Loren from Search Engine Journal just realised that with 230.000 backlinks and thousands of Google indexed pages, Microsoft’s LIVE decided that it doesn’t have room for SEJ.
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Microsoft, Google and Yahoo! unite to support Sitemaps
Ken Moss, General Manager, Live Search announced:
Today, we are excited to announce that Google, Microsoft and Yahoo! are coming together in support of the SiteMaps protocol. The goal of this effort is to improve search results for customers around the world. This protocol enables site owners everywhere to tell search engines about the content on their site instead of having to rely solely on crawl algorithms to find it.
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Third Quarter 2006 Results for the big boys
So each one released their earnings for the third quarter of 2006:
Google Announces Third Quarter 2006 Results
Google reported revenues of $2.69 billion for the quarter ended September 30, 2006, an increase of 70% compared to the third quarter of 2005 and an increase of 10% compared to the second quarter of 2006. Google reports its revenues, consistent with GAAP, on a gross basis without deducting traffic acquisition costs, or TAC. In the third quarter of 2006, TAC totaled $825 million, or 31% of advertising revenues.
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Fire that Microsoft webmaster please
I was reading Andy Edmonds’s post on Live realeasing a new search operator: LinkFromDomain. From there, I just went to the Live Gallery to read some news. I was surprised to see a Microsoft Code of Conduct link at the bottom (is there any such thing ?).
Have a look at the source code of that page:
So the generator is Word 2003, also known as Word 11.
I’m not saying that that’s not ok. That’s just WRONG.
Search engine trends in 2006
I was reading the June 2006 comScore Search Engine Rankings and Nielsen releases (U.S. based studies) and I just can’t miss the fact that search engine traffic is on a steady inclinde year after year:
MSN tracks your package
MSN just implemented an easy way of searching and tracking your package sent or received trough FedEx, DHL, UPS, and USPS, worldwide.
Searching your DHL AWB (eg tracking number): DHL 9673140656, returnes a link to DHL’s website where you can monitor the details of the package.
MSN acts: DMOZ description in the search results gets optional
From the MSN Search Blog, we learn that with the current reports from webmasters (and DMOZ corruption and other points), they have decided to make the description of the websites in their serach results, optional.
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MSN adCenter is ON
So Microsoft has released MSN adCenter today. Go get some.
And Jen’s blogging on MSN’s intention to test contextual ads this summer too.
Microsoft to purchase Yahoo! stock
So is Microsoft really so afraid of Google ?