tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62417472011-04-21T21:33:50.895-07:00Sales BlogSales Blog is an important resource to help anybody involved in sales and marketing.Search engine News devotedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16459568187695387072noreply@blogger.comBlogger381100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241747.post-1075996166966022412004-02-05T07:49:00.000-08:002004-02-05T07:51:48.186-08:00Serious search engine technology developed by IBM
"Search is trying to find the best page on a topic. WebFountain wants to find the trend," said Dan Gruhl, chief architect of the project at IBM's Almaden Research Center in South San Jose, Calif. Harnessing the Internet's data to find meaning is a visionary ideal of Web search that has yet to be attained. As more companies manage their businessesSearch engine News devotedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16459568187695387072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241747.post-1075937292911841862004-02-04T15:28:00.000-08:002004-02-04T15:30:33.483-08:00Web services management gaining in popularity
There is much confusion on the issue of Web services management, because the term "management" has often been used in the past to mean many different things.
Two examples: business process management, the active coordination and execution of business processes; and systems management, the passive monitoring of performance and IT infrastructure). Search engine News devotedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16459568187695387072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241747.post-1075739650425682092004-02-02T08:34:00.000-08:002004-02-02T08:36:27.780-08:00Making Google better
Pandia and Resource Shelf editor Gary Price write 10 tips on how Google could improve itself:
"Google is a fine product and has done good things for web search. However, it's not the solution".
Here are 10 things it could do to improve itself:
1) Google needs to fix several advanced search problems. Many of them have been known for several months. These are things that Search engine News devotedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16459568187695387072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241747.post-1075737246094924622004-02-02T07:54:00.000-08:002004-02-02T07:56:23.140-08:00Market for paid inclusion search to reach $6 billion
Innovation among companies hots up as ad pie swells. With experts projecting that the global market for paid Internet searches will reach more than US$6 billion (S$10 billion) by 2006, up from about US$2 billion last year, search engine companies are gearing up to duke it out for a chunk of the advertising pie.
Mr Sterling, program director Search engine News devotedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16459568187695387072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241747.post-1075579953769715772004-01-31T12:12:00.000-08:002004-01-31T12:14:48.890-08:00The latest on update Austin at Google
Some of the websites that haven’t been hit too hard in Google’s Florida update (November 2003) got hit real hard on or around January 23. Google’s latest update is called Austin, and they are beginning to ‘sound’ like elections!
Depending on the industry you happen to be in, you could have been hit less, or harder- it depends on a whole number of factors Search engine News devotedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16459568187695387072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241747.post-1075470944907621252004-01-30T05:55:00.000-08:002004-01-30T05:57:57.686-08:00Google's competition preparing for battle
Google's dominant position under threat as rivals develop competing technology.
Ask Jeeves, the internet search engine, has come up with the best answer of all. Constantly asked by sceptics whether it would ever make money, the PG Wodehouse inspired business based in Emeryville, California, produced the clearest result this week.
Steve Berkowitz, the Search engine News devotedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16459568187695387072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241747.post-1075397317614612312004-01-29T09:28:00.000-08:002004-01-29T09:30:49.606-08:00Google hesitating for an IPO for now
Google is reported to be having second thoughts about its $16bn flotation in the spring because of concerns that market conditions are not yet right.
If true, the delay or even postponement of the hotly anticipated initial public offering (IPO) will be a blow to the tech industry, which is pinning its hopes on the Google flotation signalling a turnaround in Search engine News devotedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16459568187695387072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241747.post-1075338094481984742004-01-28T17:01:00.000-08:002004-01-28T17:03:45.903-08:00A second office in Europe to be opened by Google
The US-based Internet search specialist Google will soon open a research and development centre in Switzerland to tap into European knowhow, company vice-president Urs Hoelzle said.
The European centre will be Google's second base outside the United States. A similar research and development centre in India is due to open in March.
"Zurich mustSearch engine News devotedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16459568187695387072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241747.post-1075338044759043882004-01-28T17:00:00.000-08:002004-01-28T17:02:56.186-08:00A second office in Europe to be opened by Google
The US-based Internet search specialist Google will soon open a research and development centre in Switzerland to tap into European knowhow, company vice-president Urs Hoelzle said.
The European centre will be Google's second base outside the United States. A similar research and development centre in India is due to open in March.
