Where’s Search Heading? Ask Yahoo’s Chief Scientist
For the past 10 years, most search engines have relied heavily on analyzing anchor text, links, and content to determine relevance. But recently, researchers at the top search engines have begun to look at other signals that might indicate search result relevance.
Q&A with Jason Calacanis, Founder & CEO, Mahalo.com
"Frankly, most SEOs are really smart and hard working; they’re just horribly misguided. They focus too much on the tricks to get people in the door and not enough on what people eat when they’re inside the restaurant."
I, Robots.txt
In this article we will take a look at the Robots Exclusion Standard. It sounds like something straight out of a science fiction book but is really nothing more than a tool to prevent web spiders and robots from accessing a particular section of your website or even your entire website if you so desire that you don t want indexed. The standard goes by many names like the Robot Exclusion Protocol but you most likely have heard of it as the robots.txt protocol. No matter what you may call it it is a handy tool that when used properly can help increase your ranking with the various web pages….
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Yahoo Building Buzz with Buzz
Despite its lack of success against the giant in the search engine field Yahoo seems to understand Web 2. better than Google. Its newest service Yahoo Buzz accepts input and votes from users. Is it merely a clone of Digg or something more …
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Highlights from the SEW Blog: March 17-21, 2008
Featured posts to the Search Engine Watch blog in the past week, along with recent search-related headlines from around the Web.