Search Engine Journal

Google AdSense for Domains and Poor Traffic
I was reading this disturbing thread over at Search Engine Watch Forums named AdSense For Domains Garbage Traffic. The thread shows how one AdWords advertiser that spent “20K+ dollars worth of garbage traffic that came as a result of parked domains and similar types of sites.” He even notes […]

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2005 Search Engine Blogs Awards : Blog Search, Search Marketing Blogs
The Search Engine Journal 2005 Search Blog Awards votes have been tallied and I’d like to thank our readers who nominated their favorite search blogs and all of those members of the blogging and search community which voted and ranked your favorite search blogs (blogs […]

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Ask Jeeves Translation Service & Word Tools
Ask Jeeves launched new language search tools this week in their continued effort to add quality content and ease of search satisfaction to Ask.com (Ask Jeeves). The new language services include Page Translations, Dictionary Smart Answers, Synonyms and Audio Pronunciations for words.
Living the life of an International Search Engine […]

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Gravee Search Engine : Gravy Search Revenue Sharing Model
Received an email this week from a new search engine which is named after a food which will consist of about 10% of my caloric intake over the holiday season : GRAVY! Turkey gravy, chicken gravy, beef gravy… one of my favorite aspects of the holiday season […]

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Google Book Search & TextRank
Although the technology Google uses for ranking the results and indexing of the books in the Google Book Search project is still a bit unknown, Bill Slawski has put together some interesting research that points to TextRank, which was co-invented by Professor Rada Mihalcea.
Professor Mihalcea received a grant of $107,112 from […]

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Google Ranking & Indexing Lesson from Matt Cutts
Matt Cutts has given librarians and school teachers an early Christmas present. In an article published in Google’s Newsletter for Librarians, Cutts gives a basic explanation of how Google ranks and sorts documents found in its index. Along the way, he offers search engine marketers a bit of […]

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Japan Government Creates Search Engine Exploration Group
The Japanese tradition of finding the best products and services in the world, and then perfecting them, has been common practice in Japan for centuries. Such business practices have included the perfection of products or services like the automobile, video cassette recorders, beer, cameras, fast food, hair salons, and […]

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Santa Claus Worm on Yahoo, AOL & MSN Messenger
There is a new Grinch which has been unleashed on the web with Christmas just being a few days away. There is currently a “Santa Claus worm” which is targeting the users of MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, and AOL Instant Messenger. The program reportedly lures unsuspecting computer […]

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Zawodny & Mayer : Yahoo’s Towers of Power
Webmaster Radio (webmasterradio.fm) is hosting a new radio show with none other than Jeremy Zawodny and Tim Mayer of Yahoo Search. The monthly hour long show, Power Source, will feature reviews of different tech companies and behind the scenes scopes of the online world and perhaps even Yahoo.
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Google Acquisitions : Papers, Employees & Patents
Bill Slawski of WebAdvantage.net and Cre8asite Forums (you know, the guy with 10,000 forum responses and who’s always digging around search patents), recently too the time to look into some of the companies which Google has acquired, their employees, and papers published by the companies on what it is […]

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