Google Makes Paid Link Guidelines Crystal Clear
Google’s policy on paid links has long been the same: it does not approve of buying or selling links for the purpose of manipulating search engine rankings. Links that use the “nofollow” attribute or some sort of redirect to prevent the passing of PageRank are fine with them. Today in both the Webmaster Central blog [...]
SES Chicago: Soaring Through Universal Search
Searchers represent a valuable commodity to search engines, and the keen-minded technologists behind the algorithms want to make search sites as useful as possible, no matter what the query.SES Chicago returns, and WebProNews is on hand to bring you reports and videos from the Windy City. Enjoy our coverage this week. Universal search. Blended search. [...]
Search Headlines & Links: November 30, 2007
Want a snapshot of the day’s search marketing news? Here we’ve collected today’s top news stories posted to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with search-related headlines from around the Web: From the SEW Blog: Facebook Alters Beacon programFacebook has apparently seen the light, making changes to the Beacon program to make it an opt-in [...]
Google experiments with a search results voting system
Google Labs is experimenting with a voting system for their search result pages.From the official page:“This experiment lets you influence your search experience by adding, moving, and removing search results. When you search for the same keywords again, you’ll continue to see those changes. [...] More: continued here google experiments with a search results voting [...]
Oodle 2.0: Improved Classifieds Search
With a new release it’s dubbed “Oodle 2.0,” the classifieds search engine has greatly improved its search functionality and user experience. To improve its search experience, Oodle has redesigned and better integrated features it had before, as well as added new features and improved search on the back end. All results also offer additional data [...]
Yahoo Ads Now Must Be Shorter
Yahoo Announces Change To Shorter Descriptions informs Frank Watson who received two e-mails from the search engine company. "Yahoo will be cutting off ads at 75 characters. They had started this shortened descriptions some time ago but let you enter longer descriptions and they would only show the first 75 characters. Seems now you will [...]
Yahoo Announces Change To Shorter Descriptions
I received two emails this morning both stating the same thing (slightly different subject lines) – Yahoo will be cutting off ads at 75 characters. They had started this shortened descriptions some time ago but let you enter longer descriptions and they would only show the first 75 characters. Seems now you will not have [...]
Yahoo Search Gets Blended, Helpful
Yahoo today launched what it’s calling the “new Yahoo Search.” The biggest changes are the introduction of Search Assist, a pre-search query refinement tool that Yahoo has been testing since July; and blended search results that include more photos, videos, and Shortcuts. Search Assist refines queries by providing related topics as searchers type to assist [...]
Overview of Microsoft Searchification
I attended the Microsoft Searchification event yesterday. The most important thing that happened here is that Microsoft has finally suceeded in offering a differentiated search product, and this is what made the day so important. Brad Goldberg started the day with an overview presentation on some basic facts about the search market. One very interesting [...]
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