Seo Home > SEJ SEO News FeedsGoogle Japan Blog LaunchedGoogle Japan Blog LaunchedGoogle Japan has launched their own Google Japan Blog, hosted by Blogger, which shows some behind the scenes pics and info on things going on at their Tokyo offices. I stopped by Google Japan last week and can’t help to wonder if the popularity of the Hanging Out With Google Japan post [...]
$10,000 Blog Challenge - Blogger Investing to Change the Blogosphere
$10,000 Blog Challenge - Blogger Investing to Change the BlogosphereJohn Scott, who is quite infamous around SEO circles and is currently running the v7ndotcom elursrebmem SEO contest at v7n, has recently gotten into blogging and is looking to shake up the blogosphere a bit with his $10,000 Blog Challenge.John feels that the blogosphere is being [...]
MSN Adds Instant Answers for Movie Showtimes?Kind Of
MSN Adds Instant Answers for Movie Showtimes…Kind OfInteresting entry over at the MSN Search blog; MSN has added an “instant answer” functionality for movies, making it more than just your run-of-the-mill find a movie theater and showtimes kind of deal. Searchers can actually browse movie genres, movie ratings, and other film-related phrases. Here’s an example:childrens [...]
Link Building via Enhanced Article Distribution
Link Building via Enhanced Article DistributionThe writing and syndication of articles with strategically placed links has been on the SEO palettes of Search Marketers over the past couple of years and has led to some effective link building campaigns for some. Search engines however are catching up to the process of mass distribution of content [...]
Google Shares Slip on Growth Rate Report
Google Shares Slip on Growth Rate ReportGoogle stock value had fallen sharply Tuesday after Google CFO George Reyes went on his Google Growth Tour on Wall Street which shed the light that Google is experiencing slower growth in search revenue and that it will need to focus on new avenues to generate more growth.Here are [...]
TrueLocal.com?s TrueTarget Local Search Advertising
TrueLocal.com’s TrueTarget Local Search AdvertisingAfter having their Local Search advertising service on hold while the system was retweaked, TrueLocal.com has relaunched their TrueTarget advertising program which lets small businesses list local search listing on TrueLocal, which only lets physical businesses advertise with them.Small businesses can add an expanded listing in TrueLocal for only $4 a [...]
Windows Live Local and Ask Upgrade Maps
Windows Live Local and Ask Upgrade MapsAlong with the launch of the new Ask.com yesterday, the company introduced an upgraded mapping product that now looks very much like Google Local and Windows Live Local. It offers aerial and “hybrid” views in addition to the standard mapping view. Here’s my hotel in New York. We’re releasing [...]
Edgeio Takes Craigslist to the Next Level
Edgeio Takes Craigslist to the Next LevelAs Mike Boland wrote earlier this week, Edgeio has launched.This is a very interesting site because one can publish local classified or services listings directly there or on a blog and Edgeio will “pick them up.” In other words, I can set up my free blog (Blogger, Wordpress, etc.), [...]
Google Sitemaps New Features : Keyword Ranking, Mobile, Downloads
Google Sitemaps New Features : Keyword Ranking, Mobile, DownloadsGoogle Sitemaps has added new features including ranking positions for keywords which send traffic to your site, top mobile search queries, and CSV file downloads. The keyword ranking reports will probably be the most valuable for the search and publisher community as automatic ranking reports for longtail [...]
New Google AdSense Layout and Features
New Google AdSense Layout and FeaturesFrom the AdSense blog: You can now access all AdSense products from the AdSense Setup tab within your account — edit your color palettes, get code snippets, access your channels, and more. As we add even more products and features, they’ll all share a consistent style to keep AdSense easy [...]
Wikipedia Hits the Million Article Mark
Wikipedia Hits the Million Article MarkThis via ZDNet;Wikipedia now has one million articles that could be filled chock-full or errors…or not. More from ZDNet:“Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit behind the online encyclopedia written by its readers, said late Wednesday that an article about the Jordanhill railway station in Scotland became its millionth one.Wikipedia was created in [...]
Google Moving China Search Data to United States
Google Moving China Search Data to United StatesGoogle has moved its China search history data (which may or may not include GMail) out of the Peoples’ Republic of China and to the US. The reasoning for the move of the search information was to prevent the Chinese government from accessing such private info.Recently Google’s competitor [...]
