The Search Engine Blog

Google is now the proud owner of DoubleClick. How would you like to buy yourself a $3.1 billion Christmas gift? DoubleClick is best known for serving up all those ads that are in your face on so many sites. Not much on the forums for comments. I guess everyone expected it to be approved.
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Microsoft very quickly responded and fixed the issue of PPC ads from Google showing in their search results. Kudos to MS for this quick fix. It seems Google changed the way they display ads and MS was sleeping and didn’t catch it.
Live Search Webmaster Center Blog : Listing Google Ads In Live Search (D’oh!)

The Google supplemental index is dead? It appears so. The four years of supplemental index has officially ended. The supplemental index is where Google put pages that would be less likely to needed in a search. This could occur for many reasons including obscure topic, old information in need up updating or just poor content. […]

Google does have nofollow on their ads, yet Microsoft indexes them anyway. This has got to mess up CTR and I wonder how Google is handling it?
Raven SEO Tools: Live Search Is Returning Google AdWords Ads In Their Natural Search Results

Get your barebones Google profile! While it isn’t a Facebook killer yet, Google has made no secret that it intends to rule the Internet. One Google to rule them all….. Like Microsoft, it appears that they are out to do what everyone else is doing, only do it better. Will they do social networking better?
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Google claims to be encouraging people to contribute their knowledge. Coming late to the game of having an online knowledge center (can we say Wikipedia?), Google is finally offering a limited release of Knol (or is it Knols). You can post articles containing tidbits of your wisdom, let Google post ads on them and let […]

Google is now making it easier to view which ads will display on your pages displaying their ads. This feature is being rolled out slowly so don’t panic if you don’t see it yet. Basically you get to preview which ads are currently displaying on your site. If you want to ban them, you can […]

A new tool on Google’s Webmaster Central gives a search engine’s view of your site’s pages. Of course there are a lot of issues with any site that aren’t worth the time to fix, but this tool may help you pinpoint some issues you weren’t aware of. It’s a terrific tool that so far isn’t […]

Yes, it was very irritating. For a month now Google has been telling us that our phrases weren’t appearing in results. Now the error seems to be repaired. Full discussion for the past month can be found on this forum.
Sudden change in keyword analysis in campaign? Are there any issues?

When you search for sites, your query, IP address and other information is stored by the search engine. Ask.com is now giving you a way to not have that information stored. While it won’t erase past data, it won’t store any data while you have the eraser on. The name may be a bit misleading […]