December 30, 2006
2006: A Year in Search
Chris Winfield makes a very interesting summary of the 101 top search engine stories of 2006.
The top 10 - in descending order - are:
- 10. nofollow concerns (7/7) leads to some high profile sites changing their no-follow policies
- 9. Digg updates their algorithm (9/8), changes their look (12/18) and bans lots of legit sites in the process (12/21)
- 8. Google’s ‘minus thirty’ penalty
- 7. Congress bans Internet gambling (10/2)
- 6. The Peanut Butter Manifesto (11/18) and Yahoo reorganizing its operations (12/5)
- 5. Google, Yahoo and Microsoft support Universal Sitemaps Standard (11/16)
- 4. Google rolls out BigDaddy (1/4)
- 3. Social Media Optimization and its dark side
- 2. Danny Sullivan leaves Search Engine Watch (8/29) launches Search Engine Land (12/11) and the Search Marketing Expo conference and Search Marketing Now webcasts (12/5)
- 1. Google Buys YouTube for $1.65 Billion (10/9)
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Hey Brian - any that you felt should have been on this list that weren’t? So much stuff happened in ‘06 but 7 looks like it will be even more :)
Comment by Chris Winfield — December 30, 2006 @ 8:50 pm
2006 was so busy - I’m very impressed you managed to write up such a list - must have taken ages. :)
Funnily enough, I missed the post on SearchEngineLand, but found it via your visiting here from MyBlogLog. :)
Comment by Brian Turner — December 30, 2006 @ 8:56 pm
That’s what is great about mybloglog. Have a great New Years!
Comment by Chris Winfield — December 30, 2006 @ 9:10 pm