Local.com Offers Local Search Service for Regional Sites
Local.com Offers Local Search Service for Regional SitesLocal.com is now offering a new service for local publishers - LocalConnect, which is a private label local search engine solution for those regional and local sites. With local search growing into a major search and advertising channel, this tool from Interchane’s Local.com will be a surefire fit [...]
Teen Blogger Discovers GMail Javascript Vulnerability
Teen Blogger Discovers GMail Javascript VulnerabilityA 14 year old blogger (aren’t all 14 year olds bloggers?) recently discovered a hole in Google Gmail which allows automatic javascript execution when someone is using the email preview function. From Ph3rny’s Blogspot hosted Blogger Blog :I was recently attempting to mail some javascript code from my yahoo account [...]
Microsoft Search Still Planning to Top Google
Microsoft Search Still Planning to Top GoogleMicrosoft yet again plans to launch a new search engine which Microsoft European President Neil Holloway feels will topple Google. Microsoft plans to launch its new search engine in six months across the USA, Britain and then Europe.“What we’re saying is that in six months’ time we’ll be more [...]
Family Watchdog Sex Offender Search
Family Watchdog Sex Offender SearchFamily Watchdog is a new site launched by the National Coalition of Victims in Action which uses a local map search function to display sex offenders in specific areas. By using Family Watchdog, parents are able to enter their address or zip code into the site and the result is [...]
Search Engine T-Shirt Contest Judging Underway
Search Engine T-Shirt Contest Judging UnderwayNow that SES NY is done and overwith, the search engine community will be returning to their hometowns and offices; deleting emails, returning phone calls, checking up on blog feeds, or enjoying the weekend and putting all of that off until Monday.The end of Search Engine Strategies New York also [...]
Best Blogging Newspapers in America
Best Blogging Newspapers in AmericaBlue Plate Special, a Blogging 101 Journalism Class at NYU has released the results of their research on determining the Best Blogging Newspapers in the United States. The class consists of 15 undergrads, two grad students and their Professor.The study looked at the top 100 newspapers in the US, which were [...]
Kayak.com Travel Search Adds User Wish Lists
Kayak.com Travel Search Adds User Wish ListsTravel search engine Kayak.com is now offering “Trip Ideas”, a travel community where users can create and share travel destination “wish lists”. Kayak.com is then providing real-time fares and availability for every “wish list” destination, which skips numerous steps in fare and hospitality research. The addition is a nice [...]
Paid Search Marketing Tactics for 2006
Paid Search Marketing Tactics for 2006There are some really great sources of information on planning and executing a successful paid marketing campaign, from researching your audience and the keywords they use to managing your bid portfolio.Using the sessions from SES NY as a guideline, I’m going to introduce you to what the “experts” are doing [...]
Yahoo Lowers Its Expectations
Yahoo Lowers Its ExpectationsFrom eWeek in probably one of the most unfortunately-titled stories I’ve come across lately - “Yahoo Lowers Expectations for Original Content.” Apparently Yahoo is wanting to make REALLY sure that everyone knows that they’re just not gonna even try anymore; at least when it comes to its upcoming entertainment offerings. Here’s the [...]
Flash Tricks for Improved Search Engine Rankings
Flash Tricks for Improved Search Engine RankingsNormal wisdom says that if you use Flash in a web site it will hurt your search engine placement. This is due primarily to search engines having a hard time to index Flash content. But with a little ingenuity we can use that very problem to our advantage.Let’s first [...]
Google Mini &Oracle Secure Enterprise Search Offerings
Google Mini & Oracle Secure Enterprise Search OfferingsGoogle has released a new Google Mini Enterprise Search which is targeted towards small businesses with its capacity of searching up to 50,000 doucments and small biz friendly price of $1,995.From Google :The new Mini is smaller in capacity and price, but not in performance. It offers the [...]
AOL Search Oscar Picks : Brokeback Mountain and Joaquin Phoenix
AOL Search Oscar Picks : Brokeback Mountain and Joaquin PhoenixAOL Search is making its Academy Awards predictions based upon which Oscar nominated films and actors have piqued the most interest with AOL searchers. Judging by factors of public intrigue and actor popularity (or the lack of it) AOL Search has been wrong in its predictions [...]
