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Click Fraud Takes A Break

Figures from Click Forensics showed a decline in click fraud rates for the first quarter of 2008, although they were higher year over year.

The Return of Google's WHOIS Feature

Google had launched an application in January 2004 called WHOIS, that was later withdrawn. However, now according to Matt Cutts, the WHOIS feature has been released again. By entering a simplistic web address such as whois google.com, a user would be able to know the creation and the expiration date of the domain.

Ask.com Search Engine - A Brief History

As of this writing, there are five top Internet search engines: Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, and Ask.com, and while Google and Yahoo! get a lot of the press (particularly lately), the Ask.com search engine is a rather interesting engine that deserves a closer look. This article will cover some of the highlights in its 12-year history, from its start as Ask Jeeves to its innovations, as well as the most recent developments behind the scenes.The Beginning

A Hundred Grand for Building a Search Engine

Singapore has launched a contest for developing a next-generation multi-media online search engine. The contest has allowed for eight months time to build the engine and the reward is a 100,000 US dollar cash prize, as has been reported at Physorg.

Internal and External Linking Values

Wiep Knol put together a fantastic document on internal and external linking values.

How Meta Commands Can Help You Love Spiders

Nearly all search engines utilize spiders (which are also known by their original name, robots) to go out and scour the web looking for web pages. These search engine spiders then bring the data back to be indexed by the engine.

Building Your Own Local Search Engine

Quite a few bloggers out there have clued-in to how using Eurekster’s Swickis on their blogs can be a cool feature enhancement, providing custom thematic search engines for their users.

Google Not Guaranteed Top Spot Forever

Anyone who’s seen Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds” has realized that lots of little creatures can constitute an extremely dangerous force.  And as Halloween approaches, we have to ask: does Google, with its many competitors, have anything to be worried about?

Google's Paid Search vs. Organic Results - A Rickety Wall of Separation

"Chinese Wall - The ethical (not physical) barrier between different divisions of a financial (or other) institution to avoid conflict of interest…" Investopedia.com "While Google never sells better ranking in our search results, several other search engines combine pay-per-click or pay-for-inclusion results with their regular web search results." Google's Webmaster Help Center FAQ

Facebook Opening You To Google

Users of Facebook will have their profiles indexed by the likes of Google and Yahoo unless they opt to keep their listings from appearing in search engines.