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July, 27, 2010
Is the Yahoo-Bing change relevant to your website?
Last week, Yahoo announced that the organic search results on Yahoo will be powered by Bing beginning in August/September. Yahoo is already testing Bing results on some result pages. According to the latest comScore data, Yahoo and Microsoft sites had a combined search market share of 31.6% in June 2010. Yahoo sites had 3.2 billion search queries and Microsoft sites had 2.2 billion search queries in June 2010. That's a total of 5.4 billion search queries in one month.
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July, 14, 2010
Google Tops U.S. June Searches Again With 65% Market Share [Nielsen]
Google, Yahoo and the Microsoft sites accounted for 92% of total U.S. searches.
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April, 20, 2010
Google is rebranding its Google Maps listing service for local businesses. Google's Local Business Center will be known as Google Places.
Google plans to roll out a few new features for local merchants that have claimed their "place page" on Google Maps.
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Febrary, 26 2010
Google understands the importance of its Local search
Local Search enhancements Google unveiled its newest Local enhancement " the Nearby filter."
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January 10,2010
Paid vs. Organic Search: Understanding the Dynamics
“Why are we paying for traffic if we’re already getting it for free?”
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November 10, 2009
Caffeine after the Holidays - November 10, 2009 in Google/SEO
Out With PageRank in with Speed - Google is planning to include website load time as one of the algorithmic ranking factors for 2010. SearchEngineLand's Site Speed Next Ranking Factor
Test Your Webistes Load Speed Here:PageTest
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October 15, 2009
Yahoo To Drop Paid Inclusion Program
Confirmation from a Yahoo representative, Yahoo will be dropping their paid inclusion program by the end of this year.
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June 3, 2009
Microsoft's Bing search engine is now publicly available; www.bing.com and replaces Live Search.
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May 12, 2009
"Search Options Panel"
Gives users control over their Local Search Results...
Filter based on search verticals, date, previous search behaviour, and some experimental search views.
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January 26, 2009
Search Engine Market Share of 2008
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January 13, 2009
Yahoo! Carol Bartz Joins Yahoo! as Chief Executive Officer
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October, 9, 2008
Good times with inbound links
Inbound links are links from pages on external sites linking back to your site. Inbound links can bring new users to your site, and when the links are merit-based and freely-volunteered as an editorial choice, they're also one of the positive signals to Google about your site's importance, content, its relevance to a geographic location, etc...
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May 06, 2008
iProspect Shows: 60.5 percent of Google, Yahoo!, MSN and AOL users selected a natural (unpaid) search result over paid search result.
iProspect and Enquiro Revealed: 65% of users trust organic results while only 34.75% of users trust paid results.
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April 23, 2008
Study: What do people click in search results?
http://www.iprospect.com/about/researchstudy_2008_blendedsearchresults.htm
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September 19, 2007
Google's Push into Corporate Brand Market
Rich media advertising is a technology breakthrough
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September 05, 2007
Yahoo Buys Behavioral Ad Firm
Technology tracks consumer behavior as users move from site to site
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September 05, 2007
Yahoo Buys Behavioral Ad Firm
Technology tracks consumer behavior as users move from site to site
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August 29, 2007
Google Resumes Penalty notification Emails
Plan to resume sending emails to webmaster's of violations and will be removing webpages from our index.
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August 27, 2007
Google Gains, Yahoo Loses - Market Share
Yahoo lost market share from a year ago and is now at 23.5 percent for July, while Google gained share, reaching 55.2 percent market share. The other market share loser was AOL."
comScore, Inc. – a Global Internet Information Provider
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August 19, 2007
Google Wins the Most Hearts on the Web...
Yahoo, which has been less able than Google to translate its strong brand recognition into strong financial growth, may want to take note: results varied by gender. “Yahoo fans skew female but tend toward the mainstream, while Google fans are more likely to be male.
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August 14, 2007
American Consumer Satisfaction - Ranking
The four major search engines and portals all scored almost the same, with Yahoo winning the race...
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June 06, 2007
Weather Report: Yahoo! Search Update
We rolled out some changes to our index and ranking algorithm last night. So, as you know, throughout this process you may see some changes in ranking as well as some shuffling of the pages included in the index. This update should be complete very soon.
