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Saturday, May 15 2004
This is a search engine of a different sort. The Tennessee Internet Crime Information Center contains a registry of sexual offenders who are required to complete a TBI sexual offender registration/monitoring form, a searchable database of missing children who have been placed by the TBI in the Tennessee Missing Children Registry and a registry of persons living in Tennessee who have been placed on probation or parole in another state.
[More from TICIC]
Thursday, May 13 2004
One federal judge in Tennessee ruled that "Johnny's" was a generic word: "A search conducted on the two most popular search engines, Google and Yahoo, for the keyword 'johnny's' will retrieve a list of either 157,000 or 251,000 options of Web sites featuring everything from vegetable seeds to Irish pubs to military music lyrics. Even adding the additional keyword 'sauce' will result in a list of either 2,850 or 4,440 Web sites."
[More from ZDNet]
Monday, May 3 2004
"The information glut—particularly email spam—is a key challenge for today's digital content manager," says Shaun Carrigan, president and CEO of NetContent, a Nashville, Tennessee-based provider of electronic content solutions, research tools, and information services to both organizational and individual users. "The paradox is that, as information distribution has become easier and less expensive, meaningful communications have become harder to achieve. There's too much irrelevant information in the email box, and even on the corporate intranet. Email will become a decreasingly reliable medium until technology solutions and regulators catch up with the market." Notably, Carrigan has a vested interest in keeping emailed (and other) content reliable because his company provides an account-based Web interface linking its customers to relevant news and business information via the very medium he's eager to protect. How does it work? "Content managers choose content from available sources by using our search engine and automatic filters, which notify them by email when suitable content is available," Carrigan explains. "They can then upload their own content and manage it with our application. And their selections are automatically pushed into their Web sites, intranet newsfeeds, or email newsletters."
[More from EContent]
Wednesday, April 28 2004
At the beginning of March, Yahoo announced that they would be replacing the 3 paid inclusion programs for the 3 crawling engines they had purchased by a single paid inclusion program, SiteMatch. Administered by Overture, SiteMatch could be purchased via Overture directly or through a selection of partners including the majority of those who previously provided paid inclusion programs to the replaced programs.
[More from ISEDB.com]
Wednesday, April 28 2004
Lindon, Utah-based SCO sued Memphis, Tennessee-based auto parts retailer AutoZone Inc in March alleging that AutoZone violated SCO's Unix System V copyrights by running versions of Linux that contain its Unix System V code.
The move against a business running Linux followed SCO's earlier action against IBM Corp, which it claims has breached contract and copyright rights by contributing Unix code to Linux and was made despite claims by previous Unix System V code owner Novell Inc that it retained rights over the code, and also a legal challenge by Linux distributor Red Hat Inc.
[More from Computer B:usiness Review]
Monday, April 26 2004
U.S. communications regulators on Friday dealt a blow to AT&T Corp. (TN: Quote, Profile, Research) , ruling that the telephone company must pay higher fees for connecting long-distance calls that are carried partly over the Internet.
[More from Reuters]
Sunday, April 25 2004
In Nashville, a typist taps a doctor's notes into a computer, and then everything freezes up. The typist punches a Nashville number into a phone, and a telephone rings 11,000 miles away in Bangalore, India. In Memphis, Union Planters call center employees have used VoIP since early 2001.
[More from The Tennessean]
Saturday, April 24 2004
Google Inc., which operates the leading Internet search engine, is believed to be days away from filing for an initial public offering that will probably be among the most talked about events on Wall Street in years. Many analysts and venture capitalists expect Google, based in Mountain View, to file with the Securities and Exchange Commission sometime next week to raise anywhere between $1 billion and $2 billion.
[More from San Francisco Chronicle]
Friday, April 23 2004
Total Internet advertising revenues rose nearly 21 per cent last year, ending 2003 at just under $7.3bn, the first year-on-year increase since 2000. Online ad sellers reported $2.2bn in revenues for the fourth quarter of 2003, up more than 38 per cent from the same period in 2002.
