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Million Dollar Homepage Auctioning Off Last Pixels on eBay
Million Dollar Homepage Auctioning Off Last Pixels on eBayNot really search related (although there is some controversy over whether or not the linked images will help with some search engine rankings), but the Million Dollar Homepage is almost full and auctioning off its final images on eBay. Caught the university ...

Craigslist Blocks Search Engine Spiders and Listings
Craigslist Blocks Search Engine Spiders and ListingsAccording to a thread at SERoundtable Forums, Craigslist has blocked the spidering and indexing of its classifieds sites from search engine robots, which scan web sites and save the site information in the memories of search engines. That site info is later delivered to ...

5 Tips to Make it in the SEO Community
5 Tips to Make it in the SEO CommunitySo, kiddie, youd like to make it as an SEO rock star? You want to speak at Search Engine Strategies and get quoted by the Wall Street Journal? All you have to do is become a true SEO expert, right?Not so fast. ...

Wikipedia Thinking Advertising : Google, Yahoo or Who?
Wikipedia Thinking Advertising : Google, Yahoo or Who?Wikipedia may be on its way to profiting via serving online advertising says Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales to the Times Online. Wales tells The Times "at some point questions are going to be raised over the amount of money we are turning down." ...

Y!PN Ads By Yahoo! Blend In Background
Y!PN Ads By Yahoo! Blend In BackgroundThere is a WebmasterWorld thread named Yahoo Ads W/No `Ads By.`? which asks how can someone remove the "Ads By Yahoo!" part of the Yahoo! Publisher Network ads?The thread continues to explain that in some cases, it may appear that the "Ads by Yahoo! ...

Google GOOG Stock Targeted at $600
Google GOOG Stock Targeted at $600Add this Google stock report to the "why didn`t I buy it at $85" file.. Google stock - GOOG, which is currently skyrocketing at $426 per share, has been predicted to reach a value of $600. Piper Jaffray increased the Google price target today to ...

Google PC : OS, RSS, VOIP Distribution
Google PC : OS, RSS, VOIP DistributionGoogle has recently been the driving force behind some new applications and computing initiatives which point to the release of a low cost Google PC which is rumored to be hitting the markets this year. The LATimes reports that Google has been in talks ...

Buying and Selling Sites : Link Building Strategy
Buying and Selling Sites : Link Building StrategyI think probably 30 or 40 sites mentioned when I bought Threadwatch. Some of them linked through to both sites, and many mentioned me in a good light, saying things like "of seo book fame" and whatnot.Andy Hagans got a few links to ...

Google Video Pay-Per-View?
Google Video Pay-Per-View?Here’s Shankar Gupta’s piece at MediaPost (reg req’d) about Google gearing up to potentially charge users to watch full-length videos. While more and more users are paying for content online, this move would (in my view) be premature. There’s too much competition out there and the broadband video ...

Google Maps in Gmail
Google Maps in GmailI have both Yahoo! email and Gmail accounts and a Comcast personal email account—all of which I use for slightly different purposes. But I’ve started to notice that in Gmails where addresses appear, “Map This” links are showing up in the right column above the sponsored links.It’s ...

When Will Google Release Commercial Developer Program?
When Will Google Release Commercial Developer Program?By way of a thread at WebmasterWorld named API-Quotas, where members saw a drastic drop in the quotas they have for their API calls. It turned out the reduction of API queries was a bug and has been fixed since it occurred. However, before ...

Google CES Announcement More Than Google Cube?
Google CES Announcement More Than Google Cube?So as you’ve already probably heard, Google is supposed to make some sort of announcement on a consumer based application at the next Consumer Electronics Show in Law Vegas in a couple days. Some have speculated that Google will announce its own “Google Cube� ...

BBC Opens News Archives Online
BBC Opens News Archives OnlineThe BBC has announced that they are opening up their news archives for their users in the domestic market and would be providing the digital versions of some of the biggest news events of last four decades on the Internet. Under this rollout, BBC has released ...

XM Satellite Radio Meets MP3 Music Downloads &Bookmarking
XM Satellite Radio Meets MP3 Music Downloads & Bookmarking Is search & bookmarking going full circle or what? With the AlwaysOn generation having to always be looking for some 2.0 style of new device, bookmarking has expanded from the web and personalized search and onto the XM Satellite radio service ...

DomainPark - Google AdSense for Domains Sparks Debate
DomainPark - Google AdSense for Domains Sparks DebateWe discussed the big hype back in late December on AdSense for Domains and Poor Traffic where Danny called for reform of these types of products.Lat yesterday evening a thread at WebmasterWorld was started named Domainers making Millions. With a title like that, ...

Broadband Providers Taxing VOIP &Content Delivery
Broadband Providers Taxing VOIP & Content DeliveryThis WSJ article (sub. req’d) details plans (and negotiations) to charge fees of content providers for priority high-speed delivery of broadband content: Large phone companies, setting the stage for a big battle ahead, hope to start charging Google Inc., Vonage Holdings Corp. and other ...

Yahoo Local &Yellowpages.com Partner for Local Advertising
Yahoo Local & Yellowpages.com Partner for Local AdvertisingThe search engine news and partnerships are starting to heat up as the first week of 2006 comes to a draw as Yahoo Local, AT&T, BellSouth & Yellowpages.com have all partnered in one way or another to bring Yellowpages.com (which is a joint ...

Yahoo, MSN, Ask Jeeves &MTV Merger Speculation
Yahoo, MSN, Ask Jeeves & MTV Merger SpeculationThe year opened with two major items regarding Yahoo. The first involves Microsoft, the second, MTV. The LATimes, yes, the same publication that made a false start on rumours of Google computers, is reporting that Microsoft made an offer to buy Yahoo for ...