Local Search Performance and Google Click to Call
Local Search Performance and Google Click to CallI moderated two panels on local at SES yesterday morning. Both were very interesting and took slightly different perspectives on Local Search. Both had tactical aspects and we were lucky to have an advertiser in the room that was part of the Google click to call beta test [...]
SEO Chat Forums Delisted in Google?
SEO Chat Forums Delisted in Google?In recent forum news, it seems as if SEO Chat Forums has been delisted by Google. Not the main site (i.e. www.seochat.com) but the forums.seochat.com. It seems to have happened yesterday afternoon and currently, the management claims they have no idea why.Lots of wild theories out there and I have [...]
CBS News to Go for Mobile Phones
CBS News to Go for Mobile PhonesCBS is releasing CBS News to Go this week, which is heiled as the first service which will send news to suscbrivers via mobile phone video. CBS News to Go will send subscribers up to five alerts a day with customizable news interests for each user. CBS is also [...]
Manipulating Alexa Traffic Rankings
Manipulating Alexa Traffic RankingsWith the launch of Alexadex “share trading” and more and more sites using Alexa rankings as a way to judge their popularity (mostly because it is the only alternative); especially for ad selling, I thought it would be nice to revisit the manipulation of Alexa, an Amazon.com company. Alexa rankings are based [...]
Viva Yahoo? Yahoo is Elvis, Yahoo is Everywhere
Viva Yahoo? Yahoo is Elvis, Yahoo is EverywhereYahoo’s Jeremy Zawodny had a post on his blog this morning called Viva Yahoo! which quotes Topix.net’s Mike and his comparison between Yahoo and Las Vegas. As quoted from the Topix.net Blog :So what does that have to do with the publishing industry? Well, when I look at [...]
Washingtonpost.com Gets del.icio.us (Yahoo) Tagging
Washingtonpost.com Gets del.icio.us (Yahoo) TaggingWashingtonpost.com is now working with Yahoo’s del.icio.us to offer tagging capabilities on all articles on the Washingtonpost.com site. The del.icio.us tagging addition is quite nice and an innovative way for the Post to attract more readers who use the del.icio.us tag, bookmark and search service. Likewise, the New York Times has [...]
Ingenio?s Ether - Pay Per Professional Advice
Ingenio’s Ether - Pay Per Professional AdviceA couple of sites are reporting on the beta launch of Ingenio’s Ether. It’s essentially a billing and payments infrastructure with scheduling and phone number provisioning. It allows anyone who sells advice/expertise to do that remotely over the phone using the system.Ether takes the “negotiation” out of the process [...]
Oscars Highlights on Yahoo Video, Oscar Dates on Craigslist
Oscars Highlights on Yahoo Video, Oscar Dates on CraigslistIt’s Oscar weekend and Yahoo Video Search has geared up numerous Academy Award videos. Yahoo will also be offering Oscar highlights on Monday morning including acceptance speeches and red carpet interviews.The Yahoo Video Search team says on the YSearchBlog that “You can search for trailers for [...]
Ask.com Drops the Baggage, Can They Compete with Google, Yahoo and MSN?
Ask.com Drops the Baggage, Can They Compete with Google, Yahoo and MSN? Back when MSN announced its long-awaited new search technology to the world a year ago it was with little fanfare and a long-winded letter from Bill Gates. When ASK announced that it was dropping Jeeves and moving forward it was with [...]
AT&T Buying BellSouth for $65 Billion
AT&T Buying BellSouth for $65 Billion According to a story in yesterday’s New York Times AT&T (formerly SBC) is near a deal to acquire BellSouth:AT&T is expected to pay about $65 billion for BellSouth, the country’s third largest phone company, which operates in a nine-state region in the Southeast. The price represents a 25 percent [...]
Performing an AdSense Background Check
Performing an AdSense Background CheckJen Slegg has a nice write up at JenSense about testing to see if a site has been banned by Google AdSense. Sales of content sitesand blogs are heating up and some buyers are paying fairly decent amounts of money only to find that some sites have had a negative history [...]
NBC Universal to Buy iVillage
NBC Universal to Buy iVillageNBC Universal had announced earlier today that they agreed to acquire iVillage Inc for $600 Million cash.iVillage, which owns several woman targeted websites such as iVillage.com, Women.com, and Healthology.com, should serve as a major digital platform and be tied into NBC’s television programming.“iVillage immediately gives us scale and a profitable, established [...]
