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Google Further Entrenches Itself In China The American expansion into the Chinese search frontier has been the subject of much criticism for a myriad of reasons, with the willingness to censor search results in order to placate the Chinese government being at the forefront.
Google To Introduce Oregon Datacenter Google is preparing to introduce a new datacenter located in Dalles, Oregon in order to improve their efficiency in handling the sheer volume of search requests received on a daily basis.
Blocking Harmful Bots From Your Site As you delve further and further into the all-encompassing realm of being a webmaster, you come to understand the nature of bots and how they can benefit or harm your site. Normally, when bots are discussed, its usually in reference to search engine bots that crawl and index whatever pages they come across... unless they are blocked by the webmaster.
Google Personalizes Foreign Homepages While Google has fought acceptance of the "portal" label, they have introduced a number of personalization features allowing users to alter the look and functionality of Google's start page to fit their needs.
Googlebowling A Distinct Possibility If you follow the search industry with any kind of regularity, you may have heard the term "Googlebowling". For those that are not aware, Googlebowling is the act of trying to damage to your competitors' search ranking by giving the impression they were involved in a spam link campaign.
Getting In Touch With Yahoo Search One of the more vocal complaints you here in the SEO/SEM community concerns the rigmarole some people have to go through if they want to contact search engine representatives.
Microsoft Combines Active Search With Email No, the fellows at Redmond, Washington are not releasing a new email service to replace Hotmail. However, they are introducing a new desktop email application - Windows Live Mail Desktop - that may signal a change of focus from the Outlook family to smaller applications like this one.
Is Google Using Another Sandbox? The existence of the Google Sandbox has been topic of many a discussion across Internet forums everywhere... or at least the ones covering Internet technologies.
What Makes A Site Relevant? I've been discussing the topic of search engine spam for a couple of days now and I came upon a WebProWorld post that could be the most important point to consider when discussing this subject: who defines relevancy?
Garbage In, Garbage Not Out? One of the biggest complaints facing the search engine industry concerns the amount of spam sites (sites developed for the sole reason of gaining favorable search engine results) that show up in today's SERPs.
What About Google Co-op? Google has been on a new feature launch tear here recently, which began at this year's Google Press Day. Of these tools, Google Trends is probably getting the most publicity and with good reason.
Will The New MSN Eat Into Google? "I am wondering if the new search on MSN will start to eat away at Google? I realize Google is still the preferred choice of most web savvy searchers, but Google is getting so big."
Turn Off ODP Description With MSN Search Give MSN Search some credit. Since the official launch of their "Google killer," the developers of MSN Search have been very receptive to their user base by soliciting comments and suggestions that they actually acknowledge.
Getting Indexed But No Hits? Over in our forum WebProWorld there is a discussion going on how to get visitor traffic once your site is indexed by the search engines.
Getting More Than Your Index Page Indexed One of the complaints I've noticed from people starting out in the SEO/SEM world is finding out their site's index page is the only one that's been included into a search index, something that could be a considerable issue if you have a multi-page site.
What Small Businesses Are Asking Google Google Press Day is under way, where the media will pick the brains of various Google company members like CEO Eric Schmidt. Mike McDonald, managing editor of WebProNews, is on hand to represent our readers and forum participants.
Google Video Going Outside While the overseers of Google Video still enjoy and encourage user-uploaded content, they also feel it's time to act like a normal video search engine by indexing and linking to content found outside of their current network.
Google Maps... It is Official What's in a name? Apparently, when it comes to Google's various products, there's quite a bit of thought put into deciding on a particular moniker. Take Google Maps/Google Local for instance.
Ask Names Jim Lanzone CEO Last week, we learned that long time Ask CEO Steve Berkowitz is jumping ship to join forces with MSN Search. In response to Berkowitz's defection, Ask wasted no time in finding his replacement, which comes from within the Ask/IAC hierarchy.
Google AdSense Introduces New Image Ad Sizes Continuing their rich advertising media support efforts, Google's AdSense program has introduced some new dimensions to for image-based ads, giving clients even more flexibility for their various campaigns.
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