September 23, 2004
Microsoft Employing Spam Techniques?

The SEO forums are afire with allegations of Microsoft employing spam techniques to boost their rankings.
The redirected doorway page was initially brought up in a Search Engine Watch thread on cloaking.
To check it out yourself, turn the Javascript off on your browser and search for "broadcast automation india" on Google and click on the first result, which is Microsoft redirected … Read more
September 22, 2004
Google No Longer Parsing Keywords in Brand Names?

Just in the past week or so, I’ve noticed that Google seems not to be parsing out the keywords in brand names listed as BrandName or BrandName.com in Google SERPs and cached pages.
Some examples:
In the SERPs, Google ignores the keywords "washington" and "post" inside WashingtonPost.com.
In the SERPs, Google ignores the keywords find and "articles" inside FindArticles.
On the cached page, Google … Read more
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