Things we would like to see, aka dumb idea no.1 - yaskMicrohoo
This will never happen but:
Wouldn’t it be nice if the brightest brains at Yahoo! Search, Microsoft Live and whomever is left of Ask.com (who would be asked to leave voluntarily because nobody wants to muck about with big Barry-D anymore), merged to form a somewhat separate company?
It would be the greatest gift to the collective [...]
Tool Time Friday | Ever had an ‘All-in-One’?
Well, you’re about to have a chance.
All-in-One Sidebar (AiOS) is an award-winning sidebar control, inspired by Opera’s. It lets you quickly switch between sidebar panels, view dialog windows such as downloads, extensions, and more in the sidebar, or view source or websites in the sidebar.
Click on the left edge of your browser window to open [...]
Continue Reading ArticleCracking Google’s 1,000 Page Barrier
Posted by Dr. PeteOne of the frustrations of doing SEO for large websites is the fact that Google makes it very difficult to see more than a small part of the search index. Even in Webmaster Tools, Google’s index search is built on the same mechanics as its web search, which only lets you see [...]
Continue Reading ArticleThe SEM blog is retiring
Dear readers: The Search Engine Marketing blog is retiring. I admit to feeling sentimental about it, because this blog was originally created for me by Jason Calacanis, in the early days of Weblogs, Inc, and although I ended up contributing to several blogs in our lineup, this is where it started for me. I’m grateful [...]
Continue Reading ArticleYahoo! releases Slurp
Yahoo has released a new search crawler. Meet Slurp, a more efficient website visiting engine. Yahoo has estimated that website owners will see a 25% reduction in the number of requests coming from Yahoo servers, thus decreasing bandwidth.
Yahoo has said that some slight changes might occur with page shuffling, and ranking changes.
Yahoo does have [...]

