Category Archives: Search

Doubleclick acquired by Google

Posted on April 14, 2007 by Jochem

Wow, that’s what I call a major acquisition in advertising world: Google has bought DoubleClick for $3.1 billion (in cash). That’s 10x the yearly revenue of DoubleClick! This has just been confirmed on the Google blog. This is immediatly the … Continue reading →

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Check your backlinks with Google Webmaster Tools

Posted on February 8, 2007 by Jochem

Wow, Google seems to understand that the opinion of webmasters does matter! As of today, it is finally possible to retrieve a nice list of urls that are linking to your site. Many of you will probably know that the … Continue reading →

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How Yahoo, Microsoft and Google fight for your browser settings

Posted on January 14, 2007 by Jochem

In this post of Andy Beal, Yahoo is being accused of dirty tactics to switch the default search provider when people install a new version of Yahoo Messenger. I totally agree that Yahoo is not behaving very well here, but … Continue reading →

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Google’s pagerank: why all the excitement?

Posted on October 15, 2006 by Jochem

It often surprises me how much excitement a pagerank update still causes. The start of an update is always directly followed by an enormous amount of blog and forum posts. Not to speak about the number of people who are … Continue reading →

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Exalead launches enhanced website

Posted on October 11, 2006 by Jochem

Exalead has just launched a new version of their search engine on www.exalead.com. I was one of the lucky who was given the opportunity to test the beta version of this release and I am quite impressed. I think they … Continue reading →

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Google has officially bought YouTube!

Posted on October 9, 2006 by Jochem

It’s official now! Google has bought YouTube for $1.65 billion (in stock)! This is definitively the biggest and probably the most important acquirement in the (young) history of Google. It is now Googles turn to show how they will make … Continue reading →

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Matt answers some questions about pagerank

Posted on October 4, 2006 by Jochem

If you are a SEO man (or woman), interested in search engine technology and thus the mechanism behind Google’s pagerank, you should check out the blog of Matt Cutts on a regular basis. As many know, Matt works at Google … Continue reading →

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Check which pages are in Google’s supplemental index

Posted on September 18, 2006 by Jochem

Just found a way to check which pages of a website are in Google’s supplemental index. Might be handy because if your pages are in the supplemental index, that explains why that don’t show up in the normal results. For … Continue reading →

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Phishing sites blacklisted by Google

Posted on September 12, 2006 by Jochem

Interesting post over at Google blogoscoped, people have found a blacklist and a whitelist which is probably used for Google’s ‘safe browsing’ functionality. All that time I was thinking that Google had this ‘smart discovery’ for phishing sites, now it … Continue reading →

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Business sells better than sex

Posted on September 8, 2006 by Jochem

According to australian research, sex and pornography are no longer the most popular search topics on the web. Professor Amanda Spinks from Queensland University of Technology’s says that business and commerce-related topics, including buying and selling on the net, are … Continue reading →

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