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Hello, I am Serge Thibodeau and I am a search engine optimization expert. My company is Rank for $ales and this is my personal search engine blog. This is where I give my personal comments, some general observations I make about the search industry as a whole, interesting SEO articles and topics that will interest anybody that owns a website and wants it to rank higher in the major search engines. This blog is updated daily and is said to be addictive. Welcome to Serge Thibodeau, Live. |
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My 2 featured articles for the week ending December 17: 
Is it really possible to be first?
The functioning of search engine robots
Blog and news archives for the week of Dec. 13, 2004 677 - December 17, 2004 - 2.35 PM EST Yahoo signs deal with Verity Yahoo sealed a deal with Verity today to develop technology that offers single-query search features across enterprise data and the Internet. The Verity Enterprise Web Search application will be available at no cost to Verity's enterprise customers. According to the firm, the product will allow users easily to extend the reach of their existing Verity K2 Enterprise and Verity Ultraseek-powered search system to the internet. Posted on Businessblog™ 676 - December 17, 2004 - 10.20 AM EST Google's Froogle now offering online reviews Google is integrating online reviews into its Froogle comparison shopping service, as well as aggregating ratings from all over the Internet. The Mountain View, Calif., company announces a beta of Froogle Product Reviews, which so far is limited to electronics products such as MP3 players and computers. Google also recently rolled out a feature within Froogle that is common on online shopping sites—the ability for users to store shopping lists and wish lists. Posted on Businessblog™ 675 - December 17, 2004 - 7.38 AM EST Microsoft wants to get ahead on search MSN vice president Yusuf Mehdi told a group of investors early this week that Microsoft is working overtime in trying to boost its share of Web searches, in view of strong competition by Google and Yahoo. With only 9.5 percent of search queries, Microsoft has long a road ahead as it endeavors to chip away at Google's 60 percent hold on the search market, Mehdi said. The conference for investors came one day after MSN's announcement that it was joining the desktop search arena with its MSN Toolbar Suite Beta. Posted on Businessblog™ 674 - December 16, 2004 - 7.08 PM EST Yahoo Maps adds traffic updates and reports On top of offering video clip searching, Yahoo now announces that it is also deploying a new service for monitoring traffic conditions using the Internet. Yahoo’s traffic update service lets users plan their daily travel routes around slowdowns like construction or perhaps even accidents. Yahoo users will soon be able to check their local traffic conditions from Yahoo Maps. Posted on Businessblog™ 673 - December 16, 2004 - 2.02 PM EST Searching online TV and video content? Blinkx launches a TV search engine that is able to scan online television and video content. The beta offering, dubbed Blinkx TV, captures and indexes video and audio streams directly from television and radio broadcasters to make available news, sports and entertainment clips, the company said. The engine lets people group specific searches using "smart folders" that continuously collect multimedia content from sources including Fox News, HBO, ESPN, National Public Radio and the BBC World Service. Blinkx said the search engine uses patented context clustering technology to overcome the limitations of simple keyword methods. Posted on Businessblog™ 672 - December 16, 2004 - 10.30 AM EST Yahoo lets people search for video clips Yahoo introduces a beta test site of its new video search engine. Yahoo Video Search will let people search for video clips from the Internet in pretty much the same way they do for Web pages and images. Major search providers like Google and Microsoft have already been preparing such a service. And in the past few months, the three companies have been at loggerheads vying for a share in the Web search space.
Posted on Businessblog™ 671 - December 15, 2004 - 7.21 PM EST Google wins Geico trademark lawsuit Google has won an important legal victory Wednesday when a federal judge determined that the search engine's advertising rules don't violate any federal trademark laws. U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema rejected a claim by insurance company Geico, which argued that Google should not be allowed to sell ads to rival insurance companies that appear whenever Geico's name is typed into the Google search box. Google derives a major portion of its revenues from selling ad space to businesses that bid on search terms - both generic words and names protected by trademark - used by people looking for information online about products and services. Posted on Businessblog™ 670 - December 15, 2004 - 1.55 PM EST Top 50 most-searched keywords in 2004 When Janet Jackson exposed her breast during the Super Bowl Halftime Show, it turned into the most-searched event in the history of the Internet. Janet Jackson held the number one spot on The Lycos 50 for only two weeks this year, but she generated more search activity in those two weeks than any other search topic, and easily wins the top search of 2004. On the day after Ms. Jackson's star-shaped nipple shield played peek-a-boo with the world, Jackson and the halftime show received 60 times as many searches as Paris Hilton and 80 times as many searches as Britney Spears.
