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Ouch that’s got to hurt!

Quote taken stright form the wiredblog:

Answers.com CEO Bob Rosenschein revealed this week that his site lost 28% of its traffic in a week, thanks to a change in Google’s indexing algorithms. That news should send a shiver down the spine of anyone who depends on the search engine for traffic and revenue.

The wired blog post includes graphs of the drop in alexa and technorita..

More info here:

http://blog.wired.com/business/2007/08/google-giveth-g.html

Could its be the selling of text links ? hmmm …

Maybe the use of yahoo answers or just taking copy from wiki hmm who knows…

Just read this great post started by tedster over at wmw forums

Here a few quote from what he’s writen in regards to missconceptions (and a drinking quote from George Orwell)

1. Page Rank is not Ranking

2. Site has no technical definition

3. Page has no technical definition

Really like this one.. Such a bad habit (I always say tag tut tut )

4. alt is an attribute, and not a tag

5. title is either an attribute or an element

And so on …

 Bit of fun on a Monday morning ..

Read the rest here:

http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/3208794.htm  

Full report over @ beeb but is google msn etc.. Going to do anything about it ?

Most fraud is via phishing email so google/msn can’t do anything about that but serp warning and toolbar would be great

 IE7 now has a phishing site alerts which is a step in the right direction..

 This quote is one of the most BS

Rob Gruppetta, of the FSA’s financial crime team, said “phishing” was growing rapidly in the UK.

“We are very concerned about the rate of increase. It has gone up by 8,000% in the past two years.

“But in the grand scheme of total fraud it is still quite small.”

Read the rest :

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6177555.stm

So how many search engines can you spot ..

Buy / see its large here : 

http://hello.eboy.com/eboy/product-detail/?token=FOO&pic=0

Good on the search engines…

I always feel a bit warmer inside knowing that the SE offer some love to good causes..

Google homepage:

Ask:

Yahoo.. Cool little animated flash file.. I’ll try and find the file in a bit but here the screen shot:

Nothing on msn / dogpile as yet…

A bit of fun here..

I just read a programers blog who’d search the “php sucks” etc.. and found how many results had related as a public opinion..

This is just for fun and course is mainly forums..

so here we go

google is the worst search engine returned 33

Yahoo is the worst search engine 4

msn is the worst search engine 4

ask is the worst search engine 7

So google is the worst lol.. .BTW i’m using google for these results as I feel google is the best imho

So who is the best then ??

Yep thats right a mammoth..

Full size Mammoth !!!

And This Mammoth was in central London

(how many more times can I get Mammoth into this post ?)

Here some pic’s…

He’s a big Mammoth.. !!!

So what the hell has a “mammoth in London” got to do with seo..

Well it took 10seconds to find….. you guessed it a search engine by the name of mammoth!!

The search engine is about is good as the mammoth as it dosen’t seem to work.. ?

http://www.mammothsearch.com/cgi-bin/smartsearch/smartsearch.cgi?keywords=the&username=

 enjoy

This quote is taken from SERT and a great write up by barry  from pubcon on yesterday

Aaron Shear from Shopping.com is next up, he did not have a presentation, but took the podium. He explains that highly trafficked sites that use load balancing can often run into problems with bad URL structures, with numerous URL “nodes.” He said if your site performs very slowly, it normally wont do well in Google. He said focusing on the long tail is very difficult to make sure all those pages are fully indexed. If you have to click 30 clicks deep to get to a product, it is not good user experience, and Google will see that. He said, consider inserting multiple navigational paths to get to the same product or landing page. A good approach is to sell the optimization as a giant needle mover for the company, but make sure the engineers get credit for it, will make them work harder, quicker and more for your department.

The depth is a very good point and i’m often playing around with nav’s doing tests and I really agrree .. google see the depth as a score!.

 Cheers barry keep them coming

Read the full article here: http://www.seroundtable.com/archives/006704.html 

Well if you don’t know archive.org you will now!

 (Archive.org is and archive of the web and much more)

So I’ve gone a taken a screen shot of yahoo msn ask and of course google..

Here are the results:

Yahoo.com Oct 17, 1996 See for yourself: http://web.archive.org/web/19961017235908/http://www2.yahoo.com/

Msn.com Oct 22, 1996  see for yourself : http://web.archive.org/web/19961022175327/http://msn.com/

Live.com Feb 11, 1998 (bit of a joke as this wasn’t msn.. I wonder how much msn payed)
See for yourself : http://web.archive.org/web/19980211191652/http://www.live.com/

Ask.com (the images don’t seem to work ) see for yourself: http://web.archive.org/web/19981212022913/http://www.ask.com/

Last but not least google.com Dec 02, 1998 see for yourself: ttp://web.archive.org/web/19981202230410/http://www.google.com/

Who knows.. Would be nice to see a competitor again the like of yello

Anyway last week truelocal.ca luanched .. Look like the .com and acts like it..

Great site imho..

 As its monday I thought I’d do something silly and have a play so this is what i’ve come up with..

www.truelocal.co.uk