"Zurich mustSearch engine News devotedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16459568187695387072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241747.post-1075307406751896462004-01-28T08:30:00.000-08:002004-01-28T08:32:17.326-08:00The 10 Do's and Don'ts of SEO
Here's something that is fast to read and does the job! Rank for $ales is pleased to present "The 10 do's and don'ts of SEO". Five techniques you should always do to push your site at the top of the search engine results pages (SERP's) and keep it there, and five things which you should always avoid doing, to protect your site from a possible penalty or risk it fromSearch engine News devotedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16459568187695387072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241747.post-1075266514178947732004-01-27T21:08:00.000-08:002004-01-27T21:10:44.373-08:00Online retail sales expected at $ 65 billion in 2004
U.S. online retail sales are expected to reach $65 billion in 2004, and will continue to grow by a compound annual growth rate of 17 percent through 2008 to top $117 billion, according to a report issued from Jupiter Research. As consumers' level of comfort with online functions such as e-mail and research continues to increase, so too will Search engine News devotedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16459568187695387072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241747.post-1075251720833972812004-01-27T17:02:00.000-08:002004-01-27T17:04:10.903-08:00I just found a low-cost web hosting provider for Monica's website and spoke to one of the technicians and they seem really knowledgeable.
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A sneaky e-mail worm continued to clog Internet traffic Tuesday, spreading faster than previous Web bugs by appearing as an innocuous error message. The worm -- dubbed "MyDoom," "Novarg" or "WORM_MIMAIL.R" -- was copying itself at a fierce pace, so fast that some companies were having to shut down their mail servers to stop it. And a new clue was Search engine News devotedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16459568187695387072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241747.post-1075148117539378302004-01-26T12:15:00.000-08:002004-01-26T12:17:25.750-08:00Microsoft will have its own toolbar
Microsoft today will introduce a new Web search feature as the software maker plays catch-up with Google, in a critical area of Internet commerce, Monday's Wall Street Journal reported.
Microsoft will begin offering customers of its MSN online service a software " toolbar" for Internet browsers that has a window for searching the Web using keywords and Search engine News devotedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16459568187695387072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241747.post-1074836516028607782004-01-22T21:41:00.000-08:002004-01-22T21:43:59.076-08:00Orkut, or how to make it big in social networking
Google will shortly unveil its social networking site, Orkut. The Friendster clone is the work of Google employee and former Stanford graduate Orkut Buyukkokten.
Undettered by the feeding frenzy around the social networking bubble, and rebuffed by Friendster Inc, which it attempted to buy, Google has decided build one better.
Given Friendster'sSearch engine News devotedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16459568187695387072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241747.post-1074786150897273242004-01-22T07:42:00.000-08:002004-01-22T07:44:32.966-08:00Google bombing is turning the Web into a platform for political commentary
The New York Times reports:
Unlike Web politicking by other means, like hacking into sites to deface or alter their message, Google bombing is a group sport, taking advantage of the Web-indexing innovation that led Google to search-engine supremacy.
The perpetrators succeed by recruiting a small group of accomplices toSearch engine News devotedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16459568187695387072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241747.post-1074652597841311042004-01-20T18:36:00.000-08:002004-01-20T18:38:37.890-08:00Web services in a state of flux
Two years ago, Ed Horst, an executive at Web services start-up AmberPoint, walked into his CEO's office with a report from influential research firm Gartner Group and a prediction.
At the time, the market for Web services technology, which links software programs, was largely undeveloped. Gartner forecasted that industry giants such as IBM, Microsoft and Oracle, Search engine News devotedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16459568187695387072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241747.post-1074608843320095742004-01-20T06:27:00.000-08:002004-01-20T06:29:22.793-08:00Marketers investing more in Web marketing
Nearly two thirds of marketers now see digital marketing as having a very high or high level of strategic importance within their organizations, and over 75 percent of respondents plan to increase spending on digital marketing as a percentage of their marketing budget this year, according to a survey of marketing executives released today.
The online Search engine News devotedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16459568187695387072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241747.post-1074538497265294982004-01-19T10:54:00.000-08:002004-01-19T10:56:55.246-08:00e-Commerce in France could be in danger
Development of the Internet in France will be endangered if a piece of legislation entitled a Bill to Promote Confidence in the Digital Economy becomes law, the Association of French Internet Access and Service Providers (AFA) said Tuesday.
