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Blog Posts During July 2009Are we losing two of the top four search engines?Posted on 30th July 2009 at 9:06 am by Ian Macfarlane
Bing and Yahoo! have agreed a deal which will essentially kill off the Yahoo! search engine and merge its technology with Bing's. At the same time, we have discovered that Ask Jeeves has been serving Google-crawled pages. Are we going to lose half of the top four search engines? Microsoft and Yahoo Deal OfficialPosted on 29th July 2009 at 4:13 pm by Rik Stewart
Microsoft and Yahoo! have announced a deal that changes the search landscape considerably. Is Ask Jeeves scraping Google?Posted on 29th July 2009 at 12:08 pm by Ian Macfarlane
Ask Jeeves has pages in its index which could only have been spidered by Googlebot. What is going on? What? No Bing Bot?Posted on 27th July 2009 at 10:37 am by Rik Stewart
Microsoft's new crawler is ramping up its spidering. Android overtakes Windows Mobile in worldwide smartphone sharePosted on 23rd July 2009 at 4:00 pm by Ian Macfarlane
The Android operating system has overtaken Windows Mobile in worldwide smartphone market share in less than a year. How has Google Suggest affected search queries?Posted on 22nd July 2009 at 3:05 pm by Ian Macfarlane
Google Suggest and search refinements were introduced at the end of March this year. How have they impacted the shape of search? Who will dare to call Google's bluff?Posted on 16th July 2009 at 1:25 pm by Richard Astley
As Matt Brittin, the new head of Google UK, said in an interview in the NMA back in May (which, ironically, given the subject of this post, you can't read online unless you subscribe, so no link I am afraid) - it is always disappointing to see newspaper publishers spit their bile at Google for 'stealing' their content when Google works with them as partners to help them drive traffic to their sites. Introducing Yahoo! Search PadPosted on 8th July 2009 at 9:16 am by Rik Stewart
Yahoo! Search Pad beta released. Bing says relative URLs pass less link juicePosted on 3rd July 2009 at 4:00 pm by Ian Macfarlane
In a recent blog post by Bing's Webmaster Center team they write that you should use absolute URLs for internal links rather than relative URLs to get the full 'link juice'. Sorry, what? |