Google BigDaddy &Canonical URLs
Google BigDaddy & Canonical URLsAccording to Matt Cutts, Google`s BigDaddy solves some long standing issues with Google. Issues which have frustrated webmasters and site owners for years.The biggest change seems to be that the “data center lays the groundwork for better canonicalization.� Canonicalization issues have been big with Google and ...

Bill Gates Downplays Google &Apple at CES
Bill Gates Downplays Google & Apple at CESBefore his Keynote Speech at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Bill Gates sat down with Rueters for an interview which touched upon Microsoft competition, especially Google. In the interview, Bill told Rueters that Google & Apple are getting their current buzz ...

Google Video Store to Offer TV Shows, Movies, and Music Videos
Google Video Store to Offer TV Shows, Movies, and Music VideosLast week Google co-founder Larry Page announced the Google Video Store at the Las Vegas Consumer Electronics Show. Getting a ground up on their Yahoo competition and addressing a consumer need due to the iPod Video craze, Google is offering ...

Yahoo Brings Free Wifi to Sheraton Hotels
Yahoo Brings Free Wifi to Sheraton HotelsSick of paying an extra $10 or so for hotel broadband Internet access? Yahoo and Sheraton`s parent company, Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc., are pairing up to bring free hotel wifi to patrons. The Wall Street Journal reports that Yahoo and Sheraton are ...

Yahoo Acquires WebJay : Exclusive Interview
Yahoo Acquires WebJay : Exclusive InterviewAnother week, another Yahoo acquisition. After reading through `Gorgeous` Bill Slawski`s fine write up of Yahoo Acquisitions over the years I was magically emailed by Tristan Louis with the news that Yahoo has acquired another company, WebJay.Tristain writes "A few minutes ago, I learned that ...

MySpace Issues Cease &Desist To MySpace Domain Sites
MySpace Issues Cease & Desist To MySpace Domain SitesThe MySpace legal team has sent out Cease & Desist letters to the owners of domain names and web sites which use the MySpace name. Sites such as MySpaceCity.com, MySpaceAdds.com, and MySpaceSupport.com have received such letters which are threatening legal action against ...

Google Earth Adds Mac Version, Leaves Beta
Google Earth Adds Mac Version, Leaves BetaGoogle has finally decided to release a Macintosh version of their popular application Google Earth. In addition, they also made the release final. So, Google Earth is now officially out of beta testing phase. The latest versions are available on Google Earth website and ...

DirtyColin.com Crashes From Server Load, Not Colin Farrell?s Legal Team
DirtyColin.com Crashes From Server Load, Not Colin Farrell`s Legal TeamFor those of you following controversial web sites selling the home movies of celebrities, the AP is reporting that DirtyColin.com has been `shut down` by Colin Farrell`s legal team. This, however may not be the case as the site`s owners are ...

GookBox - Store &Play Music in GMail
GookBox - Store & Play Music in GMailThe folks at GookBox (not owned or associated with Google) have come up with a rather useful and hip GMail application, which lets users play and store music files in their GMail accounts. Problem is that they may need to rebrand soon, as ...

Link Love &Political Activism = Free Links from BOTW
Link Love & Political Activism = Free Links from BOTWIn an effort to spread the effective offline awareness of political activism, Greg Hartnett has come about with a way for more Americans to get involved with their Right of Free Speech, and possibly even get sites listed in the BOTW ...

AOL Buys Truveo Video Search Engine
AOL Buys Truveo Video Search Engine Google and Yahoo! have been grabbing the video headlines recently. But in what appears to be something of a coup for America Online and a quick out for a start-up, AOL said it was buying new video search engine Truveo:The acquisition of Truveo builds ...

Levis RedWire DLX Jeans iPod Ready
Levis RedWire DLX Jeans iPod ReadyIs than an iPod in your pocket or are you happy to see me? Levis is joining the mobile technology clothing trend with a new iPod ready jeans line which offers built-in headphones, joystick, and docking cradle. The new Levis RedWire DLX jeans will be ...

Yahoo! Central &Google Pack?s Updater
Yahoo! Central & Google Pack`s UpdaterAs Charlene Li points out about Google Pack in her recent post—and this similarly struck me when when I downloaded it—Google and Yahoo! are developing direct channels onto the desktop in a way that, really, only Microsoft has done before. The hidden genius of Google ...

Google Local Tips - Take Advantage of Local Search
Google Local Tips - Take Advantage of Local SearchLocal search has been growing at a rapid pace the past year or so. So it’s no surprise that more and more firms want to understand how local search can be used to benefit themselves.Recently, I had the opportunity to talk ...

New Food Blog Network Debuts
New Food Blog Network DebutsDigital Mavens LLC has announced the launch of the Well Fed Network, a blog network dedicated to “all things food and drink related”.The blogs include ‘Sugar Savvy‘, ‘Paper Palate‘ (www.paperpalate.net), ‘Growers and Grocers‘, and ‘The Spirit World‘.The new network is also planned new blogs that will ...

Google Local &Google Maps Add AdWords in Blue Balloons
Google Local & Google Maps Add AdWords in Blue Balloons (Pins) ClickZ and Search Engine Watch are reporting that Google Local is testing AdWords ads in their search results and those ads are being differentiated from the normal local search results via little blue balloons and a blue background. These ...

Local.com Brings Contractors.com Content Into Local Search
Local.com Brings Contractors.com Content Into Local SearchLocal.com and Contractors.com, a popular local contractor directory, have entered into a content partnership agreement whereby Local.com users will have access to Contractors.com`s proprietary contractor listings and user reviews from its database of more than 1.1 million nationwide contractors. The Contractor.com listings will be ...

AddictingClips Video Search Powered by SearchForMedia
AddictingClips Video Search Powered by SearchForMediaSearchForMedia.com, a video and audio search engine solutions provider, has been selected by AtomShockwave Corp. to power its new online video directory, AddictingClips.AddictingClips pairs the searchforvideo-powered search engine with a directory of more than 1,000 videos that have been organized and categorized into an easily ...

