Category: Search Engines

Google Ranking Process Revealed

Udi Manber, a lead search engineer at Google lists the teams that comprise the search functionality. He discusses the search quality group, which is responsible for the ranking of search results. He Web search is

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Britney Spears Spelling Variations

How many ways can you spell one term? The business of using SEO to rank for misspelled words is huge. Google jobs has the post for spelling variations of Britney Spears pop star online searches.

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Microsoft Live Cashback Search Incentive

Microsoft Live Search has launched an initiative called Cashback which offers a discount for products purchsed on MSN search. This incentive is similar to an affiliate program where the publisher (MSN) receives a cash bounty

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Truly Funny Microsoft Search Ads

These MSN live search videos from Great Britain are 100x better than the MSN Live search Microsoft adcenter videos. These videos showcasing live.com search have real humor and are truly entertaining. I like the MSN

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Advanced Search in Gmail

Right around the time I have advanced questions with a particular web service or product, I find a relevant blog post discussing this issue. This happened with Gmail.com this week, as I was trying to

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Google Advanced Date Search

Use the Google search engine to search for content that is minty fresh. How often are you searching for a particular item using long tail keyword strings and find half of the results on the

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Google Search Quality Engineer Udi Manber

Interview with Udi Manber vice president in charge of search quality for Google. Mr. Manber engineers search engine results pages on Google to defy spammers, improve quality and provide the best user experience for information

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Windows Internal Vista Promotional Video

Unfortunately for Microsoft, this video intended for its inside sales staff was leaked. Microsoft copies the Bruce Springsteen classic Born to Run in a display that lets these words by Steve Jobs ring true: Microsoft

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Yahoo Removes All Advertising

Yahoo is beginning to look a lot like Google, they are going for an ad free text only homepage. This is what I see on the Yahoo.com homepage today: Actually Yahoo still has ads on

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