The association called on French Internet users to sign an online petition to show their opposition to the bill, Search engine News devotedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16459568187695387072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241747.post-1074537089227348922004-01-19T10:31:00.000-08:002004-01-19T10:33:27.513-08:00Looksmart being dropped by MSN
Although the LookSmart database does include listings from the volunteer based Zeal directory, most of the results are now pay-per-click text ads.
Microsoft's MSN.com portal has for a long time added LookSmart's directory listings to its search engine results.
Obviously someone at MSN realized that the LookSmart results reduced the quality of the overall search Search engine News devotedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16459568187695387072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241747.post-1074488388521300872004-01-18T20:59:00.000-08:002004-01-18T21:01:45.653-08:00Google always facing more and more competition on its turf
Google Inc., which dominates the market for Web search, is developing a service that could dramatically extend the reach of its lucrative keyword-based advertising by linking such ads to e-mail, people familiar with the matter said Friday.
Privately held Google, which is expected to go public later this year, faces rising competition inSearch engine News devotedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16459568187695387072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241747.post-1074262764976472492004-01-16T06:19:00.000-08:002004-01-16T06:21:19.076-08:00Legal case jeopardizes search engines' use of trademarks
Playboy Enterprises will have its day in court over accusations that search engines sold its trademark as advertising without permission.
Dealing a potential setback to the Web search advertising market, a federal appeals court has reopened a lawsuit challenging the unauthorised use of trademarks in ads linked to search-engine keywords.
Search engine News devotedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16459568187695387072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241747.post-1074228936011382422004-01-15T20:55:00.000-08:002004-01-15T20:57:29.076-08:00There are billions and billions of Web pages out there
As Carl Sagan might have put it, there are billions and billions of Web pages out there. So it comes as no surprise that the results lists from search sites are getting longer.
That's given rise to a new breed of solutions to help manage the information overload. One of the most ambitious recent entries is a major update of Groxis' Grokker,Search engine News devotedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16459568187695387072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241747.post-1074204278041581502004-01-15T14:04:00.000-08:002004-01-15T14:06:31.420-08:00Yahoo confirms that it is dropping Google
Yahoo on Wednesday said it will drop search partner Google during the first quarter of 2004 in favor of its own technology, opening a new phase in the battle for Web search dominance.
The announcement from Yahoo CEO Terry Semel caps more than a year of speculation over the move, which has been widely expected since Yahoo announced plans to acquire Search engine News devotedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16459568187695387072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241747.post-1074123688841057712004-01-14T15:41:00.000-08:002004-01-14T15:43:20.450-08:00Reasons why e-Commerce shoppers abandon carts
Still puzzled as to why e-Commerce shoppers abandon their shopping carts without buying anything on your site, as they move on to your competitor's site? NetIQ’s WebTrends reports that 35% of US adults who have researched or purchased a product online say that surprise costs would lead them to abandon a purchase online.
Another 30% say they would Search engine News devotedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16459568187695387072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241747.post-1074031836622066402004-01-13T14:10:00.000-08:002004-01-13T14:12:27.200-08:00Verisign will manage RFID 'root' server
VeriSign Inc. has been awarded a contract to manage a key component of a coming global distribution network that uses electronic product code (EPC) technology, according to a joint announcement by VeriSign and EPCglobal Inc., a non-profit organization.
The contract, for an undisclosed amount, assigns VeriSign the job of designing and operating the Object Search engine News devotedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16459568187695387072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241747.post-1074028812169295762004-01-13T13:20:00.000-08:002004-01-13T13:22:02.560-08:00VeriSign planning more changes to the DNS system
VeriSign Inc. is planning changes to a Domain Name System (DNS) component responsible for coordinating updates to the .com and .net domains throughout the DNS system, according to a company spokesperson.
The changes are intended to prepare .com and .net for more frequent daily updates of information such as new subdomains, address changes and theSearch engine News devotedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16459568187695387072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241747.post-1073936989416929152004-01-12T11:49:00.000-08:002004-01-12T11:50:10.020-08:00Google and your park domains
Google DomainPark allows domain name registrars and large domain name holders to unlock the value in their parked page inventory.
DomainPark delivers targeted, conceptually related keywords and advertisements to parked domain name pages by using Google's semantic technology to "understand" the meaning of each domain name.