MSN adCenter Accepting New Advertisers Today
MSN adCenter Accepting New Advertisers TodaySearch engine marketers are rejoicing as the third major offering in paid search advertising is opening its doors today for a second larger run of BETA sign ups. MSN adCenter will be offering a sign up period for advertisers from 9 am until 12 pm Pacific Time today (March 6th [...]
How Much Money Did Firefox Make From Google in 2005?
How Much Money Did Firefox Make From Google in 2005? There’s some interesting speculations and idle gossip swirling around the Web today about how much money Firefox made from Google last year. Jason Calacanis gave his input:“Mozilla Corporation makes all that money because of the Google Search box on the top right. If you [...]
ShopLocal &the ?Offline?Future of Online Shopping
ShopLocal & the ‘Offline’ Future of Online ShoppingI have seen the future of online shopping and it’s ShopLocal. Okay, so maybe that statement is somewhat overblown, but it’s essentially true. Newspaper-owned ShopLocal just relaunched with a new and improved design and interface. The site offers both online and local deals on a range of products. [...]
Craigslist Censorship &Free Speech Online
Craigslist Censorship & Free Speech OnlineThere is yet another debate raging over whether the Internet should truly allow unfettered free speech.This debate is over Craigslist and whether it should be more proactive in censoring those who post on it. The debate began when listings for apartments were posted that were obviously racially slanted. This leads [...]
Yahoo Answers Adds User to User Mail &IM, Other Features
Yahoo Answers Adds User to User Mail & IM, Other FeaturesYahoo Answers added a large amount of features and upgrades to their service on Friday. Here’s a rundown from the Yahoo Answers Team Blog:Spell CheckerThere’s now a spell checker tool on the Answer Question page, Email Question page, and comment areas. Now you can be [...]
MSN backtracks on timetable for beating Google in search
MSN backtracks on timetable for beating Google in search MSN has had to do some pretty fast backpedaling due to statements from European MSN head Neil Holloway last week, who stated that MSN’s search engine would surpass Google’s in 2006. More from ITNews: “What we’re saying is that in six months’ time we’ll be more [...]
Standford Daily Pulls Doorway Page
Yesterday, news spread of the Stanford Daily’s repeated decision to host doorway pages. But if you check the doorway pages today, you’ll notice they are no longer live. (The pages are still viewable in Google’s cache) Back in May of 2005, the Stanford Daily stopped hosting doorway pages, but obviously for one reason or another [...]
Paid search spending forecasted to hit $10 billion by 2009
Paid search spending forecasted to hit $10 billion by 2009 This from eMarketer; a new study from MarketWire reports that “paid search advertising spending, slowing from its meteoric rise the last few years, will still hit $10 billion by 2009.” More from the article:“eMarketer forecasts that US paid search ad spending in the US in [...]
Yahoo to offer four new mashup tools
Yahoo to offer four new mashup tools Via CNet, Yahoo will be rolling out four new mashup tools soon. More from the article:“In a nod to the Web’s flourishing mashup culture, Yahoo on Tuesday announced four new application program interfaces for developers interested in building custom programs using its photos, calendar, shopping and bookmark tools.The [...]
New AT&T and ?Net Neutrality?
New AT&T and ‘Net Neutrality’Some have speculated that AT&T in its new, hypothetical post-acquisition position as the nation’s dominant broadband provider might be tempted to pursue fees from companies (e.g., Google, Vonage, etc.) that use lots of “bandwidth.” This is the essence of the “net neutrality” debate. In a November, 2005 interview in BusinessWeek then [...]
MSN adCenter?s Firefox, IE 7 &Safari Problems
MSN adCenter’s Firefox, IE 7 & Safari ProblemsMSN adCenter opened itself up yesterday for three hours of new BETA user signups and the marketing world was yet again reminded of the MSN trend of not having Firefox compatibility high on their agenda. Not only have Firefox browser users had problems with adCenter since it was [...]
Screenshots of Google Calendar CL2 from TechCrunch
Screenshots of Google Calendar CL2 from TechCrunchTechCrunch has screenshots of Google Calendar, aka. CL2, which is an AJAX application. Michael Arrington said that the screenshots were leaked despite Google Calendar being in closed beta. Apparently 200 participantsare involved in the beta testing and are under strict rules not to share any details with outsiders. Google [...]
