normal search blog pack.
Both Threadwatch and Search […]

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