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.
Selling a Company on Enterprise Search
I spoke at the Gilbane conference yesterday (you can download my slides on semantic search).
Paid Search To Take Off In Canada
Canadian revenues from online advertising hit C $1.01 billion (US $894 million) in 2006, according to the Interactive Advertising Bureau of Canada, a jump of 80 percent in one year.
Google Lets (Some) Users Adjust Search Results
If you’ve ever thought, “Hey, I could give better search results than that,” here’s your chance: one of Google’s experiments is allowing users to vote sites up (or off) results pages. They can also add completely new sites to the list.
Changing Search Results with Google Experimental
Some users are reportedly seeing a new experiment in Google Experimental: the ability to re-order and even hide specific items in web search results.
Problems with Google Blog Search
Lisa Barone writing in the Bruce Clay Blog was kind enough to mention a thread I started over at the Cre8asite Forums suggesting that the Ask.com Blog Search was filling a Google vacuum.
IBM, Yahoo Update Free Enterprise Search
The IBM Omnifind Yahoo Edition enterprise search product received some tweaks and improvements to its functionality.
How To Look Your Best In Search Results
Mom always said, "Put your best foot forward." It’s valuable advice, because often how you appear on a first meeting sends subtle signals about you and can influence what happens next. We should also be concerned the same way with how we appear, what information is presented about us, in the search results.
Search Frequency Is Meaningless
One of the big misconceptions I see on business forums is the idea:
“That the number of documents returned on a keyword search on Google, has a direct correlation with the competitiveness of the keyword.”
Once you see people posting examples of their “SEO successes” by use of this measurement, you can easily see that search frequency has little to do with competition – after all, it does exactly what it says on the tin – and simply returns a number based on frequency of the keyword appearing in documents.