Live Search Webmaster Tools Finally Available
Microsoft has finally made its Live Search Webmaster Tools available to all site owners, webmasters and SEO professionals.
After a brief private beta, the Live Search Webmaster Center aims to help website professionals improve their results in the MSN and Live.com Search Engines.
Facebook Facing CEO Woes
Mark Zuckerberg’s foray into being the top executive at a company with a $15 billion valuation has been dismaying to Facebook users and advertisers.
Paid Links Still Evil To Google
Google continues to beat the drum about passing PageRank through paid links as Matt Cutts weighed in on the topic with another request that webmasters use the ‘nofollow’ attribute for them.
MSN Search Fights Duplicate Content
Live Search – aka MSN Search – has been showing some of the most aggressive duplicate content filtering I’ve ever seen across any search engine of late.
I first noticed it with a client who is performing well on Google, but has dropped down significantly on MSN.
The main problem is that he’s in a market that relies on affiliate content – and it’s the same content all of the affiliates are using.
Google Search Appliance Purchase Leads To Links
Want someone to take you seriously? An effective (if inelegant) way of getting attention is to flash some cash. That practice may also, as it turns out, get you a link from Google.
In 3 Years Spam Will Decrease To More
This year, you’ll get about 4,351 spam messages, and by 2010, aggressive spam filtering technology from email providers will have that down to about 4,403.
No Malware on Google Results?
Google has taken steps to remove malware websites from its search results, according to a ComputerWorld article released Wednesday.
Selling a Company on Enterprise Search
I spoke at the Gilbane conference yesterday (you can download my slides on semantic search).
Look Ma! I Bought Uranium On Amazon.com
A lot has been written about the odd things you can buy online, and this particular listing’s been radiating around the blogosphere for the past couple of months. Available through Amazon "used and new" for just $22.95: uranium.
Wikia’s ArmchairGM
I was watching the interview with Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales on Om Malik’s show on Revision3, because I’m always interested in what Jimmy is up to, and he mentioned a site called ArmchairGM, which I don’t recall hearing about before — or at least paying much attention to.
Om was talking about how he wanted a combination of his blog and a wiki, so that his community could contribute and get involved more, and Jimmy said he saw ArmchairGM as being close to that kind of thing.