MSN and Superpages Expand Advertising to Local Search
MSN and Superpages Expand Advertising to Local SearchIn a smart move that will add even more value to online local yellow page advertising, Superpages.com has reached an agreement with MSN where Superpages ads will be served in MSN Local search results. There seems to be no official release yet on ...

Google Local &Research in Motion?s Blackberry
Google Local & Research in Motion`s BlackberryGoogle and Research in Motion, (maker of the Blackberry mobile device), have announced an agreement that will put Google Local and Google Talk software on new Blackberry devices.Google today released a software download, Local for Mobile, that enables Blackberry users to access its local ...

Ask Jeeves Honcho Barry Diller SES NY Keynote
Ask Jeeves Honcho Barry Diller SES NY KeynoteSearch Engine Strategies has landed another huge name for its Keynote speaker at the 2006 Search Engine Strategies New York Conference : Barry Diller of IAC. Mr. Diller will have some big shoes to follow, as the Keynote Speaker at last year`s conference ...

Google?s Most Popular Top Level Domains
Google`s Most Popular Top Level DomainsBill Slawski has outdone himself this time with an amazing list of the number of top level domains Google has indexed for almost every single TLD (.com, .org. edu..etc.). Bill thought of the task after reading an article about the amount of .cn top level ...

Podcast Search Engine from PodZinger
Podcast Search Engine from PodZingerHaving trouble finding Podcasts? This week a new podcast search engine launched called Podzinger which features a voice recognition technology that is based on 30 years of speech recognition research and development from BBN Technologies.PodZinger says that its search services offers two unique features : it ...

Gnoos Australian Blog Search Engine to Launch
Gnoos Australian Blog Search Engine to LaunchFeedcorp, a search company based in Melbourne, Australia, will be launching what they call the first Australian blog search engine. According to ZDNet and Duncan from Blog Herald, the claim to be an Australian blog search engine does not mean that they`ll be a ...

TrueLocal Search Advertising Still in Limbo
TrueLocal Search Advertising Still in LimboWas putting together some basic local listings yesterday for my brother-in-law`s tree service company and went about the updates to the usual local search offerings; Yahoo Local, Google Local, Contractors.com, SuperPages... etc. Then, I stopped by TrueLocal.com`s site, which I have not been to in ...

Google and Yahoo Mobile On Motorola &Blackberry
Google and Yahoo Mobile On Motorola & BlackberryThe integration of Google and Yahoo content into the mobile industry is increasing as a number of announcements were made by both of the search engines this past week which include partnerships with Motorola and Research In Motion`s (RIM) Blackberry. Whether the integration ...

Microsoft adLab : MSN adCenter?s Incubation Lab
Microsoft adLab : MSN adCenter`s Incubation LabMicrosoft has opened its adCenter Incubation Lab, dubbed adLab, in Beijing this week. adLab, a joint project between MSN`s adCenter paid search, content, & targeted advertising platform and Microsoft Research. adLab`s mission is to research and incubate advanced technologies for Microsoft’s adCenter, providing advertisers ...

China?s Control Over Search Engine &Blog Content
China`s Control Over Search Engine & Blog ContentAfter 12 years of the Internet in China, China is keeping a tight grasp on the information which is available via the Internet to its citizens. More importantly, the potential and current billions of dollars available to Yahoo, Google, and Microsoft in the ...

Livedoor Japan Stock Scandal
Livedoor Japan Stock ScandalJapan`s NHK has reported that Livedoor, the Japanese Internet Media, Blog & Search company, and its offices will be (or have been) searched by Japanese authorities. Livedoor is reportedly in violation of Japanese Securities and Exchange Law.NHK is also reporting that at the moment the residence of ...

PBS to Launch MediaShift Blog by Mark Glaser
PBS to Launch MediaShift Blog by Mark GlaserPBS has announced the launch on Jan 18 of a a new blog called MediaShift, which will explore how new forms of digital media are dramatically changing American society and culture.In a particularly good signing, and the main reason we are even mentioning ...

V7ndotcom Elursrebmem SEO Contest : Win $4,000 &an iPod
V7ndotcom Elursrebmem SEO Contest : Win $4,000 & an iPodThe V7n.com SEO contest is off and running and John Scott & Co. have announced the keywords which must sites must be ranked within the top 5 of Google results in order to win : V7ndotcom Elursrebmem. John says in a ...

Yahoo vs. Google : v7ndotcom elursrebmem
Yahoo vs. Google : v7ndotcom elursrebmemIn a show of indexing speed by the two major search engines, Yahoo search has the jump on Google for the indexing of sites which have covered or entered in the v7ndotcom elursrebmem SEO competition - 24 hours after the contest keyterm was announced. As ...

Google?s URL Removal Tool Lacks Support for Wildcards
Google`s URL Removal Tool Lacks Support for WildcardsDan Thies reports over at Search Engine Watch Forums URL Removal tool doesn`t support robots.txt extensions. He explains that even though "Googlebot supports an extension to the robots.txt syntax, which allows webmasters to use wildcards in disallow directives." It does not support the ...

Quaero European Search Engine Goals and Plans
Quaero European Search Engine Goals and PlansPlans for Quaero, which may be housed at Quaero.org although references to Quaero.com (currently a marketing performance firm) are made in documents, have been partially unveiled by Thomson.net as the European Union`s search engine takes its first steps in matching the US run Yahoo, ...

Scientific SEO : Manual vs. Automated
Scientific SEO : Manual vs. AutomatedOne of the best things I ever learned in the navy was troubleshooting and half splitting problems into smaller possible problems. I recently did a bit of microspamming stuff to see what would get nailed and what would not, although I have only tested like ...

