Biggest Search Engine Announcement in SEO History [Archive]

rustybrick

10-19-2004, 04:12 PM

Sorry, I have no announcement to make here but I started this thread to provoke a discussion of like-minded individuals.

In your mind, and joking aside please, if a search engine was to announce something and precede this announcement with the tag line "The biggest announcement in search history for an SEO", what would you think they are talking about.

What in your mind can a search engine announce to the public and have such a drastic impact on the SEO community?

Marcia

10-19-2004, 04:17 PM

rustybrick
What in your mind can a search engine announce to the public and make sure a drastic impact on the SEO community.?

Google announces super saver two for one Holiday special! Submit two sites for the price of one. Hurry, this offer won't last!

rustybrick

10-19-2004, 04:21 PM

rustybrick

Google announces super saver two for one Holiday special! Submit two sites for the price of one. Hurry, this offer won't last!

Can't we try to be serious? ;) Otherwise I need to move it to the padded room.

Marcia

10-19-2004, 04:29 PM

Actually, it can lead up to something dead serious Barry.

Even though Daniel Dulitz covered the reasoning behind Google *not* having paid submit in the interview with Mike Grehan, if they ever did announce a PFI program it would turn our thinking upside down. I for one would be scrambling to be the first in line, credit card in hand. Or rather, would have been a while back, when I suspected it might be on the horizon because Freshbot activity sure made it look like the capability was there.

Now, with how scoring is, I'm not so sure. I think an argument could be made for it either way.

cline

10-19-2004, 06:18 PM

Google Desktop now utilizes the contents of your computer to give you customized search results.

Jill Whalen

10-19-2004, 07:20 PM

Microsoft buys both Yahoo and Google. :eek:

Anthony Parsons

10-20-2004, 02:04 AM

Microsoft buys both Yahoo and Google. :eek:

And announces its new name as: MicroYahoogle!

I, Brian

10-20-2004, 05:51 AM

Marcia's right - if you required pay for inclusion to get on the larger search engines - especially Google. That would certainly be a major announcement that would overwhelmingly impat SEO.

AdWords as a business model seems to have removed that threat from Google, though.

stuntdubl

10-20-2004, 10:23 AM

Google releases a 64-bit operating system that is backwards compatible with all Windows software.

4eyes

10-20-2004, 11:31 AM

Google announces new open source algo

I, Brian

10-20-2004, 12:49 PM

The personal search is going to be a big one if it can be pulled off right - not least because of what it means to advertisers - does anyone remember the scene from Minority Report when Tom Cruise when customised ads ask him to buy a Lexus?

Even more specualtion - here's an interesting entry exploring the possibility of Google hooking up Orkut tech with user PCs, for custom Google networks:
http://battellemedia.com/archives/000977.php

rbester

10-20-2004, 02:36 PM

Resurrection Of a Meta Tag

St0n3y

10-20-2004, 03:22 PM

Elimination of the PR bar on the Google toolbar.

sharad

10-20-2004, 04:42 PM

Google is now calculating PR of a page on basis of no. of odd site linking to that page only. :D

Jeremy_Goodrich

10-20-2004, 05:45 PM

Fuzzy logic has replaced probablistic computational methods for calculating link popularity and conceptual analysis has replaced keyword matching...making SEO that much more fun & interesting.

Death to keywords, long live concepts...would make for interesting design / textual considerations, no?

Nick W

10-20-2004, 06:00 PM

Y! and Google announce joint plans to standardize guidelines and make them understandable!

Mike Grehan

10-20-2004, 06:30 PM

Google admits: We only keep the PageRank myth for webmasters - we actually haven't used it for years! Despite that, we're still loaded
and couldn't give a **** about search engine optimisation. AdWords is where it's at.

Mike Grehan

10-20-2004, 06:49 PM

Oh, and another one...

Google employs Fantomaster as head of technology...

Nick W

10-20-2004, 07:00 PM

>>Google employs Fantomaster as head of technology...

Im choking as i thankyour for that!

ROTFLMAO mate :coo:

Nick

Nacho

10-20-2004, 08:46 PM

Spammers protest against Search Engines because they can not optimize for GPS since 95% of algorithm weight goes to the searcher's GPS coordinates. SEO/SEM professionals jump for joy that spammers finally don't get their chance, but are left clueless as to what to do for their clients as well. :confused:

Nacho

10-20-2004, 08:58 PM

Oh yea, and the other one was . . .

