August 2007
Monthly Archive
The Danny Sullivan code
Posted by Katia Pereria on 08 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Articles, Social Media
— Just a bit of fun—
Also dubbed as “The greatest conspiracy in SEM history”…
I have been thoroughly enjoying all the rambling going on over at Pandia, There is a very interesting dispute brewing due to the uncertainty around the true origin of Sphinn. Perkoch got the ball rolling by comparing Sphinn to Dan Browns, “Da Vinci code”
Perkoch delves deep into the enigma that is Sphinn in a very insightful yet funny rationalisation as to why the name Shpinn derives from somewhere else altogether.
Supplemental results - death of a friend?
Posted by Brett Pringle on 02 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Articles, Common SEO Topics, Search Engine News
Supplemental results have been around for sometime (prior 2003 according to Google), although they only fairly recently, early 2006, surfaced into the online community as a hot topic for discussion after the infrastructure update by Google called Big Daddy. This update resulted in a new crawl/caching system used by Google : “Images below are taken from Matt Cutts for illustrative purposes”
The privacy wave
Posted by Katia Pereria on 01 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Search Engine News
Privacy is the new buzz word at the moment with great concerns about Search Engines keeping consumer’s data. There has been a lot of uproar in the media lately and it appears as though all the big Search Engines are running around like headless chickens in an attempt to reassure consumers that data will not be kept for long.
All the Search Engines are updating their retention policies; it looks like Google started a trend that’s now turned privacy into a competitive feature. Ask and Microsoft are currently working on proposals to develop industry-wide standards to protect consumer privacy with search and online ads.