Posted on Businessblog™ 669 - December 15, 2004 - 9.15 AM EST Google is helping librarians Google will scan books for the libraries of Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan, the New York Public Library and the University of Oxford so that users can search them in Google. Today’s announcement is an expansion of the Google Print program, which assists publishers in making books and other offline information searchable online. Google is now working with libraries to digitally scan books from their collections, and over time will integrate this content into the Google index, to make it searchable for users worldwide. Posted on Businessblog™ 668 - December 14, 2004 - 3.56 PM EST Is Desktop Search the new fad? Search engines, portals and browsers are trying to get off of the Internet and into your hard drives and emails. Here is a rundown of the latest desktop search devices which have hit the market and made a loud noise. MSN Desktop Search/Toolbar Suite - Microsoft has finally released a beta of their Desktop Search software. It is integrated with their Browser Toolbar set and is now labeled MSN Toolbar Suite Beta. Posted on Businessblog™ 667 - December 14, 2004 - 1.08 PM EST Search engine utilization on consumer buying comScore Networks releases the findings of a study revealing the impact of search engine utilization on online buying processes.
The study, which was sponsored by Overture, a division of Yahoo, analyzed the timing of search engine usage and the role of different search term categories in the shopping process among consumers searching for electronics and computer products. The comScore research studied the buying activity of Internet users who conducted a consumer electronics or computer (CE/C) search at one of the top 25 search engines in Q1 2004. Posted on Businessblog™ 666 - December 13, 2004 - 3.37 PM EST Crystal Semantics launches the Sense Engine David Crystal spent 3 years analysing about 100,000 words from the English dictionary and found approximately 2.5 meanings associated with each word. The professor of linguistics and chairman of UK-based internet search business Crystal Semantics has used this knowledge to build technology that has helped boost web search accuracy from 20 per cent to 95 per cent. Crystal, who is honorary professor of linguistics at the University of Wales, Bangor, has published more than 100 books and was responsible for compiling an encyclopaedia of facts and figures for Cambridge University Press in the early 1990s. Posted on Businessblog™ 665 - December 13, 2004 - 2.01 PM EST IBM wants to be king in corporate search technology IBM has been working on data retrieval and data storage software designed to greatly increase the speed in finding corporate information, along with the ability to access business documents scattered across their vast networks, according to Janet Perna, general manager of IBM's information management group.
IBM's new software, along with other information-retrieval products the company already has, underscores the company's shift out of low-cost hardware, notably PCs, and into higher-margin software and services. The move is meant to accelerate IBM's transition from a relational database company into a provider of a full range of information management software, Perna said. IBM's heavy investments in search signal the company's plans to move beyond its database roots into information management in general, as well as a companywide shift into software and services. Posted on Businessblog™ 664 - December 13, 2004 - 11.05 AM EST Google launches Google Suggest Google’s R&D labs launches Google Suggest, an enhanced version that tries to guess what you could be meaning or tries to better interpret the context in which your keyword or keyword phrase is used. The interesting thing is that it includes search counts with these suggestions. It’s available at http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en As you start typing in your search temrs, a drop-down window will show you possible searches for what you’re typing. I started typing in Elvis and got listings for Elvis Presley, Elvis, Elvis Costello, and even misspellings (Elvis Presly). To the right of the suggestions are the result counts for each item. Posted on Businessblog™  Sponsored by Hébergement de sites Web au Québec Sponsored by Canadian Local Search Engine Sponsored by Starflix Sponsored by Marketing Trends.org Sponsered by Brazilian Web Hosting.com Sponsered by Internet Trends.org Sponsered by SEO Radar Hosted by Sun Hosting Sponsered by Web Hosting Review Guide Protected by Proxy Sentinel™ Traffic stats by Site Clicks™ Driven by escalate Sponsered by Blog Hosting.ca Serge Thibodeau Live is listed in Global Business Listing This blogging site was designed by GCIS Graphics and logo done by Montreal Web Design Blogging software provided by Businessblog Developed on the Web Services™ development platform Serge Thibodeau, Live is a GCIS Web property Partner: Internet Search Engine News.com Sponsor: Link Rent Sponsor: Press Broadcast.ca Sponsor: Avantex Sponsor: Internet Services Broker Sponsor: B. Price W. H. Sponsor: Wholesale W. H. Sponsor: Canada Web Hosting Sponsor: Tech Blog Sponsor: Bloggers.ca Copyright © Serge Thibodeau 2004. All rights reserved. All views and opinions expressed on this blog are those of Serge Thibodeau only and are not representative of any company listed. All slogans, trademarks, text or logo representation used or referred to on this blog are the property of their respective owners. | ||||||
