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Link Tag Gets Canonical Relationship Attribute

Link Tag Gets Canonical Relationship Attribute

A couple of days ago, the big three GYM search engines (Google, Yahoo, Microsoft Live) announced their united support towards the new relationship attribute “canonical.”
This tag was created to better manage duplicate content that is generated by multiple URLs pointing to the same page - a common situation for large sites that automatically [...]

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!

I just wanted to say Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from SearchEnginePanel.com! I hope everyone’s having a safe and wonderful holiday and enjoys their time off.
It appears that others from the search engine industry are in a festive mood as well… except for Live.com. Here are some pictures of search engine homepages today.
Ask.com’s [...]

Yahoo Shortens Data Retention to 90 Days

Yahoo Shortens Data Retention to 90 Days

Yahoo announced Wednesday that they will be updating their policies regarding how long they will retain user search data. According to their press release,
Under the new policy, Yahoo! will anonymize user log data within 90 days with limited exceptions for fraud, security and legal obligations. Yahoo! will also expand the policy to apply not only [...]

Top Searches for 2008

Top Searches for 2008

There is still a month left in 2008, but some of the top search engines including Yahoo and Ask have published the most frequent search queries on their respective search engines for 2008. Google has not yet published its true top queries, but its most popular product searches are available.

Yahoo’s Top Searches
1. Britney Spears
2. WWE
3. [...]

Coming Soon: Yahoo Web Analytics

Coming Soon: Yahoo Web Analytics

If you have stumbled upon our Resources page sometime in the past six months, you might have noticed “IndexTools,” which is listed in the “Analytics / ROI Tools” section. IndexTools is described there as,

Recently acquired by Yahoo (April 2008), IndexTools is a web analytics platform that currently surpasses [Google] Analytics in terms of being integrated [...]