Google Base : Feeds, Sales &Marketing
Google Base : Feeds, Sales & MarketingAs the title implies, there is a great free opportunity for additional product promotion through the virtually untapped Google Base. Google base is a wide open database system that allows listing of almost anything. As such online retailers need to understand what it ...

Japan Stock Market Rocked By Livedoor Raid
Japan Stock Market Rocked By Livedoor RaidJapanese stocks, especially in the Internet sector, took a downward fall today as fears growing from Livedoor security exchange problems led to the rapid sales of Livedoor, Softbank, Yahoo Japan and Rakuten Inc. The Japanese Internet Tech Stock scare follows a raid on Livedoor ...

Selfridges $150 iPod Lessons a Smart Move
Selfridges $150 iPod Lessons a Smart MoveStores charging for iPod lessons may seem pretty far out to some techies and gadget users who are familiar with ripping CD`s, iTunes, mp3, and music downloads. But for a good amount of the world who received iPods for Christmas and or have stopped ...

Yahoo Acquires Searchfox RSS Service?
Yahoo Acquires SearchFox RSS Service?TechCrunch is reporting that Yahoo has purchased the assets of SearchFox, an RSS reader with a `small but dedicated group of users`. Last week SearchFox announced that it will be shutting down on January 25th. From the SearchFox blog:Thanks for all your help in making SearchFox ...

Google and Canada.com Partner for AdWords &AdSense
Google and Canada.com Partner for AdWords & AdSenseCanWest Interactive, operator of canada.com, has entered into a multi-year partnership with Google. The partnership will provide canada.com users with content and search related advertising, while offering Google`s advertisers access to canada.com`s extensive reach across the country."With almost three million unique visitors a ...

Former Yahoo?r Now CEO of SideStep Travel Search Engine
Former Yahoo`r Now CEO of SideStep Travel Search Engine The SideStep travel search engine today announced that Rob Solomon has been chosen as the company`s new President and Chief Executive Officer. "SideStep is an innovative company with a strong heritage - a six year history that began with creating ...

Google Buys dMarc Radio Advertising, Expanding Adwords to Radio
Google Buys dMarc Radio Advertising, Expanding Adwords to RadioGoogle is taking its automated keyword, geographic, and demographic advertising beyond web search, contextual advertising, and print ads and onto the most desperate form of "we need money" extremely targeted "how do we combat satellite competition" form of media in the US, ...

Links from Pixel Advertising Pages
Links from Pixel Advertising PagesAlmost all Webmasters are aware of the Million Dollar Homepage, what a great idea (in hindsight). But let`s look at these types of sites from a link building stand point. I have a client that advertised on this site and it brought in a ton of ...

Google Talk?s Open Federation
Google Talk`s Open FederationOn the Google Blog today, Google Talk Product Manager Mike Jazayeri announced the Open Federation for Google Talk - which has nothing to do with Star Trek notes Jazayeri. Mark this post Open Source community friendly post as the second big announcement of the day, after Google`s ...

BeanPool Social Local Search &User Reviews
BeanPool Social Local Search & User ReviewsBeanPool.com, a new social media & community driven local business search engine was launched today and enters a market cornered by Yahoo and also including Yelp, Amazon, BackFence and InsiderPages. In beta release, BeanPool is focusing on the metropolitan Atlanta area.I used BeanPool, which ...

Gannett Media Invests in 4Info Mobile Search
Gannett Media Invests in 4Info Mobile SearchGannett has made a minority investment in the 4INFO mobile search services company. Gannett also has entered into a marketing and distribution agreement with 4INFO, both companies said. Financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.Collaboration between the companies will begin with USA TODAY ...

Google AdRadio
Google AdRadioGoogle makes another sort of local push.. into radio, buying dMarc Broadcasting of Newport Beach, California. There’s a reported downpayment of just over $100 million and more than $1 billion if performance targets are met over three years. dMarc is a media buying service and digital automation provider for ...

Internet Users Judge Sites in Fraction of a Second
Internet Users Judge Sites in Fraction of a SecondNew research released indicates that users take much less time than expected to critique a website. In light of this research it is important for website owners to realize how big an impact that initial response is. Therefore in this article we ...

Amazon.com Picks ZoomInfo for A9 People Search
Amazon.com Picks ZoomInfo for A9 People SearchZoomInfo.com is now the default source of people search info for Amazon`s A9.com search engine. Here`s a rundown from the press release : People looking for background information on a new acquaintance, business partner, neighbor or vendor can simply select the "People" ...

Yahoo 2005 Earnings Strong But Don?t Meet Street Expectations
Yahoo 2005 Earnings Strong But Don`t Meet Street ExpectationsYahoo`s 2005 Q4 revenues came in at $1.5 billion, which was up 39% from the $1.078 billion earned in Q4 2004. However, Yahoo`s stock took a plunge in after-hours trading yesterday evening, dropped by over 12%.Apparently Yahoo missed Wall Street estimates by ...

Apple &Yahoo Stock Bubble? Or Inflated Expectations
Apple & Yahoo Stock Bubble? Or Inflated ExpectationsInflated Expectations, Inevitable Disappointment. So Apple missed too (net income doubles but falls short of estimates) ... But the company’s shares weren’t off as much as Yahoo! yesterday after missing analysts’ estimates by A PENNY. There were blog postings here and there and ...

Executive Linked to Livedoor Scandal Commits Suicide
Executive Linked to Livedoor Scandal Commits SuicideAdding to Japan`s Livedoor stock scandal was the suicide of Hideaki Noguchi, vice president of H.S. Securities Co., which was raided along with Livedoor by Japanese Securities & Exchange authorities this week. Noguchi reportedly slit his wrists in a capsule hotel located on ...

SEO &Yahoo : Indexing of No Follow Links
SEO & Yahoo : Indexing of No Follow LinksOne priceless aspect of the V7ndotcom elursrebmem SEO contest is that it will be unveiling the workings of the Google, Yahoo, MSN, and Ask Teoma search engines as indexing, ranking, and backlinks will be closely monitored by all sites entering the contest, ...

