NEWS FLASH – Google to Add News to Main Search Results

In a recent update to the Search Engine Land blog, Chris Sherman announced that Google will be mingling the latest news headlines into the main body of search engine results; wherever searches appear relevant to the news. According to Marissa Mayer, VP of search...

Yahoo! Slurp Gets a New Home

Today Yahoo posted news that its search engine spider, Slurp will now resolve from a different domain: crawl.yahoo.net. So what does this mean to you? Likely nothing unless you have some custom access filters setup for spiders. Priyank Garg of Yahoo noted that...

Weighing-in on Search Engines and Flash

Danny Sullivan wrote an article today describing Flash optimization and how it is unlikely that Flash will be a completely spiderable medium anytime soon. The article is sobering for those of us who were hoping for a 100% optimizable version of Flash, but at the same...

Who Sees Your Ranking If You Are Not in the Top 10?

Courtesy of JupiterResearch and iProspect, this chart provides a glimpse of the number of search engine results surfers will review before choosing their path. As an admitted stats junky I really enjoy this kind of data. I hope you find it enlightening as well. It may...