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June 05, 2007
Yahoo! Search Crawler, Slurp, has a new Address and Signature Card
crawl.yahoo.net.
we've been migrating our crawler , Yahoo! Slurp, over to the new domain at crawl.yahoo.net. As of today, the transition is complete.
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June 4, 2007
Five things you didn't know about Google's search
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February 27, 2007
Google Algorithm Update - Search Rankings on the Move
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February 22, 2007
According to Nielsen//NetRatings
256 million people visited a search engine in December 2006 - 81% of the global Internet population.
Neilsen//NetRatings!
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January 23, 2007
Yahoo! Search Marketing - New Ranking Model
Bid Amount and Ad Quality will Determine an Ad's Rank in Search Results Beginning February 5, 2007 in the U.S.
Learn More?
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January 23, 2007
Google: PageRank export is underway
Read More!
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January 23, 2007
Yahoo! Confirms Search Index Update
Yahoo! Search blog confirmed on Friday that an index update is currently underway. Following hot on the heals of Google's recent Backlink and PR update this is a double whammy for many website owners. How is your site impacted?
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December 11, 2006
Yahoo Panama ! 2007
The New Sponsored Search Is Now Live!
Yahoo Slurp
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September 11, 2006
MSN Live Search is Live
Windows Live Search - New interface for Search
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April 21, 2006
Google Tests Expanded Search Option!
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April 18, 2006
Microsoft adCenter Release
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January 18, 2006
Top Search Terms Reveal Web Users Rely on Search Engines to Navigate!
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January 16, 2006
MSN (beta) is Now Live
”We Intend To Begin Turning Up The Dial”
Results from its proprietary search engine is now showing self-generated results at MSN.Com.
MSN has new spider named MSNbot and is making its presence known.
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December 01, 2005
GOOGLE with 46% of SE Market now?
(Search Engine Watch)
According to Nielsen//NetRatings
GOOGLE: 46.2%
YAHOO: 22.5%
MSN: 12.6%
AOL: 5.4%
My Way: 2.2%
Ask: 1.6%
Netscape: 1.6%
iWon: .9%
Dogpile: .9%
Earthlink: .8%
Others: 5.3%
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February 2, 2004
MSN Search Beta Goes Live!
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March 1, 2004
New Yahoo! Search - Yahoo! Search Technology
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March 1, 2004
Overture SiteMatch
Overture Launches SiteMatch
Computer software for tracking and analyzing the performance of online advertising; computer software used to search, retrieve, index and organize data on the Internet.
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February 23, 2004
Yahoo! dumps Google results
Yahoo! Completely dumps results from Google
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YahooSlurp will work a lot like GoogleBot in that it will follow every HREF link on found a website. YahooSlurp will NOT follow SRC links such as images or FRAMES. When optimizing a site that uses FRAMES, correct use of the <noframes> tag will be necessary.
YahooSlurp can follow dynamic links but Yahoo is advising webmasters to post static pages with HREF (text) links directed to specific sections featuring dynamic content. This tells us that the use of a sitemap will continue to be an SEO Best Practice technique.
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February 2004
Yahoo! Renamed Spider!
Our new Yahoo! Slurp crawler. Yahoo! Slurp discovers pages by following links on the web. We update our index with a daily crawl to gather newly created and fast-changing URLs, as well as our main crawl which updates our index incrementally twice per week.
(Note that Inktomi Index Connect clients are receiving Yahoo! Search traffic going forward, and Inktomi Search Submit customers are receiving a free trial of Yahoo! traffic until 4/15/04.)
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Yahoo! Slurp will continue to obey the Robot Exclusion Standard
The complete User-Agent that will be logged as part of this transition will be shown in your logs (if user-agent logging is enabled) as follows. Mozilla/5.0 (Compatible; Yahoo! Slurp)
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February 17, 2004
Yahoo has begun crawling
Yahoo has begun crawling the web with a new indexing robot -- foreshadowing some interesting potential developments, as it gets ready to drop Google as its primary search partner.
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January 15, 2004
Yahoo! and google go the their own way.
Yahoo has begun to use the results from Inktomi for placements. Purchased in October 2002 by Yahoo!
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Real Traffic Productions gets a Thumbs up from the Dot Com Insider
The Dot Com Insider - Dennis Rushing
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