Yahoo Launching Bloglines Style RSS service?
Yahoo Launching Bloglines Style RSS service?Search Engine Journal reported earlier this week that Yahoo has acquired the assets of RSS service SearchFox, which announced recently that it would be shutting down later in January.SearchFox provides a very similar style of RSS aggregation/ reading as does Bloglines, and although I didn’t ...

Yahoo : VoIP Consumers ?Search Important In Purchasing Decision?
Yahoo : VoIP Consumers `Search Important In Purchasing Decision`Yahoo Search Marketing released the results of a study today which explored how consumers use Internet search in researching and purchasing a VoIP service. The findings include helpful insight for service providers in how to drive subscriptions using search advertising techniques that ...

Link Baiting &Effective Link Building
Link Baiting & Effective Link BuildingThere is a tactic out there embraced by bloggers but rarely used by typical websites. It is called Link Baiting. Today I`ll explain what link baiting is and how everyone, not just bloggers, can use it to build quality links.This is a topic that’s ...

Google Ready to Fight Broadband Fees
Google Ready to Fight Broadband FeesThere was public discussion by the telcos and perhaps other broadband providers about trying to charge fees/taxes/tolls to the Googles and Vonages of the world for the high bandwidth usage they directly and indirectly cause.Om Malik points to a CMP column that quotes a Google ...

Sex.com Sold for $14 Million
Sex.com Sold for $14 MillionThe Sex.com domain name was sold this week for an amazing price of $14,000,000 says Adult Net Industry site XBiz.com. XBiz was told by a source at Grant Media, which is handling the sale of the domain name, and InternetRealEstate.com (which XBiz says "shares office space ...

Ask Jeeves Adds Date &Time to Search Caching
Ask Jeeves Adds Date & Time to Search CachingAsk Jeeves may be tweaking their Teoma powered search engine indexing a bit this week as Gary Price of SEW Blog noticed that the Date & Time of cached pages in Ask are now being shown. I was doing some searching with ...

Wordpress Blogs in v7ndotcom elursrebmem Competition
Wordpress Blogs in v7ndotcom elursrebmem CompetitionOne of the beauties of having live referral stats and being a referral junkie is seeing what amazing (or totally off-the-wall) queries which people are finding your site in. One referral query which caught my eye as I was glancing over Search Engine Journal`s stats ...

US Government Wants Search Engine Data
US Government Wants Search Engine DataDanny Sullivan sums it up nicely in his SEW blog entry named Bush Administration Demands Search Data; Google Says No, Others Comply where he says;The Bush administration wanted one million random web addresses and records of all Google searches for a one week period. The ...

iTunes Addresses MiniStore Privacy Concerns
iTunes Addresses MiniStore Privacy ConcernsApple iTunes almost brought upon itself the label of Apple SpyTunes after launching the Apple iTunes MiniStore, which is a service which gathers information about listener habits and transmits those habits to Apple where your user profile is stored and constantly tweaked.The way Apple`s MiniStore worked ...

Yahoo Turned Over Search Data to US Attorneys
Yahoo Turned Over Search Data to US AttorneysIn what is turning out to be a major issue of search engine privacy concerns, Yahoo has acknowledged that the company handed over search data which was requested via Bush administration supoena. The administration is trying to use such search info to revive ...

MySpace Launches Video Sharing Service
MySpace Launches Video Sharing ServiceMySpace is launching its Video Sharing Service writes Rafat at PaidContent.org. Rupert Murdoch mentioned that the service would be launched last week and now MySpace has "soft launched" the service (if MySpace was Google, it would be in Beta). [MySpace Video Sharing is] pretty much cloning ...

eBay?s Skype Sells $318,000 a Day
eBay`s Skype Sells $318,000 a DaySince eBay aquired Skype the VOIP company has produced $24.8 million in sales over 78 days, eBay announced in its earnings report.* 87% of sales are from outside of the US* Skype had 74.7 million total registered users at the end of Q4-05.Communications registered users ...

VideoEgg Video Publishing Receives Venture Funding
VideoEgg Video Publishing Receives Venture FundingVideoEgg, a video publishing and sharing service providing easy to use publishing solutions for video bloggers and other web publishers has closed a round of venture capital with August Capital. VideoEgg`s straightforward approach to online video publishing focuses on simplifying digital video, making it as ...

Yahoo Sports &Gambling : Sports Odds and Game Spreads
Yahoo Sports & Gambling : Sports Odds and Game SpreadsAt first I must admit I thought this was some kind of B.S. press release which made it through the wires without anyone doing their fact checking. After looking deeper into Yahoo Sports, I found out I was wrong. Yahoo Sports ...

Government Pursuing Google Search Data
Government Pursuing Google Search DataHere’s an important post from John Battelle about the Bush administration’s efforts to get at users’ online behavior and search data. Battelle excerpts a San Jose Mercury News article on the Justice Dept. efforts:In court papers filed in U.S. District Court in San Jose, Justice Department ...

GMail Adds Delete Button, Hell Freezes Over, Pigs Fly
GMail Adds Delete Button, Hell Freezes Over, Pigs FlySomeone at GMail got the bright idea after two years to add a delete button so users could actually delete their unwanted emails without having to dig into the system. Sure, Google feels that its conversation search technology is good enough so ...

Google, Bush, and Privacy
Google, Bush, and PrivacyYesterday it was revealed that AOL, Microsoft and Yahoo! complied with Justice Department subpoenas to turn over search data. Google has made a very high profile statement that it will not. Here’s more coverage of the issue in the NY Times (reg. req’d).Yahoo! spokespeople said none of ...

