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August, 20, 2010 Google Showing more results from a domain SiteLinks...  Today Google makes changes in their ranking algorithm that will make it much easier for users to find a large number of results from a single site.  For queries that indicate a strong user interest in a particular domain, Google willl now show more results from the relevant site.  In order to use SiteLinks Properly you must have a Webmaster Account to have control and take full advantage.  Activate your Webmaster Tools Account it is Free.  Some of the other benifits you will see is the lost opportuniies on keywords, You will see.

July, 27, 2010 Is the Yahoo-Bing change relevant to your website? Last week, Yahoo announced that the organic search results on Yahoo will be powered by Bing beginning in August/September. Yahoo is already testing Bing results on some result pages.  According to the latest comScore data, Yahoo and Microsoft sites had a combined search market share of 31.6% in June 2010.  Yahoo sites had 3.2 billion search queries and Microsoft sites had 2.2 billion search queries in June 2010. That's a total of 5.4 billion search queries in one month.

July, 14, 2010 Google Tops U.S. June Searches Again With 65% Market Share [Nielsen] Google, Yahoo and the Microsoft sites accounted for 92% of total U.S. searches.

April, 20, 2010 Google is rebranding its Google Maps listing service for local businesses. Google's Local Business Center will be known as Google Places. Google plans to roll out a few new features for local merchants that have claimed their "place page" on Google Maps.

Febrary, 26 2010 Google understands the importance of its Local search Local Search enhancements Google unveiled its newest Local enhancement " the Nearby filter."

January 10,2010 Paid vs. Organic Search: Understanding the Dynamics “Why are we paying for traffic if we’re already getting it for free?”

November 10, 2009 Caffeine after the Holidays - November 10, 2009 in Google/SEO Out With PageRank in with Speed - Google is planning to include website load time as one of the algorithmic ranking factors for 2010. SearchEngineLand's Site Speed Next Ranking Factor Test Your Webistes Load Speed Here:PageTest

October 15, 2009 Yahoo To Drop Paid Inclusion Program Confirmation from a Yahoo representative, Yahoo will be dropping their paid inclusion program by the end of this year.

June 3, 2009 Microsoft's Bing search engine is now publicly available; www.bing.com and replaces Live Search.

May 12, 2009 "Search Options Panel" Gives users control over their Local Search Results... Filter based on search verticals, date, previous search behaviour, and some experimental search views.

January 26, 2009 Search Engine Market Share of 2008

January 13, 2009 Yahoo! Carol Bartz Joins Yahoo! as Chief Executive Officer

October, 9, 2008 Good times with inbound links Inbound links are links from pages on external sites linking back to your site.  Inbound links can bring new users to your site, and when the links are merit-based and freely-volunteered as an editorial choice, they're also one of the positive signals to Google about your site's importance, content, its relevance to a geographic location, etc...

May 06, 2008 iProspect Shows: 60.5 percent of Google, Yahoo!, MSN and AOL users selected a natural (unpaid) search result over paid search result. iProspect and Enquiro Revealed: 65% of users trust organic results while only 34.75% of users trust paid results.

April 23, 2008 Study: What do people click in search results? http://www.iprospect.com/about/researchstudy_2008_blendedsearchresults.htm

September 19, 2007 Google's Push into Corporate Brand Market Rich media advertising is a technology breakthrough

September 05, 2007 Yahoo Buys Behavioral Ad Firm Technology tracks consumer behavior as users move from site to site

September 05, 2007 Yahoo Buys Behavioral Ad Firm Technology tracks consumer behavior as users move from site to site

August 29, 2007 Google Resumes Penalty notification Emails Plan to resume sending emails to webmaster's of violations and will be removing webpages from our index.

August 27, 2007 Google Gains, Yahoo Loses - Market Share Yahoo lost market share from a year ago and is now at 23.5 percent for July, while Google gained share, reaching 55.2 percent market share. The other market share loser was AOL." comScore, Inc. – a Global Internet Information Provider

August 19, 2007 Google Wins the Most Hearts on the Web... Yahoo, which has been less able than Google to translate its strong brand recognition into strong financial growth, may want to take note: results varied by gender. “Yahoo fans skew female but tend toward the mainstream, while Google fans are more likely to be male.

August 14, 2007 American Consumer Satisfaction - Ranking The four major search engines and portals all scored almost the same, with Yahoo winning the race...

