Search Engine Journal Latest search engine news blog articles from Search Engine Journal. http://www.seocentro.com/seo-archives/publisher/Search+Engine+Journal.html Search Engine Journal News Archive http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11966 Google News is testing a new vertical format which seems to be reminiscent of Yahoo One Search and more of a mobile device driven format than the usual Newspaper style spread Google News usually delivers on the PC. Ugly as sin as this Google News layout is, there may be some reasons behind it. Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:45:18 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11964 I search Google daily (min. once per hour, I guess). However I don't just type in words and go through the results. An an SEO, I often use advanced search (especially the date range option to see most recent domain / brand name mentions, for example) and advanced search operators (especially, site: ). Accessing these advanced search options takes time, and as I need them a lot, Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:11:21 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11936 Just when you thought this buyout deal between Yahoo and Microsoft was over, here comes some small group of Yahoo investors making some noise again.  According to Reuters , Mithras Capital which own more than 1.9 million shares, or equivalent to 0.14% of Yahoo, is submitting a proposal to Microsoft that would allow them to buy Yahoo's Search business for a price that is $2 billion less than it originally offered sometime in July. Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:22:50 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11905 A very insightful thread at WebmasterWorld discusses how Google might distinguish trust and authority notions and how they might influence the algorithm. In a very summarized manner, Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Thu, 09 Oct 2008 14:00:14 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11896 Sometime in May, Yahoo has acquired a web service company called IndexTools. Now, several months after Yahoo is making use of their acquisition with a new service Web Analytics for Business websites. This service helps to create a feedback mechanism for e-merchants, website owners, advertisers and developers. It provides data and insights which will be useful for evaluating marketing performance and tweaking website designs as well. Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Thu, 09 Oct 2008 01:19:13 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11872 Recently Hakia extended a call to librarians and information professionals to help them in their quest to bring credible search results to the web on all topics.  Previously Hakia offered credibility stamped health and medical searches.  Expanding beyond those topics to include all is obviously a very lofty goal, and one that most certainly cannot be realized without a lot of manpower. This week Hakia launched a new search interface featuring a tabbed option. Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:16:08 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11861 Image search is evolving rapidly. Today the machine understands much more about images than just a year ago: it can read the text on the image, see its colors and classify it based on its form, shape and textures. So which advanced image search methods can we use today? Image search based on image content (face / landscape / photo / product image search) Face search has been a hot topic recently. Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:33:11 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11852 Blame it on comScore for publishing that 25% of Internet users play online games every week, totalling to over 200 million users worldwide. This may have prompted Google to roll out Adsense for Games . The new advertising program aims to give online game developers, online gaming site additional revenue stream. But so as not to anger gamers, Adsense for Games would only display video ads, image ads or text ads on specific parts a particular game, Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:44:44 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11842 All Twitter benefits and (potential) spheres of usage are yet to be explored. However it is great to see some of huge companies already taking advantage of the tool: To update customers of the company deals and coupon codes : 1. Dell has created a number of Twitter profiles, each meant for different types of deals (e.g. DellOutlet posts recent refurbished Dell computer offers). 2. Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:23:24 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11837 Although this partnership has been announced as early as July this year, it is only now that Facebook is officially introducing or in a more industry standard term, leveraging on Microsoft's Live Search engine. The Facebook blog has officially introduced the new feature as if it is something for us to get excited about. Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:53:35 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11808 If you have shot off emails to old girlfriends at 2 am after coming home from the bar or in a rage of anger to your boss, GMail Engineer Jon Perlow has developed the perfect drunk email filter at Google Labs with GMail Mail Goggles (which counteract the power of Beer Goggles). [ No, this does not seem to be an April Fools joke .] Gmail can't always prevent you from sending messages you might later regret, Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:49:13 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11806 When a search engine that has an incredibly miniscule percentage of the search market share fails, does anyone listen? Over the weekend Accoona, the same China backed search engine that had Bill Clinton speak at its launch party and was giving away cars left and right as recent as a year ago, has closed its doors. Dear Accoona search users, Due to an overwhelmingly competitive search market, Accoona.com and Accoona.cn will no longer be active. Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Tue, 07 Oct 2008 11:32:27 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11805 Like with many other burning SEO questions, there is no definitive answer as to whether sitewide links are good or bad. If we for just a second forget about search engines, we will see that, on the one hand, sitewides can be good for very important links (as users are much more likely to click them), besides they make the overall site template look more consistent (encouraging users to feel more secure). On the other hand, Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:19:10 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11804 While John Mueller did a great job explaining how to analyze your website with Google Webmaster Tools , I thought I could outline a few tips on how to diagnose both on-site and off-site issues with Google Search and its advanced operators . Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:19:09 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11801 Merger talks between Yahoo and Time Warner's AOL have been around even during the failed Microsoft - Yahoo saga. But it is only now that the said deal seems to be getting on clearer ground.  Citing sources close to the negotiations, TC's Arrington is reporting that both companies are in currently busy ironing out the details of the merger deal. If indeed this merger talks come into a reality, it raises some interesting questions, Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:23:50 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11765 With all the buzz around recent Google Blogsearch relaunch , I thought that would a good idea to look at most popular blog meme trackers available online. The most general definition of the word meme is : A meme consists of any idea or behavior that can pass from one person to another by learning or imitation . Blog meme trackers (or memetrackers ) monitor what is most actively passed from blog to blog (" If the thing is actively passed around, that must be hot "). Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:09:20 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11755 Ask.com is making its presence felt in the search engine market by introducing two new features of its search engine recently. News.com is reporting that Ask.com is now parsing more data and displaying these in its search results page. Starting today, if you visit Ask.com and ask a question, Ask.com's algorithms will try to display the answers in the results page instead of just giving out links to the answer. Although, Ask. Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Mon, 06 Oct 2008 06:51:56 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11749 Last year I attended SES Xiamen and reading back the articles I wrote back then they still stand for a big part, especially the one called Chinese lessons . This year's conference was held in a hazy Nanjing , 2.5 hours by fast train from Shanghai, and organized by Timev and SMX .There were three conferences going on at the same time in the new Nanjing Expo Centre. Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:16:31 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11735 In a couple of weeks, the heavily-criticized search ad partnership between Google and Yahoo are supposed to materialize. But perhaps not wanting to face further issues, the two search giants decided to wait for the Justice Department to finish their study first. According to a Yahoo spokesman, the deal was delayed a bit to pursue their ongoing discussion with the Justice Department, Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:57:31 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11670 If you work for an online marketing agency the following scenario is probably not uncommon. A client comes to you wanting to help shape the search results for their brand names. They're not talking about their own domain names or web properties either. They're now worried about sites like RipOffReport, ComplaintsBoard and the dozens of other consumer advocacy sites created to give consumers a voice. You may even work with your clients, Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Thu, 02 Oct 2008 19:19:33 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11644 Google highly values the "freshness" of the content. But how does Google defines it against the "staleness" of the content? Google's Historical Data Patent reviewed at WebmasterWorld and SEroundtable sheds some light on what Google thinks to be fresh content and what can be defined as stale documents. Bill Slawski did a great job of summarizing the patent with help of two examples : The Constitution of the United States is an old document, but it's not stale. Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Thu, 02 Oct 2008 09:41:59 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11635 Google has relaunched its blog aggregation service, the not-so-popular-as-Techmeme Google Blog Search .  Actually, it was just a minor upgrade, with the new home page now showing categories on the left side. These categories then cluster the blog posts indexed by Google according to their subject contents. So when you view the Technology category, you'll see the list of blog articles written on specific news or events grouped together, Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:05:52 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11632 Not only was IM Charity Party the best party at SES San Jose, but thanks to amazing sponsors like ACS SEO , We Build Pages , BOTW , SureHits and everyone that attended, we were able to raise $40,000 for charity! We donated $26297.96 to the Children's Hospital ( Jon Kelly matched the original $13,133.98 bringing us to the $26k+ total) and $13732.04 to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Wed, 01 Oct 2008 23:43:41 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11613 I have been pretty obsessed with the topic of Information Environments as of late. From their structure, to the way that we let them interact with the search engine bots, a full understanding of our Information Environments is the basis of a strong SEO approach. No matter what changes in search algorithms a strong Information Environment Design will help your usability as well as assist in classifying your data. In a recent post , Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Wed, 01 Oct 2008 17:13:26 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11597 Facebook allows for 2 networking tools: Creating/ joining a Facebook group; Creating/ joining a Facebook fan page. While the major differences become evident only after you try out them first, we decided to create and promote both for Search Engine Journal: Search Engine Journal Group ; Search Engine Journal Fan Page . Now what we have found from this experiment.. First and foremost the 2 major differences include: Unlike groups, Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:46:17 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11594 Once again, Microsoft is enticing users to do their searches on Live Search via a new rewards program called SearchPerks . This search-rewards program adds up to Microsoft's Live Search Club, Search and Give and Live Search Cashback which are all geared at boosting the Live Search usage among web searchers. SearchPerks awards users with tickets everytime they use Live Search. Users can earn 25 tickets per day. These tickets can then be redeemed for exciting prizes. Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Wed, 01 Oct 2008 09:20:51 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11593 The Google-Yahoo search deal got a new ally from eleven California legislators who are urging the US regulators not to stop the deal from being implemented. In a letter addressed to US Attorney Michael Mukasey, the group warned that barring the deal from materializing would stiffle Internet market growth and innovation . Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:01:11 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11542 Most of link building / linkbaiting techniques are used so often that they lost their effectiveness long ago. Unfortunately, hosting a contest is one such technique: that has become a common fashion to create a contest for the sake of creating a contest without much thinking behind it. However the tactic may be still effective when done right. Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:12:51 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11517 I don't know if I am slightly abnormal or just more politically interested than most, but I generally enjoy watching the presidential debates. I like seeing the candidates put on the hot-seat, even though I know fully-well that they've been prepped and have seared scripted responses into their memories. Sometimes they are caught off guard and that's exciting, but haven't you ever wondered just how much more cool it would be if the public - i.e. Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Mon, 29 Sep 2008 17:03:10 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11514 Yesterday I covered some of the buzz on the rumor that Yahoo may be selling off some of its properties, which includes Yahoo Answers , as part of the [possibly upcoming] AOL merger agreements. A Yahoo spokesperson wrote me this morning to let me know that on the record, Yahoo has no plans to sell Yahoo Answers. " I saw your article on Y! Answers last night and wanted to let you know " on the record " that we are not selling Yahoo! Answers . Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Mon, 29 Sep 2008 15:58:15 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11506 Like reputation management , people search is rather a hot topic. Nowadays you can find almost anything about anyone online. Surprisingly, dedicated person search is not yet well-developed (probably that has something to do with burning online privacy problems) but still is something to look into: Search Engine What you will learn about the person Yoname.com Social media mentions. Intelius.com Age, previous cities and relatives. Pipl.com Mentions in web documents. Zoominfo. Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Mon, 29 Sep 2008 13:56:17 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11496 Yahoo is in the process of opening talks with Time Warner on merger and other partnership opportunities with AOL according to the Financial Times and numerous media outlets, some of which are discussing Yahoo selling off what are considered to be its non-core assets. TechCrunch posted last week that one of those assets may in fact be Yahoo Answers, which opened its doors in 2005 and has become Yahoo's flagship social property, Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Sun, 28 Sep 2008 23:54:59 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11483 Google is officially celebrating its 10th birthday today, marking a decade that Google has been serving search results (and 13 years since their concept was first launched, dubbed BackRub). To celebrate, Google is using the above logo on its worldwide search engines while also launching a really cool and interactive Google Timeline . Thanks Google, and Happy Birthday, its been a great 10 years! Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Sat, 27 Sep 2008 18:44:40 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11478 If Google can manage to put up website explaining their search ad deal with Yahoo, Yahoo for its part can only manage to make a post at the company's blog, explaining what's in it for Yahoo and how it is going to affect the search ad market. But the post nonetheless was made by Yahoo's President Sue Decker who said that it's now time for them to write some myth-busting explanation. Like Google's past statements, Ms. Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Sat, 27 Sep 2008 10:49:12 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11450 For Microsoft, they are the only company which stands a chance of rivaling Google in the search market five years from. This was the statement of Microsoft CEO Steve Balmer which was given during an event by the ChurchHill Club. Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:34:40 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11449 Creating a network of micro-sites for the sake of link power manipulation is an illegitimate technique; hence it has become risky to interlink your own websites even for very "white hat" purposes (e.g. to let your readers know about your other relevant sites). Nonetheless, link building with micro-sites can be a highly effective technique if done correctly. Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:17:06 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11426 In what could be its biggest move to defend the search ad deal which is about to be implemented in a couple of days now, Google has launched a website explaining everything that anyone could possibly need to know about the advertising partnership. Highlighting key points about the deal, the " Facts about the Yahoo-Google advertising agreement " site points out once again that it is: a non-exclusive deal that will strengthen Yahoo, Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Fri, 26 Sep 2008 01:28:12 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11425 Google is expanding the scope of its TV ads platform with another partnership , this time with Bloomberg TV. This deal comes hot on the heels of a recent agreement entered into by Google with another major TV network NBC . Said deal would bring the 24-hour operating Bloomberg TV to Google advertisers, opening an avenue that reaches over 54 million homes in the US. TV Advertisers currently reach Bloomberg TV through Dish Network inventory which is available on Google TV Ads. Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Fri, 26 Sep 2008 00:55:04 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11382 If you are like me, you spend most part of your day browsing the Internet; that results in plenty of great pages and ideas flashing before my eyes and often times I have neither time no energy to try to save those ideas for further reference. Thus I am trying to find more and more alternative ways to organize and categorize things I come across daily to make my working process as effective as I can. Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:47:01 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11381 Yahoo has renewed once again its take on digital advertising with a new platform called APT from Yahoo. This digital advertising solution was previously announced as AMP! APT from Yahoo aims to facilitate faster processing of buying and selling ads online and also connecting publishers, advertisers, agencies, networks, partners and developers. And for its opening salvo, Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:14:02 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11374 I've been playing around with Shoemoney Tools a bit after Jeremy was telling me a little about his new robust selection of tools which include valued domain research tools, backlink analyzers and keyword research & ppc copy tools. (I've already bought a few targeted domains with some nice backlinks) Shoemoney Tools is pretty cool, and I'm hoping to gain more knowledge of his tools suite after using the products a bit more. What's funny, Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:51:28 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11335 Dealing with huge keyword lists is time consuming and often you can't do without (semi-)automation. While most of the work is usually handled through notepad ("find and replace" option) and Excel ("sort", "insert", etc options), some online tools may also be much help: Tool Most useful feature Local keywords Adds any word (city) before / after the keyword / key phrase. Mytrashmail keyword generator Replaces any word for another one(s). Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Wed, 24 Sep 2008 13:03:59 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11333 In celebration of its tenth year as a company, Google has just launched the Project 10 to the 100th. The project aims to get the best project idea that would change the world by helping as many people as possible. For this project, Google is putting out $10 million to fund up to five projects from suggestions and ideas that will be received by Google between now and until October 20. Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:32:29 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11332 It looks like the first order of battle for the "new" Yahoo Board is to push for Yahoo's merger with another company. But definitely it's not gonna be Microsoft. Well, at least not this time yet. In a brief report, the Financial Times is citing "one person familiar with the company's thinking" in to saying that the Yahoo Board, which just met for the first after the appointment getting Carl Icahn, Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Wed, 24 Sep 2008 12:17:33 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11297 Some time ago I reviewed tools that help understand the page HTML semantic structure based on H1-H6 headings. While some webmasters question the overall necessity of headings, I insist that they should be used to structure the page content for: SEO benefit : H-heading is one of the best ways to give your keywords prominence ; Accessibility and usability : headings enable screen reader and some browser (e.g. Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:36:44 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11288 The semantic search engine known as "Hakia" currently generates credibility-stamped results for health and medical searches, which aims to point users in the direction of credible online content.  Hakia announced Monday that they are hoping to expand their coverage to include ALL topics, a pretty lofty goal.  To aid them in their efforts, Hakia has made an open call to librarians and information professionals to assist in the effort. Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Tue, 23 Sep 2008 15:59:04 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11264 Out of the blue, Google announced a new feature or rather a new tool for its Book Search Index, which would allow book retailers, publishers and practically anyone with a web site or blog to embed non-copyrighted books from the said index. Yup, you read it right folks, just like YouTube videos, we can now feature the full electronic format of books on our websites, for readers/visitors to flip through the pages of them books. For books which are still under copyright, Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Tue, 23 Sep 2008 00:53:42 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11260 Don't look now, but Yahoo Buzz is getting better with new features up on its sleeves. Yahoo's entry into the social news arena may not have hit us with a bang with less than innovative features but the people behind it are certainly doing their homework. And so they just added a new feature, or a new tab labeled as "Up and Coming" buzz. This new tab, in addition to the existing Top Buzz tab, Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Mon, 22 Sep 2008 22:26:00 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11256 Last time I posted a tutorial on creating quick search ("smart keyword") bookmarks in FireFox enabling you to quickly search any site or search engine right from the address bar. This time I am sharing my list of 17 quick searches that (if you are like me) you will find useful. 17 SEO related quick searches you might find helpful - with this list you don't need to create a quick search bookmarks yourself. Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Mon, 22 Sep 2008 21:36:44 GMT http://www.seocentro.com/cgi-bin/rss/go.pl?uid=11246 After the introduction of their Chrome browser, some have suggested that Google may have just kicked off the beginning of a new era of the browser wars .  And before you begin by asking the obvious - "What about Firefox?" - read on and you'll perhaps see why Chrome is a bit different, and why it may prove to be a true competitor to IE. Search Engines News SEO News Search Engine Journal Search Engine Journal Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:11:50 GMT