A Search Engine Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is just a couple of days away so I thought I would put together some thoughts on why I’m thankful–in relation to search engines–this year. Here goes: I’m thankful […]
Monthly Archives: November 2004
MSN Offers New Tools
The MSN Sandbox offers previews of MSN’s current projects and BETA services. The following recent additions to Sandbox may be an indication of just how serious Microsoft is about competing […]
MSN Restricts Browsing
I recently attempted to access the MSN submit a site feature and received the following message: Please Upgrade Your Browser You are using: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; […]
Great use for Google Local Search
I found an extremely excellent use for local search. I’m discussing Google primarily, here, as that is the only local search I’ve used, but here is what I found. Type […]
Googe Index Doubles
Google is now reporting an index size of Eight Billion (8,000,000,000) documents. The announcement has been posted on their Home Page as well as their Blog
MSN Rolls Out New Search Tomorrow!!!
The forums are a buzz about the news that MSN will be rolling out its new search tomorrow. Its not clear if this will be a beta version of their […]
Local SEO or Shopping SEO the Next "Big Thing"?
Local search is being touted by many as the next big SEO market. This may or may not be true, as only time will tell, but I’m not betting any […]
Submitting to Search Engines
I’m constantly amazed at the number of people who still talk about submitting to search engines. Heck, we have not submitted sites to search engines in over two years, but […]
Setting Pricing for SEO Services
Pricing for SEO services are like opinions, everywhere you go everybody has a different one. One of the most difficult things to do when searching for an SEO company is […]
Yahoo Directory De-Valued at Yahoo!
Yahoo! just rolled out a new home page. Yahoo! began as a web directory. If you look at an early version of their home page (March, 1997) you will see […]
Local and Personalized Search
The Sky is Falling For years I’ve been hearing about the death of SEO. So far, those predictions have never come true, but there are some changes on the search […]
Thoughts on Local and Personalized Search
Today’s newsletter covers the topic of local and personalized search. When I began writing this issue I approached it from the belief that local/personalized search could very likely dominate all […]