Entries from Search Engine Roundtable tagged with 'live'

Happy Halloween! Here are the logos from the search community including Google, Yahoo, Bing, AOL, Ask, Dogpile, and so many more. For the past years logos, see 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005 and 2004 logos. Here are 2009's Halloween logos: Google...

Posted on October 31, 2009 7:48 PM

Today is Labor Day in the United States and the search engines have special logos up, except Google and Yahoo. There is no surprise there, historically, Google and Yahoo never have logos for the Labor Day holiday. So although Google...

Posted on September 7, 2009 9:13 AM

Happy July 4th All! Here are the logos celebrating the special day from Google, Yahoo, AOL, Ask, YouTube, Bing, Dogpile and many others. Google: Yahoo: AOL: Bing: Ask: Dogpile: YouTube: Search Engine Roundtable: For past July 4th logos from the...

Posted on July 4, 2009 10:05 PM

This is my first time being a father for Father's Day, so it is a bit different for me now. I am about to go to sleep here on the East Coast but many of the logos from the search...

Posted on June 21, 2009 1:02 AM

Today is Memorial Day in the United States of America. And to recognize the day, Google, Yahoo, AOL, Live.com, Ask.com, DogPile and others have special logos up. Google, who is known not to show a special logo for the day,...

Posted on May 25, 2009 6:42 AM

Happy Mother's Day to all you mothers out there! Here is a collection of logos from the search industry, celebrating Mother's Day. We have logos from Google, Yahoo, Live.com, Ask.com, AOL and others. Google: Yahoo (animated): AOL (animated): Live.com: Ask.com:...

Posted on May 10, 2009 8:36 AM

Today is Earth Day and many of the search engines have created special logos to remind people of the day! We have Earth Day logos from Google, Yahoo, Microsoft's Live.com, AOL, Ask.com, DogPile and others! Google: Yahoo (animated): AOL (animated):...

Posted on April 22, 2009 6:21 AM

Today is the holiday of Easter, it is also Passover. Some search engines have special logos and themes for the day, while others don't. Google, Yahoo & AOL are all missing special logos for Easter or Passover. Microsoft's Live.com, Ask.com,...

Posted on April 12, 2009 10:49 AM

Today is the first day of spring and Google, Live.com, AOL, FriendFeed and others have special logos and themes live on their home pages today. It is also Nowruz, the beginning of the Iranian year and is a secular holiday...

Posted on March 20, 2009 6:01 AM

Happy St. Patrick's Day everyone! The mandatory line, please drink responsibly! I wanted to share with you the logos from around our industry celebrating the day. We have logos from Google, Yahoo, Microsoft's Live.com, AOL, Ask.com, DogPile, YouTube and others!...

Posted on March 17, 2009 7:35 AM

Today is the ever so popular Mardi Gras and some of the search engines have special logos for the day. Google, Yahoo and Ask.com are missing logos, but AOL, DogPile, Live.com and others have logos. Let me archive those logos...

Posted on February 24, 2009 7:31 AM

Today is President's Day, a legal holiday in the United States. It is around the time of Washington's birthday and it is used to celebrate all the Presidents of the United States every year. But today, Google and Yahoo do...

Posted on February 16, 2009 8:50 AM

Happy Valentines Day everyone! Here are the logos from the various search engines: Google had two logos, depending on where in the world you were: Yahoo's animated logo: AOL's animated logo: Live.com's Theme: Ask.com's Theme: DogPile's logo: YouTube's logo: Cre8asite...

Posted on February 14, 2009 7:20 PM

Today is the day Barack Obama becomes the 44th President of the United States of America. It is Inauguration day and this one, is more hyped up then any other inauguration I have ever witnessed. That being said, we have...

Posted on January 20, 2009 7:30 AM

Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day and many of the search engines, including Google, Yahoo, Ask.com, Live.com, AOL, and others are remembering the day with special logos. Here is a collection of logos from the various search engines in...

Posted on January 19, 2009 7:22 AM

incrediBILL, moderator at WebmasterWorld, noticed that one of Live Search's bots was crawling through his JavaScript. The bot is named MSNBOT-MEDIA and he noticed that it was accessing JavaScript files and AJAX functions. He noticed that the bot was triggering...

