Author: Dan Nosowitz Google just released one of its biggest updates in a long while. It’s called “Caffeine,” and it fundamentally changes the way Google performs searches. Before, Google saw the Internet as a series of layers, and explored it as if going through a stack of paper one piece at a time. So how [...]
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Google Changes The Way It Searches with “Caffeine”
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010Google Sets the Standard for Crawling AJAX-based Sites
Thursday, October 8th, 2009Author: Michelle Megna (Internet News) Google’s proposing a new standard for making AJAX-based Web sites search-engine friendly. If adopted, the standard could mean developers no longer have to choose between site optimization and dynamic pages. It’s been common knowledge for years that Web sites created using Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (define) would not be crawled [...]
Google – Looking Beyond Keywords
Friday, August 14th, 2009SAN JOSE, Calif. — What’s next after keywords? The director of Google’s wildly successful AdWords program says the search giant is working on ways to make the system easier to use and more effective. “Keywords work very, very well, but we think we can do better,” Nicholas Fox, the business product management director for Google [...]
Is Search Engine Marketing Ready to Make A Rebound?
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009Author: Michelle Megna (Internet News) It appears that search engine marketing is stabilizing after a series of increasing quarterly declines, according to a report out this week. The news comes at a time when marketers are trying to capitalize on the continued growth in performance-based advertising, or those in which advertisers only pay for measurable [...]
Microsoft’s New Search Engine (Kumo) Expected Next Week
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009Author: Ian Paul, PC World Kumo, next week at The Wall Street Journal’s D: All Things D conference. Ballmer is one of the featured speakers at the conference, which runs from May 26-28 in Carlsbad, California. News that Ballmer could unveil Kumo during the conference broke late yesterday on the All Things D blog and [...]
Yahoo Talks About Delivering Smarter Search
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009Author: David Needle (Internet News) Yahoo picked the first anniversary of its launch of SearchMonkey to update the public on its progress on several key fronts, including improvements to mobile and image-related results. SearchMonkey gives site owners a structured way to expose key data to Yahoo’s search engine, so, for example, a restaurant’s menu or [...]
Google Talks Enterprise Search, Bashes Microsoft
Wednesday, May 13th, 2009Source/Author: Alex Goldman (Internet News) NEW YORK — Google might be the undisputed leader in Web search, but its role in enterprise search is far less certain. But that’s not stopping the company from developing a vision for search in the enterprise that’s just as far-reaching as its role in the consumer market. Google (NASDAQ: [...]
