Big Four Confirmed For Indexing Summit
The what Earlier this year I said it would be great to have some type of indexing summit where search
engines could hear and discuss ideas on what web site owners would like in terms how their content gets indexed
I went forward with scheduling one for our upcoming New York show and just got a last confirmation for the panel All four major crawlers Yahoo Search Google and
Ask Jeeves will be taking part and much thanks to all of them for stepping forward to participate
Dont expect anything immediate to come out of the panel Its unlikely that any new ideas will be suddenly embraced by all four then and there...
Traffick - Internet Search Enlightenment: Bloglines and the Future of Blogs, RSS and Search
News broke over the weekend that Askcom has purchased Bloglines for an undisclosed amount Most Traffick readers probably have never heard of Bloglines an online newsfeed aggregator but it is said to be the most popular service of the sort
Because of the relative anonymity surrounding Bloglines and the meteoric rise of blogging it isnt clear yet what it means for search engines and blogging I think its way too early to speculate on the deals direct implications but here are some pretty safe assumptions about the this intersection of search engines blogs and technology which are making for an interesting
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E-Commerce News: E-Commerce: Google's Domain Move Sends Rivals Searching for Answers
Google has become a domain name registrar to learn more about the Internets domain name system she said recently in an email message While we have no plans to register domains at this time we believe this information can help us increase the quality of our search results
Rodriguez would not say how having registrar status might help Google improve search results But Bret Fausett who publishes Lextextcom a Web log that follows the domain name industry said Google could improve the quality of search results by getting better access to the list of expiring domain names a list available only to registrars...
heraldsun.com: Review: Google Online Maps Need Work
Leave it to Google Inc to innovate Its new online mapping service produces impressive maps that please the eye and are fun to navigate And unlike competing services you can put all your search terms into one box But as a product still in beta or test phase Google Maps clearly needs finetuning I wouldnt abandon Yahoo Mapquest or quite yet
So which to use in the meantime I took a systematic look at them all
First off all the services get their data from the same sources primarily Navteq Corp and Tele Atlas They differ in how they analyze and present the data
America Online Inc...