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Can search engines handle Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs)?

Posted on 22nd February 2010 at 4:30 pm by Ian Macfarlane

Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs) have been approved by ICANN and are set to become a reality. Are the search engines prepared for them?
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Are 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?
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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?
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Ask.com also supporting the new canonical tag

Posted on 24th February 2009 at 11:25 am by Ian Macfarlane

Number four search engine Ask has joined the other three major search engines in supporting the new "canonical tag" - this is great news for webmasters as they can now use this new search technology on all of the "Big Four" search engines.
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Targeting individual search engines; a technique from the past?

Posted on 14th February 2008 at 3:22 pm by Manley

There was a time when SEOs were recommending different landing pages for different engines.

Thankfully this has gone the way of meta keyword stuffing, but is there an argument for still focusing campaigns on individual engines or should companies be adopting a more holistic search offering?
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Search engine sideshows; product placement or data mines?

Posted on 17th November 2007 at 2:42 pm by Manley

Acquisitions. Everyone is making them, often with no obvious ROI.

Just why are the search engines diversifying so much? Can it really just be market dominance that is driving them?
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