In the ongoing series of moderators addressing user submitted questions at SERoundtable, Barry's got the latest one up and ready for user input. The question was: Does Google's apparent de-valuing of reciprocal links lead you to believe that the concept of link popularit...
The government seeking search data issue has been batted around at dozens of sites and forums, but since we're generally a "dig up new information" type of spot, I haven't mentioned it here. However, I ran across this article at Slate by Tim Wu (a Columbia law professor) today and loved it - Keeping Secrets - A simple prescription for kee...
I got a nice email today from Yahoo!: Dear Advertiser: We would like to help you get ready for the Valentine's Day shopping season. As such, we have reviewed search logs from the prev...
A few of MS' patent applications from June of 2004 just became available on the US Patent Office web site. Bill has a rundown and brief explanation of each one - we're lucky to have him covering this stuff so I don't have to sweat it so much. Thanks Bill!...
Ever since Google became a registrar (admittedly not for the purposes of registering domains) last February, folks have been speculating about what they can do with that data. The typical buzz is that Google wants to use it to ID link networks, domains that are related, etc, but there can be more to it. Nick Wilsdon (...
I'm sure there was news about this somewhere and I just totally spaced on it, but... since when was Threadwatch banned/hurt/shoved into supplemental by Google (and weird at MSN). Check out: site:threadwatch.org - Google - 2 results ...
A recent topic in SC brought up an interesting update with Google: they are adding country specific results to global resul...
It's true... I've got a little crush on Google's new... infrastructure thing. Whatever it is technically, the results are very nice - they appear to be giving weight to all the right links. I even see a few sandboxed sites peeking their heads out. You can check the results for yourself at the datacenters Matt mentioned - ...
Just pointing out a stellar mistake from the Google Adwords team - if you advertise with them and target the term "OR" (as in the state abbreviation for Oregon), you might find that your impressions are particularly high. We were stumped for a minute, then realized that Google was probably automatically excluding it as a stopword, so despite not intending to advertise to every Tom, Dick and Har...
Now this is a beautiful link to have - Yahoo!'s annual list of "the most exceptional" picks of the year. Making the cut in 2005: The Si...
Found this one via Loren - Bill Slawski's got a phenomenal list of many (perhaps all) of Google's acquisitions in 2005 and a quick digest of many important patents. From reading the acquisition list, a few predictions are relatively easy to make: Google wants to build ...
I usually like to take the time to read and understand Dr. Garcia's articles before posting about them, but I'm simply too pressed for time. It's the fourth article in the C-Index series and covers some of the nagging issues untouched in article 3: ...
Everyone in the search engine world has news on Tim Berners-Lee's new blog, but over at the new SERoundtable forums, member Search-Engine-Webs has...
I owe a big thank you to Mike Marshall from Fortune Interactive, who walked me through their SEM Logic product today (demo page here). The technolog...