LinkWizard: Spam Targeting Wordpress Blogs
LinkWizard: Spam Targeting Wordpress BlogsSpam is one of those topics that gets returned to time and again. Well, I was just updating my Simple SEO Blog and found:Others Drafts?“Huh? Other people don’t contribute to my blog. What’s this about?”Well, a sneaky wee so and so had used WordPress’ registration system to “join” my blog and [...]
Google AdWords Email : Rejoin the Google Content Network
Google AdWords Email : Rejoin the Google Content NetworkI do not run many Google Adwords accounts (for myself), but in the ones that I do have running one of the first things I do before launching the campaign is deselecting Contextual Ads in the Campaign Settings field. This option makes sure that ads are only [...]
Google News, New Language - New Problems
Google News, New Language - New ProblemsThree weeks ago, when Google officially launched it’s Google Israel branched, they announced that they will take up to 18 months to translate their services into Hebrew, and that an R&D center was not likely to open up. Both predictions now appear to be wrong.Google News in Hebrew was [...]
blinkx Pico : World?s Smallest Search Engine &Desktop Search App
blinkx Pico : World’s Smallest Search Engine & Desktop Search Appblinkx is working on a new desktop navigation tool dubbed Pico, which is a small application that lets user search the web contextually. Pico reads computer active screens, infers the meaning of what you’re looking at, and then retrieves relevant information from across the Web [...]
Ask.com Expands in France, Italy and the Netherlands
Ask.com Expands in France, Italy and the NetherlandsAsk.com launched European versions of their new search offering with Ask.com France, Ask.com Italia and Ask.com Nederland. Ask is using the new launch to broaden their appeal in Western Europe and the French version apparently has a unique algorithm, possibly showcasing what Ask labs are working on in [...]
Searching for Beer in Chicago : Local Search Gets Bent
Searching for Beer in Chicago : Local Search Gets BentTalk about niche vertical search, the Chicago.com local vertical search engine is getting even more vertical with a new beer search. Gearing up for the flowing goodness of freshly tapped beer in all kinds of pubs and bars on St. Patrick’s Day, Chicago.com has launched Beer.chicago.com. [...]
Viral Marketing: Remember Happy Hour at Dotster?
Today, March 8th, at Dotster.com a coupon to purchase a domain for 50 cents will be posted to the Dotster web site. The offer is good for the registration of any new .com, .net, and .org domain registration. There is a limit of one coupon per order, one coupon per account ID, one coupon [...]
Google Supplemental Results &Big Daddy
Google Supplemental Results & Big DaddyAs I was running through my daily web chores today I noticed something peculiar on Big Daddy server: http://64.233.167.104. I did a site: command and instead of the usual 100,000 or so results I saw the dreaded supplemental results notification. I had lost 98,000 indexed pages and left with a [...]
Google?s AdSense Margins to be ?Squeezed?
Google’s AdSense Margins to be “Squeezed”The news sites are buzzing on the mistaken release of figures on AdSense. Stating that profit margins in its AdSense business would “be squeezed in 2006 and beyond.” They issued a retraction of this information;The statements regarding $9.5 billion in 2006 ad revenue and AdSense margins were not speaker notes [...]
Microsoft Live?s Search &Browser Experience
Microsoft Live’s Search & Browser ExperienceMicrosoft is busy rolling out a flurry of search-related upgrades. A dizzying array of tools and features are coming via Live.com and Live Labs/Ideas. Also the company bought Onfolio and is going to integrate the toolbar into the Live.com/browser/search experience. I haven’t had a chance to “play” with any of [...]
Online Reputation Monitoring of Positive and Negative Buzz
Online Reputation Monitoring of Positive and Negative BuzzSearch has grown beyond the industrial commercial web and is now well integrated with personal publishing, blogs, wikis, user reviews, comments and all kinds of publishing options which makes keeping track of what is being said about a company, product or service more and more of a challenge. [...]
Google Buying Writely in GDrive Plans?
Google Buying Writely in GDrive Plans?Google’s recent Analyst day slide show gave insight to Google’s GDrive and Lighthouse plans of hosting the world’s information and content at Google. Greg Linden got the blogosphere stirring with this snippet from a slide which was previously hosted on Google.With infinite storage, we can house all user files, including: [...]
