Microsoft announced that it’s MSNBot now supports “if-modified-since” HTTP headers and GZip compression… About 10 years too late…

A comparison of the four major search engines shows Yahoo! has the most interesting results with a mix of established and fresh content.

Despite what the folks at Google say, establishing a site targeted at another country isn’t as easy as duplicating your site and slapping a country-specific TLD domain on it.

Against the advice of the folks at Google, we put up a medical thesaurus with over 166,000 pages (they say to limit the number of new pages to about 10,000) – and things went really well. The pages got indexed and we’ve started seeing an uptick in traffic.

Danny Sullivan interviewed Steve Berkowitz for the keynote “conversation” at SES NY. It was interrupted by Ms. Dewey – the personification of Microsoft’s experimental search interface.