[More from The Register]
Tuesday, April 20 2004
Last fall, Microsoft's Web portal launched Newsbot, a searchable database of news from thousands of publications, which tailors news for Web surfers based on their reading habits. Still in test form, Newsbot now lets people view their search history and store past material, a feature MSN calls "The Daily Me." Adding a more social flair to the service, "The Daily We" lets people view stories commonly read by other Newsbot visitors with the same taste.
[More from CNet News.com]
Sunday, April 18 2004
According to MediaDailyNews, 57% of search engine users are partial to one particular search. Search engine preference appears to be driven by the relevancy of the results each engine produces. Bill Muller, vice president at iProspect, said, "the relevance of natural search is driving a lot of that loyalty. The ones that are relying most heavily on pure algorithmic results--those are the market leaders."
[More from WebProNews]
Sunday, April 18 2004
It is Called A9, the new offering which incorporates Internet search results from the Google, the top leader, and to allow users to search Amazon's digital database of published book content. The question arises which books A-9 means, all or a few? If it has a limited range, the service may not be so popular and if it involves wider range, then the matter is different.
[More from International Reporter]
Thursday, April 15 2004
As you sit down and start thinking how you are going to write the content for your new website, or if you are contemplating a complete redesign of your existing site, there are a number of important things you need to know, before you even start writing.
[More from Search Engine Journal]
Wednesday, April 14 2004
So, if you think your site will do well in MSN or Altavista just because you are doing well in Yahoo! don't be so sure. Conversely, if you find you are ranking lower than you like in Yahoo! don't assume that you are also ranking low in one of the other engines because it is entirely dependant on the engine.
[More from Li'l Engine]
Tuesday, April 13 2004
Yahoo on Wednesday dropped hints of growing interest in social networking services for search, coming after announcements of efforts from rivals Google and Microsoft.
Tim Cadogan, Yahoo's vice president for search, said the company sees a future in which people can share their Web searches with friends.
[More from CNet News.com]
Thursday, April 8 2004
If you read the article below about link building and the importance of page rank to the search engines, then you might be wondering what your current page rank is or what it might be the next time Google does a page rank update. Well, now you can check it out by using the Page Rank Prediction Tool at RustyBrick.com. The current ranking seem to be accurate and agrees with the Google Toolbar. Only time will tell if the predicted ranking is correct, but if it's lower for your site, it may be time to renew your backlink program. Let me know what you think.
Posted by Hank Phebus
Thursday, April 8 2004
"In order to keep searchers happy, search engines are always developing ways to make their results more relevant. In the last couple of years, links have become increasingly more important to the engines because they see links as an endorsement of your site by other Web sites. Think about it for a minute: Would you link to a site you didn't like?"
[More from Microsoft Small Business Center]
Wednesday, April 7 2004
"More and more website owners are surfacing, whose sites do not appear in the ‘new’ Yahoo! although they have plenty of inbound links and have been part of Google (and subsequently the older Yahoo!) for some time."
[More from Search Engine Positioning]
Tuesday, April 6 2004
"In a move intended to 'normalize' per-click prices based on the value clicks deliver to advertisers, Google will overhaul its AdWords pricing system for contextual ads. The company plans to eventually roll the pricing model out across its paid search listings, too."
[More from ClickZ Network]
Sunday, April 4 2004
"Here's a thought that I hope to expand upon more in the near future. Will Google's new Gmail free email system be just the first of many things we begin moving to a new Google Desktop? If so, Microsoft might have a lot more to worry about than web search."
[More from SearchEngineWatch.Com]
Monday, March 22 2004
Yahoo! has rolled out a brand new search engine, effectively bulldozing vast chunks of the existing search landscape, and snatching a big slice of the search pie from Google.