Posted on January 2, 2009 7:49 AM

Happy New Years Search Engine Roundtable readers! I would like to wish you a happy and healthy 2009 from myself and the whole search industry. To keep up our tradition, below is a collection of special logos from the 2009...

Posted on January 1, 2009 7:55 AM

I just wanted to wish everyone a warm and happy holidays! Every year I try to echo the same message about our industry. From the search engines, the search marketing firms and the search community, this industry is truly a...

Posted on December 25, 2008 9:25 AM

I am seeing reports at WebmasterWorld of a possible Microsoft update to Live Search. Senior member, bwnbwn, said it looks like Microsoft is jumping back and forth between two indexes. He said: It looks to me that there are 2...

Posted on December 15, 2008 7:43 AM

We wanted to wish all you American's a Happy Thanksgiving. As you can see, if you click through to the Search Engine Roundtable, we have a special theme live for the day - it is worth checking out. In addition,...

Posted on November 27, 2008 7:32 AM

I spotted two thread this month discussing how little Microsoft is indexing their sites but how often Microsoft's bot, MSNbot, is crawling their sites. A WebmasterWorld thread and DigitalPoint Forums thread has details of the newish behavior from MSNbot. BillyS...

Posted on November 24, 2008 7:42 AM

Today is election day in the United States of America, if you haven't noticed. To note the day, several major search related sites, including us, have posted special logos, themes and content. Note, Yahoo does not have a special logo...

Posted on November 4, 2008 10:59 AM

Here are various logos from the search industry, including Google, Yahoo, Microsoft's Live.com, Ask.com and many others. Some are pretty spooky, including our theme. Google's Halloween Logo: Yahoo's Flash Halloween Logo: Yahoo's Static Halloween Logo: DogPile's Halloween Logo: Live.com's Halloween...

Posted on October 31, 2008 6:30 AM

The Live Search blog announces a partnership between Facebook and Microsoft for search and ads. You can now either "Search Facebook" or "Search the Web" using Live.com. Additionally, adCenter ads will be delivered alongside those search results. So far, it's...

Posted on October 10, 2008 9:41 AM

We have two WebmasterWorld threads and a DigitalPoint Forums thread discussing a brief update and bug with Microsoft's Live Search. We know the last Microsoft Live Search update was about 15 days ago. So it does seem a bit early...

Posted on October 3, 2008 8:34 AM

We've briefly seen search tool Powerset in action at SES just a month ago. They were acquired by Microsoft around that time and are already being integrated into search results. The Powerset blog explains some of the feature offerings: Freebase...

Posted on September 19, 2008 9:19 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread is reporting early signs of a major Microsoft Live Search update. The rankings, indexing and algorithm seems to have updated. First reports came in from senior member, textex, at 9:30am (EST) yesterday. Since then, other members began...

Posted on September 17, 2008 8:28 AM

A week ago, I asked what would you do if your site gets penalized. The options I gave were (A) Clean Up The Site & Request Reinclusion, (B) Quit the SEO Game and Play Golf or (C) Burn the Site...

Posted on September 5, 2008 8:09 AM

Microsoft has spent a considerable amount of time and resources building out enhanced features to the Live Search Webmaster Tools. They announced releasing the new features this week, but it has gone, pretty much, unnoticed in the SEO and webmaster...

Posted on August 8, 2008 8:26 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread asks if Microsoft is not serious about webmasters. Why? Well, if you use Live Webmaster Tools and you click on "Add Site," you will see funny messages. For example, when they ask for your email address Microsoft...

Posted on July 24, 2008 8:11 AM

A Search Engine Watch Forums thread has a member complaining that after he signed up with Microsoft adCenter, he noticed his site was removed from the Live Search index. For those that do not know, adCenter is the search ad...

Posted on April 24, 2008 7:49 AM

There are two recent threads in different forums complaining about search engine spiders from Microsoft. A WebmasterWorld thread is specifically complaining about MSRbot, Microsoft's research bot, for attempting to crawl pages that don't exist. The other thread is from DigitalPoint...

Posted on February 25, 2008 7:18 AM

Many of you probably already know that Microsoft's Live Search has been displaying "Sitelinks" under the first search result for some queries for a while now. In fact, they have been doing this since the Microsoft Searchification Day 2007 in...

