2006

How often did I have to read the word Google-challenger or -conquerer over the last few years where the project behind the...

Adam Lasnik wrote a few tips about the handling of duplicate content in Webmaster Centrals Googleblog. Google is recommending...

Sadly, for some countries, the ratio of wanted to unwanted traffic is so bad, that you decide on blocking all traffic from...

Thanks to a cooperation with the registrars GoDaddy and eNorm, Google is now also selling domains. At the moment this service...

One question that often comes up in forums is how you can cleanly block complete IP-areas already in the webserver. Since...

It seems that the AOL-admins are finally done with the evaluation of the AOL-data which opens up time to deal with the DMoz-hardwareproblem....

Today I received the Web2.0-poster that I ordered from eboy. All the hyped important Companies from the new Internet are...

Danny Sullivan, until now, the man behind Search Engine Watch, is ending his activities there and is now continuing to write...

In a way this is a product of garbage that I had from another evaluation, this list shows the IP-addresses which are used...

The editorservers for the project are already offline for more than a month now, since 10.20. Besides the notice that a temporary...

Google, Yahoo and Microsoft have agreed on a standardized Sitemaps-protocol. Microsoft is still taking some time while Google...

I just stumbled upon the announcement for the Google Custom Search Engine. Based on Google Co-op, everyone can build his...

For a few days now, Google is offering a crawl rate column in their Webmaster Tools. The top part of the page shows pages,...

Google went for it: The searchengine bought the videohoster YouTube for 1,65 Billion USD. YouTube, who only opened its doors...

Cidr Hosts Netrange 209.85.128.0/17 32766 209.85.128.1 – 209.85.255.254 72.14.192.0/18 16382 72.14.192.1 – 72.14.255.254...

With suchradar (search radar), the Bloofusion Germany GmbH is offering a PDF-magazine on the topic of searchenginemarketing....

Google started an alternative to the Open-Source-Hosting of SourceForge.net, which had been a speculation for a while. Those...

Google unlocked a reporting for fraudulent clicks in AdWords. According to the FAQ, the customer can view the number as well...

The Axel Springer AG is taking over 74,9 percent of the price-comparison-site Idealo. Founded in 2000, the service will keep...

Google’s net gain has nearly doubled from 342,8 million USD in April to 721,1 million USD in June. Google’s gross...

Kinderstart.com, a portal, which wanted to take Google to court because Google lowered the sites PageRank to 0 has failed...

Today and tomorrow, Munich will once again hold 2 SEO-events. Tonight WebmastersOnTheRoof, tomorrow starting at 3pm the OMTalk-regulars’...

Google is playing the dice once again for their little green bar. A preview for this can be found at SEOChat for example...

In a press release, Yahoo announced that they are going to replace the advertising-platform of Overture which is getting...

Drunkmenworkhere.org just published the evaluation of an interesting experiment. Over the timespan of one year, they put...

PCTipp has conducted an interview with the head of the development center in Zurich that is worth a read. The topics that...

Microsoft’s AdWords-competitor adCenter has gone live in the USA after tests in Singapore and France. Great Britain...

As reported by ThomasB on the OmTalk-forum, Google has finally started Google Maps for Europe. The new data-material is already...

What had already been assumed for a few days has now been confirmed by Matt Cutts in his blog: lately Google is using an...

Google finished the third version of their desktop-fulltextsearch. They are indexing PDF-, HTML- and textfiles, MS-office-documents...

ClickFraudIndex.com is offering free public statistics and evaluations about clickfraud. Sadly they do not specifically mention...

The rumors about Google Travel are shooting back up again because at the moment, Google is looking for a Senior Account Executive,...

While taking a look at the logfiles for a FTP-server I noticed that the Googlebot (recently?) is also interested in FTP-servers...

Paul Flaherty, founder of the first searchengine AltaVista, has passed away at the age of 42 due to a heartattack. The searchengine...

A patent that was submitted by a Google-employee last week shows that Google is planning to planning WLAN-access-point-attuned...

The Google Finance Beta is exactly what one could have expected. Seems like someone did not feel like working on interesting...

In the blog of the Skytec AG, employees of the firm are blogging about technical possibilities and developments. Seeing how...

T-Info put their own version of a local searchengine online with suchen.de. The site is based on Neomo‘s technology....

The registration to the OMTalk regulars’-table on April 1st in Munich is now open. I will be there and I would be delighted...

The first screenshots for Google’s new online-calendar can be found over at TechCrunch. Like GMail, the application...

Having gained publicity through his appearance on TVTotal, it seems there are news about Jerome Suckrow. The Berliner Zeitung...

Benjamin Edelman wrote down a few interesting discoveries on the topic of how spyware is being distributed through searchengines....

Google is offering a tool though Google Sitemaps that checks the robots.txt. After reading out the file, the tool will display...

Google has reinstated the sites of BMW and ricoh back into the index after a few days and a gigantic media-echo. Matt Cutts...

Christoph Schneegans is giving some tips on how to avoid duplicate content: Canonical Addresses

After the harsh crackdown on doorwaypages at automobile.de, Google has removed bmw.de from the index. Even though it was...

Web.de announced to start a local search for restaurants, hotels, etc. just in time for this years CeBit. The database will...

After the markets closed yesterday, Google published their numbers for the fourth quarter of 2005 and at the same time their...

Today, Google’s AdSense-Blog is giving out tips for the integration of AdSense-advertisement in blogs. These tips are...

Since yesterday, Internet Explorer users can download a betaversion of Google’s toolbar version 4. One of the most...

JenSense is reporting that the AdSense payout-ratio is supposed to be about 78,5 percent, meaning 78,5 cent per Euro of sales....