Inquisitor Gets Smarter, Faster and Multi-Lingual A few months back we announced the acquisition of Inquisitor software, which helped to extend our query suggestion features, similar to Yahoo!'s Search Assist, to the Mac community. We've been quietly

Category :Yahoo | 182 views | read more | 2008-08-13 10:40:00

Farewell to soft 404s We see two kinds of 404 ("File not found") responses on the web: "hard 404s" and "soft 404s." We discourage the use of so-called "soft 404s" because they can be a confusing experience for users and se

Category :Google | 171 views | read more | 2008-08-12 09:54:00

It's 404 week at Webmaster Central This week we're publishing several blog posts dedicated to helping you with one response code: 404.Response codes are a numeric status (like 200 for "OK", 301 for "Moved Permanently") that a webserver

Category :Google | 151 views | read more | 2008-08-11 08:40:00

SearchMonkey for Site Search In the past few months, SearchMonkey developers have told us they'd like to use Enhanced Results for site search. Yahoo! and other search engines have long had a site restrict operator (e.g. site:anys

Category :Yahoo | 214 views | read more | 2008-08-08 12:00:00

What's Being Built with BOSS It's been about a month since Yahoo! Search BOSS launched, so it seems like an opportune time to look at some of the mashups and search products that have been built using the BOSS APIs & services. As

Category :Yahoo | 197 views | read more | 2008-08-07 12:00:00

How to start a multilingual site Have you ever thought of creating one or several sites in different languages? Let's say you want to start a travel site about backpacking in Europe, and you want to offer your content to English, Ger

Category :Google | 195 views | read more | 2008-08-07 04:50:00

We're bringing the Olympics to you Microsoft is into the Olympics in a big way through our partnership with NBC on NBCOlympics.com, the official online home of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing! And Live Search is ready to help you f

Category :Msn | 145 views | read more | 2008-08-06 23:14:00

Improve your site's standing with new Webmaster tools Today we are bringing our Webmaster Tools out of beta and releasing several new features that help webmasters see how Live Search crawls and indexes your sites. As a website owner, you can use these t

Category :Msn | 170 views | read more | 2008-08-06 12:35:00

Yahoo! Shortcuts for Summer Olympic Fever With 205 nations, approximately 10,500 athletes and 302 events in 28 sports, it's going to be tough to keep up with all that's going on at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. That's why Yahoo! Search

Category :Yahoo | 141 views | read more | 2008-08-05 13:48:40

To infinity and beyond? No! When Googlebot crawls the web, it often finds what we call an "infinite space". These are very large numbers of links that usually provide little or no new content for Googlebot to index. If this ha

Category :Google | 118 views | read more | 2008-08-05 08:27:00