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Are You A Google Dropping? Ten Ways To Get Back To #1
The e-commerce world is a tricky one. If you have an online business, then there's no doubt as to the importance of obtaining a high ranking on search engine results pages-especially on search master Google, whose popularity has led to a command of 85% of the search world.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-05-31

Google’s A Librarian? You Betcha! Google Print Goes Live
Google Print Beta goes live today furthering Google's attempt at their goal of organizing the world's information on the Internet. Problems may exist however with copyright problems and culture wars abroad and whatever happened to Gutenberg?
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-05-27

Ask Jeeves Zooms Towards Web Answers
With the majority of us who follow the search engine industry focusing on Google, Yahoo, and MSN Search, quite often; the "second tier" engines remind us they are still a viable alternative to the big 3. Such is the case with Ask Jeeves.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-05-26

Netscape 8 Wrecks IE Rendering: Uninstall Suggested
Senior program manager for Microsoft's Internet Explorer, Dave Massey announced in his web log on Wednesday that after installing Netscape 8, the XML rendering capabilities of IE stopped working.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-05-26

Blinkx Embraces Video Search
Much ado was made about the launches of Google Video and Yahoo Video Search. However, there was an upstart service, called blinkx TV, which beat both of the search giants to the punch.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-05-25

MSN VS. Google: Searching Earth
Bill Gates announced the launch of MSN's Virtual Earth mapping tool yesterday in a continuing effort to expand its MSN product line as part of the ongoing battle with Yahoo and Google to capture the search engine services market.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-05-24

Google’s Personal Evolution
Google took another step yesterday in their personal evolution by offering an easy-to-use personalized homepage called Fusion for its users. The new service marks the latest offering in Google's ever-expanding catalog of products to help users find information quickly and easily.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-05-20

Google To Feed You Ads
Google's AdSense for Feeds gives advertisers placement in popular web site feeds everywhere. RSS and Atom feeds of web sites showed so much promise. No more going from site to site to see the content you want.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-05-19

Google Launches Enterprise Desktop Search
The latest offering from the Mountain View-based search company trumps Microsoft's recent enterprise search announcement.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-05-18

Google Results Undergoing Update
A large backlink update is underway at the datacenters used by Google Search. As per usual, when big updates occur in Google or any other search engine, the effects are normally seen in the search results.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-05-17

Customize Google And Gmail
Add Google Suggest to the Google homepage; Remove Ads from Google; Auto-save emails in Gmail, while you type; Gmail delete button, to easily delete messages; Make all "mailto:" links point to Gmail...
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-05-16

Google, The French, and World Domination; The Culture War Begins
"[T]he Internet [is] the most recent and the most sinister facet of American cultural imperialism to emerge: the Internet is anchored in the United States; the vast majority of World Wide Web sites are based in the U.S and are in English; most software used to navigate the Internet is in English; and search engines are in English (Kim, 1998)".
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-05-13

Yahoo Brings Video Search Out Of Beta
Yesterday, Yahoo Search did something that may be considered quite foreign to other search engines: they brought one of their search features out of its Beta stage and officially launched it. I am referring to Yahoo Video Search and according to Yahoo; it offers "the most comprehensive video search product on the Web."
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-05-06

What Constitutes Search Engine Relevancy?
Relevancy. It's something that drives the search engine industry in almost every aspect. From providing quality search results to contextual advertising, relevancy is crucial to any search engine's success. The question is how do you define relevancy? More importantly, how do search engines define relevancy?
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-05-05

Which Desktop Search Tool Is The Best?
While the search industry continues to evolve, an area that's received a great deal of focus has to do with creating a successful desktop search tool. This mentality has led to a proliferation of desktop search (DTS) tools. Because of this, knowing which one is better can be a best-guess/trial-and-error scenario… until now.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-05-04

Which Search Engine Drives The Most Traffic To Business Sites?
WPN Editor's Note: New information on the effectiveness of search engines was released recently. Things like market share and referral rates to various business. Google dominates the market holding nearly 50% of the total share. A recent story from Traffick.com covers this in great detail.
Directory: > Insider Reports > Search Insider
Date: 2005-05-03