New Search Engine: SPOCK

SEO Metro has recently learned of the new search engine SPOCK that has indexed over 100 million people and claims millions are added daily with SPOCK proclaiming they are "building the broadest and deepest people specific search engine. The search engine repots that Clearstone Venture Partners and Opus Capital Ventures "an early-stage venture capital firm with more than $1 billion in committed capital under management".

Spock is also committing to a contest with a winning purse of $50,000 for an individual or team that can overcome its obstacles in people search.

Microsoft Obtaining Yahoo!?

The New York Post reported earlier today that Microsoft is in negotiations with Yahoo! Microsoft is remaining hush about the meeting but a similar meeting happened last year with no results. Yahoo! shares rose 15% and yesterday their online marketing was worth a whopping $38 billion. Some analyst speculate that Microsoft may bid $50 billion for the search engine company but MS has indicated that some services are duplicated and would do them little good to purchase the whole company. Some analysts believe that Microsoft is attempting to gain Yahoo!'s online search advertising market.

Microsoft and Yahoo's share of the search advertising market would add up to 27 percent against Google's 65 percent but would bridge the gap in online ads with Google to just 13 percent.

Indexability for SEO

The ability for search engines to not be able to index pages is an often unforeseen variable in SEO. Take for example SEO Metro's client Dallas Computer Repair. This website at one time had another template that was indexable by MSN search engines and Yahoo! search engines but was not able to be easily indexed by Google. Problem? Well, yeah with Google having 50% of the searches worldwide daily. The aforementioned website is now able to be crawled by all the major search engines which has made a huge difference in traffic.

The reason that Google was unable to crawl the content was most likely the amount of code that preceded the actual content. The new web template is much cleaner with dramatically less code preceding the content. It took some time, a few months, before the search engines would properly place the site. It was as if the site had launched for the first time minus the filtering time a new site is given.