Dubious data from Trellian’s keyword research tool
On the face of it, Trellian’s PrioritySubmit.com keyword research tool is quite cool. Paying subscribers can get a full year’s worth of historical keyword popularity data. Finally, a way to quantify the seasonality of various keyword markets! However, I have to say after using it, I’m not real impressed. The main problem I have with […]
Lycos in the Search Engine Optimization business?
I had a chuckle when I read this: “Lycos’ Site Side Optimization services” A small-time search engine is now a self-appointed search engine optimization specialist, and here’s the best bit: Your optimized site is regularly submitted to the free submit at major search engines for indexing. Regular submissions ensure your site is spidered often by […]
What Google searchers are looking for
Google exec David Scacco (Director, Vertical Markets Group) had some interesting things to say about Google usage this week at the channeladvisor Strategy Summit 2004: 28% of Google searches are for a “product name” 9% are for a “brand name” 5% are searches for a “company name” “Brand” keywords also have a 8x higher ROI […]
Google Store makeover still not wooing the spiders
You may recall my observation a few months ago that the Google Store is not all that friendly to search engine spiders, including Googlebot. Now that the site has had a makeover, and the session IDs have been eliminated from the URLs, the many tens of thousands of duplicate pages have dropped to a mere […]
Google using the largest database of clustering in the world
Peter Norvig, Google’s Director of Search Quality, was quoted as saying at the Web 2.0 conference last week that Google is using the largest database of clustering in the world. Norvig also went on to say that: the problem with web search is that an entered keyword could be associated with different meanings, but the […]
Idealab unveils a new search engine
Snap, a new search engine from Idealab was unveiled last week at the Web 2.0 conference by the inimitable Bill Gross himself. Snap’s technology is founded on three core principles: User control — Refine by entering filter words in the field above any column, or click on any column to sort the results. The columns […]
Change your email frequency
I just unsubscribed to the SharperImage.com’s email specials and, rather than being greeted with the usual unsubscribed page once I clicked on the unsubscribe link, instead I came to a page where I could change my email frequency. I could totally unsubscribe, or alternatively, I could decrease the frequency to 4 special offer emails per […]
Inconsistencies in the Google user interface
While we all love Google, I’ve found a couple mildly irritating usability issues that have, surprisingly, been overlooked. First off, from the Google home page, if you type your query into the search box and then hit one of the tabs, say “Images”, you won’t actually end up with search results for that search term […]
“MSN Bombing” shows Microsoft’s a follower
Guess who’s #1 in MSN’s new, not-yet-finished search engine for “miserable failure.” Yep, it’s Dubbya. Specifically, his biography page on Whitehouse.gov. (In case you’re curious, there’s no mention of “miserable” or “failure” anywhere on his page). Gee, that’s just like Google. Good job, Microsoft… not! With all the talk about “Google bombing” being bad for […]
