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."

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. "

Google Desktop Search Download

Google Desktop Search Download

O'Reilly Network: Google Your Desktop review at O'Reilly

Google Launches Desktop Search Tool Slashdot discussion

Search Engine NewsLinks to various articles:
Google Launches Desktop Search - Exclusive ReviewSource: Search Engine Lowdown
Google Desktop Search Launched Source: SearchDay
A Closer Look At Privacy & Desktop Search Source: Search Engine Watch
Google unveils desktop search Source: News.com
AOL launches new portal, tests desktop search Source: News.com

WebProWorld :: The Googlebot Assault Continues: theories

WebProWorld :: The Googlebot Assault ContinuesGarry Grant, CEO of Search Engine Optimization, Inc., stated:

“Only the inner circle at Googleplex knows the purpose of this new spider, but there is no shortage of theories. Some of the more popular ones include:

· Google is creating an entirely new way for ranking pages – something that could dramatically change a web site's position on the search engine

· Google is trying to weed out fraudulent links

· Google is conducting an experiment in order to improve search engine results”

WebProWorld poster Profilesite, “…they could spider once normally, and then use this second robot to compare the content and see if they were being tricked”

Google launch of Froogle UK DMNews.com | News | Article

DMNews.com | News | Article: "Google Inc. yesterday announced the launch of Froogle UK,"

Google’s New Update - Is Google Bombing You? anchor text

Anchor text is the "explanation" that pops-up when you put your cursor over a link.

I tested the "anchor text" theory with my site last week. I only tested one main page that I knew that Google would re-index within 48 hours. The results were very negative. As soon as the new information was indexed, the search engine results from that page dropped down dramatically.

Again, I removed the anchor text from the page and the results seem to gain momentum once again.

Page Rank Calculation

Page Rank Calculation: "Bob Walfer's pagerank calculation diagram"

Important points:
"PR5 might be just a bit over a PR4 (5,033) or it may be just a bit under a PR6 (27,213) "

Can:" determine how many links from a medium value PR6 page it will take to give you a PR5, a PR6, or a PR7"

MIS Web Design: A Survey of Google's PageRank: Additional Factors Influencing PageRank

MIS Web Design: A Survey of Google's PageRank: Additional Factors Influencing PageRank: "A Survey of Google's PageRank: Additional Factors Influencing PageRank" based on papers by Lawrence Page and Sergey Brin during studentship at Stanford.

So does not take into account any additional changes since that time.

PR 10 Sites - PR10 List

PR 10 Sites - PR10 List: "This PR 10 Sites page is a list of all the PR10 sites that have a Pagerank of 10."

Page Rank Update List History - PageRank - PR

Page Rank Update List History - PageRank - PR: "This Page Rank Update List History contains the dates that Google Toolbar Pagerank (PR) was updated."

Cre8asite forums. Google - 37 PR10 Pages Drop to PR9's. [ Search Engine Optimization, Usability and Web Design. ]

Great bit of Google tracking Cre8asite forums. Google - 37 PR10 Pages Drop to PR9's. [ Search Engine Optimization, Usability and Web Design. ]: "Google > 37 PR10 Pages Drop to PR9's"

Google SMS

Google SMS beta

Google tests bookselling service

Google tests bookselling service: "Google's emergence as a bookselling middleman "