Washington Post Halts Blog Comments
Washington Post Halts Blog CommentsDuncan Riley at Blog Herald reports that "The WashingtonPost has indefinitely shut off the ability for people to post comments on its blog because of `objectionable postings.`"Duncan explains that the Post`s policy was to ban comments that were personal attacks or used profanity or hate speech. ...

Fallout from Google Privacy Subpoena
Fallout from Google Privacy SubpoenaNews of Google telling the US Government `No` to a Department of Justice Subpoena this week has led to an all out media onslaught of the search engine industry and privacy concerns which is already starting to lead to stock values dropping and Wall Street fears.After ...

Google, Yahoo Stocks Fall Amid Privacy Concerns
Google, Yahoo Stocks Fall Amid Privacy ConcernsGoogle shares fell 8.5% today as a recent dip search search stocks has affected the GOOG empire. The disturbing search engine stock trend has been reflective of recent tech stocks which have not met Wall Street expectations, which may be a bit inflated themselves. ...

Google News Adds Most Popular &Recommended Sections
Google News Adds Most Popular & Recommended SectionsGoogle News has added two new sections to its news syndication and reading service, one of which is only available for those Google users who are using their Personalized search function. The two new sections are Most Popular and Recommended. Philipp Lessen of ...

Search Engine Marketers Paying Too Much?
Search Engine Marketers Paying Too Much?This article made the rounds on Friday (ClickZ). The thrust of this Kevin Newcomb piece is that the paid search auction model is flawed and inefficient for less sophisticated marketers:“We want to educate advertisers about the fact that in some sense they are being taken ...

Dr. Ricardo Baeza-Yates Leading Yahoo Labs in Chile &Spain
Dr. Ricardo Baeza-Yates Leading Yahoo Labs in Chile & SpainYahoo is expanding its research operations into Europe and Latin America with the opening of new facilities in Spain and Chile. Web retrieval and mining expert Dr. Ricardo Baeza-Yates will lead both centers in their focus on topics related to Web ...

Google Stock and Department of Justice
Google Stock and Department of JusticeJim Hedger feels that the Department of Justice suit against Google for not handing over search info has little to do with a drop in Google stocks last week. I wrote last week that there should be a relationship between the controversy and stock value, ...

ReachLocal Delivers Local Search to FTD Florists
ReachLocal Delivers Local Search to FTD FloristsReachLocal and FTD Florists are working together on a customized local search campaign in which 20,000 FTD merchants will be advertising on Google AdWords, Yahoo Search Marketing, IYP`s like SuperPages, and Advertising.com. According to the agreement, FTD will implement all of its local search ...

Yahoo &Social Media : Tagging, Blogs, Reviews
Yahoo & Social Media : Tagging, Blogs, ReviewsThere`s a nice article worth reading in Business Week today which is comparable to Business 2.0`s Flickrization of Yahoo; Yahoo`s Social Circle. The article reviews some of Yahoo`s recent acquisitions (including WebJay, blo.gs, Flickr, Upcoming.org and del.icio.us) and current Yahoo Social Media offerings ...

AOL &IBM Connect Instant Messenger Users
AOL & IBM Connect Instant Messenger UsersAOL and IBM are now working together to connect their instant messaging communities. Under the agreement, IBM Lotus Sametime users will be able to connect with users of the AOL, AIM, ICQ and Apple iChat instant messager services. IBM`s goal is for its ...

Ask Jeeves Launches New Image Search Engine
Ask Jeeves Launches New Image Search EngineAsk Jeeves is expanding its internal search offerings by launching its first proprietary image search technology, available on Ask Jeeves at pictures.ask.com. Ask Picture Search is the engine`s first internally-created index of images with new & innovative image search ranking algorithms. Image Search accounts ...

Blogonomics Caribbean Blog Cruise
Blogonomics Caribbean Blog CruiseWant to learn the ins and outs of business blogging while rubbing shoulders with Jeremy Wright, Duncan Riley, and BL Ochman? Or if you`re just looking to get toasted for about 4 days on inclusive drinks and the Caribbean sun while being able to explain what you ...

Yahoo Answers &Yahoo Publisher Network To Pay Users?
Yahoo Answers & Yahoo Publisher Network To Pay Users?Let`s see, the future of Yahoo is Social Media. Social Media is interactive user generated content such as tagging, blogs, MyWeb, user reviews, photo sharing, ratings, and perhaps even user generated mashups (I`m thinking that Ning is an obvious acquisition target) and, ...

Yahoo?s Goals Beyond Search
Yahoo`s Goals Beyond SearchThere`s is a lot of negative press going on about Yahoo CFO Susan Decker`s statement to Jonathan Thaw of Bloomberg News saying that "It`s not our goal to be No. 1 in Internet search. We would be very happy to maintain our market share."Decker added that "We ...

Spelling Errors: Advanced SEO Techniques
Spelling Errors: Advanced SEO TechniquesWith certain sites in certain industries it can cut into your credibility to have lots of misspellings.Although I hate to admit it, one of the biggest things holding back my credibility is spelling errors. Some people just can`t take a misspelling fool seriously. Others empathise with ...

Yahoo! Content to Be No. 2 in Search?
Yahoo! Content to Be No. 2 in Search?This is a very interesting piece from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer quoting Yahoo!’s CFO Susan Decker on the implied unliklihood that Yahoo! will gain any significant search share from Google in the immediate future.Recall, however, that overall Yahoo! is number 1 in terms of ...

Yahoo Publisher Network Expanding This Spring
Yahoo Publisher Network Expanding This SpringYahoo is preparing its answer to Google AdSense, the Yahoo Publisher Network, and has been going about the launch of their contextual advertising offering in a slow and careful fashion. Instead of letting mass publishers apply for and automatically receive Yahoo Publisher Network accounts, Yahoo ...

