By: Rand Fishkin
Yahoo! a Better Buy
Search EnginesAn article in Forbes - Yahoo!'s Growth Prospects 'Superior' To Google's - notes that Merrill Lynch has upgraded earnings estimates for Yahoo! w...
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By: Rand Fishkin
Yahoo! - Responsive & Responsible
Search EnginesYahoo! has been gaining ground on Google in the areas of trust and search quality. A large part of this has been due to Yahoo's more open, less secretive nature in the search industry. Several examples of this, including an informative and high-quality ...
By: Rand Fishkin
Computationally Expensive - What Google Can & Can't Do
Search EnginesEven the great and powerful Google is limited in the number of operations and complexity of calculations in the algorithm. Many SEOs often attribute far more power and subtlety to Google's ranking criteria and filtering technology than is technologically p...
By: Rand Fishkin
How to Remove the Google Filter when Searching
Search EnginesEarly last week, Google removed its 10 words per query limit, and increased this number to 32. Some suspect this was to combat MSN Beta's ability to search up to 32 words per query. Whatever the reason, the new systema appears to have re-openend an old chink in Google...
By: Rand Fishkin
Site Flavored Theme Detection from Google
Search EnginesIn September of 2003, Google acquired Kaltix Corp. While this was well reported in the blogosphere and the SEO industry, it's fascincating to see the direct correlation between this acquisi...
By: Rand Fishkin
Google's Results Different for Everyone
Search EnginesThe creation and promulgation of the SEO tools here has led to many people noting that the results returned by the tools are often different from the results they see. This problem can be pinpointed to the datacenter at Google that is being used to get the results....
By: Rand Fishkin
A Google Rep's Comments on PageRank in the Toolbar
Search EnginesThe following is a quote of a Google representative writing to JohnGalt of search engine watch forums: "The PageRank that is displayed in the Google Toolbar is for entertainment purposes only. Due to repeated attempts by hackers to...
By: Rand Fishkin
Age of Websites
Search EnginesAn excellent thread at SEOChat is helping to uncover an uncomfortable phenomenon at Google - sites that rank well are very, very old. While this has been speculated about for many months, these are the first publications of any scale to be released.Read the thread - ...
By: Rand Fishkin
Older Sites Succeeding?
Search EnginesIn the initial testing of the survey, one fact that consistently appears in the results that rank in the top 10 are sites that have been around a long time. Obviously, these sites have had greater time to build links & content, but there appears to be little correlation between these it...
By: Rand Fishkin
Analyze the Google Link Command
Search EnginesRustyBrick - a frequent poster on SEOChat and many of the other major search engine forums released a tool over the summer that conducts an advanced analysis of the links listed in Google's link command. ...