Search Engine Journal

Meta Keywords Do Not Need to Match Page Copy
A thread at our forums named Penalty for metakeywords not being in the body asks the question; “If I have keywords in my META keyword tag and some of these words doesn’t show up in the body anywhere, could I then get penalized for this by Yahoo?”
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Google Maps Limiting Resolution of Israel Satellite Images
According to IsraelNN.com, Google is limiting the resolution of sensitive Israeli military installations and ‘vulnerable’ sites. Google has come under pressure from various nations such as India & Thailand over the detailed satellite images used in the Google Map program. Such map images, argue the countries, could be […]

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Ford Explorer Google AdWords AdSense Campaign
Apparently Ford did a pretty big advertising deal with Google AdWords/AdSense last week that splashed Ford Explorer ads all over blogs and search related sites. I had the pleasure of witnessing the ad campaign on the Blog Search Engine last week, which featured a big Ford skyscraper banner display ad […]

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Search Engine for Economists - Nutch Powered
Tara at ResearchBuzz has a nice little write up on a new search engine launched by Resources for Economists. RFE, a categorized list of Economics Resources has a search engine housed at ese.rfe.org which is powered by the Nutch open sourced search engine project.
Tara notes “The ESE (Economics […]

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Google Starting Video Movie Rentals?
A ZDNet Blog entry named Google to start renting videos? shows how Google recently updated their terms and conditions for the Google Video Upload program, “and with it comes some insight into new features that Google may be preparing to launch for Google Video — including rentals.”
Even […]

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Yahoo 360 Social Blog Network Updates Features
Adding to the holiday gift giving, Yahoo 360 has just released a stocking full of updates for its social blogging platform. On the Yahoo 360 blog this week, Yahoo announced the following additions.
Ratings and Reviews: In addition to Yahoo Local business reviews, Yahoo 360 is now allowing its […]

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MSN Search Testing DMOZ Descriptions
According to a thread titled MSN uses DMOZ description at Webmaster World, site publishers have been noticing that the default descriptions of their web sites which are served in the MSN Search results are being provided by the Netscape Open Directory Project (DMOZ). While Google has been using the DMOZ for […]

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Jews for Jesus Files Suit Against Google & Blogger
Just in time for Christmas, a religious group is looking to cause a bit of a legal spat or possibly a rather large PR play as they have filed suit against the Google owned Blogger for farming out their official name in a Blogspot domain name. The […]

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Best SEO Blog of 2005 : Best Search Blogs Awards
What perhaps may be the most expanding niche of search engine related blogs in 2005, SEO blogs have followed the transformation of the Search Engine Optimization industry in 2005 into a legitimate marketing vehicle for both innovative & traditional businesses. Following the path of SEO out […]

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Google Patent Application Explains Google Suggest
Bill Slawski, over at Cre8asite Forums, tears deep inside how Google Suggest suggests terms for you, as you type them. Of course, we have the Google Suggest FAQ but that doesn’t explain it how Bill does.
Bill believes that the terms suggested come from the following four criteria;
- Most Popular Searches
- […]

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