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Ask.com Goes Down on Earth Day, Then Mimics Bing

Ask.com went down this morning for at least an hour with what appears to be a server DNS Failure. Maybe Ask decided to observe Earth Day by shutting down their website for an hour to save energy. I wonder how many searches were lost saved as a result? 🙂

Google Testing New Format in Search Engine Result Pages?

 Kudos to Paul Kragthorpe for spotting what is either a Good Friday (long weekend) test or a limited/controlled release of a new format for Google’s search engine result pages (SERP’s).   Always a clever one to notice similarities, Paul remarks seem to be on point:

Bing’s Search Share Grows due to Wetlands near Anchorage, Alaska

In case you have not yet heard, Bing’s Search Share Grew in February and their Market Share was up for the Third Straight Month in a row. The 4% to 6% month over month growth in search traffic is pulling Bing an estimated search share of somewhere between 9% and 12% of all total monthly […]

Slideshows: Search Engines Honor 2010 Winter Olympics

The 2010 Winter Olympics are over. I know, I’m kind of bummed too. I really didn’t think these Olympic games would draw me in… but they did. And Wow, what a finale!

Bing is getting back to business as usual. Maybe…

After 2+ weeks of continuous search, social and web media coverage, the 2010 Winter Olympics have finally come to a close. It now time to put our individual Olympic dreams on ice for another 4 years and get back to business as usual.  That’s exactly what Bing is doing. Well, sort of…

Google Follows Bing for Once – Tests Olympic Logos in Search Engine Result Pages

Well this has to be a first! It now appears that Google is showing their special Holiday and Event logos in their search engine result pages in a very similar manner to how Bing has been for almost a year. Here are a few screen captures that show the new SERP’s.

DMOZ 2.0 Rumored to Launch at End of March

There have been many reports and rumors about the forthcoming Open Directory Project overhaul, dubbed DMOZ 2.0, from as far back as March 2008. Recent info has hinted at the End of Q1. But just yesterday (Thu. Feb. 11th 2010), there was a strong rumor of a dmoz.org launch that might set one of the […]

The Search Engine War against Paid Links

Buying and selling links to directly influence search engine ranking algorithms has been a hot button in the SEO community for several years. The topic first started to really heat up back in 2005 when Google began taking stronger action against publishers and advertisers who bought and sold keyword targeted text links. Today the search […]

Happy Halloween! Google’s 2009 Halloween Logo and Logos from the Past

Happy Halloween! In honor of the frightful night, as has been a hallowed tradition for the past 11 years, Google created a special logo that was only displayed on October 31st. Here are several of the past Google Halloween Logos from as far back as 1999, the year that I got my start in SEO. […]

The Flaw in Google Analytics “Goal Position Change”

Recently, Google Analytics made an update to their Goal Conversion Tracking system that allows you to rearrange and change the position of your goals by simply selecting a different spot in a dropdown menu. At first glance earlier today, this new feature seemed to be an easy way to rearrange your goals to your preference […]