June 2003 SE Updates
June 1st, 2003
Search Engine Updates for...
| Overture/Fast | Inktomi | AltaVista | Lycos | ODP | LookSmart | Yahoo |
In this month's issue...
- Google's update from hell
- LookSmart lowers fees
- Overture adds Click Index
- Fast adds new query spy, spell check and conversion tools
- Fast adds "Clusters" to search results
- Yahoo changes look of cached results
Google Update - http://www.google.com
What's new
Google's update from Hell
Last month we reported changes occurring on April 30th – the very same day we went to publication for the May '03 issue. Specifically, we saw what appeared to be a possible "Onmouseover" or affiliate link penalty adversely affecting PageRank scores within Google.
Throughout the month of May we received many similar reports about pages that contained affiliate links inexplicably showing a gray bar (i.e., an unknown page based upon the PageRank Rating) within the Google Toolbar which indicates the page was purged from the Google index. In every case, doing a Google sear...
