Significant Yahoo Update! reported around the forums,

Significant Yahoo search results update was reported in various forums, Yahoo seem to have fixed the 301 issue now.

Check the active thread discussion in webmasterworld.com

www.webmasterworld.com/forum35/3009.htm

An unrelated thread turning into a Google Bashing thread in webmasterworld.com

Recently when i was browsing through the webmasterworld.com thread I came across the thread where the integration of search in MSN messenger was discussed, This thread completely went in a wrong direction and turned into a google bashing thread, It is so weird to see the number of webmasters who hate google these days, Are they just webmasters or SEOs, I feel most of them are professional search engine optimizers frustrated on seeing their new sites and new links sandboxed and many of their quality optimized sites not ranking,

This seem to be a common hatred among SEOs these days towards google, I personally use google for all my needs and am happy with what google does for me,

Check that thread here,

www.webmasterworld.com/forum97/278-2-10.htm

Is it right that SEOs hate google, Is this what google want to achieve from their new mission of sandboxing sites, Please feel free to comment on this,

Yahoo Launches Video Search, yahoo search now introduces a new feature which enables people to search for videos

Yahoo has launched the new yahoo video search, where people can search for videos, This is what they say in their blog on how to make a video enter the yahoo video search engine,

When we started thinking about how to make it easier for anyone to expose video

and other rich media content, one of the first things we thought of was

podcasting and RSS. Podcasting uses RSS Enclosures to provide an audio file

along with a news item or blog posting in an RSS feed.

So rather than build

a completely new way to do this, we decided to see what it takes to make RSS

Enclosures work for video content as well: video enclosures. It’s not a new idea

but we think it’s one whose time has come.

At the most basic level, this is

just a matter of pointing to a video instead of an MP3 file.

Instead of

this:

You could use this:

For many publishers, that’s all

it takes. The beauty of this is that there’s existing infrastructure for

handling simple enclosures. Many RSS readers already consume enclosures just

fine.

In the very near future the Yahoo! Video Search crawler will support

indexing video enclosures in RSS feeds.

From yahoo Search blog here – www.ysearchblog.com/archives/000060.html

Backlink update, Another Notworthy update of backlinks in this datacenter http://216.239.59.99

Google has updated visible backlink data for sites again, Though it is not worth looking at the link: command any more, There are people who are willing to see it,

People who are interested can check this datacenter 216.239.59.99 for their new updated backlinks,

Yahoo to begin testing desktop search in January,

After their rivals google and msn launching desktop search, it seems yahoo is ready to jumpin too,

Yahoo is bound to launch its desktop search in the money of January, Reuteurs article says this,

Yahoo said on Thursday it will begin testing a free desktop search service in early January, following rivals hoping to extend the reach of wildly profitable search-related advertising.

Desktop search, which helps excavate information buried on computer hard drives, is seen as the next frontier in the booming search sector that has generated billions in revenues from ads generated by Web search queries.

More here, itweb.co.za/sections/internet/2004/0412130917.asp?S=Reuters&A=REU&O=FRGN

Darker side of exchanging links, bad link exchange tactics deployed by some sneaky webmasters discussed here,

this is a really interesting thread in webmasterworld.com about how people use bad tactics while exchanging links, check the thread here,

webmasterworld.com/forum12/2036.htm

Bad webmaster! Bad…

Delink your links page

Bury the link to your

links page on a single page that takes about five clicks to get to

robots.txt

Run your outbounds through your cgi-bin counter script

Another interesting beta search engine toolbar released,

MSN the new player in search engine has launched its beta version of their new toolbar, Check it out here, beta.toolbar.msn.com

Features of the new MSN toolbar beta includes,

1. Find anything on your computer Documents, photos, music and more!
2. Find e-mail messages in seconds From Microsoft Outlook or Outlook Express
3. Try the New MSN Search Search the web smarter and better
4. Block annoying pop-ups Surf without interruptions
5. Fill out forms online Fill out forms and web site passwords in one click

Search engine strategies conference coverage by seroundtable.com

Barry of seroundtable.com has an excellent coverage of the latest SES conference in chicago, It is very interesting to see the various discussions happening,

Please visit this site for more information on the various topics on this,

www.seroundtable.com

Mesothelioma keywords overture PPC ( pay per click bid ) reaches all time highest

mesothelioma is the highest Pay per click bid keyword that I know off, It used to go for excess of 75$ per click in overture, Now mesothelioma related keywords are going well beyond 100$, Before 2 months when I checked overture has a maximum bid limit of 100$,

No bidder can bid over 100$ for mesothelioma related keywords for Pay per click, Now it seems they changed the policy, I just checked overture bids tool for pay per click for mesothelioma and it has reached to 160$, That is one heck of a money for one click, It seems overture has released its new maximum bid limit policy and let people to increase it to 160$ 🙁

here is a screen shot of the maximum bid in overture for mesothelioma

Google launches google suggest beta- A great google addon feature

Google is testing beta version of their new wonderful product google suggest, google suggest helps people find relevant queries through a suggested search engine friendly drop down,

For example if you type google it will bring down relevant list of deep queries, for example words like google search, google suggest a site, google toolbar, google scholar etc,

it is a great product you can reach it here, google.com/webhp?hl=en&complete=1

Screen shot of the new google product google suggest