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Google plays tag with tricksters
News Google will introduce new technology controls to thwart people using blogs to manipulate rankings in its search results. Steve Rubel, a blog evangelist and vice-president of CooperKatz, a public relations firm, said the move is significant because...
[January 19, 2005, 7:45]
Manipulating keywords to boost search rankings
News Keywords are the key to better search engine rankings. The result was Web pages that got traffic by virtue of high rankings for common search terms, but those pages often had little or no content related to the keyword the visitor was searching for.
[February 5, 2004, 10:30]
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]
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]
Spammer breaks into AOL search engine
News The result is effective: false Web pages disguised as legitimate sites appear high in a search engine's rankings. Spammers may also use so-called automated queries to constantly check the status of their sites and test changes aimed at driving them...
[June 20, 2002, 14:12]
Google votes to put surfers in charge
News OneUpWeb Optimization, which helps online properties land prime real estate in search engines' rankings, has a lengthy client list that includes Symantec, Kimberly-Clark and Priceline.com, according to its Web site.
[November 27, 2001, 14:44]
Google sued over site ranking
News Due to the high value associated with page rank, the purposeful reduction of Search King and related Web sites' page rankings has damaged (its) reputation and diminished its value," according to the suit.
[October 23, 2002, 11:26]
Page Rank Paranoia
Downloads The eBook contains, amongst other things, a step-by-step action plan through which I have achieved number 1 search engine rankings with a number of Web sites regardless of their Google page rank. Page Rank Paranoia is a free eBook which explores a...
[July 9, 2007, 13:38]
Domain Tracker
Downloads It stores your data on everyday use and lists them as a list of history rankings. Domainer provides your web site information along with Google Page Rank.
[August 22, 2008, 8:00]
CSE HTML Validator Professional
Downloads CSE HTML Validator also checks for issues that can affect search engine rankings and gives advice that may help improve a web page's rank on search engines. CSE HTML Validator Professional is a fast, powerful, highly user configurable, and...
[July 9, 2009, 5:28]
Web CEO
Downloads Web CEO answers just about every need for tools to maintain your Web site, optimize it for high rankings in search engines, measure and analyze traffic to your site. Analyze how well your site is optimized for search engines and find...
[February 19, 2008, 7:00]
NoteTaker ClusterSearch
Downloads Search metaengines aggregate results from multiple search engines and then post-process these results to yield new rankings and grouping patterns. Within each section, a page is created for each link found; after the widget has finished, the...
[May 23, 2005, 8:00]
Fast Blog Finder
Downloads Blog Finder is 100% no-spam search engine friendly blog commenter software that provides you with a great way to get backlinks for your sites without using any risky tactics that could destroy your search engine rankings.
[November 17, 2008, 11:05]
Google entangled in anti-Semitism row
News That's still not good enough for another online organisation, however, which has launched its own effort to push Jew Watch off Google via "Google bombing," a technique that exploits Google's search methodology of basing rankings on how many sites...
[April 7, 2004, 9:05]
Government sites continue to flout standards
News The rankings also took into account factors that may not cause fundamental operational problems, said Business2WWW, but which still represent poor site design. Thirty-three sites tested failed a basic metadata test for their front page.
[November 25, 2003, 11:20]
IT 'key to productivity'
News Rich Miller, a Netcraft analyst, told the BBC that some spammers are buying up domain names in an attempt to manipulate search engine rankings, and buying up sites that had fallen out of use but still attracted traffic.
[October 10, 2005, 17:25]
Web domains hit new high
News Rich Miller, a Netcraft analyst, told the BBC that some spammers are buying up domain names in an attempt to manipulate search engine rankings, and buying up sites that had fallen out of use but still attracted traffic.
[October 10, 2005, 17:15]
Google fights search-fixing charges
News Search King filed a lawsuit against Google in late October, alleging it unfairly removed its Web addresses from top search rankings, causing financial losses. The PageRank that Google assigns to a Web page is simply Google's view or opinion of the...
[January 13, 2003, 9:08]
Google SearchWiki offers custom search results
News Dupont was non-committal about whether the company plans to build in that feedback loop, either directly as a signal to influence search rankings or indirectly as extra data that could help the company judge the relevance of its search results.
[November 21, 2008, 13:58]
Live.com (it's worth a try)
Blog Sadly I still come top of the search rankings for certain terms (such as my laptops brand with Vista) which is a bit weird when you're looking for help (it's happened three times recently) One hidden thing is that although live.com can be limited...
[November 14, 2006, 15:53]
