The Search Engine Blog

Someone is a genius…..besides me of course <grin>. The folks at Microsoft have redesigned Live Search and given it a new background. They plan on changing these regularly. But wait, there’s more! Hover your mouse now and receive a popup absolutely free. The popup will let you see more information related to the photo. The […]

A new search engine in town is being compared to Google. cuil (pronounced cool) has an impressive number of web pages indexed and a nice interface to the web, but Google it isn’t….at least not yet. Still, it’s worth checking out and popping in once in a while to see if they continue to improve. […]

Microsoft takes others ideas and does them better. At least that’s what some claim, and now they are out to show Google how to do PageRank better. That shouldn’t be too hard as PageRank numbers are flawed anyway. Microsoft’s ranking system is based on user behaviour. The more clicks and user actions they record, the […]

The Google cache was way behind on dates for a number of sites according to this Webmaster World.com post.Google cache not up to date?
It seems to be back on track now with major sites now reporting current dates. One poster even jokes that perhaps Google ran out of room.

A must read interview regarding search rankings and how links impact you. If you can only read one online marketing article today, this is the one. Read it, think about it, put it into action.
Yahoo’s Priyank Garg Chats with Eric Enge

Lively lets you create a virtual 3-D world where others can chat with you and even help you create your 3-D world. This is so ‘98. In computer terms, that’s ancient. You can add a virtual room to your site hoping others stop by to chat. Personally I’ve got better things to do, but perhaps […]

Yahoo! announced an update for their search index. There isn’t much buzz about it in the forums. Perhaps there isn’t much of a change, or no one cares about Yahoo!. Perhaps it’s because everytime they update they seem to totally screw it up and end up hitting the undo key.Yahoo! Search Blog: Weather Report: Yahoo! […]

Happy fourth of July. Check out the search engine logos for today’s celebration!

Yahoo! has some animation.
MSN some very basic fireworks in their logo.
And Ask with a nice of one of our founding documents.
Dogpile disappointed us with nothing special today.
Happy fourth!!!