Search in 2005
Every year the search industry changes pretty significantly. 2004 brought us the roll out of the new Yahoo engine and search algorithms that look for natural language, rather than keyword […]
Monthly Archives: January 2005
Google to Allow API for Adwords
The Silicon Valley Watcher is reporting that Google will allow users to have an API key to access their adwords accounts. This, I’m sure, will be a great benefit to […]
MSN Rolling Out Beta
For the past several days individuals have been reporting getting MSN beta results when performing a search from MSN.com. There is speculation who is getting these results and who is […]
Wireless "Dummy" Internets
Users of Wi-Fi wireless internet technology were warned today of a new internet fraud risk that is being dubbed the “evil twin”. Apparently hackers have been constructing artificial internet environments, […]
Search Engines add "nofollow" tag
Search Engine Watch has confirmed that Google, Yahoo and MSN plan to support a new ‘nofollow’ link tag. For all the obvious reasons, and stated in the above linked article, […]
Microsoft – Yahoo Alliance
On January 6th, Yahoo announced that they have made an agreement with Microsoft Corporation to include Yahoo! services in Microsoft’s Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, the newest release of […]
Introduction to Semantic Analysis in Modern Information Retrieval Systems
As search engines attempt to furnish increasingly relevant results for searchers, many fascinating technologies have emerged. Among the most important are those which relate to language interpretation. From what was […]
Google's Webmaster Guidelines: Design and Content Guidelines
Over the next several issues I’m going to go over Google’s Webmaster Guidelines. Many of the guidelines posted here are no-brainers, however some are often over looked are considered no-so-important. […]
Google Guidelines
A new newsletter is was posted today. I wrote a rather lengthy article talking about Google’s Design and Content Guidelines as posted on their site. A lot of good information […]
Gmail Update
In a news release today, Google anounced that it has fixed the GMail security flaw discovered by HBX Networks last week, which potentially allowed users to access the login information […]
MSN Search To Go Live Soon?
Search Engine Watch is reporting that MSN beta search will go live Feb. 1. This is the first actual date I have heard, but we’ll have to wait for an […]
GMail Flaw Exposes Messages to Hackers
HBX Networks, a UNIX developers community, has identified a flaw in Google’s GMail systems that could allow GMail users to access other users’ private access information including logon ID and […]
Ask Offers Site Preview in SERPS
I’m not sure if this is new or if I just noticed it, but AskJeeves allows you to preview certain sites in their search results before deciding to click on […]
Yahoo Enters Desktop Search Arena
January 11th, Yahoo’s Desktop Search Tool moved into Beta and was released to the public. Yahoo’s Desktop Search is based upon a specialized search technology developed and licensed by X1 […]
Internet Explorer Critical Security Issues
NewScientist.com issued an article today regarding what are said to be “extremely critical” security issues in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer web browser. According to the article, three major security flaws have […]