Search Engines - Topics A-Z
Topics A-Z listing of articles and resources about search engines especially in relation to government websites.
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Search Engine Market Share - January 2010
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Google's global market share has increased from 82.49% in January 2009 to 85.78% in January 2010.
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Search Engines: Part 1 - Archive
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Resources about search engines especially in relation to government websites.
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Search Engines: Part 2 - Archive
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Resources about search engines especially in relation to government websites.
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Search Engines: Part 3 - Archive
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Resources about search engines especially in relation to government websites.
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Search Engines: Part 4 - Archive
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Resources about search engines especially in relation to government websites.
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The Search Engine Glossary
- search-engine-glossary.co.uk. "This glossary was developed to help you understand the terms you might come across within Search Engine Marketing that many of you may not have come across before..."
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Search Engine Dictionary
- Published by Pandecta Magazine, this online dictionary provides definitions of terms related to search engines, search engine optimization and search engine marketing. The website allows you to suggest terms for addition or suggest corrections to existing entries.
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The Search Engine Report
- Search Engine Watch - a free, monthly newsletter from Search Engine Watch that recaps top news stories about search engines. Latest issue - February 21, 2007 - Number 122
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A multi-screen and conversational search experience
- Posted by Amit Singhal, Senior Vice President. Google Inside Search, 15 May 2013. "Search has always been about giving you the best answers quickly, regardless of what device you use. At Google I/O today, we gave an update on where we are in building the search engine of the future--a search engine that can answer your questions, have a conversation with you, and even give you useful things without you ever having to ask..."
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The end of search as we know it
- by Stephen Hutcheon. The Age, May 16, 2013. "San Francisco: The head of search at Google wants to blow up web search. And the demolition job is already under way.
Amit Singhal, Google's senior vice-president of engineering, revealed the plan on Wednesday at Google I/O, its annual developers' conference.In short, the typewritten keyword search is yielding to voice-driven conversational search. And, down the track, more anticipation of what the searcher is seeking will be built into responses..."
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Google Testing Search Results Without URLs
- by Barry Schwartz. Search Engine Land, May 3, 2013. "Google is testing yet another user interface change – this time by not showing the URL of the search results on the page..."
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Google Notifying Searchers That They Use Cookies (EU Localized Google)
- by Barry Schwartz. Search Engine Land, April 8, 2013. "If you search for anything at Google UK or on any of the 27 localized versions of Google in the European Union, Google will now prompt you with a notification that they are using cookies to provide search results to you. In fact, Google says that by using Google search you are agreeing to allow Google to place cookies on your computer..."
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Google – and everyone else – wins by High Court decision
- Written by Stephen King, Professor in the Department of Economics at Monash University. Delimiter, Monday, February 11, 2013. "The High Court has ruled that Google did not engage in misleading and deceptive conduct when it published a number of advertisements created by its AdWords program. Does this mean that the advertisements themselves were not misleading and deceptive? No! Everyone agrees that they were. Rather, the decision clarifies the law for publishers, including those using the internet..."
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Google claims victory in ACCC court battle
- by Dan Harrison. The Age, February 6, 2013. "Internet search giant Google has won its legal battle with the consumer watchdog, after the High Court overturned a ruling that the company had engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct.
The ruling ends a six-year legal battle in which the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission alleged that sponsored links using keywords for Honda, Harvey World Travel, Alpha Dog Training and Just 4X4 magazine were published by Google and led consumers to rival firms..."
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Google must change search business practices after FTC decision
- By Rachel King for Between the Lines. ZDNet, January 3, 2013. "Summary: The FTC has issued a number of decisions in its complex investigation of Google, ranging from changes to search business practices to licensing Motorola-owned patents.
The Federal Trade Commission handed down a full bag of decisions in its antitrust investigation of Google during a press conference on Thursday.
Essentially, Google is going to have to make a number of changes to its business practices -- especially regarding search..."
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Google Details How It Responds To Government Requests For User & Search Data
- by Barry Schwartz. Search Engine Land, January 28, 2013. "Google has written a blog post documenting their legal process and approach to dealing with government requests for user and search data, highlighting a new section now available in Google that also answers more of these questions.
Governments routinely ask search engines like Google for access to user data for various reasons. From search logs, to email accounts, to browser history, to purchase history. Google says they take each request incredibly seriously..."
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Advanced Search Operator Tactics
- by Bonnie Stefanick, Search Engine Watch, December 5, 2012. "Advanced search commands are the cornerstone of 'good, old-fashioned SEO.' By that, I mean the art of doing SEO stripped down, without tons of tools.
In a world that is saturated with SEO software solutions, advanced search commands are the man vs. wild of the search world. If you gain a better understanding of advanced search commands, you will definitely become a lot more resourceful when doing down-and-dirty site auditing, link prospecting, and competitor analysis..."
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Announcing Bing Webmaster Guidelines & Webinars
- by Duane Forrester. Bing Webmaster Center blog, 16 November 2012. "We've got two items to announce this week, folks. First we'll start with Bing Webmaster Guidelines. These guidelines can be found in the Help section of Bing Webmaster, under the Content Guidelines section. These Webmaster guidelines are broad, but provide guidance on major points...
Next on the agenda is an announcement for Bing Webmaster Webinars we’ll be hosting starting later this month. We’re going to be holding six (6) webinars across different topics during November, December, January and February..."
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Study: 39% Of Google Search Referrers Now 'Not Provided'
- by Barry Schwartz. Search Engine Land, November 13, 2012. "It is just over a year since Google began encrypting search by default for signed-in users. A new study finds that as a result, 39% search-related traffic from Google to web sites now has search terms withheld.
Optify conducted a study over eleven months with 424 web sites, involving 17,143,603 visits and 7,241,093 referring keywords, to see how serious the “not provided” issue is..."
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Dark Google: One Year Since Search Terms Went 'Not Provided'
- by Danny Sullivan. Marketing Land, October 19, 2012. "A year ago, Google began going dark. Dark in terms of no longer sharing with publishers, in some cases, how people searched for and found those publishers through Google's search engine. The 'single digit' percentage of withholding that Google predicted at the time has turned into more than 50%, in some cases. If Google's withholding were an eclipse, more than half the sun is being covered. 'Dark Google' is upon us, and it will only grow darker..."
This category last updated: 16 May 2013