While the community interview questions to MSN were good, many have noticed that a lot of the responses were very "corporate-speak and didn't reveal much that the SEO community wasn't already aware ...
Appparently, Barry Diller (owner of IAC and recent acquiree of AskJeeves), has decided to drop the butler (Jeeves) from the Ask property. My personal ...
Cure fer scurvy? Ask Jeeves... Need ter buy a plank fer scalywags to walk? Ask Jeeves... Want ter know why September 19th ...
Ask Jeeves noted on their blog today that they've got a new gift search service and it's awesome. It's so much fun to play around with all the different personality types and ages and other demographics to see what they'...
SamSpade.org has a fantastic collection of tools for digging up everything from falsified IP addresses to browsing the web anonymously to checking traceroutes, running whois and reverse lookups and much more. The site's super-clean, minimalis...
Google's SafeSearch feature doesnt' strongly affect most of us in the non-adult industry, but I came across a fun little tool yesterday that I thought was worth mentioning. Monzy's UnSafe Search is a play on Google's adult filtering and conducts a search at Google with SafeSearch on and off, then filters out those results that...
The two groups most commonly associated by search engines as being interested in things like link data and information retrieval technology, outside of their own engineers, are librarians & SEOs. The first group are typically lauded while the second receives both internal and external...
Via Snap's blog today - Big.com. According to them, it's the "The Most Readable Results on the Web". The quality of results isn't quite there, and they appear to have a smaller index siz...
Came across an interesting site today called SearchLore. There's an older but excellent article there on the subject of deep searching and deep indexing - it covers a wide variety of issues and has a great 3D mod...
Hot tip from Barry Welford over at cre8asite forums. He points to Dogpile's new comparison tool that's designed to help users see why searching at Dogpile c...
Thanks to Doldoly at SEW who pointed out PreviewSeek, a new search engine based in the UK. This engine is something special already. They've got a killer index size for being such a s...
The map wars is on, go visit Ryan's map fight site to determine for yourself which map is better. On my short visit, Google clearly has the usability edge, while MSN is far better at finding the right location, even...
The University of New South Wales' school of computer science and engineering has put together a search project that uses del.i...
Per Danny Sullivan's request, MSN has explained more thoroughly their system of advanced operators. This should enable many SEOs and SEO tool builders (like yours truly) to get more great data out of the MSN search engine. PS - The fixed versions of the SEOmoz tools, including the improved registration (without...