Google?s $90 Million Click Fraud Settlement
Google’s $90 Million Click Fraud SettlementGoogle has apparently agreed to pay the equivialent of $90 million (Yikes!) to settle a click fraud class action. Here’s the AP Story. According to third party data compiled by eMarketer, SEMPO found that “the percentage of advertisers who say that click fraud, the artificial inflation of click through numbers, [...]
Google Adwords Adds Demographic Targeting
Google Adwords Adds Demographic TargetingGoogle AdWords is going beyong localized, contextual, and keyword targeting to add a new demographic targeting option for its advertisers. Released just hours ago, Google Adwords Demographic Site Selection is a way to add pinpoint targeting to AdWords campaigns.Using the new Demographic Site Selection, Adwords advertisers can target by age, gender, [...]
Why Brazil Loves Orkut!
Why Brazil Loves Orkut!Danny Sullivan made a post today at Search Engine Watch quoting a USA Today piece on the alarming amount of Al-Qaeda “fan” groups in Google’s Orkut. Anytime one talks about Orkut the Brazilian phenomina is discussed which centers around why is Orkut so popular in Brazil?Danny posted on Search Engine Watch after [...]
Microsoft Origami &Google Search Results
Microsoft Origami & Google Search ResultsMicrosoft released the plans for its Origami PC yesterday, which is lighting up the web, news, and blog search engines with storms of searches for the term “origami”. For those who live in a kimchee pot buried in a northern Afghani cave, origami is the Japanese art of paper folding.Origami.com [...]
Mobilicio.us : Del.icio.us for the Mobile Phone
Mobilicio.us : Del.icio.us for the Mobile PhoneWant to access your del.icio.us bookmarks via your mobile device or cell phone? Try mobilicio.us. “Mobilicio.us is a “mashup” that combines the del.icio.us online bookmarking service with Google’s Mobile Search tool. This allows you to browse through “mobilized” versions of your del.icio.us bookmarks from your phone browser or other [...]
Feedster Expanding to Japan Blog Market
Feedster Expanding to Japan Blog MarketFeedster has joined other blog search companies like Ask’s Bloglines and Technorati in expanding its blogging services into the Japanese blog-frenzied market. Feedster will be partnering with Mitsui & Co., Ltd. for Feedster Japan.Mitsui & Co., Ltd. and its U.S. subsidiary Mitsui & Co. (U.S.A.), Inc. made an undisclosed investment [...]
Google?s Acquisition of Upstartle - Writely So
Google’s Acquisition of Upstartle - Writely SoLook out Microsoft, Google has purchased the company Upstartle. Upstartle is the maker of Writely - which is an online document processing tool or simply put; a browser based version of MS Office. The move was rumored yesterday by Om Malik, and has now been confirmed by a posting [...]
Manipulating Del.icio.us with Spam
Manipulating Del.icio.us with SpamRecently I looked at ways to manipulate a site’s Alexa Ranking. Now Rob at BusinessPundit is taking manipulation to the next web level with his post on Manipulating Del.icio.us.It’s less of a how-to post than the Alexa one, but gives an example of a Hoodia site spamming the business tag section of [...]
Accoona - AI Search or Poor Search?
Accoona - AI Search or Poor Search?There has been a lot of recent news on Accoona, a search engine “with interactive tools that provides users with better web, business and news results; powered by proprietary Artificial Intelligence technology.” The news is that Accoona Relaunches ‘AI Search’ Engine specifically “targeting media outlets and businesses.”So I dug [...]
Clusty?s Benjamin Franklin Portal
Clusty’s Benjamin Franklin PortalI just browsed over to one of my favorite metasearch engines, Clusty, and noticed that they now have a Benjamin Franklin Information Portal. More from the site:“Welcome to the Benjamin Franklin web portal: a comprehensive, one-stop site that includes carefully curated educational resources, Franklin’s own writings and proverbs, and tens of thousands [...]
Microsoft Windows Live Search &User Control
Microsoft Windows Live Search & User ControlOn the MSN Search Blog, General Product Manager Laura Baldwin has a rundown of the new functionality tools which put the user in control. MSN has implemented some major user experience changes with the launch of Live Search, those changes include (from MSN Search Blog):* The scope bar that [...]
Interchange &Local.com For Sale?
