The deal that was soooo close to happening so many times and never came through, well, finally came throughwith a lot less lead-up and fanfare than anytime it was rumored to be happening. I think this will be a good opportunity for Yahoo to spend time working on its content even more, and to help [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Google'
Yahoo and MSN merge search – it’s official
July 29th, 2009 No Comments
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Wolfram Alpha = Wikipedia killer?
May 19th, 2009 No Comments
Seems like everyone inside and outside the industry has pegged Wolfram Alpha as the next Google killer – you know, like Cuil. That really turned out well for the prognosticators, no?
It seems like every new engine with any kind of a backstory is going to be a Google killer. Hell, Twitter added a search function and [...]
Tags: Google · Google sucks · twitter · win · wolfram alpha
Media Co’s Want More Favorable Google Algorithm
March 23rd, 2009 2 Comments
If you can’t win, change the rules (or bitch until someone does it for you).
Major media companies are increasingly lobbying Google to elevate their expensive professional content within the search engine’s undifferentiated slush of results.
Many publishers resent the criteria Google uses to pick top results, starting with the original PageRank formula that depended on how [...]
Tags: fail · Google · Google sucks · political · search engine news · SEO News · traditional media
Town considers changing name to rank better
March 2nd, 2009 No Comments
The town of Eu, France (population 8,000) is pissed that a silly little thing called the European Union managed to co-opt their town’s name in its typical shortening. Not so much because they disagree wit bloated bureaucracy and the insistence that all of these countries have enough in common to cleave to each other and [...]
Tags: fail · france · Google · Google sucks · political · political seo
SearchWiki is on paid ads now, too
February 16th, 2009 No Comments
You know what’s better than letting an unpopular and easily spammable feature die a quiet death? Letting it affect your ad revenue!
SearchWiki, for those who haven’t heard, is an add-on to Google results when a user is signed on that will allow searchers to move a given result for a given result up, down or [...]
Tags: Google · Google sucks · PPC news · Search News
Google’s broken all over the place
February 2nd, 2009 No Comments
So, anyone who was watching their email over the weekend or conducting searches on Google (so, unless you live under a rock) probably noticed that Google for a time said that everysite on the internet could potentially harm your computer. While a clear error, I think as performance art it was brilliant and, frankly, I wish [...]
Tags: fail · Google · Google sucks · SEO results
5 reasons why the GDrive is not the end of PCs
January 27th, 2009 No Comments
Google’s gonna render PCs useless? Fat chance. This is pure hype, probably to bolster a flagging stock price (now’s the time to buy, btw) and you should not get sucked into it for even a moment.
Trust Sergey and Larry implicitly? Thinking of giving the kool-aid a little taste? Here’s why the standalone machine isn’t going anywhere and/or why a [...]
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Google gives you one more way to screw with your results
January 19th, 2009 No Comments
Google announced the addition of the Preferred Sites tool, which allows you to add specific websites from which you want to see more results. Like, for example, if you wanted SearchEngineSnark.com to pop up a lot more in your results you could add it to your list and *boom* there I’d be.
Considering that you have to go [...]
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Scientists: Google’s killing the environment
January 12th, 2009 No Comments
The latest global warming culprit is apparently…well, us. By that I mean the search engine industry, we as a whole heard that we’re the problem a long time ago.
More specifically, it’s Google that’s getting the finger this time. Apparently, between your computer and their servers running:
Performing two Google searches from a desktop computer can generate about [...]
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