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Relevancy is the hottest topic on the search engines’ minds. Trying to put themselves into the shoes of their searchers is a very tricky thing to do. If a person types in ’seal’, they could be looking for the animal, the singer, or maybe the navy.
But what does a visitor mean if they type in just a letter, say… ‘A’. Well here are the number 1 results for every letter of the alphabet:
ChangeMedia: Google Alphabet
Incidentally, Yahoo scores 2 letters: ‘Y’ (naturally) and ‘I’. I would have given it to ICQ (they only get a top 5 position for their letter-sake).

Update Dominic - Part 4
Here we go again. The Google Dance for May has begun.

Pepsi Links Up with Yahoo! for $1B Giveaway

Search Research Comes of Age
This article discusses possibly one of the most comprehensive surveys ever done about search behavior - comScore’s qSearch. This data, as it continues to be put out is likely to shed some very interesting light on topics that has never been available before.
I would like to touch on this a bit more, but I’ve got to run. Take a look at this article, if you have a chance, and read about it yourself.

Have a nice weekend.

Google-Friends Newsletter (April 2003)
Here is Google’s bi-monthly newsletter. If you aren’t a member, you can read this month’s copy here.

Yahoo’s overtures to Overture? | CNET News.com

People know Yahoo is going to do acquisitions, there’s no guesswork there, but the question is who and when,” said one source.