Interchange & Local.com For Sale?Interchange, the search company and parent owner of Local.com and ePilot, may be selling part of its search technology service(s) according to a story in Reuters. The article says that Interchance has retained ‘investment banking firm Merriman Curhan Ford & Co. to assist in reviewing strategic alternatives available to the company [...]
Google Office in Your Browser
Google Office in Your BrowserDoes anyone remember how, less than a year ago, several commentators suggested Google was compiling a series of products that could emulate an online operating system? At the time, Google steadfastly denied such rumors. Yesterday, Google purchased Upstartle, the maker of a browser-based word processor called Writely.Writely is an online word [...]
MySpace &Terrorists : PR Keeps Getting Worse
MySpace & Terrorists : PR Keeps Getting WorseIf you’re too successful then the media starts looking closely to find your warts. MySpace joins a long list of companies now feeling the real heat of negative press after a kind of Icarus climb to the sun. After many glowing industry stories about page views and time [...]
Myspace Messenger Open For Beta Testing
Myspace Messenger Open For Beta TestingThere had been some rumors on Myspace planning on launching their messenger IM service sometime soon, especially with them heavily targeting Yahoo staff like Yahoo’s Manager of email and IM, Brad Garlinghouse. The reasoning for Myspace Messenger is quitesimple, while Myspace is the premier destination for young active blogging music [...]
Microsoft Live Toolbar (beta) is now Available
Microsoft Live toolbar is now available in beta releaseThe Microsoft Live product line has gotten just a bit larger this week with the introduction of their new Live Search, and now with a matching toolbar, the Windows Live Toolbar beta.In the development of this toolbar Microsoft used a new technology acquired recently along acquired with [...]
Search Engine Optimization for Blog and RSS Feeds
Search Engine Optimization for Blog and RSS FeedsStephan Spencer has made available (it’s a .ppt file) his excellent Search Engine Strategies presentation, Blog and RSS Feed Search SEO. The session was also blogged live over at Search Engine Roundtable; here’s one of my favorite snippets:“Use keyword ins the feed title, less than 100 characters. Write [...]
Highest Resolution Areas Via Google Earth
Highest Resolution Areas Via Google EarthThis via Digg Watch; someone with apparently quite a bit of extra time has fiddled around with Google Earth long enough to discover the highest resolution areas on Earth - these include Guadalajara, Istanbul, and Mt. Everest. Downloadable KMZ files are available to view these images in your own copy [...]
Google Talk for the BlackBerry
Google Talk for the BlackBerryBlackBerry has just announced that they are offering Google Talk among their mobile devices for BlackBerry users with a Gmail account. Blackberry is offering their users a PDF download file called Google Talk for BlackBerry devices User Guide and has a list of systems requirements at the BlackBerry.com (NSFFF - Not [...]
eBay?s Investment in Meetup.com
eBay’s Investment in Meetup.comeBay has taken its high profile investments and acquisitions beyond Craigslist and Skype and over to the Meetup.com. Along with other investors including Senator Bill Bradley (you know, the guy who lost to Al Gore in the 2000 Democratic primaries, who is also an investor in QuinStreet) and the Omidyar Network, eBay [...]
Yahoo! Refunds Click Fraud Without Customer Requesting Refund
Yahoo! Refunds Click Fraud Without Customer Requesting RefundA thread at Search Engine Watch Forums named Kudos to YSM Click Fraud Dept shows how two moderators have received automated email notifications from Yahoo! Search Marketing that they have been refunded money (some a large amount) for click fraud. Elisabeth, Search Engine Watch Forums Editor said,Iwas pleasantly [...]
SEO Tools from SEOValley &SEOBook
SEO Tools from SEOValley & SEOBookSEOValley has just pumped out a bunch of SEO related tools which are designed to help webmasters track changes in Google, compare results between multiple sites, and identify sites which are publishing duplicate content. Here’s a list from the India based company, SEOValley:Google PageRank (PR) Dance Tool :This tool checks [...]
3-D Seek Doodle Search Engine Now Available for Testing with 6,000 Items in Index
3-D Seek Doodle Search Engine Now Available for Testing with 6,000 Items in Index3-D Seek is a joint effort of Imaginestics and the National Science Foundation’s Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program which is a search engine that lets users find items in an online catalog without ever needing to know the items’ names, [...]
