MarketPosition.com Archives for Mar, 2004
March 15, 2004
USA Today: Business Nets Millions with Top Google Ranking
USA Today reported that Corrugated Metals in Chicago netted "millions and millions of dollars in sales" after investing just $200/month for a top ranking in Google. This intriguing quote appeared in the February 4th, 2004 article entitled: "For Google, many retailers eagerly jump through hoops"
March 15, 2004
Yahoo Finally Makes the Big Change and Drops Google
Industry analysts and search engine marketers have seen it coming since last year. Ever since Yahoo acquired Overture, who had previously acquired Inktomi, FAST, and AltaVista, it was obvious that Yahoo would be dropping its long-time partner Google. After all, why buy all that search technology if you aren't going to use it?
March 15, 2004
Yahoo's New Submission Options
If you travel to Yahoo's new submission page, you'll notice some changes. The Inktomi paid inclusion options are gone, replaced with several submission related options from Yahoo. Here's a summary of what they are now offering:
March 15, 2004
Google Adds 1 Billion Pages
Google announced a new index boasting 1 billion additional Web pages on February 17th. This occurred just one day prior to Yahoo's announcement that they'd removed Google, their long-time search partner from the Yahoo search results. With the new pages, the size of Google's searchable database has increased by about one-third, or from 3.3 billion pages to 4.28 billion.
