Archive for the 'Search engines' Category

Live search down

Friday, April 20th, 2007

My search engine analysis has been spewing out error message from the MSN Search API the last 10 days. I did some research and it turns out that searching for sites linking to a url is broken on Live.com and seems to have been broken a while.
As of April 20 this search Sites that link […]

Searchengine-analysis.com redesign

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

I’ve spent the last month working on simplifying Searchengine-analysis.com.
There are many new features the most interesting is a instant to-do-list of SEO optimization. There is also a simplified search engine result tracking that makes it easy to keep track of your position.

New website available - search engine analysis

Thursday, May 18th, 2006

I have now officially opened my new project: http://www.searchengine-analysis.com. It has a demo of my new search engine analysis tool which probably is the most advanced on the market. It uses all kinds of APIs (Google, Alexa, Yahoo, MSN, Hostip.info) and analysis the code on the page analyzed and backlink pages.
It is still work in […]

Yahoo and the directory

Thursday, May 11th, 2006

It is interesting to note that Yahoo seems to be distancing itself from the web directory it once was. Yahoo has all kinds of APIs but none to search the directory. And in order to find the directory on the home page you have to look real hard.

Google bowling

Monday, April 17th, 2006

SEO is no longer only what you do your own site. Google has been trying to curb link farm so hard that it become a vulnerability. Black hat SEO’s are now selling the service to add bad back links to your domain in order to get it penalized by Google.

Google algorithm has its own will

Tuesday, April 4th, 2006

I have been studying the Google bots on my site in detail the last couple of months. Their behavior is reminding me strongly of a project where I worked as a project manager. A big project where there had been no architect. A project were the results were not the same every time you ran […]

Possible new Google interface

Tuesday, March 28th, 2006

Ars technica i reporting ways to preview a new Google search interface. Nothing dramatic but still interesting.

Possible new Google search interface

Nifty Google search - show pages linking to my site

Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006

I have spent the last day in various emergency rooms but now I am back.
When working with on new SEO tool I wanted to find out which pages are linking to a certain site. This is one of the most important factors in determining the position in a search.
If you do the obvious:
http://www.google.com/search?q=link:www.markovic.com
You […]