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Friday, August 27, 2004

Significant traffic change reported by WMW guys,

Recently a lot of webmasters in WMW forums reported a significant loss of trafffic from google, Also they faced major drop in keyword rankings, Here is a brief post by a guy who started that thread,

Possible reasons speculated by the poster:

1. Are they affiliate sites with many links to the affilate host.
2. Do they have satelite domains which they cross link/one way link with sites particularly on the same ip c-block.
3. Are the drop in serps keyword specific or site wide.
4. Are some inbound links on mass from single domains. For example, a great number links from a footer link on a major site.
5. Have changes been made to keyword density recently.
6. Is there a distinction in ranking between major and minor terms.
7. Has there been any PR changes or backward link changes.

Read a long 5 page thread here (webmasterworld.com/forum3/25465.htm ) if you are interested,

Ask Jeeves Launches Japanese-Language Search

Ask Jeeves has launched a beta version of a new Japanese-language search engine. Based on the Emeryville-Calif. search vendor's Ask.com search portal, Ask.jp was developed by Ask Jeeves Japan Co. Ltd, a joint venture of Ask Jeeves and Japan-based transcosmos.
With the launch, Ask Jeeves joins Google and Yahoo as one of only three search portals in Japan that provide their own search technology.
Source: Yahoo News

MSN search revamp their service

Talking about efforts to revamp their MSN Search service, Microsoft executives point out that many people search the Web not for sites, per se, but rather for specific pieces of information, and answers to questions. That, they say, is the thinking behind the proposed Answerbot, one of three supplementary search services discussed during an MSN presentation at an online advertising conference earlier this year.
As explained at the time, the Answerbot service is still under development and much further away from launch than the other two services, Newsbot and Blogbot

Seekport european search engine takes on Google, Yahoo and other top search engine gaints

Google rules the world today but there is serious competition coming up for the search engine in European markets especially the non-English speaking ones. Not too happy with the US-centric search engines are the Germans and they are looking for alternatives that would be more relevant to them, says Ranjit Dhuru, chairman and CEO of Aftek Infosys. Source: financialexpress.com

Tuesday, August 24, 2004

Online Consumers Happiest With Google

In a study done recently google out ranks their rival Yahoo by a big margin,

INC.com reports -

Customer satisfaction in three areas of e-business jumped an aggregate 1.5 percent over the past year and 5.6 percent since 2002, according to the University of Michigan's American Customer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). Led by market leader and now public company Google, search engines garnered the highest average satisfaction levels in the e-business category, scoring an 80 out of 100, a 17.6 percent increase over the past two years, outdistancing the other two e-business subcategories: portals (71) and news and information sites (75).
"Google retains its status as the industry leader with a stellar score of 82, not surprising for a site that has entered the lexicon as a verb," said online satisfaction expert and study sponsor Larry Freed in a statement. "Google has not rested on its laurels, but instead has taken the stance of aggressive innovator."

Sunday, August 22, 2004

Yahoo's New Search Blog,

Yahoo the top rival for Google has launched a blog recently, it is really great to see both the top search players come out with a blog, Google Blog was launched before some days and now we have the yahoo blog,

visit Yahoo Blog here: http://www.ysearchblog.com