Yahoo! Helping Splogs and Google Earn Money?
Yahoo! Helping Splogs and Google Earn Money?Marcia posted a thread at Search Engine Watch forums named Plagiarism, Splogs and Search Engine Spam where she quoted a blog entry at Plagiarism Today named Why Sploggers Splog The snippet Marcia selected was ironic, to say the least.One of the interesting things that ...

Yahoo! Search Not ?Giving Up?
Yahoo! Search Not `Giving Up`Here’s the Yahoo! Search response to the “controversy” created yesterday by the Bloomberg article in which Yahoo! CFO Susan Decker seemed to be saying Yahoo! was perfectly happy being No. 2 (to Google) in search:[W]e thought it made sense to briefly recap how focused we are ...

Patrick Gavin on Domain Names, Blogs &Linking
Patrick Gavin on Domain Names, Blogs & LinkingAs the rest of the search world is concentrating on Google China Censorship, Yahoo Search Schizophrenia, and Government Subpeonas, I thought that I would declare January 25th Global Linking Day at Search Engine Journal. Linking Day started off with a Case Study on ...

Link Baiting Case Study from Search Engine Journal
Link Baiting Case Study from Search Engine JournalLink baiting (or linkbaiting) is the emerging art of building a useful tool, writing an interesting article, or running a newsworthy `event` on a web site which naturally attracts links. Examples of some link baiting may be running a contest which includes multiple ...

Google, Sun &Harvard vs. Spyware &AdWare
Google, Sun & Harvard vs. Spyware & AdWare Google is collaborating with Sun Microsystems to launch a new initiative against spyware and malicious applications, which have become so widespread on the internet. These two tech giants would be funding a new anti-spyware coalition, which is expected to be launched today.This ...

Google: Improved Local Imagery
Google: Improved Local ImagerySeeking to match some of the very impressive high-resolution “bird’s-eye” photography now available through Windows Live Local, Google has improved the resolution on some of its aerial coverage. Here’s the latest from the Official Google Blog:We’re always trying to improve the imagery in Google Earth and Google ...

Fundamental Principles of SEO
Fundamental Principles of SEOMichael Martinez at SEOmoz has found the lost tablet that we had all thought Mozes had dropped on Mt. Sinai (thinking Mel Brooks); The Four Fundamental Principles of SEO.1. Visibility : Visibility is an intangible aspect of search engine optimization, but it is every bit as important ...

Opera Mini Brings Browser to Mobile Phones
Opera Mini Brings Browser to Mobile PhonesThe makers of popular web browser application Opera have now officially launched the scaled down version of their mobile browser Opera Mini. This version was already available since sometime and now has been officially announced by the company to enter the first final version. ...

Link Baiting Contest : Win $1,000
Link Baiting Contest : Win $1,000Speaking of link baiting, Andy Hagans of Performancing and Text Link Ads fame has announced a new SEO oriented contest on his BizNicheMedia business blog network. Andy says that he`s too lazy and uncreative to think of good link bait ideas, so he`s decided to ...

Google China Kowtows to Censorship Laws
Google China Kowtows to Censorship LawsGoogle has done the inevitable in their bid to expand the reach of their search engine, services and advertising business in China. Google China is complying to Chinese pressure to censor controversial and ant-Chinese themes from the Google China search results.Google.cn launched yesterday and the ...

Giving Away Free or Discount SEO
Giving Away Free or Discount SEOLee Odden at TopRank gives some excellent advice to SEO practicioners who find themselves on the other end of the phone with tight business owners or marketing executives looking for huge discounts or short term test buys. Lee feels that caving into pressure and ...

Google Cache Ruled Legal Fair Use
Google Cache Ruled Legal Fair UseA Nevada district court has ruled in favor of Google, declaring that the Google Cache is legal and in Fair Use. Google Cache is Google`s way of storing web content in its search engine memory, with stored versions of web sites which show up in ...

Google Releases Desktop AdWords Editor
Google Releases Desktop AdWords EditorI first spotted this a couple days ago at Gary Price`s SEW Blog entry named Google Quietly Beta Testing Desktop AdWords Editor.AdWords Editor is Google`s free, downloadable account management application for your computer. Now you can download your AdWords account to your computer, make your changes, ...

Microsoft?s Live Labs
Microsoft`s Live LabsIt appears that everyone is the world of search is opening new labs. Google has been announcing new research labs here and there for the past several months; Yahoo! earlier this week announced research labs in Spain and Chile. And last night Microsoft announced that it was creating ...

Google Censors IE Users From Surfing Beyond Page 1 Results?
Google Censors IE Users From Surfing Beyond Page 1 Results?Andy Beal posted on his Marketing Pilgrim today that Google was forcing downloads of Google Desktop upon its Internet Explorer users today : "This must be a glitch at Google. Search for anything with Google and it will not let you ...

Yahoo Buying Digg?
Yahoo Buying Digg?There are some big names in the Web 2.0 and blogging world saying that Yahoo is close to buying Digg for somewheres around $35 Million (or atleast has the `offer on the table`). Kevin Burton writes on Feed Blog : I haven`t yet heard from anyone working for ...

20,000 Sony PSP Videos Available from GUBA Search
20,000 Sony PSP Videos Available from GUBA SearchGUBA, a multimedia search service of Usenet videos, has added the availability of Sony PSP-enabled playback of GUBAs indexed Usenet video content. Now, Guba is offering more than 20,000 videos which are selected from the worlds oldest and largest bulletin board service. GUBA ...

Google Tunes Music Store to Follow Google Video?
Google Tunes Music Store to Follow Google Video?Is Google rolling out its answer to Apple iTunes in the shadows of Google Video Store? Some wall street analysts think so and have declared Google stock to outperform based upon their assumptions. Forbes.com reports :"We believe that Google is in the midst ...

FirstGov Relaunches with Vivisimo and MSN Powered Search
FirstGov Relaunches with Vivisimo and MSN Powered SearchFirstGov.gov has relaunched using Vivísimo`s (the clustering search technology) Velocity web search platform. The redesigned portal, which went live today, leverages Vivísimo Velocity`s search, federated-search and clustering capabilities, combined with expanded search results from Microsoft MSN Search. This turnkey, hosted search solution serves ...

