Explains the description and keyword tags. Includes links to generators and builders.

Blogger makes it easy to create spam that clogs search results but does not make it easy to report the spam or even to be sure that Blogger cares that accounts are used that way.

It's been a little more than ten years ago that the first web search engines were born. Chris Sherman charts the dates starting with WWW Wanderer in 1993.

Article by Gary Price and Genie Tyburski. Explores the question of "what is a date on the web?" and notes that a searcher may be misled by the results of searches restricted by date.

A guide to search engine marketing and search engine optimization. Forums, reviews, articles, ratings, and frequent newsletters. Paying members receive access to extra content.

Danny Sullivan discusses the launch of NewHoo and explains the volunteer editor basis of the directory.

Danny Sullivan discusses Netscape’s purchase of NewHoo and provides comparisons to the Yahoo Directory.

Danny Sullivan discusses the new features powering AOL Search and mentions its inclusion of matching categories from the Open Directory.

Danny Sullivan covers the Lycos decision to abandon its crawler-based search engine for directory data. Discusses the large number of ODP volunteer editors and compares their editing power to that of Yahoo’s staff.

Danny Sullivan writes about the launch of Netscape Open Directory and its relationship with the ODP.