Google vs AFP lawsuit may end search engines and blogging as we know it

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AFP challenges search engines in Google
lawsuit

AFP challenges search engines in Google
lawsuit 03/24/2005 04:19 AM
Business Report Mar 24 2005 8:09AM GMT

Google, Yahoo! rev up search engines

Google, Yahoo! rev up search engines 02/18/2004 12:05 PM
CFCN Plus Feb 18 2004 3:09PM GMT

Google, Yahoo! Revving Up Search Engines
(AP)

Google, Yahoo! Revving Up Search Engines
(AP) 02/18/2004 09:28 AM
AP - Google Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. are revving up their online search engines as the once-friendly business partners shift gears and prepare for what promises to be a fierce rivalry.

Virus overwhelms Google, 3 other search
engines

Virus overwhelms Google, 3 other search
engines 07/29/2004 06:36 AM
Content.sina.com - Thu Jul 29, 08:20 am GMT

Worm clogs Google, search engines

Worm clogs Google, search engines 07/27/2004 07:44 AM
ZDNet Jul 27 2004 11:53AM GMT

Google, Yahoo! Revving Up Search Engines

Google, Yahoo! Revving Up Search Engines 02/18/2004 05:07 AM
AP via The Ledger Feb 18 2004 9:34AM GMT

Worm slams Google, search engines

Worm slams Google, search engines 07/27/2004 09:22 AM
ZDNet Jul 27 2004 12:15PM GMT

Virus overwhelms Google, three other
search engines

Virus overwhelms Google, three other
search engines 07/30/2004 01:29 AM
Content.sina.com - Thu Jul 29, 08:22 pm GMT

Virus Overwhelms Google, 3 Other Search
Engines (washingtonpost.com)

Virus Overwhelms Google, 3 Other Search
Engines (washingtonpost.com) 07/27/2004 12:35 AM
washingtonpost.com - Many computer users were unable to reach the Google, Yahoo, Lycos and AltaVista search engines yesterday after a new computer virus surfaced that apparently overwhelmed the Internet services with automated queries.

Google counters search-fix lawsuit

Google counters search-fix lawsuit 01/13/2003 03:51 AM
Google has moved to quash a lawsuit that alleges the company manipulated search query results, according to a court filing. The ...

New computer virus disrupts search
engines including Google and Yahoo

New computer virus disrupts search
engines including Google and Yahoo 07/26/2004 09:35 PM
CNEWS Jul 27 2004 1:49AM GMT

Google moves to quash search-fix lawsuit

Google moves to quash search-fix lawsuit 01/13/2003 09:56 AM
Google has moved to quash a lawsuit that alleges the company manipulated search query results, according to a court filing. The ...

Google Fights Lawsuit Over Search
Results

Google Fights Lawsuit Over Search
Results 01/14/2003 12:26 PM
In a case that underscores the increasing importance search rankings have on business, Google Technologies is fighting to dismiss a lawsuit claiming that it ...

Google response to search - fixing
lawsuit attacked

Google response to search - fixing
lawsuit attacked 01/15/2003 11:50 AM
Google recently asked a US court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by web host and search engine SearchKing, claiming that Google deliberately made changes to its ...

Google fighting lawsuit over lowered
search rankings

Google fighting lawsuit over lowered
search rankings 01/13/2003 05:05 PM
By Scarlet Pruitt, IDG News Service. In a case that underscores the increasing importance Internet search rankings have on business, Google Inc. ...

Search Engines: A Mixed Bag: A Review of
Some New Search Engines

Search Engines: A Mixed Bag: A Review of
Some New Search Engines 08/04/2004 06:17 AM
Search Engines: A Mixed Bag: A Review of Some New Search Engines by Phil Bradley
http://www.ari adne.ac.uk/issue40/search-engines/

People are of course aware that Google isn't the only search engine out there, by any manner or means, and although many people regard it as the biggest and the best, this certainly isn't the case for those organisations who decide that they want a share of the search engine market. Phil Bradley looks at some of the new search engines that have appeared, and will see how many of them make the grade. Reviewed are:

Euroclips: The Definitive European Directory

YouSearched: The Accessible Web Search

Ujiko

A9

When Search Engines Become Answer
Engines (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

When Search Engines Become Answer
Engines (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox) 08/18/2004 10:40 AM
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When Search Engines Become Answer
Engines

When Search Engines Become Answer
Engines 08/17/2004 01:20 PM
Source: useit.com - The website is becoming a less prominent locus of experience as people use search engines to bring up answers to their current questions. How can sites cope with masses of freeloaders?...

Google Video Upload Program - Video
Search or Blogging?

