SEO Updates Search for Unique Search Engines 
Recently, I pointed you to an in-depth list of alternative search engines besides the big names that get most of our curious clicks. Well, Charles Knight, the search engine optimizer who compiled the list, has updated it again. His revised list is worth checking out, just to see how many viable and unique search engines are out there waiting to find us information. Knight says he likens …

Google Wooing Politicians - and Their Ad Money
MarketingVOX - Google spoke to about 80 consultants about how its products, from the core search engine to YouTube, can be used to court votes and opinion. The pitch was given by by members of Google’s newly formed political sales team. (YouTube has a track record

Microsoft Tracks Down Mass Fake Web Pages 
An anonymous reader writes “According to an article on New York Times, Microsoft researchers have discovered tens of thousands of junk Web pages, created only to lure search-engine users to advertisements. While most of us have run across them from time to time, the company researchers have found the pages are deliberately generated in vast numbers by a small group of shadowy operators. By …

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Lenovo Computers to Use Microsoft Search
Associated Press - Users are free to change the default settings to use Google or another search engine, but many don’t bother. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Leading computer maker Hewlett-Packard Co. has a deal with Yahoo, while No. 2 Dell Inc. has a

Internet Marketing SEO Advertising Blossoms
Israel News Agency - All you need to do is perform a search on Google for the word SEO. Google ranks its own advice to global Webmasters and SEO professionals in second place. I believe that it is only in second place just to assure us that they are being objective.

Highlights from the SEW Blog: Mar. 5, 2007 
Featured posts to the Search Engine Watch blog in the past week, along with recent search-related headlines from around the Web.

In Gmail we trust
Badger Herald - Arizona State University announced a partnership with Google last semester that allows Gmail, the search engine giant s fabulous e-mail service, to host the school s 65,000 student accounts. Students keep the @asu.edu address but lose the nasty

Internet Marketing SEO Advertising Blossoms
Israel News Agency - All you need to do is perform a search on Google for the word SEO. Google ranks its own advice to global Webmasters and SEO professionals in second place. I believe that it is only in second place just to assure us that they are being objective.

Sweet Talking The Searcher In One Second Or Less 
You have four seconds to get your site loaded and about one-twentieth of a second to impress the visitor before she flits on like an attention-deficient hummingbird. But before that, you have about one second, in the search results, to get her attention in the first place. And just like the tentative beginnings of most romances, it’s all about what you say, how you look, and where you live. …