SearchKing, which recently sued Google for decreasing the company’s PageRanking, will continue with its lawsuit despite the fact that its search rank appears to have been restored.
Search Engines
A New Look for AltaVista
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
I don’t mention AltaVista much, either here or in the newsletter, because for some time now the search engine has been eating the dust of newcomers like Google or AllTheWeb. This week, AltaVista unveils a new, slimmed-down look in an attempt to reinvigorate its past glories. The new site features an ad-free home page,
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Search Engine Updates
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Posted in Search Engines
Greg Notess discusses new features at the major search engines in this month’s issue of Online Magazine.
The power of Google
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Posted in Search Engines
This CNet article shows just how powerful Google has become — a company that previously came up fourth on a search listing in Google saw its business drop 30 percent after Google removed the company from its listings..
Why not one more on Google…
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Fun Stuff, Search Engines
This one’s a fun site — Googlism.com will boil your life’s work down into one sentence — what the Internet thinks of you. For example, a search for Tom Mighell brought: “tom mighell is a shareholder at cowles & thompson and a member of the dba publication committee.” ‘Nuff said.
Another update, this one on Google
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
The Google Blog reports that the search engine hasn’t stopped frequent crawling of certain sites — Google’s just in the process of an index switchover.
Has Google stopped frequent crawling?
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
The Google Weblog reports that Google has apparently fallen down a bit in its policy of crawling certain sites every other day, and that the cached pages from sites that get this treatment are dated September 4. I guess that means that the new pages found in Search Engine Showdown’s Freshness Update aren’t the
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More on Google site banning
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
If you’re interested in Google’s banning of controversial websites from its French and German search results, check out this update on the technical details.
Google excludes offensive sites
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Posted in Search Engines
A Harvard University study finds that Google has excluded about 113 websites from its German and French listings. The sites are mostly anti-Semitic, pro-Nazi, or white supremacist in nature.
Who’s the freshest?
By Tom Mighell on
Posted in Search Engines
Search Engine Showdown has updated its Freshness Showdown, showing how recently the major search engines have refreshed their links. Unsurprisingly, Google, MSN, HotBot and AltaVista all have new pages as early as 1 day old. Beware of Wisenut and Teoma — the newest pages found on those sites are over 4-6 months