I've opened a thread at SEOChat - Ask Questions Directly to the MSN Search Development Team - that allows SEOs and webmasters to submit their questions directly to the MSN Search team. If you have questions about rankings, ...
A thread I started at SEOChat several days ago on the subject of MSN's improved SERPs has become a raging debate over what MSN should do to better promote it's new, improved search engine and why it can or cannot take market share away from Google. Some individuals are taking the view that MSN has no chance to compete: ...
Danny Sullivan over at SEW has pointed to MSN's enabling of some new link and search commands. These include (although he couldn't get all of these to work): inanchor filetype inurl intitle linkdoma...
As most of us who are in search know, the web's repository of knowledge is vastly larger than what is accessible to the major commercial search engines. Hundreds of thousands of databases cannot be probed and their documents remain invisible to all but th specialized search tools ...
Exalead is a relative unknown in the web search market here in the US, but they have a much greater following in France and the EU, the target market for the product. Exalead is doing a fantastic job with search result...
Jim Lanzone, the senior vice president of search properties for Ask Jeeves/Teoma, whom Mike Grehan previously interviewed with Apostolos Gerasoulis, is giving a live ...
I'm still on the East Coast - and trying to get work done with only 1-1.5 hours per day is very taxing. I'll be back in Seattle next Monday, at which point things will return to normal with my postings here and in the forums.In the meantime, I urge you to give ...
Over the last 3 weeks, I've been sending e-mails back and forth with the MSN Search team, conducting an electronic interview that's now available online. I'm really excited to have this opportunity, and I hope to be able to establ...
As I was checking the links that have been popping up to SEOmoz, I noted that many come from international SEO communities, forums & blogs. I'm flattered and certainly quite pleased, but it also got me thinking about the value of international links in the eyes of the search engines....
These guys are ripe for acquisition. Clusterizer, who operates the technology behind the iBoogie clustering meta-search engine, has a terrific description of the clustering process an...
A very interesting demo from MetaCarta shows how their technology can translate natural language into specific geo-coordinates that can then be mapped and searched by geography...
AskJeeves has put up a phenomenal little flash movie tour of their new serach services. It includes a comic book Jeeves traipsing the planet in search of better ways to serve the AskJeeves audience. The movie also confirms AJ...
How do I gain subject specific, on-topic popularity? Just search for using Teoma for the phrases that relate to your site, and get links from the sites listed in the resources section on the right hand side of the page. It's easier then it looks, although you may need s...
Mike Grehan, one of the most diligent and intuitive people in the search marketing industry, has conducted a fantastic interview with some of the top technology & business people at the Ask Jeeves engin...