Gbot spider falls in love with Slurp and after a long romantic get together . . . BOOM BOOM Chiqui BOOM BOOM . . . you guess it!

The problem is Gbot gets pregnant and delivers millions of GSlurp Spider Babies (--this is normal in the crawler world--) which go out of control on the web.

Webmasters and site owners race to go buy bandwidth, but the price of that goes 100 fold . . .

. . . any one care to finish the story :p

shorebreak

10-20-2004, 09:21 PM

New Google computing platform offers email, office productivity suite, web browsing, secure IM, photo sharing, streaming content and search, all at zero cost because Google's new computing platform is fully ad-supported.

Mikkel deMib Svendsen

10-20-2004, 09:41 PM

Big news: The new search engines SpamFinder, that index only spammy sites, become an "overnight" hit with users as it turns out it delivers better (or more "interesting") results than both Google, MSN and Yahoo. In half the time it took Google they take over half the search market :)

This engine will only take bulk submissions from automated submission services and all site are required to use at least one, preferably several, types of spam.

mcanerin

10-21-2004, 12:13 AM

A friend at another forum came back after a long time away from forums, so I helpfully filled him in on the "latest news" and thought it might be on-topic here :)

1) Google has stopped looking at links and content- you now have to optimize your TCP/IP headers and color scheme

2) IBM bought Yahoo search and cut the price for Overture in half, but now anyone showing up in the Yahoo results has to pay whether they get hits or even signed up....

3) MSN bought Nutch but apparently didn't read the fine print on the open source part - MSN search is now open source and running on Linux. BTW, it seems to be working better and is more stable....

4) The "sandbox" has been replaced with the "litterbox" - rather than not counting your backlinks, Google just http://highrankings.com/forum/html/emoticons/poo2.png 's on your site and then buries it....

5) Several smaller search engines have banded together and formed a new search engine consisting of purely paid links. Interestingly, the relevance is better than any of the other SE's. You have two ways to optimize for them - Visa or Mastercard...

6) SEMPO is now run by a bunch of dogs and barnyard animals. On the plus side, communications have improved and no one is allowed to say mean things about them in forums because of Animal Cruelty laws.

7) Mike Grehan has launched an internet MLM system based on rankings and backlinks. Basically, someone signs you up and you give all your backlinks to them. Then you sign up a bunch of other people and after they sign up they give their backlinks to you, and so forth. Apparently the result is that Mike (at the top of the pyramid) is now filthy linking rich!

Well, it could have happened...... ;)

Ian

rustybrick

10-21-2004, 12:42 AM

macdesign

10-21-2004, 02:04 AM

Google announced today that it has purchased the Open Directory Project from AOL and will turn it into a paid directory.

Although in the past it was claimed that this could not happen because of the founding charter of DMOZ, lawyers for Google indicate this charter only applied to the directory when it was called DMOZ. Once all references to that have been removed, a pay per submission process will be in effect. All existing editors will be retained on staff, and will be paid 25% of the submission fee. There will be several levels of service, including an express service for those willing to pay a premium.

In a related announcement, meta editors at ODP announced that about 50% of the existing editors have resigned.

Industry watchers noted that a large percent of the existing listings in the directory have been removed, and presume that owners of those sites will have to resubmit them under the new system.

Joseph Morin

10-21-2004, 02:19 AM

Ebay and Google merge

Nacho

10-21-2004, 02:41 AM

Ebay and Google merge

Did you mean Ebay and Froogle merge?

Joseph Morin

10-21-2004, 03:12 AM

No. Ebay and Google. Think about it.

Who is Ebay's biggest scourge as merchants figure out that it's quicker and cheaper to launch a quick AdWords campaign than to pay to list items for sale at Ebay. With EBay's $60BB market cap and Google's $40BB market cap, along comes an unstoppable search shopping portal with a $100BB market cap pronouncing a victor in the search/shopping wars. Imagine the eyeballs and the different revenue models that could emerge.

Chris_D

10-21-2004, 07:55 AM

Microsoft buys Gigablast and DMOZ.