Google China Censorship Controversy Roundup
Google China Censorship Controversy RoundupGoogle choosing to censor the search results of its Google China search engine has led to a lot of industry flack and protest against a search engine which was viewed as the `people`s hero` only last week for standing up to government aggression. When Google agreed ...

Google AdSense Earning Decrease Also?
Google AdSense Earning Decrease Also?The other day we reported that YPN EPC Was Decreasing and we offered possible explanations as to the reason. However, today, I noticed a featured thread at WebmasterWorld named Declining eCPM where members share their experience noticing that although traffic is rising on some sites, the ...

Google AdSense Limits Referral Payout to 90 Day Window
Google AdSense Limits Referral Payout to 90 Day WindowI’m not using this program, and probably just as well. Jensense reports that Google have quietly added a new term to all AdSense referrals generated by a publisher, a 90-day time limit on that referral, meaning a referred publisher must earn the ...

Xoogler on Google?s Foray into China
Xoogler on Google`s Foray into ChinaOn the Xooglers (ex-Googlers) blog, Doug Edwards; ex-Director of Consumer Marketing and Brand Management for Google, comments on his experiences with Google and the China censorship problem. Doug lends an insiders view to the goings on inside Google and the balance of patience and reality ...

Q&A with Andrei Broder,Yahoo VP of Emerging Search Technology
Q&A with Andrei Broder,Yahoo VP of Emerging Search TechnologyThe Yahoo Search Blog is opening up its channel of communication with Andrei Broder, Yahoo`s VP of Emerging Search Technology and accredited expert on design, analysis, and implementation of algorithms for information retrieval and applications.From Tara @ Yahoo : "Broder is co-winner ...

Reciprocal Link Exchanges - Don?t Get Cheated
Reciprocal Link Exchanges - Don`t Get CheatedOutstanding post by martinibuster, moderator of the Link Building Forum at WebmasterWorld, on the thread named I was Cheated on a Reciprocal Link. His advice?Basically, - You don`t exchange links with any page with a white bar. - Don`t exchange links with any site ...

Kanoodle to Power MSN Spaces Sponsored Links
Kanoodle to Power MSN Spaces Sponsored LinksKanoodle just announced today that they will be providing content targeted sponsored links on Microsoft`s MSN Spaces blog network."Through this deal with MSN, Kanoodle`s advertisers will have access to one of the best sites on the Web," said Lance Podell, Kanoodle`s chief executive officer. ...

Google Adds Personalization to Toolbar Upgrade
Google Adds Personalization to Toolbar UpgradeGoogle went live tonight with version 4 of its toolbar for IE (Firefox version coming soon I`m told). You can take a look at the laundry list of features and upgrades here.Worth noting from my point of view are the following:* Bookmarks (the ability to ...

Google Toolbar Upgraded for IE
Google Toolbar Upgraded for IEGoogle`s latest update of its Google Toolbar is a fairly large and relevant one to Internet users as some customer retention and toolbar activity boosting tools have been added along with some features which will attract Google Toolbar users to Google Account offerings such as GMail ...

Skype Ringtones a Prelude to iTunes Competitor?
Skype Ringtones a Prelude to iTunes Competitor?In a smart youth oriented marketing move, Warner Music Group will make available master recordings from WMG`s roster of world-renowned recording artists as ringtones to the more than 74 million registered users of Skype.Skype users will have access to music ringtones from artists including ...

Breaking Google?s Great Firewall of China
Breaking Google`s Great Firewall of ChinaGoogle`s censorship of certain terms on Google China has led to a rather large argument of humanitarian freedoms and International Business. Google says that if they had not released a China friendly version of Google China, most of Google.com`s offerings would have been blocked anyway ...

About.com &NBC Team to Blog Winter Olympics
About.com & NBC Team to Blog Winter OlympicsAbout.com and NBCOlympics.com have announced an agreement that will provide visitors with a unique view of the 2006 Olympic Winter Games from Torino, Italy, February 10 - 26.Under the cross-promotional agreement, NBCOlympics.com will feature links to About.com content throughout its site. Likewise, About.com ...

Revenue Sharing Blogs, Forums, and Networks
Revenue Sharing Blogs, Forums, and NetworksWith just about every blogger or web publisher having a Google AdSense account these days, one method of growing the reach of one`s ads is to participate in forums, blogs, and other sites which have implemented an AdSense driven content growth model.By letting the writers ...

Google Comments on Napster Rumor
Google Comments on Napster RumorThe search engine world should be taking this rumor with a grain of salt, but as speculation of a Google Music Download Service is heating up; we`d like to pass along the Google Rumor of the Day: Google Buying Napster.From the New York Post (a News ...

SEO Lesson from Jessica Simpson, Teen Marketing Genius
SEO Lesson from Jessica Simpson, Teen Marketing GeniusThe creation of original web content is one of the main building blocks of search engine optimization and gaining rankings for different search terms. Targeting long tail terms is writing for specific and targeted audiences, attracting users to your site who are looking ...

Google Tagging &Bookmarking in Yahoo?s Backyard
Google Tagging & Bookmarking in Yahoo`s BackyardLots of Google action going on this morning as Threadwatch`s Aaron Wall has picked up that Google is integrating tagging and bookmarking into personalized search. In what looks like a page from del.icio.us and Flickr (two Yahoo properties) Google is expanding their bookmarking from ...

The Google Cache, Caching Google in Protest
The Google Cache, Caching Google in ProtestIn my referals the other day I clicked over to a blog which linked to Search Engine Journal and a story on Google China. The blog entry was about Dorks protesting Google. I`m not sure how dorky covering search engine news is, nor have ...

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