DomainPark currently powers over 1 million Search engine News devotedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16459568187695387072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241747.post-1073884132251172732004-01-11T21:08:00.000-08:002004-01-11T21:09:13.243-08:00I just found the best deal on Web hosting and they even have a toll free number! Just what I've been looking for since last May!
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Yahoo and Google are offering new search tricks for Web surfers, with the ongoing goal of becoming indispensable.
Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Yahoo on Friday started offering visitors the ability to search for flight information directly from the search box, matching a similarly new capability from rival Google's search engine. Google, in turn, embedded a Search engine News devotedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16459568187695387072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241747.post-1073578582149018112004-01-08T08:16:00.000-08:002004-01-08T08:16:42.106-08:00Forrester: e-commerce investments will grow by 1.9%
Forrester Research reports that customer e-commerce spending will lead the IT spending charge in 2004, growing by 4.8% this year. Buy-side e-commerce spending will grow by 1.9%, projects Forrester. In fact, Forrester estimates that three-fourths of companies will maintain or increase their IT spending for e-commerce initiatives. Forrester basesSearch engine News devotedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16459568187695387072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241747.post-1073402770480755482004-01-06T07:26:00.000-08:002004-01-06T07:26:29.733-08:00Yahoo CEO Terry Semel: We woke up just in time
Yahoo CEO Terry Semel said Monday that the company has "only just begun" with its grand plans to grow its Web search business, highlighting 2004 as a year when search will become omnipresent throughout its family of sites.
Semel's comments, made during a question-and-answer session at Smith Barney Citigroup's Entertainment, Media & Search engine News devotedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16459568187695387072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241747.post-1073398336422592992004-01-06T06:12:00.000-08:002004-01-06T06:12:35.853-08:00Google almost 100% certain to go public
Google Inc. hired Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to arrange its initial public offering, a sale that may raise as much as $4 billion, a banker involved in the transaction said.
The sale by Google, the world's most used Internet search engine, would be the biggest IPO since CIT Group Inc.'s $4.87 billion deal in July 2002. It ``will certainly Search engine News devotedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16459568187695387072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241747.post-1073390710064218452004-01-06T04:05:00.000-08:002004-01-06T04:05:29.573-08:00Linux kernel upgrade needed because of security flaws
Open-source developers released a new version of the Linux kernel Monday in a move aimed at quickly fixing several bugs--among them two serious security flaws. The 2.4.24 upgrade to the Linux kernel comes a month after the release of the previous version of the core system software and only includes patches for six software issues, including Search engine News devotedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16459568187695387072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241747.post-1073358559947301202004-01-05T19:09:00.000-08:002004-01-05T19:09:39.300-08:00Online retail experienced significant growth in 2003
The online retail sector experienced significant growth during 2003 due to record holiday sales, a strong travel market and increased consumer confidence, according to a new report. Revenue for online retailers in 2003 reached $93 billion, a 27 percent increase over the same period last year, research firm ComScore Networks reported on Monday.Search engine News devotedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16459568187695387072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241747.post-1073274291810670472004-01-04T19:44:00.000-08:002004-01-04T19:45:10.393-08:00Search engine predictions for 2004
The year 2003 was, generally speaking, a good year for the search engine industry. While for some that may have got hit hard with the Florida update in November, the balance of the year was good. I predict 2004 will be even better, albeit you should expect some major changes. 2004 will be a year of consolidation, if there is such a thing in this rapidly Search engine News devotedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16459568187695387072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241747.post-1072213487351151602003-12-23T13:04:00.000-08:002003-12-23T13:05:03.270-08:00Creating a powerful and 'legitimate' information portal
Corporate informational portals have been in use for quite some time. As the name implies, they were designed to help their users and to provide valuable information. There can also be many additional benefits when the subject of optimization of search engines is concerned. The use of "auxiliary websites", also described as portals, when Search engine News devotedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16459568187695387072noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6241747.post-1072212769212881092003-12-23T12:52:00.000-08:002003-12-23T12:53:04.450-08:00US $2.11 billion in online sales in one week
comScore Networks reported on 18 December that $2.11 billion was generated in the US in online retail sales during the week ending 14 December. It also noted that to-date online holiday sales at that point totaled $9.4 billion. The research firm anticipates online retail sales for the full holiday season will fall between $12.1 billion and $12.6 Search engine News devotedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16459568187695387072noreply@blogger.com