Tag Archives: Search Engines

I discuss (link to video included) catching all 151 available Pokémon in an April 2025 Google Search-Pokémon catching minigame.

If we define having made it as receiving a green “Safe” checkmark from Norton Safeweb, I dare say that The New Leaf Journal has finally made it.

I share 54 things I learned in 2024, with links to sources for each thing I learned. End your year by learning what I learned.

Explaining how I implemented boolean search on my WordPress site using built in filter hooks for the Relevanssi Light plugin.

I test various external search engines on how they handle a specific domain-specific search of thenewleafjournal.com.

Making the case for maintaining a clear distinction between traditional search engines and generative AI tools masquerading as search tools.

I use Retro Dodo’s complaints about a dramatic and unexplained decrease in its Google traffic to caution webmasters against relying solely on Google Search to deliver visitors.

The Peekier search tool, once reviewed by The New Leaf Journal, is no more (or so the fact it redirects to Kagi suggests).

The story of our lengthly Bing de-indexing (since resolved).

Making the case for whitelisting Seznam and other good crawlers from independent index search engines.

If Bing blacklists a site in its index from appearing to searchers, will it still use the site to inform its ChatGPT implementation? A simple question for Microsoft.

Yet another lesson on what happens when you fail to read the fine print. Properly removing pages from Yandex Turbo edition.