Google Video Upload Program - Video
Search or Blogging? 04/13/2005 10:55 PM
Search Engine Journal Apr 14 2005 3:20AM GMT

Access 90 Search Engines’ Results With
Firefox’s Search Box

Access 90 Search Engines’ Results With
Firefox’s Search Box 03/17/2005 03:02 AM
TurboScout.com launches a Firefox extension which empowers over 27 million Firefox users to access original results from more than 90 search engines with just a click. [PRWEB Mar 17, 2005]

"About Search
Engines:HypertextNode:WebTech Search:"

"About Search
Engines:HypertextNode:WebTech Search:" 12/15/2003 10:29 PM

Apple's Shameful Lawsuit Against Its
Blogging Fans

Apple's Shameful Lawsuit Against Its
Blogging Fans 03/22/2005 03:15 PM
“A California judge ruled on Friday that Apple Computer could force bloggers to turn over e-mails from their sources inside the company, which leaked sensitive information about Apple’s new products.” My, my, how things have changed. Apple used to be known as the cutting razor edge of technology. Early incarnations like the Apple II, the Lisa, and the Apple III sparked lots of consumer interest, certainly enough to make for black entries in the books….

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great web searching tool, free download,
cool search web, search the web, google
web search, web search engine

great web searching tool, free download,
cool search web, search the web, google
web search, web search engine 06/20/2004 03:27 AM
Re-Search is a new product that you can load it on your desktop. Of course it is totally free. Search the web became easy, fast and effectively! [PRWEB Jun 20, 2004]

Top 10 Search Engines

Top 10 Search Engines 05/29/2004 07:36 PM
netforbeginners.about.com-13 hours ago ... and employing 50,000 volunteer experts as editors, the ODP (DMOZ.org) has about 4 million links in its database -- less than a tenth of 1% of Google's database. ...

What's New at the Search Engines

What's New at the Search Engines 07/21/2004 09:07 AM
Source: SearchDay - Representatives of Yahoo, Google, Ask Jeeves and Looksmart offer an inside glimpse of recent developments at the major search engines....

War of the search engines

War of the search engines 11/02/2003 07:38 PM
Microsft's failed attempt to buy Google is another sign of the growing popularity of the privately-owned king of search engines. ...

3-D Search Engines

3-D Search Engines 04/16/2004 11:45 AM

Researchers develop 3-D search engine: Are their search engines that match pictures? If I had, say, a picture of a certain building (with NO metadata), could a search engine find me pictures that looked the same? That'd be nifty.

...computing researchers have developed new search engines that can mine catalogs of three-dimensional objects, like airplane parts or architectural features.

All the users have to do is sketch what they're thinking of, and the search engines can produce comparable objects.

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Search Engines Know More Than You Think

Search Engines Know More Than You Think 06/05/2005 11:58 PM

More search engines?

More search engines? 09/26/2004 08:34 PM
NetNewsWire’s search engine subscriptions feature works with Blogdigger, Daypop, and Feedster.

These search engines work with NetNewsWire because they return feeds (RSS, in this case) that NetNewsWire can read. Are there other search engines that return RSS or Atom feeds? It would be cool to add more.

Search Engines 201

Search Engines 201 09/13/2004 04:17 PM
Source: SearchDay - Want to dive deep -- really deep -- into the technical literature about search engines? Here's a road map to some of the best web information retrieval resources available online....

Search Engines 2

Search Engines 2 09/11/2004 07:07 AM
Search Engines 2
http://www.search-engines-2.co m/

Looking for a search engine or web directory? Search Engines 2 offers over 12,500 links to local, regional, national, and foreign internet search engines, web directories, pay per click search engines and meta search engines, many of which accept free/paid web site submissions and advertising. Nice site by Michael Wong. This has been added to the tool section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This will be added to the search engines section of all 2004-05 Internet MiniGuides.

Blogging for Profits- Triple Your Google
Adsense or Searchfeed Profits With This
Powerful New Blogging Tool From Blog
Burner

Blogging for Profits- Triple Your Google
Adsense or Searchfeed Profits With This
Powerful New Blogging Tool From Blog
Burner 02/01/2005 09:17 PM
Powerful new blogging tool helps any web site no matter how small or large get search engine listed and indexed within days automatically. Turn any blog into a profitable niche that you can duplicate over and over again while tripling your Google Adsense or Searchfeed ad sharing profits. [PRWEB Jan 31, 2005]

Search Engines Likely Have Your Number

Search Engines Likely Have Your Number 01/05/2004 08:02 PM
CHICAGO -- There's a growing search engine apprehension stemming from popular tools like "Google," which are bringing privacy concerns to the forefront. ...

Bookmarks Seen by Search Engines?

