Search Engine Journal

Weather.com is the site maintained by cable television’s Weather Channel and usually my first stop when it comes to checking the weather.
I noticed that it’s snowing right now in Maryland so I clicked over to Weather.com to check out the forecast.
After scrolling down the page I noticed a little box with links in it, […]

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Hillary Clinton has turned to Yahoo Answers, the social media driven Q&A experience from Yahoo, to look for some ideas on how normal Americans would improve health care in the United States.
I find this quite interesting as not only a campaigning tool but also in choice of media.
Senator Clinton asked her question 22 […]

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Compete.com just published a blog entry ranking the top 20 sites which Internet users waste their time on.

The first two are predictable, MySpace.com and Yahoo. Google is ranked 5th.

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Michael Gray has some sharp words for Google and its policies on paid reviews, paid links and the use of the NOFOLLOW tag.
Google is being extremely hypocritical about the entire thing and using fear, uncertainty and doubt (FUD) to corral web publishers to their way of thinking.
Good read on the recent history of Google’s stance […]

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Over the past day some jabs and nudges were traded back and forth (all in good fun I believe) between Matt Cutts and John Scott over some claims John’s company made about their new link advertising service.
Seems that Uncle Matt got the better of John, and intimidated him into submission, Royce Gracie style.
Here’s a […]

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As a former editor I love to see this growing fervor around social media marketing. I remember some heady days at WebProNews when we got on the front page of Google News for the first time. 50,000 page views on a single story was exciting indeed, and I can only imagine the writers there today […]

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Microsoft has recently come under fire by Wikipedia and its founder Jimmy Wales after it was made public that Microsoft was contacting technical writers and asking them to change a Wikipedia entry on Office Open XML to favor the Redmond company.
As many of you in the search engine world know, Google and other engines favor […]

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Fox has supoenaed Google’s YouTube to find out which users uploaded episodes of 24 and The Simpsons according to Google Watch’s Steve Bryant.
The subpoena includes the testimony of Jane Sunderland, vice president of content protection and anti-piracy for the Fox Entertainment Group.
Sunderland’s portion of the subpoena, which is her personal testimony that the infringing activity […]

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The number of internet users is up to 137 million according to the latest report from the China Internet Networking Information Center.
A report released by the Internet Society China put the total number at 136 million. A difference of a million would be big if it was about The Netherlands. In China, with its huge […]

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Clusty.com, the normal search engine arm of Vivisimo, has come out with a new version of Clusty which is made for use on the Nintendo Wii, Clusty Wii.
In the same fashion as the cell phone or mobile PDA, the more game consoles and players / gamers use those consoles for online access and online gaming, […]

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