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The Search Industry Blog
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By Nathan Enns on Thursday, September 29th, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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A little while ago I did an interview with Mark Maunder from the job search engine WorkZoo. He recently emailed me to let me know that Jobser acquired WorkZoo in August.
Here is a quote from the press release:
"Jobster Inc., the leading online targeted job advertising service, today announced that it closed its acquisition of WorkZoo on August 10, 2005. WorkZoo is a leading vertical search engine that enables jobseekers to search all major job boards with a single click. Jobster plans to introduce an integrated service under its brand later this year."
I bet they saw the interview and couldn't resist... ;-)
Seriously, it is great to see that Mark is doing so well. I hope he continues to do so at Jobster.
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By Nathan Enns on Tuesday, September 27th, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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It is great to see Andy Beal getting into the busienss again after leaving WebSourced a couple months ago. Good luck to both Andy and Michael as they begin their new business called Fortune Interactive LLC.
Here is a quote from their press release:
"Fortune Interactive LLC (www.FortuneInteractive.com), an interactive marketing firm specializing in search engine marketing, was officially launched today by co-founders and world renowned search engine experts, Andy Beal and Michael Marshall. Utilizing SEMLogic™, its proprietary technology that uses artificial intelligence to understand a client’s industry and competitors, Fortune Interactive promises to shake-up the search engine marketing (SEM) space."
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By Nathan Enns on Saturday, September 24th, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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They sure found some quickly... as this Search Engine Watch story describes. The story is based on two press releases that I quoted from below.
Vivisimo Wins FirstGov Contract to Build Next-Generation Search Portal:
"Vivisimo and MSN Search to Provide Search Backbone for Redesigned FirstGov Portal
Award-Winning Velocity Platform to Bring the Power of Federated Search and Clustering to FirstGov Users"
FirstGov.gov to Partner with Vivisimo, MSN on Search:
"U.S. Government's Official Web Portal to add State, Local, Tribal and Territorial Search along with News and Images"
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By Nathan Enns on Thursday, September 22nd, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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You must go check out the sequel to Googlepark. Very funny stuff...
Here is the first image (scaled down):
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By Nathan Enns on Tuesday, September 20th, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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According to the author of this article.
I suggest you read it even if you love Google as there are several good points made. Personally, I like to use FyberSearch, MSN, Yahoo and Google.
Google for finding official websites for brand names, Yahoo/FyberSearch for finding information about a topic I am interested in and MSN for checking backlinks to my websites.
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By Nathan Enns on Monday, September 19th, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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Take a look at the new re-designed FyberSearch logo.
The new version looks cleaner, crisper and fits better with the fact that the first half of "FyberSearch" name is pronounced "fiber". Just look at how the cool bright blue fibers spell out the name "FyberSearch".
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By Nathan Enns on Friday, September 16th, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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The Search Engine Journal has a good discussion about the subject. Here is a quote:
"While running across the search engine news this morning I found a press release, apparently from Google, hosted on Pressbox.co.uk and indexed in Google News. The release is titled “Google Unveils New Erotica Search Engine” and appeared to be a release from the Google PR Offices."
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By Nathan Enns on Wednesday, September 14th, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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Go personalize your Google homepage at http://www.google.com/ig.
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By Nathan Enns on Tuesday, September 13th, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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Check out the new article submitted by Lee Odden (President of TopRank Online Marketing) called Search Engine Inclusion with Google and Yahoo Sitemaps.
It is pretty good in my opinion... and yes, I do actually read articles before posting them ;-)
Here is a quote:
"One of the most common problems ecommerce web sites have with rankings is that portions of their web sites are not included in the search engines. The cause can be any of a variety of reasons that range from complicated URL strings to slow server response or lack of a proper internal linking structure. If Google can’t find your pages, they won’t get into the search results."
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By Nathan Enns on Saturday, September 10th, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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I did a search for house in Google tonight and noticed that there was something strange. The results pages were split up into three sections. Each section provided a different set of results for queries related to the term "house".
For example, the second section of the results consisted of web pages someone would see if they searched forr "house fox". It appears the top and bottom sections of results were web pages not relating to the tv show such as the white house website.
You can go see for yourself but in case something changed, I have screenshots. You can click on each image below to see the full sized version:
Screenshot of the top of the results page:
Screenshot of the bottom of the results page:
Maybe everyone else already knows about Google testing variations of their search results using related search queries but it is news to me and hopefully some of you :-)
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By Nathan Enns on Thursday, September 8th, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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Google has hired the chairman of the ICANN, Vint Cerf. He will begin his job as "Chief Internet Evangelis" on October 3 according to the Google Blog.
I wonder when Google will see "real" competition? Probably when business owners stop seeing AdWords as THE way to advertise online. In order for that to happen other websites will need a great brand, amazing traffic and a beautiful advertising system. Until then, Google will be the primary way to advertise online... which also means they can hire anyone they want and generate as much traffic as they want.
Hmmm, someone will eventually break the vicious cycle.
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By Nathan Enns on Wednesday, September 7th, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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Pandia's search engine newsPandia's search engine news page has gotten a makeover. Read their post about the update here. Looks good to me!
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By Nathan Enns on Tuesday, September 6th, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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This article covers the story.
Here is a quote:
Well it was bound to happen. Underhand tactics are coming into play in the SEOBook vs. Traffic Power lawsuit. First we had the mysterious Frank, a.k.a. Potato Boy, duking it out with Aaron and NFFC. Such classics as, "It’s funny how scared of us you are. Anybody who does research on a company by reading forums is an idiot, and we don’t want their business." Other such gems can be found in the comments section of Aaron's Blog.
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By Nathan Enns on Saturday, September 3rd, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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Yahoo has done something unique and interesting. They have launched a website featuring all the best stuff from their portal at bestof.yahoo.com.
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By Nathan Enns on Thursday, September 1st, 2005 at 12:00 AM
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As most of you know, Aaron Wall was sued by Traffic Power recently for information he and his visitors posted on his blog, SEOBook.
According to Traffic Power, Aaron revealed their trade secrets on his blog. Of course, Aaron was not sure what he had to remove due to a lack of specific information. There may be other aspects to this case I am missing but I have better things to do than try to interpret vague information from Traffic Power.
I hope Aaron wins this case. I hope he wins so that there is no president for semi-desperate/semi-shady companies to go around suing people unless there is a very specific set of legal violations.
For some interesting info on this case, check out Search Engine Watch.
To help Aaron beat Traffic Power, visit SEOBook.
By the way, this case has been covered on Slashdot and The Wall Street Journal. Win or loose the case, I think Aaron Wall has won something already..... publicity!
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