Bookmarks Seen by Search Engines? 04/07/2005 03:29 PM

Blog Search Engines

Blog Search Engines 01/04/2004 12:22 AM

Big List of Blog Search Engines: If the only blog search engine you know of is Feedster, then you need to look at this list.

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Look What The Search Engines Dragged In!

Look What The Search Engines Dragged In! 04/15/2005 03:49 PM
A month ago, we had a post called Naked Women And Wireless Security, which I started out by noting: "Yes, I'm a bit worried about what kind of people will find this post via Google in a few days..." Apparently, I was right to be worried. Someone posted a comment saying that we were the #2 result on Google for naked women (we're number 4 as of this posting). In checking over Techdirt's traffic logs, we realized that we were getting a lot of traffic from that search... and also from MSN where it turns out we're (as of this posting) the number one search for nake d women.

As a few of us here were chuckling over the somewhat random influx of confused search engine driven visitors, someone dropped us a bit of feedback reminding us of an old post where we mentioned the various oddities we saw in people who found specific stories via Google, and asked us to revisit the subject. Like many sites, obviously, we get a fair amount of traffic from search engines (mainly Google) on completely random searches. Many of the people who visit are (I assume) well meaning -- but confused to the nature of what they've stumbled on. Perhaps it's an interface issue on our part, but the ensuing comments and conversations are often amusing.

The all time record holder, which keeps getting updated is this conversation (mostly of people who are not well meaning) from 1999 on someone who was stealing AOL passwords. It appears that somewhere (no idea where) there's a search that people are doing on how to steal AOL passwords, and they're driven to this particular posting -- which now has a ridiculously long comment thread from clueless folks trying to break into AOL accounts, and a bunch of scammers trying to steal their AOL passwords back. Then, there's the VPR Matrix support thread. When Best Buy announced their own computer line under the VPR Matrix brand name, we were skeptical. However, our post made it to Google, and people apparently began to think that it was the VPR Matrix support/fan forums. We also had a brief claim to fame in 1999 when the first news was leaked that CBS was going to have a show called Survivor. For a while, we were the top result on Lycos (which was still popular then) for "CBS Survivor" leading people to try to get on the show by posting comments right here at Techdirt. Another popular one (and I don't know how people are finding this one) is a story we had from 2000 about some random dot com millionaire who planned to give away millions to educational causes in Central America. For some reason, people who are down and out on their luck have found this page and continually comment (there were two comments yesterday, even) begging for money from this guy -- as if he was reading the forum. This particular posting has also resulted in a number of random emails (no explanation included) to Techdirt's feedback line, explaining horrible life stories and begging for money. While we'd love to help people out, we're not dot com millionaires, and aren't really in a position to make much of a difference.

Anyway, this is all a nice little reminder that the various search engines are still far from perfect when it comes to understanding what people are really searching for. In the meantime though, it provides us a bit of amusement, as we ponder what people searching for porn must think as they stumble upon Techdirt.

ODP, The Mother of All Search Engines

ODP, The Mother of All Search Engines 07/22/2002 07:41 AM
Every new search engine that comes along, starts with the ODP as a seed database. Teoma, WiseNut, Google, Inktomi, Fast, Altavista, and hundreds of other ses have used the ODP to influence or seed databases.

Manipulating Search Engines

Manipulating Search Engines 03/19/2005 02:23 AM

Wired has a great article online about Greg Boser who gets paid to make your website rank higher in the search engine results. We all know that it’s not as easy to change rankings as it was 10 years ago, but it still can be done. He get’s most of his clients through speaking engagements and gets paid on the results he gets. As he says in the article, “We make lot more money doing this.” here is some of the comments about search engines and manipulating them he had to say…

 "I could create a blank page without a keyword anywhere present, or a 404 error message, and if I can get enough sites to link to it, I could get it to place first on Google," Boser said. But it's not just quantity, it's quality. Theoretically, Boser could have five inbound links and end up as the No. 1 result -- provided they originated from mega sites like Yahoo and MSN. Barring that, 5,000 links from cheesy guest books, online diaries, blogs, zany products, porn sites and anyone who honors link exchanges might do the trick…  There are other techniques designed to fool search engines. One consists of cloaking pages by hiding text in website backgrounds in a way that users won't see but that targets Google's ranking technology. Another method is link spam, aka "blog comment spam," in which automated bots plaster ads with return links on the comments pages of blogs. Most common are ads for pills, porn and casinos. Finally, there is "search spam," which are machine-generated pages designed to appear in the engines to attract traffic (and ultimately increase revenue).

What’s The Deal With "Other" PPC Search
Engines?

What’s The Deal With "Other" PPC Search
Engines? 03/14/2005 06:29 PM

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