Friday, February 14, 2003

ATW Better Than Google? AllTheWeb/FAST and Google: In Practice AllTheWeb Best. Google Village Feb 14 2003 0:25AM ET [Moreover - moreover...] 10:35:40 AM    comment []

Thursday, February 13, 2003

AltaVista expands multimedia index [Pandia Search Central] 8:19:25 AM    comment []

Tuesday, February 11, 2003

Web Surfing Dying? Statmarket Survey: Random Surfing A Dying Sport. "...over 64 percent of Internet users arrived at sites by direct navigation." [WebmasterWorld] Interesting trend, but search engines and surfing are not dead yet. 7:31:14 AM    comment []

Friday, February 7, 2003

The Other Portals We hear a lot about the two biggest portals, MSN and Y! but what about the others? Search Company Terra Lycos Cuts More than 20% of Staff. Search Engine Optimization Feb 6 2003 1:26PM ET [Moreover - moreover...] In other portal news: The new(ish) MyWay.com portal has added the option of using several search engines in addition to the default Google. 6:21:16 AM    comment []

Wednesday, February 5, 2003

Wired Article on Xupiter Xupiter Mongers Deal Spam, Scams. The father and son duo responsible for Xupiter -- a 'toolbar' that many Net users say was installed in their computers without their permission -- have made quite a business of spamming and scamming online. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News] I see Xupiter a lot in my referral logs for some of my sites. Beware of this. 9:25:43 AM    comment []

Monday, February 3, 2003

SearchHippo SearchHippo is a smaller search engine that may not quite as small as it appears. SearchHippo has been very aggressive in allowing free use of it's search results via XML. This means that a lot of metasearch engines use SH. Some small directories have also started using SearchHippo's feed as a backfill for their own directory results. On a small budget SH has managed to gain some ground. SearchHippo only spiders the index page of a site, it does take into account some off page elements for ranking in the SERP's. A backlink to SH increases the chance of being spidered into the DB. If you are a small directory developer SearchHippo is worth looking at for free backfill search results since their quality is IMO better than most of the pay-per-click search feeds that might be available. Recent discussions on SearchHippo include: http://forums.spider-food.net/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=4469 http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum16/792.htm 11:27:38 AM    comment []

Friday, January 31, 2003

SearchGuild.com New SEO Forum Opens A new SEO forum has been started by Chris Ridings, formerly of Support Forums. The new forum is Search Guild http://www.searchguild.com/ and promises to be a place for people to speak freely. 10:03:01 AM    comment [] Search Engine Blog Interview Interview with search engine expert Chris Ridings - discusses Google, Page Rank and SearchKing. Interview with search engine expert Chris Ridings - discusses Google, Page Rank and SearchKing [Search Engine Blog] This is an excellent interview, although I am saddened to learn that Chris has left Support Forums http://supportforums.org . I really enjoyed his insights there. The interview is well worth reading. 8:26:40 AM    comment []

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