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Yahoo Shortcuts, Google OneBox (and AdWords, too?)
Brian Smith just wrapped up a 4-part series on Search Engine Watch about the various ways the major SEs sometimes tweak their SERPs to provide additional information at the top, above the traditional Top 10 listings. You probably know these as “Onebox” results in Google, or as “Shortcuts” in Yahoo. While I was really hoping […]
A “very exciting” search macro
Never in my life would I have guessed I’d see the phrase “very exciting” used to describe a search macro. But there it is, right out in the open for all to see on the MSN Live Search blog. And I actually think the phrase is used correctly, too! MSN is announcing a new LinkFromDomain […]
MSFT classifies local web page information
Bill S. at SEO by the Sea has a look at a recent Microsoft patent application which covers the fairly familiar territory of how to identify location-based information on a web page. MSFT describes a system where they’ll classify the location-based info. into three categories: provider location, content location, and serving location. Bill explains what […]
Friday night link-o-rama
Biggest link-o-rama ever! Tell your friends! Tired of the cut-and-paste routine when trying to get data off a web page and into MSFT Excel? Jarrod at TextLinkBrokers.com discovers a cool trick to ease that process and shares the potential SEO uses for it. On the subject of inbound links and SERPs, Jim Boykins offers a […]
Goodbye MSN Search … Hello Windows Live
MSN’s struggling search engine, which has been stuck in a distant 3rd since it debuted in early 2005, has a new name, a new look, and what appears to be a new ranking algorithm. Unfortunately, they’ve tied its name to the Windows brand, which is a turn-off for a lot of people. Nonetheless, say hello […]
SES notes: Compare and Contrast – Ad Program Strategies
This is the first post of several where I’ll be writing summaries of the sessions I attended last week at SES San Jose 2006. I should note up front that what I’m writing here on SBS will be substantially different from the full recaps posted by Search Engine Roundtable. My recaps here on SBS will […]
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