Matt McGee at Search Engine Guide provides some simple steps to make a page more local. The tips would be useful if you’re a small business that relies on local search traffic, as then you must make sure ‘search engine crawlers have a good sense of where you’re located.’
Which Search Engine Is Safest?
Can the results associated with your search queries send you to malicious sites? It depends on which search engine you use, but the probability this would happen has decreased.
iPod And Pirates Top AOL Search
People querying for information through AOL’s Search and Video Search products made Allen Iverson, Barbie, and Brangelina top results in various categories, but for overall search a couple of commonplace things were the most highly searched.
Baidu’s Blog Search Service
China’s top search engine Baidu launches blog search service on Thursday to aid bloggers in their navigation.
Favorite Search Blog Nominations
Loren Baker from Search Engine Journal tells us it’s that time of year again for the SEJ Search Blog Awards.
Of Ants, Dolphins, And Search Technology
Research groups mimic the behavior of animals to make their search technology more efficient.
New Trails in Search – Trexy and Turbo 10
I’m often sent media releases about new search engines or software that all claim to be a first in the industry for something.
Perfected Plugg’d Podcast Search
Audio and visual search start-up Pluggd claims they have perfected their product. What does this mean for competing sites?
Yahoo And Social Search
Social search is a big market, and Yahoo, according to Thomas Hawk, may be floundering it. Other people feel that the company is doing all right in terms of social search, although they admit that its strategy could use some tweaks. This one subject aside, most onlookers can agree that Yahoo has been floundering in a lot of respects.
Online Shoppers Search For ‘The Poop’
If you were thinking a classic toy came back to life on its own merit – or that Generation X had managed to instill a sense of Seventies coolness into their children – rewind and think again. As holiday season searches spike for the return of Hasbro’s Baby Alive, you may notice the faint effluvia of marketing, which of course, is what we celebrate in December.