MS has just announced it will buy the Gigablast technology, and it intends to deploy a scaleable commercial 'real time indexing' MSN search engine.

It will also apply Gigablast technology to DMOZ submissions to ensure that DMOZ submissions are approved in real time - or at least within 5 minutes of submission....

:)

Marcia

10-21-2004, 08:07 AM

Sootle buys Microsoft.

Chris_D

10-21-2004, 09:09 AM

Google shares go from $85 to $150 in six weeks!!

Oh wait - that's already happened.....

werty

10-21-2004, 01:46 PM

1 - Internet Tax passed
2 - Google found guilty of privacy invasion
3- Yahoo! faces charges, for not clearly identifying PFI in the SERPS
4 - Men of SEO Calendar Released

mcanerin

10-21-2004, 01:48 PM

Men of SEO Calendar ReleasedWith some exceptions, I suspect that would be the scariest thing announced... :eek:

Ian

DaveN

10-21-2004, 02:31 PM

That Matt Cutts and Tim Mayer open their own SEO company

Jenstar

10-21-2004, 02:34 PM

That Matt Cutts and Tim Mayer open their own SEO company
With DaveN as their top link hunter ;)

greenleaves

10-21-2004, 03:08 PM

all our optimization efforts go down the drain with personalized search. It now does not matter how many links you have, or where you are in the SERPS, because the SERP will be different depending on who is searching for what where and when, no just what anymore... The ultimate adaptation SEOers will have to face.

St0n3y

10-21-2004, 03:30 PM

Google invests billions in personalized search. It flops big. Pole Position Web buys google for only 1.3 mil.

Chris Boggs

10-21-2004, 06:33 PM

Google and Yahoo Announce Partnership with SEMPO. The two biggest players in the SE field have decided to share algorythms and other ranking secrets with SEO and SEM Standard Bearer SEMPO's Gold Circle members.

orion

10-21-2004, 10:31 PM

Some of these in the making now, a reality in the future:

USPTO approves patents for the followings:

1. mind-based browser navigation *
2. mind-based spam
3. home robots that deliver search results *
4. like in 3 but when you think
5. a DNA-powered search engine *
6. a DNA-powered SEO

Some possibilities:

1. Google blocks the ip of your life.
2. No republicans, no democrats, no independents but only one ruling party: the Search Retrieval Party (SRP).

* no joke.

Orion

rcjordan

10-21-2004, 10:40 PM

Barry Diller acquires controlling interest in Google.

Chris Boggs

10-22-2004, 08:50 AM

Some of these in the making now, a reality in the future:

USPTO approves patents for the followings:

1. mind-based browser navigation *
2. mind-based spam
3. home robots that deliver search results *
4. like in 3 but when you think
5. a DNA-powered search engine *
6. a DNA-powered SEO

Orion

Ok Orion, I'll bite... where on earth did you hear about a DNA powered search engine? I just can't seem to grasp that for some reason and you claim no joke....

I need a little more here I guess. I Just can't figure the DNA-powered SEO either: aren't most of us that already?

Why would I need a robot to tell me what my browser can?

1 and 2 maybe...

Sebastien Billard

10-22-2004, 09:43 AM

Mmmmh...
Google launching Pay-For-Inclusion?
Google partnering with SEOs?
Google launching an RSS research?
Larry and Sergei being satanist Devil worshippers? :D

Oh btw hello to all people, this is my 1st post :)

rcjordan

10-22-2004, 09:51 AM

Hello Sebastien, welcome to SEW.

>DNA
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/08/18/biological.computing.ap/

Mikkel deMib Svendsen

10-22-2004, 10:25 AM

a DNA-powered SEO

I Just can't figure the DNA-powered SEO either: aren't most of us that already?

I can (at least to some degree) grab the concept of DNA powered computing but I think Chris have a point about DNA driven SEO's - aren't we all based on DNA? Hope so .... :eek: (looking around for alians ...)

AussieWebmaster

10-22-2004, 10:52 AM

Google AdWords drop evaluation and disabling of keywords on impression/CTR basis...

NO WAIT... this is about to happen.

telNform

10-22-2004, 03:01 PM

Google Engineers get drunk and leak that there is no algo, it is all based on random chances and under the table payments made thru PayPal

grnidone

10-22-2004, 03:26 PM

Microsoft bring back and really puts marketing money behind smart tags as their ppc offering. This is something they own the rights to, but have never really pushed.