[More from Avatar News]
Tuesday, February 10 2004
The software giant's announced intention to dominate search — its third such quest in recent years — is being depicted as a crusade against Google, the default Web search leader. Although Microsoft has stopped short of threatening to cut off Google's air supply, Google's prominence has led Silicon Valley partisans to cast this as an updated version of the mid-1990s Netscape-Microsoft "browser wars."
[More from The Seattle Times]
Tuesday, February 3 2004
Nearly 33 percent of a sample of 2 million Web searchers monitored in the past two months used two-word queries and 26 percent used three-word queries. Nineteen percent searched using a single word, and searches using four to seven words made up 21 percent.
[More from DM News]
Monday, February 2 2004
" We spend millions of dollars annually to build brand awareness and cannot stand idle while Google allows our competitors to ride our coattails," American Blind chief executive Steve Katzman said Thursday.
[More from Newsday]
Monday, October 27 2003
 Have you seen the block ads in the right border when you search in Google? Well, now you can carry similar ads on your content pages, and Google will pay you when a surfer clicks on the ad. It's called Google AdSense, and it's free to the web site owner.
Google will select ads for your site that are relevant to the content on your pages. They do this by using an algorithm that includes such factors as keyword analysis, word frequency, font size, and the overall link structure of the web. We set this up for one of our web design clients, and the ads reflect the content theme of the pages.
The layout of the ads can be customized to match your pages. There are a number of color palettes to chose from, or you can create your own. For the layout, you can select a 468 x 60 banner, a 728 x 90 Leaderboard, a 120 x 600 Skyscraper (sidebar) or a 300 x 250 Inline rectangle.
[More from Google Adsense Overview]
Monday, August 25 2003
"The federal Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the law that lets record companies go after music fans for sharing copyrighted songs online that they haven't paid for, also holds search engine companies liable for other copyright violations. If a Web page violates a copyright, a search engine can be forced to remove that page from its list of search results."
[More from MSNBC]
Friday, August 22 2003
" On the information side of the house, there's no question that search is the cornerstone of our strategy. We're investing heavily in this space," Payne, a vice president for Microsoft's MSN Internet unit, said at Jupitermedia's Search Engine Strategies Conference & Expo. The conference was held this week in San Jose, California.
[More from Silicon.Com]
Sunday, June 15 2003
Page Rank is an important part of the Google algorithm that determines the importance of a web page and influences the page positioning in the Google search engine results (serps) when a user queries the index. Computer scientists at Stanford University have found a way to speed up the page rank calculation which would allow Google to index the web up to five times faster.
[More from NewScientist.com]
Friday, June 13 2003
In too many cases, web sites are created with attention to design only and ignoring the user experience or search engine friendliness. Do your users get frustrated surfing your site? Do you know? Where do you rank in the search engines for relative search terms? Here are some hints and tips you may want to consider.
[More from Search Engine Guide]
Thursday, May 15 2003
Internet search engines such as Google.com drive millions of visitors to Web sites every day. The search engines don't care whether your company is large or small; they care only whether your Web site matches the characteristics that they use to rank companies in their search results.
[More from Post Gazette]
Tuesday, May 6 2003
Most search engines do not support the Flash graphics format for web pages. Fast (AllTheWeb.Com) does support it to a limited degree, but for the most part, your web site that is Flash intensive will not be readily found in search engines which look for relevant textual content? For tips on how to deal with the Flash problem and problems with other non-HTML formats,
[More from Search Engine Watch]
Monday, May 5 2003
Has your web site been banned by the search engines? Well, if the site is new, probably not. If you have been indexed in the past and your site suddenly disappeared in the search engines, you may have to dig a little deeper.
[More from Search Engine Guide]
Monday, April 21 2003
Should you be concerned now that Google has added address and phone number lookup to it's index? Did you know that other sites such as Anywho.Com and Switchboard.Com have been providing this service for years? If you feel that your privacy has been violated, is their anything you can do about it?
[More from Portsmouth Herald]
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