It’s interesting to note that in honor of their 10th anniversary, Google has brought back to life it’s oldest available index from January, 2001.

Simply go here, and you’ll be able to search the Web as it was indexed by Google almost 8 years ago.

You can find some Interesting stuff!

If you’d like to quickly and easily monitor your web site’s position for a few search terms, you can’t beat Rank Checker. It’s a Firefox add on that easy very easy to install and run. Basically you need only specify the domain name and keywords and it will report back within seconds the site’s ranking in Google, Yahoo, and MSN.

We use it to check our own search positioning. For example, it took only about 15 seconds or so to check the positioning of CyberSiteSearch for the phrase “ecommerce site search”. (The results were we are in number 2 position in Google, number 4 in Yahoo, and number 1 in MSN Live.)

It’s lightweight, easy to use, fast, and free. You can’t beat it.

Web merchants often wonder how CyberSiteSearch relates to their search marketing and search engine optimization (SEO) efforts. The answer is that the CyberSiteSearch Google Product Injection and Search Engine Product Visibility features dovetail perfectly with those efforts.

Search marketing and SEO efforts for the vast majority of retail sites focus on more general themes and keywords such as category names, product features, brand names, etc. For example, for a hypothetical site selling widgets, the focus is generally on promoting keywords representing the product types or categories (“widgets”), brand or manufacturer information (“acme widgets”), product attributes (“left handed widgets”), etc. It is unusual for SEO efforts to be expended in favor of individual product pages, mainly for cost reasons (typically, there are just too many of them).

That’s where CyberSiteSearch comes in. Our product focuses on the search marketing of your product pages. And it does so in a highly efficient, automated, and cost effective manner. Plus, remember that even the most successful search marketing campaigns fail unless these new site visitors can rapidly locate and purchase the products of interest, and that’s the purpose of our ecommerce site search features.

Combining CyberSiteSearch with your search marketing and SEO efforts not only makes perfect sense, but comprises a powerful “one-two punch” to achieve better sales on your retail web site. Contact us today to learn more.