Yahoo puts serious money into AltaVista and spins them off as a search engine site specializing in non-english character languages to compete with Google in Asia, the middle east and Russia. (Anyone remember babelfish?)

The 'big one' hits California and takes out google, yahoo, overture and MSN at least enough to set them back for several months such that smaller search sites could compete.

Google admits they can be bribed.

Nick W

10-22-2004, 03:33 PM

>>Google admits they can be bribed.

dude, that's too good! ;-)

Nick

critter

10-22-2004, 04:19 PM

Page and Brin are really two made up names for Bill Gates!

andrewgoodman

10-23-2004, 01:11 PM

The way this industry is going, almost nothing would surprise me. Perhaps if Yahoo announced they had colonized Saturn, it would be "big" enough to be shocking.

Something nutty, like Yahoo acquiring Starbucks, would stir the pot a bit.

Mikkel deMib Svendsen

10-24-2004, 11:25 PM

Something nutty, like Yahoo acquiring Starbucks, would stir the pot a bit.

Nahh, I am not sure it would. But, if it was the other way around then watch ...! :)

Dodger

10-25-2004, 06:19 PM

I think the biggest thing that could come down the pike is Speech Recognition to process your query in human-ese.

I have one vision in my head that comes out of Star Trek TNG where they talk to the computer somewhere along these lines, where they can find exactly what they are looking for in 3 queries or less:

Troi: I am hungry ... how about we eat out tonight?

Worf: Sounds like a great idea Counselor ... Computer? How many planets are in this sector?

Computer (voice of Majel Barrett): Twelve-thousand four-hundred and ninety-three.

Geordi: Computer? Of those 12,943 planets, how many are Class M planets?

Computer: Four.

Riker: Computer? Of those four ... which one has a McDonalds?

Computer: One. Planet 493 in the Beltzar System.

Picard: Data lay in a course for Planet 493.

Data: Course plotted Captain.

Picard: Engage.

Nintendo

10-26-2004, 01:27 AM

Google allows you to pay to have your PR increased. $100 a month per increase. ie make a new site and you pay $1,000 to go up to PR 10, then you pay less each month as you get back-links.

Google makes you pay them to even be crawled by the Googlebot. $1.00 per URL per crawl.

Google buys Amazon and PayPal, then Amazon's er Googleazonpal's Associate commission doubles.

Chris Boggs

10-26-2004, 09:29 AM

Troi: I am hungry ... how about we eat out tonight?

Worf: Sounds like a great idea Counselor ... Computer? How many planets are in this sector?

Computer (voice of Majel Barrett): Twelve-thousand four-hundred and ninety-three.

Geordi: Computer? Of those 12,943 planets, how many are Class M planets?

Computer: Four.

Riker: Computer? Of those four ... which one has a McDonalds?

Computer: One. Planet 493 in the Beltzar System.

Picard: Data lay in a course for Planet 493.

Data: Course plotted Captain.

Picard: Engage.

Silly computer, don't you know the Borg assimilated Planet 493?

Phoenix

10-26-2004, 05:56 PM

Google Partners with Macromedia
Google supplies secondary results for MSN
MSN intregrates Google in Longhorn

AussieWebmaster

10-26-2004, 06:40 PM

Google agrees to allow SEMPO to determine the development of future organic algorythms

Dodger

10-26-2004, 11:41 PM

Silly computer, don't you know the Borg assimilated Planet 493?

Unfresh Cache ... blame it on Yahoo Slurp running websites past their bandwidth allotments and shutting down Google crawls for long periods of time. Look for Slurp to contract spiders for hire to keep the competition at bay.

andrewgoodman

10-28-2004, 07:22 PM

Geordi: Computer? Of those 12,943 planets, how many are Class M planets?

Computer: Four.

Riker: Computer? Of those four ... which one has a McDonalds?

Computer: One. Planet 493 in the Beltzar System.

Picard: Data lay in a course for Planet 493.

Data: Course plotted Captain.

Picard: Engage.

You went all the way to Planet 493 for a freakin' Big Mac? I hope they serve a nice Planet 408 Zinfandel with that.