June 06, 2007 Weather Report: Yahoo! Search Update We rolled out some changes to our index and ranking algorithm last night. So, as you know, throughout this process you may see some changes in ranking as well as some shuffling of the pages included in the index. This update should be complete very soon.

June 05, 2007 Yahoo! Search Crawler, Slurp, has a new Address and Signature Card crawl.yahoo.net. we've been migrating our crawler , Yahoo! Slurp, over to the new domain at crawl.yahoo.net. As of today, the transition is complete.

June 4, 2007 Five things you didn't know about Google's search

February 27, 2007 Google Algorithm Update - Search Rankings on the Move

February 22, 2007 According to Nielsen//NetRatings 256 million people visited a search engine in December 2006 - 81% of the global Internet population. Neilsen//NetRatings!

January 23, 2007 Yahoo! Search Marketing - New Ranking Model Bid Amount and Ad Quality will Determine an Ad's Rank in Search Results Beginning February 5, 2007 in the U.S. Learn More?

January 23, 2007 Google: PageRank export is underway Read More!

January 23, 2007 Yahoo! Confirms Search Index Update Yahoo! Search blog confirmed on Friday that an index update is currently underway. Following hot on the heals of Google's recent Backlink and PR update this is a double whammy for many website owners. How is your site impacted?

December 11, 2006 Yahoo Panama ! 2007 The New Sponsored Search Is Now Live! Yahoo Slurp

September 11, 2006 MSN Live Search is Live Windows Live Search - New interface for Search

April 21, 2006 Google Tests Expanded Search Option!

April 18, 2006 Microsoft adCenter Release

January 18, 2006 Top Search Terms Reveal Web Users Rely on Search Engines to Navigate!

January 16, 2006 MSN (beta) is Now Live ”We Intend To Begin Turning Up The Dial” Results from its proprietary search engine is now showing self-generated results at MSN.Com. MSN has new spider named MSNbot and is making its presence known.

December 01, 2005 GOOGLE with 46% of SE Market now? (Search Engine Watch) According to Nielsen//NetRatings GOOGLE: 46.2% YAHOO: 22.5% MSN: 12.6% AOL: 5.4% My Way: 2.2% Ask: 1.6% Netscape: 1.6% iWon: .9% Dogpile: .9% Earthlink: .8% Others: 5.3%

February 2, 2004 MSN Search Beta Goes Live!

March 1, 2004 New Yahoo! Search - Yahoo! Search Technology

March 1, 2004 Overture SiteMatch Overture Launches SiteMatch Computer software for tracking and analyzing the performance of online advertising; computer software used to search, retrieve, index and organize data on the Internet.

February 23, 2004 Yahoo! dumps Google results Yahoo! Completely dumps results from Google Quote: YahooSlurp will work a lot like GoogleBot in that it will follow every HREF link on found a website. YahooSlurp will NOT follow SRC links such as images or FRAMES. When optimizing a site that uses FRAMES, correct use of the <noframes> tag will be necessary. YahooSlurp can follow dynamic links but Yahoo is advising webmasters to post static pages with HREF (text) links directed to specific sections featuring dynamic content. This tells us that the use of a sitemap will continue to be an SEO Best Practice technique.

February 2004 Yahoo! Renamed Spider! Our new Yahoo! Slurp crawler. Yahoo! Slurp discovers pages by following links on the web. We update our index with a daily crawl to gather newly created and fast-changing URLs, as well as our main crawl which updates our index incrementally twice per week. (Note that Inktomi Index Connect clients are receiving Yahoo! Search traffic going forward, and Inktomi Search Submit customers are receiving a free trial of Yahoo! traffic until 4/15/04.)

Yahoo! Slurp will continue to obey the Robot Exclusion Standard The complete User-Agent that will be logged as part of this transition will be shown in your logs (if user-agent logging is enabled) as follows. Mozilla/5.0 (Compatible; Yahoo! Slurp)

February 17, 2004 Yahoo has begun crawling Yahoo has begun crawling the web with a new indexing robot -- foreshadowing some interesting potential developments, as it gets ready to drop Google as its primary search partner.

January 15, 2004 Yahoo! and google go the their own way. Yahoo has begun to use the results from Inktomi for placements. Purchased in October 2002 by Yahoo!

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