Top 101 Search Stories Of 2006

By Barry Schwartz

Published: December 28, 2006 at 9:06 am

Chris Winfield over at 10e20 has compiled a list of the top 101 stories in the search industry for the past year. He orders the stories in descending priority order, and most of the stories link to external sources. Here are the top five:

(5) Google & Yahoo & Microsoft supporting the Sitemaps.org protocol
(4) The Big Daddy Google Infrastructure change
(3) Social search and media optimization and how it can be leveraged for SEOs
(2) Danny Sullivan leaving Search Engine Watch for this fine blog
(1) Google Buys YouTube for $1.65 Billion

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About the author

Barry Schwartz

Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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