Google News – The Short Story

One Policy, One Google Experience

We’re getting rid of over 60 different privacy policies across Google and replacing them with one that’s a lot shorter and easier to read. Our new policy covers multiple products and features, reflecting our desire to create one beautifully simple and intuitive experience across Google.

bing and Baidu Partner

Baidu and bing Partnership

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The Chinese search mogul Baidu and Microsoft announced yesterday they have struck a deal to offer bing web services in English. It’s expected to take place by the end of the year.

MetaCrawler Breaks

MetaCrawler Broken for Day Number 2

Both yesterday and today when I tried using metacrawler the “metasearch engine”, the results came up fine. The problem arose when I clicked on any of the results.

When I clicked on the result I wished to visit I received a “Runtime Error” message.

Google Panda Update – Update

How Does the Google Panda Algorithm Update Effect SEO?

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Just one day after Cinco de Mayo Google released a blog post “More guidance on building high-quality sites”. With this post Google has dealt with a number of questions that they have been trying to resolve with their algorithm update.

Google Local New Year Predictions

Google Local What is Ahead in 2011?

happy new year 2011 Google Local New Year Predictions Here we are one week into 2011 and I am finally getting around to putting up my first blog post this year.
Google Local has been very erratic the past few months.
I figured I’d toss around some of my Google Local observations, predictions, and conclusions.

MetaCrawler and Dogpile have been Down for 6 Days

Dogpile and MetaCrawler have both been Broken for nearly a Week Now

broken link MetaCrawler and Dogpile have been Down for 6 Days
When I first noticed that both MetaCrawler and Dogpile were getting a “timed out message” I chalked it up to a network glitch. As time went by and they still weren’t loading I figured it was a problem with Comcast or the dns server I was using.

Search Engines and Fraud

Conduit Hijacks Firefox on a Windows Computer and Convinces User it is Google

firefox browser Search Engines and Fraud I recently had a client ask me a question about some Google results I couldn’t answer. When I finally figured out the answer it was a case of Conduit taking control of the computers Firefox settings.

Cuil The Search Engine That Never Really Was

It is Time to give Cuil a Cool Farewell

cuil Cuil The Search Engine That Never Really Was Cuil is pronounced “cool”, the venture-backed search engine company has disappeared. My broken links WordPress plugin shows Cuil to be unreachable for 3 days now. It appears Cuil has gone down for the count.

Yahoo! Bing Search Alliance Traffic Report

What effect does the Yahoo! – bing marriage have on traffic?

I ran the traffic stats from Google analytics for the 12 days prior to the change and the 12 days after the change. I compared the visitor stats from both Yahoo! and bing during this period.

Bing and Yahoo! Conjugate the Relationship

Bing and Yahoo! Conjugate Alliance in the US and Canada

bada bing yahoo Bing and Yahoo! Conjugate the Relationship With the sheets pulled back all that was left was for the bing – Yahoo! Search Alliance to be conjugated.

Towards the end of last month Yahoo! fully switched to using bing’s technology as the power for its search results in the US and Canada.