I noticed a very interesting thread on one of my favourite sites, Brett Tabke’s Webmasterworld, in which he has decided to completely ban all search engine robots from the site with a robots.txt file.
This means no pages from Webmasterworld will be findable in Yahoo, Google, MSN or any other legitimate search engine. The main problem […]
Google has released an official “Add to Google” button for bloggers to put on their sites, that lets their readers subscribe to the blog feed in Google’s RSS Reader or the Personalised Google.
The buttons are similar to the ubiquitous Add to My Yahoo! images which proliferated across the web back in 2004, and it […]
Like many others eager to try out Google’s new traffic-tracking service, I added the Google Analytics javascript to my sites yesterday, and was informed that I had added it correctly and my stats would begin to appear in twelve hours.
However, it’s now 27 hours later and I’m still seeing no stats, a problem a lot […]
Ask.com have revealed the famous Jeeves butler is to be phased out completely and removed from the site.
In a statement, the company explained that Jeeves is giving the impression to searchers that the only service Ask
offers is the ability to perform a search query with a straightforward question; less prominent are its other tools […]
A new beta search tool has been posted up on Yahoo’s Next website, the showcase site for their new products.
Instant Search is an AJAX-based interface for Yahoo search that lets you do a search and go straight to your destination without ever having to see a results page - as you type in the search […]
Users of the woefully slow, spam-ridden Technorati will be happy to learn that Google have just announced their first foray into the world of blog search.
Blogger.com users won’t have missed the prominent addition of Google Blog Search on the dashboard page that allows you to “Search blogs from all over the web”, not just Blogger-hosted […]
