Fri Oct 10, 2008

Below are Search Engine Land’s 10 most popular stories from September 2008: 1) Searching With Google Chrome & Omnibox - Now that Google Chrome is live, I spent some time looking at the search features within it, especially to see — as...

Fri Oct 10, 2008

Search Month is a monthly newsletter that recaps stories covered on Search Engine Land over the past month. It’s also available by feed here. Below, news about Search Engine Land itself, then our 10 most popular stories from September 2008, then...

Fri Oct 10, 2008

Out now from Microsoft Research is U Rank, an experiment that allows people to move results around, as well as share them with friends and add comments to listings. Want to play? Sigh. You have to register using a Windows Live ID. Why not just make it...

Fri Oct 10, 2008

SnappyFingers calls itself a comprehensive question/answer explorer. What this means is they index millions of FAQs spread across the web to give you a one-stop-shop for when you turn to the Web to have your questions answered. We have interviewed the...

Fri Oct 10, 2008

Performing a complete website redesign is a lot of work and a daunting process. Whether you want to keep your existing rankings and targeted search engine traffic, or you are using your redesign process to get started on a new SEO campaign, there are a...

Fri Oct 10, 2008

New satellite images that will eventually show up in Google Earth and Google Maps are now arriving from the Google-sponsored GeoEye-1 satellite that launched a month ago. GeoEye has just released the stunning image below as a preview of what’s to...

Fri Oct 10, 2008

Like other search engines, Google already distinguishes between various types of content. You can search specifically for images, videos, books, blog posts, and so forth. Google has separate search engines for each. But two recent changes suggest that...

Fri Oct 10, 2008

At the start of this summer, I wrote “it seems like Local has been rumored to be “the next big thing” in Search as many times as Cubs fans have said ‘this is the year’…2008 finally could be the year where the prediction, at...

Fri Oct 10, 2008

The continued success of Google Maps gives Google another growing revenue stream to tap into, and that’s what they’re doing with the placement of new AdSense ads immediately under maps on Google Maps. The ads don’t show up on all...

Fri Oct 10, 2008

When we launched our Sphinn social news site for search and internet marketers last year, we quickly were hit by a huge number of Japanese-language submissions. Unfortunately, we had to go to an English-only rule, as we had no easy way to moderate those...

Fri Oct 10, 2008

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.From Search Engine Land: Sphinn Japan Launches: Internet & Search Marketing News, In Japanese When we launched our Sphinn social news...

Thu Oct 9, 2008

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web. From Search Engine Land: SMX East ‘08 Day Three Live Coverage Below is live coverage from day three of the 2008 Search Marketing...

Thu Oct 9, 2008

Google has confirmed for Search Engine Land that they’ll soon start offering RSS feeds for web search results. When it happens, the RSS feeds will be an extension of Google Alerts, which currently only allow notification by email. The addition of...

Thu Oct 9, 2008

Yahoo has announced that they’ll begin to roll out Yahoo Web Analytics (beta) on a limited basis beginning this week. According to Jitendra Kavathekar, Yahoo’s Web Analytics VP, the service has already been made available to select Yahoo...

Thu Oct 9, 2008

by Jennifer Laycock Spotted a post by Michael Stebbins over at Market Motive about the roll out of Yahoo! Web Analytics to some Yahoo! store owners, developers and advertisers. While I'm still not a huge fan of analytics from the search engines, I...