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:: Thursday, March 11, 2004 ::

Alice in SearchEngine Land...

The Rabbit Hole is, once again, led by Garrett French, with his further adventures on Yahoo!. Yahoo Responds To Site Match Questions
     "Why should I pay for Site Match if my site is already indexed or may soon be indexed for free?"

I hear the drums. I hear the little patter of Google bots. I've seen rankings moving about quite a bit in the past 2 days
     "Yup, they are playing with something"

This is my bandwagon. Search Engine Optimization And Web Site Usability by Kristy Meghreblian
     "Not only are you in competition with the millions of other Web sites owners who sell the same product/service as you, but you are also competing for users' time and attention. "

Drink this first. Free Yahoo! Submission

Through the Looking Glass. I think Yahoo! got their ideas from here. Yahoo! Pricing Models (Dated February 26, 2004 )
     "My money, however, is a blend of the paid inclusion and CPC model where smaller sites could pay the fee per URL, while larger sites would be encouraged to submit a feed and pay per click. This provides for the majority of sites to get indexed, while making money for Yahoo!"

Elsewhere and Nowhere:

You go Sweden! US Broadband Penetration Crawls to 43% - Sweden Tops in Internet Penetration - February 2004 Bandwidth Report
     "57% of US home users dial into the Internet with "narrowband" connections of 56Kbps or less.* Sweden leads all countries in Internet penetration at 76.9%."

Bill is not Martha. Martha is not Bill. Neither can keep a damned secret. Microsoft Search Engine to Launch, Rival Google and Yahoo
     Microsoft chairman Bill Gates is set to challenge the dominance of Google with his own high-powered search engine, which has been in secret development for more than a year.

It gets even better at the end. Bowmac Internet
     "We do take our customer service very seriously."

Advice from the Caterpillar:

"In a minute or two the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth and yawned once or twice, and shook itself. Then it got down off the mushroom, and crawled away in the grass, merely remarking as it went, `One side will make you grow taller, and the other side will make you grow shorter.'

`One side of what? The other side of what?' thought Alice to herself.

`Of the mushroom,' said the Caterpillar, just as if she had asked it aloud; and in another moment it was out of sight."

Optimizing Your Chances with Accessibility
     "If your page is read by a blind user, or spidered by a search engine, using images will leave significant gaps unless you use Fahrner Image Replacement (FIR)."

What It's Like Living in SearchEngine Land:

"At this moment the King, who had been for some time busily writing in his note-book, cackled out `Silence!' and read out from his book, `Rule Forty-two. All persons more than a mile high to leave the court.'

Everybody looked at Alice.

`I'm not a mile high,' said Alice.

`You are,' said the King.

`Nearly two miles high,' added the Queen.

`Well, I shan't go, at any rate,' said Alice: `besides, that's not a regular rule: you invented it just now.'

`It's the oldest rule in the book,' said the King.

`Then it ought to be Number One,' said Alice."

(Source for Alice quotes courtesy of Alice in Wonderland

:: posted by Kim Krause Berg on 3/11/2004 01:06:43 PM

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