Friday, October 22, 2004

Yahoo EuropeExecs details

Leading Yahoo Europe: "Pierre Chappaz and Dominique Vidal have been appointed to lead its consumer internet operations in Europe.

As President of Yahoo! Europe, Chappaz, 45, will lead the European operations of Yahoo! and Kelkoo, which Chappaz co-founded and which was acquired by Yahoo! Inc. earlier this year. Chappaz will report to John Marcom, SVP of International Operations, Yahoo! Inc. Vidal, 40, becomes Yahoo! Europe Chief Operating Officer reporting to Chappaz. "

Link "farms" Google's next target?

As more and more people practice and utilize linking strategies online to build their SE placements, the more and more things start to get out of hand. I mean, is reciprocal linking the next “Link Farm” to get wiped out from Google?

Google Ferrets Out Enterprise Search Potential

Google Ferrets Out Enterprise Potential: "Google Inc. plans to tackle the enterprise by expanding the features in the Google Search Appliance and hiring more enterprise-focused engineers and sales and marketing employees, Dave Girouard, the company's enterprise general manager, said in a recent interview with eWEEK.com."

Launched enterprise search in UK and Europe

Forbes.com: Update 4: First Post-IPO Google Earnings Deliver

Forbes.com: Update 4: First Post-IPO Google Earnings Deliver: "Google Inc. is making everyone who snubbed its unconventional initial public offering of stock regret their decision"

Yahoo rallies on Q3 report, raised Q4 outlook - Semel sells $ shares CBS Market Watch

Yahoo rallies on Q3 report, raised Q4 outlook - Internet Services - Internet - Earnings
Yahoo CEO Semel sells 900,000 shares - Internet Services - Media - Services/Consulting - Internet - Newsmakers - SEC: "Yahoo CEO Semel selling 900,000 shrs"

After Hours: Google soars; Amazon, Microsoft fall after results CBS Market Watch

After Hours: Google soars; Amazon, Microsoft fall after results - Computer Software - Food and Beverage - Internet Services - Technology, Hardware and Equipment - Technology, Software - Software - Internet - Computer Hardware - Markets/Exchang: "Shares of Google Inc. touched their highest levels ever in evening trading Thursday after the Internet search leader surpassed expectations in its first report as a public company."

Thursday, October 21, 2004

Gazette #214: Oct 20, 2004 Google's sophisticated duplicate content filters

Gazette #214: Oct 20, 2004 ... Barn Swallows, Goldfinches, and SEO: "Google is the first search engine to incorporate sophisticated duplicate content filters and the logic necessary to eventually merge domain.com and www.domain.com into the same entity. Unfortunately, there's some small emphasis in that sentence on the word 'eventually.' "

Cre8asite forums. Google - How does this page get high ranking and high PR? PageRank is named after Larry Page, the Google co-founder

Cre8asite forums. Google - How does this page get high ranking and high PR? Only 1 page. [ Search Engine Optimization, Usability and Web Design. ]: "PageRank is not named because it ranks pages, but rather is named after Larry Page, the Google co-founder."

Black Knight wrote "PR10 makes it very likely, if not certain that you'd land at that URL just by clicking links at random for long enough, while PR1 means you'd probably not arrive at that URL even if you clicked random links endlessly for weeks on end. That's pretty much all it really means"

Internet Daily: Blogs push news sites to open up -Google advertisers numbers & projections

Internet Daily: Blogs push news sites to open up - Wireless Technologies - Advertising - Electronic commerce - Internet Software - Retail - Internet Services - Mobile phones - Travel - Media - Entertainment and Leisure - Airlines - Wireless - Internet -: "a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle said internal documents from the company revealed Google expects to add 372,000 advertiser accounts over the next four years. The document reported the company currently has 280,000 accounts. "