Speaking on the topic of major events that could cause a search engine's downfall, Wired's Adam Penenberg wrote an article yesterday titled "Beware the Google Threat". Mr Penenberg's concerns center around Google's incrased access to every facet of a human's search for knowledge - from the ...
This post title is taken directly from Bill Slawski's excellent thread at Cre8asite on the subject of Google's new patent regarding the application of users' personal surfing data collected thr...
MSN's blog on web search yesterday featured the following fascinating paragraph on the subject of a shift in their technology (proba...
Yahoo! Search Marketing has a new contest featuring billionairre Sir Richard Branson (of Virgin fame). The contest is titled - Think Big - and features a prize including: Placement at the top of Yahoo! Search r...
Dr. Garcia has updated what is probably his most famous research work in SEO circles - the Keyword Co-Occurence and Semantic Connectivity paper. In the paper, Dr. Garcia notes the mis-use by some in SEO of the C-Index calcu...
Via EarlPearl's post at SEOChat, this appeared on the radar screen today: It seems Yahoo! is allowing searcher to click the "block" link and remove a re...
Mark, over at Search-This.com e-mailed me today about a great new Flash-based tool called the PageRank Decoder that SEOs can use to determine the impact ...
Ian (who has now been the subject of 3 posts at SEOmoz) McAnerin asks at SEW if Google should have a .us domain for United States based searches. After all, there is a Google regio...
The buzz from Henk Van Ess' exposure of Google's evaluation continues to expand, and Henk himself has posted a great deal more information. A visit to SearchBistro is highly encouraged. Of specific note is t...
Dr. Garcia posted a thread on SEW today showcasing a great collection of resources on the subject of fractals in information ...
Google has a new, expanded list of papers and projects written by their workers online. The repository is growing quite large and for obvious reasons, Google isn't showing nearly all of them. Their ability to continue to recrui...
Henk Van Ess has revealed, via his SearchBistro site, Google's "secret" lab - online at https://eval.google.com that lets users recruited...
Yahoo! released a product today called MindSet. It offers searchers a sliding bar to re-order the results based on whether they are in an "information-seeking" stage or a "shopping/purchasing" stage. The technology is really...
Bill Slawski was kind enough to point me over to a ...