I would first like to apologize for missing last week’s entry, I won’t make any excuses but my dog ate my notes. Hmm…Wasn’t funny.
Soon after the last update here on April 5th, Google had its own update on April 7th, which was a bit of a surprise for many. In fact, the day after, I reported on how Google can’t even control its own search engine – now that is a real shocker. Yahoo! went soul searching only to find itself as Life Engine, something which kind of scares me. That not all that scares me, ISPs began blocking GMail emails, which drummed up a lot more controversy between O’Reilly and Yahoo!, plus the US government even joined in.
Besides for all the talks about PageRank and links, there was discussion on trademark issues and fraud issues with Google AdWords & AdSense.
Finally there were several brand new packages that came out over the past week or so. First is the launch of Amazon’s A9 Search Engine, a 3-D Search Engine, a paper on named Web Spam Taxonomy, and a new design for the Search Engine Roundtable.
Nice links, Rusty.
That new look at the round table is pretty sharp, too.
Comment by Bill — April 19, 2004 @ 9:47 pm
Thank you Bill.
I appreciate all the help from the Cre8asite Network during the development process.
You guys made a huge impact.
Comment by rustybrick — April 20, 2004 @ 9:03 am
A pleasure, as always. The [URL=http://www.erisfree.com/]developer[/url] did an outstanding job.
Comment by Bill — April 20, 2004 @ 5:29 pm
Yes she did, as I said in [URL=http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/000343.html]this entry[/url]. I did not know you allowed HTML in comments.
Comment by rustybrick — April 20, 2004 @ 5:36 pm
Yep.
We have HTML in comments right now. It helps when you want to [b]bold[/b], or [i]italicize[/i] or link or whatever. It is something we’ve thought about the benefits and risks of, and decided to risk it.
She did such a nice job that I thought I’d link to her site again, just because.
Comment by Bill Slawski — April 20, 2004 @ 6:17 pm