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Adware company loses its links
News Yahoo and Google have disabled links to controversial adware maker WhenU after the company was accused of engaging in unauthorised practices aimed at boosting its search rankings, WhenU's top executive confirmed on Thursday.
[May 14, 2004, 13:00]
MegaSearch
Downloads Additionally, it would be desirable to eliminate any duplicates, and sort the remaining results according to the average of their individual search engine rankings: this is why MegaSearch was created.
[May 22, 2006, 8:00]
Google plays tag with tricksters
News Steve Rubel, a blog evangelist and vice-president of CooperKatz, a public relations firm, said the move is significant because blogs factor heavily into search engine rankings and that makes them a target for spammers.
[January 19, 2005, 7:45]
Google ranking suit may continue
News The parent-focused directory and search-engine site claims Google violated antitrust and other laws by handing KinderStart low rankings. While Google and other search engines have been sued over rankings before, no lawsuit of this type appears to...
[July 3, 2006, 11:10]
Google votes to put surfers in charge
News Although Google is well regarded for its highly relevant search results, experts who specialise in pushing sites into the top rankings -- a technique known as "search engine optimisation" -- say the company's success has made it a target.
[November 27, 2001, 14:44]
Google: It's all relative
News According to the patent, "a search engine modifies the relevance rankings for a set of documents based on the interconnectivity of the documents in the set. In this manner, the search engine re-ranks the initial set of ranked documents to thereby...
[February 27, 2003, 15:53]
RAGE SERank
Downloads RAGE SERank will monitor search engine rankings for any number of keywords and display changes in a web site's search engine rankings over any point of time. Features; Track your search engine rankings in over 100 search engines world wide...
[October 1, 2009, 14:59]
iGoogleRank
Downloads It will store a list of websites and associated keywords with those websites to allow you to view rankings for all keywords with one click.iGoogleRank utilizes the Google API to make it search engine friendly.
[December 4, 2005, 7:00]
LinkAssistant SEO Tool
Downloads Monitors your site's rankings in all the major search engines so you can see when they are high or when they ever slip for whatever reason. rankings, more visitors and more sales. Here's how LinkAssistant makes your job as a search engine...
[March 23, 2009, 14:25]
Small Business Web Design Guide - Part I: Simple Techniques That Will Put You Ahead of the Competition
White Papers Small business websites generally face some major obstacles to ranking well on Google, and competition is rarely one of those obstacles - at least not in this stage in the game as most small business owners still seem oblivious to the potential in...
[May 16, 2009, 1:17]
Linux out-Googles Microsoft
News As memories of the millennium slipped away, so too did the popularity of Nostradamus -- who famously predicted the end of the world but not, it seems, his own speedy demise in Google's rankings. Her rise in the rankings was followed by the Winter...
[December 16, 2002, 11:59]
Blog search engines try to block fakes
News Although the nofollow attribute will help reduce the rating of splogs on Google, Cuban accused the search company of not doing enough to tackle splogs on its Blogger service: "Google seems to be working hard to adjust their relevancy indexes to...
[August 18, 2005, 15:45]
Google sued over site ranking
News Search King, an Oklahoma City-based Web site network and advertising seller, filed a lawsuit on Friday against Google, alleging the search giant unfairly bumped down its Web addresses from top rankings in search results.
[October 23, 2002, 11:26]
Google protects its search results
News Much of the conflict to date has raged over search engine optimisation services and software that explicitly aims to push certain Web sites up the rankings for specific key words. Other tactics that people use to manipulate their Web site's...
[April 16, 2002, 14:47]
Google plays tag with tricksters
Talkback If use of the "nofollow" tag becomes widespread, most blogs will drop in search engine rankings. Find out more here: http://netinstitute.com/archives/2005/01/20/bloggers-cheer-google-as-their-search-rankings-plummet/
[February 1, 2005, 18:24]
Splogs: Wreaking havoc in the blogosphere
News The search giant's Blogger blog-creation tool and BlogSpot hosting service, together the most popular free blogging service on the Web, fell victim this past weekend to the biggest splog attack yet — an assault that led to clogged RSS readers and...
[October 21, 2005, 16:00]
McAfee: beware sponsored search results
News Users can't count on search engines to protect them; on the contrary, we find that search result rankings often do not reflect site safety. Google, currently the world's largest search engine, tied with AOL with 5.3 percent of search results being...
[May 15, 2006, 15:40]
Google ranking case dismissed
News If plaintiffs show Google manually tampered with even a single Web site's PageRank, Google's entire claim of 'objectivity' of search results and rankings could collapse. KinderStart, a directory and search engine for information related to children...
[July 14, 2006, 9:10]
Riches snatched away at any time
Blog It happens, Google tweaks their rankings, quite rightly too. Google Rankings change, eBay / Paypal accounts and the like can and are frozen or closed at any time. It’s a constant battle between Search Engine Optimisers (SEOs) paid to push web...
[December 30, 2008, 8:25]
Patents crucial in search battle
News Overture, formerly called GoTo.com, claims the rights to a system and method for Web sites to influence their rankings within search results. According to the Google lawsuit, Overture's patent covers 67 separate claims, including exclusive rights...
[July 18, 2003, 12:52]
