Search Engine Journal

This week’s in-house spotlight is on Baron Ginnetti, the new Director of SEO & Content Distribution at Pronto.com. Baron’s legacy comes from his SEO efforts at Shopzilla, where he spent 2 ½ years building a large SEO team that would make most in-house SEOs salivate.
Baron and I both started our new ‘gigs on the same […]

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After months of speculation and whispers, Google confirmed on Friday their plans to submit a bid for wireless spectrum to be auctioned by the Federal Communications Commission early next year. Just what they plan to do with it, however, has yet to be revealed.
Google mentioned in the statement that their application to bid on […]

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So, you’re the largest growing social media site and you think you can do whatever you want and users won’t care? Think again Facebook. When you create a community as big as Facebook which is its own little “country” online, it’s a democracy.
Some 50k plus Facebook users have signed a “…signed an online petition […]

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This week we saw a vicious attack on Google, Yahoo and MSN search results by malware and spyware operators hit the big news after months in the making, and the search engines, at least Google, are beginning to react publicly.
Google acted pretty swiftly on removing the bulk of the malware sites, and has added a […]

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News publishers meeting today have unveiled a new proposal that would give them a greater amount of control over the way that search engines index their websites. Presently, webmasters are limited to creating a robots.txt file, which tells search engine robots where they can go and what parts of the site to ignore. […]

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NowSourcing noticed that Propeller social news sharing service, which was once Netscape, has hit the 400,000 user mark and is continuing to grow, which may develop the site into more of a player in the social community.
Digg hit 500,000 users in August 2006 and then 1 million in March 2007 and by those times, Digg […]

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Google Reader quietly introduced two nifty features aimed at finding more not so well known and yet interesting blogs and a better way of organizing these blogs’ feeds.
First of these two new features is the personalized feed recommendations. When you log in to your Google account and visit the Google Reader’s discovery page, you’ll […]

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There are some exciting new innovations in search coming up on the horizon, and one of those is a project currently being worked on by a Canadian computer science grad student, who is mapping the way the human brain works and applying it to technology that will eventually power a search engine dedicated to visual […]

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Following up on yesterday’s story about a massive malware attack on the “big three” search engines, which saw the manipulation of the search engines to rank malicious malware sites high in the results pages, it seems that Google has at least taken steps to remove the offending sites from their indexes. However, when questioned […]

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Google Experimental is testing the ability to actually change the ranking of results or delete sites listed in personalized search results, in a Digg style setting (similar to some tests they were running at Google’s SearchMash).
If you like the page listed in a search result, you can bump it up to the top where it […]

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