Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:

Yahoo Search March ‘08 Weather ReportYahoo Search sent me a note that tomorrow they will be rolling out a new update. Yahoo made “some changes to their crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms,” Yahoo told me. […]

Yahoo Search sent me a note that tomorrow they will be rolling out a new update. Yahoo made “some changes to their crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms,” Yahoo told me.
The update is expected to be a quick one but you may notice “ranking changes and page shuffling in the index,” according to […]

Friday I reported that IAC Ready To Drop Ask.com Search Technology & Partner With Google? based on an Silicon Valley Insider tip. Just an hour ago, I recevied an official statement from Ask.com saying the rumors are false.
Nicholas Graham a spokesperson from Ask.com, told me:
I wanted to get back to you about the false […]

I thought I’d gracefully retired from the Danny Sullivan Keynote Review business. Comparing Danny to Edward R. Murrow, assessing how the attendance stretched the room capacity… ahh, they were good times. Then I awoke to find myself in a large hall at the Santa Clara Conference Center. It wasn’t a dream! Turns out I was […]

Andrew Girdwood found that Compete.com was purchased by Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS) for $75 million.
TNS’s release explained Compete.com’s 2007 revenue was “$14.9 million, over 50 per cent higher than in the previous year.” TNS will pay in deferred cash payments throughout now and 2010, up to a maximum of $75 million. […]

Entering the already competitive and crowded market for travel search, InsideTrip is betting it’s bringing enough value to the market to gain consumer awareness and usage. The site offers a metasearch engine (like Kayak or Farechase) for airfares. But it also has compiled public data on a range of other factors such as aircraft type […]

Featured posts to the Search Engine Watch blog in the past week, along with recent search-related headlines from around the Web. Read Original Post Here

Last week comScore came out with a report that showed a 7% sequential decline vs. December 2007 in paid search ad clicks. Plus they showed an 8% drop in the number of clicks per Google searcher from December 2007. The report set shock-waves through Wall Street and caused the stock to drop and drove […]

There are roughly 250 million cell phone users in the United States and more than ten times that figure around the globe. Approximately 42 million (or so) people use the “mobile Internet,” in the US, with varying degrees of frequency. The number of people texting constitutes at least 100 million more on top of […]

There are a number of good SEO checklists you can use when you start to optimize your web site for the search engines. They ll help you make sure you don t miss anything as you climb to the top of the search engine results pages SERPs . But what do you do if […]