Not adhering to web standards is like rollerskating down the freeway. You might get to where you’re going, but it’s inefficient and fraught with peril.
More Netizens Using Search Engines
Have you ever Googled for a shrimp curry recipe? Exclaimed “Yahoo!” when you found the complete discography of your favorite Scandinavian-folk-rap artist …
Search Engines Chart Paths To Map Success
Among the big four Internet search destinations, AOL’s MapQuest leads a field that is getting very crowded with MSN, Google, and Yahoo pushing the mapping envelope.
AOL Confirms Discussions with Search Engines
Two weeks ago, AOL CEO Richard Parsons dismissed speculation that his company, part of the Time Warner media empire, was in negotiations with Yahoo, MSN and/or Google. Rumours of these talks had been circulating for weeks in publications as diverse as the Wall St. Journal and Search Engine Watch.
‘ePrecis’ Could Tempt Search Engines
One entrant in the quest for the semantic web, ePrecis, could surpass efforts already under way and may be good enough to grab the interest of the big search players.
Designing Your Site For The Search Engines
When you design a website, it’s easy to focus on what your visitors are going to see. What you have to realise, though, is that you’re going to have another kind of visitor with a completely different agenda: they’re not going to be looking at your pretty logo and they’re not going to be passing judgement on your background colour. What they’re looking for is the content and structure of your page.
Search Engines Should Dump “Legacy” Products
For advertisers alone, especially on the Yahoo side, there is such a confusing array of product options and features that it is in fact becoming difficult to know how to spend.
Search Engines Don’t Understand You
Heh, while I was stuck in traffic on the way home tonight my brother called. We had one of our usual heated conversations — this time about search engines (he had read my post about PLAYing with search and thought I was nuts for wanting search engines to display stock quotes for terms like PETS, PLAY, etc).
What’s The Deal With Search Engines And Text Link Ads?
When did hypertext links become the enemy? Google’s PageRank began a burgeoning search engine optimization link building industry that now seems to be out of control. What’s the deal with text link ads? Isn’t a link just a link?
Outranking The Search Engines
Some factors affect a site’s rank greatly, others have minimal effect, and no one knows what all the factors are or how they all really impact a given site.