Search Engine Journal

Google Updating Backlinks
According to a WebmasterWorld thread there is currently a Google backlink update going on at some chosen Google data centers; 64.233.187.104 and 64.233.187.99. Google, unlike Yahoo, has a tendency of showing only a sample of the sites which link to a specific site when the link:url search command is used.
Although Google also updated […]

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Six Ways To Keep Search History Private
Questions are arising around the search engine world about the controversy of behavioral tracking by the search engines and privacy invasions such as the AOL Data leak and some governments demanding the search history or information kept secure by the major search engines of the world.
Most recently Brazil […]

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Google Checkout & Customer Ownership
Brian Smith at ComparisonEngines has an interesting post (citing research from Piper Jaffray’s Safa Rashtchy) on retailer fear surrounding Google’s control of customer data and the customer relationship. (Eric Schmidt in his remarks at SES gave an unsatisfying implied “trust us” response regarding Google’s management of customer data and consumer privacy […]

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Yahoo Search Marketing Preparing Upgrade to New Platform
As Yahoo Search Marketing (Overture) prepares for their relaunch during the forth quarter of this year to their new Yahoo Search Marketing ‘Panama’ format, one of the keys to the transition is smoothly bringing campaigns from the current YSM into the new interface.
Seems like that is beginning to […]

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Yahoo Growth Confirmed by Hitwise & Nielsen
Again we’re talking a fraction of a point, but according to a write up today in MediaPost (reg. req’d) Nielsen data seem to confirm a slight gain in Yahoo!’s search share (almost a point) vs. a holding pattern for Google:
Nielsen//Netratings reported Monday that Google accounted for 49.2 percent of […]

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MSN Expands Search Results Past 250
MSN Search / Live.com is now serving more than 250 search results, for those people who actually sift that far into SERP’s who do not work in the SEO industry. More from Barry Schwartz:
Until some time recently a search at MSN only went up to 250 results displayed. For example, […]

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Google MP3 Player Powered by GMail
Google evidently has an MP3 Player which publishers can use on their sites that was discovered by Amit Agarwal of Digital Inspiration. Amit was looking around GMail today and came across the player, which plays MP3 files via the GMail interface, “without having to download the MP3 or open an […]

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30 Days of Yahoo Publisher Network
As an experiment to dive into Yahoo’s contextual advertising network, Yahoo Publisher Network, Search Engine Journal had originally taken the vow to stick with YPN for the 7 days leading up to the Search Engine Strategies Conference earlier this month. The results of that week were quite revealing as when […]

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Yahoo Gains Search Market Share As Google Dips One Percent
It will need to be verified by at least one of the other traffic trackers, but comScore said that Yahoo!’s search share showed a modest, fractional gain for the second month in a row (but down vs. a year ago). Google, by comparison, showed a single […]

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Mozilla Firefox 2 Launch Delayed Until October
Mozilla has revealed that they are delaying the launch of their upcoming Firefox 2 browser until sometime in October 2006. As per incoming information, the foundation has discovered as many as 40 bugs in the under-construction Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 and another 100 are required to be fixed before […]

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