Posted on February 20, 2008 7:42 AM

Ever since the last quarter of 2007, SEOs and Webmasters have been complaining about not being indexed in Live Search. In short, many sites that were once indexed and ranking in Live Search were no longer. Plus, many new sites...

Posted on February 18, 2008 7:28 AM

The Live Search Blog announced several updated to their crawler. The first is a name change to reflect the upgrade, previously named msnbot/1.0, it is now named msnbot/1.1. The bulk of the changes include the HTTP Compression and Conditional Get...

Posted on February 13, 2008 7:28 AM

In early November I reported that Microsoft's link command came back to life. But it now seems to be up and down, currently down. The new link command that should work, is the the syntax of +linkdomain:www.seroundtable.com. But as expected,...

Posted on December 19, 2007 7:25 AM

A year ago, Microsoft promised to enable Webmasters a method of verifying MSNbot. Way too often, rogue spiders mask themselves as official spiders from Google, Yahoo, Live Search or Ask.com. The search engines have enabled methods to conduct reverse DNS...

Posted on December 5, 2007 7:22 AM

As expected early last week, Microsoft announced the "New Live Search". Todd, Oilman, posted live coverage, as did Vanessa Fox at Search Engine Land of the Searchification event at Microsoft. Here is what Microsoft explained is new: Relevance, relevance, relevance. ...

Posted on October 1, 2007 8:12 AM

The other day we reported on a Live.com Search Update & Design Update. The other week, in conjunction with our post, the LiveSide blog captured dozens of screen captures of "Live Search 2.0" in action. Ever since then, I see...

Posted on September 25, 2007 7:32 AM

TexTex reports at a WebmasterWorld thread about an algorithm and design update at Live.com. No one else saw what Tex saw. Tex described it as: It was a totally different index...with a different look aesthetically..it has since disappeared. Although no...

Posted on September 21, 2007 7:17 AM

A couple weeks ago Microsoft Promised Webmasters a Live Search Portal. Part of that included the ability to be part of the beta, to test out new features. Some Webmasters signed up and have already been invited into the beta....

Posted on September 3, 2007 8:41 AM

Many are excited that Microsoft has announced that they will be building out a webmaster portal. The portal will be similar to that of Yahoo's Site Explorer of Google's Webmaster Central. As Danny Sullivan explains, the portal will help consolidate...

Posted on August 24, 2007 6:10 AM

A WebmasterWorld thread reports several webmasters finding weird referrers from Microsoft's Live Search. I am getting thousands of hits where the items in my log show the referrer as follows; http://search.live.com/result.aspx?q=KEYWORD&mrt=en-us&FORM=LVSP When I load the referred page then I am...

Posted on August 17, 2007 7:36 AM

If you notice dashes in the place of the numbers in your adCenter statistics reports, then no need to worry. In a WebmasterWorld thread, adCenterEU explained that the dashes represent that there was a timeout failure between the reporting and...

Posted on August 8, 2007 8:01 AM

The official Microsoft Live Search representative at WebmasterWorld said that Microsoft will finally be supporting Sitemaps (for real this time) now. Microsoft will currently support autodiscovery of your sitemap file if it is included within your robots.txt file. I have...

Posted on July 25, 2007 7:54 AM

There appears to be some early reports of a Live.com or MSN Search update taking place now. A WebmasterWorld thread has a few signs and signals from the SEO community that such an update is currently underway. It is currently...

Posted on June 22, 2007 7:48 AM

I typically like to wait for Danny Sullivan to do his large chart, plotting all the various metrics companies against each other. But Nielsen//NetRatings released (PDF) a report with new share figures. Here they are: In the number one slot,...

Posted on June 22, 2007 7:32 AM

About a month ago we reported that Microsoft adCenter Conversion Tracking Turned Off Automatically. The bug continued to linger and linger. Finally, last night, adCenter411, Microsoft's official adCenter representative, has confirmed they found the issue of the bug and fixed...

Posted on June 19, 2007 7:39 AM

A ton of mapping news came out yesterday. Search Engine Land has a great overview of ma lot of the ones that apply to the search engines. - Google Launches "Street View" Photography - Microsoft Virtual Earth Expands 3-D Coverage...

Posted on May 30, 2007 7:18 AM