Learn SEO Directly from the Search Engines
News and information about search engines and directories on the Web, including patent filings and white papers
In a blog post on the Official Google Blog yesterday, Google’s Kent Walker, Senior Vice President & General Counsel, announced that Google had been bidding on Nortel’s remaining patent portfolio and Google’s bid was selected by Nortel as the “Stalking Horse Bid” in an auction that is tentatively scheduled to take place in June of … Read more
If you took a look at Google’s patent portfolio recently, you might ask yourself, “What kind of company is this?” Is it a search engine or a smartphone company, a memory module manufacturer or a server maker? Does this company own the rights to a weight loss patent titled, “Method Of Assaying Satiety Enhancing Tastants,” … Read more
Interested in what people were saying the day after Barack Obama was elected president in 2008? Or how people reacted on the Web to the Chicago Whitesox winning the World Series in 2005? Or the early news on the Gulf oil spill on April 20, 2010? When you search at Google, you can click on … Read more
You may be familiar with the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button that appears under the search box on Google’s home page. Enter a search query into the search box, and click on the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button, and Google will deliver you to the top result for your query. That button has been on the front … Read more
Search engines have evolved tremendously since they first started appearing on the Web more than a decade ago. I thought it might be fun to take a look back at some of the popular search engines of yesterday and spent a little time at the Internet Archive traveling back to the earlier days of search. … Read more