Google Hacker Firefox Extension : Advanced Dork
Google Hacker Firefox Extension : Advanced DorkGoogle Hacker’s Guide’s Johnny Long has put together the Advanced Dork Firefox extension which makes it quite easy to perform advanced Google searches; especially for useful for the SEO crowd.Amit has the scoop:Known as Advanced Dork, this extension provides right-click access to Google’s Advanced Operators like intitle: inurl: intext: [...]
Google Video Goes RSS, Looking for Feedback
Google Video Goes RSS, Looking for FeedbackGoogle Video has announced that they are now offering RSS Feeds for Google Video users who would like to keep tabs on new additions to categories of video, such as popular, or Google Video search results.This is our first release of RSS feeds on Google Video and …we’d like [...]
Brazil Questioning Google &Orkut Over Illegal Activity
Brazil Questioning Google & Orkut Over Illegal ActivityGoogle Brasil is in a bit of hot water due to the amount of illegal activity which goes on in Orkut. Google Brasil has been asked by authorites to explain why certain Orkut channels are open to such activites including drug dealing and organized crime. In the US [...]
Performancing Metrics : Analytics for Professional Blogs
Performancing Metrics : Analytics for Professional BlogsNick Wilson and the Performancing crew launched Performancing Metrics today in public beta testing and are looking for bloggers who are interested in using & testing the professional grade blog statistics service.Performancing Metrics is essentially the blog alternative to analytics programs like AWStats or Google Analytics which are geared [...]
Amazon Storage Space Beats Google To The Punch
Amazon Storage Space Beats Google To The PunchMove over Google GSpace (rumors), here comes something meatier. Amazon Web Services is now offering an unlimited data storage service aimed at software developers who are creating new sites and services - Amazon S3. The space is incredibly affordable, at $0.15 per GB-Month of storage used and $0.20 [...]
Yahoo Publisher Network Makes Some Upgrades
Yahoo Publisher Network Makes Some UpgradesGiven the search and blog oriented press focusing on the content advertising arm of Yahoo Publisher Network, sometimes it’s easy to forget that advertising is only one part of the total YPN offering - especially since it has gotten off to such a slow USAcentric start (with MSN adCenter breathing [...]
Yahoo?s Jerry Yang on Search &Social Media
Yahoo’s Jerry Yang on Search & Social MediaOver at Comparison Engines, Brian Smith has the text highlights of Gordon Hodge’s chat with Chief Yahoo!, Jerry Yang from the Thomas Weisel Partners (TWP) Internet & Telcom Conference. Gordon & Jerry discussed the future and importance of Social Media to Yahoo and their growing list of competiton.Here [...]
Microsoft Testing Advertising Across Live Windows, MSN Spaces, and Office Live
Microsoft Testing Advertising Across Live Windows, MSN Spaces, and Office LiveWas reading a bit of LiveSide this morning, which is becoming one of my favorite MSN oriented blogs, and how Microsoft is building what it calls the Internet’s largest advertising network which includes the channels of Office Live, Windows Live Mail, and MSN Spaces. Luckily, [...]
Microsoft?s Windows Live Video Launching
Microsoft’s Windows Live Video LaunchingLiveSide reports that MSN is close to launching Windows Live Video, their answer to Google Video and YouTube. Windows Live Video will also feature a video content marketplace, similar to Google Video, but owners of the content will be able to sell their clips.More from LiveSide.net (a Windows Live News Blog) [...]
Google SketchUp &The Mapping Space Race
Google SketchUp & The Mapping Space RaceOm Malik reports on Google’s acquisition of 3-D rendering company @Last Software, which owns SketchUp. He also asks what it means for Google. In a word: maps.Here’s the company’s Google Earth plug in. Google Earth already does rudimentary 3-D rendering of cities. Companies like GeoSim are already well underway [...]
FeedBurner Snags Yahoo Network Products Director of Business Development
FeedBurner Snags Yahoo Network Products Director of Business DevelopmentFeedBurner has announced the expansion of its offices to San Francisco and an ex-Yahoo’er who has moved on to become the FeedBurner Vice President of Business Development, Strategic Partnerships.Don Loeb, former Director of Business Development for Yahoo!’s Network Products, has joined FeedBurner in the Vice President of [...]
Judge Rules Google Must Turn Over Search Data
Judge Rules Google Must Turn Over Search DataAccording to this Associated Press story (reg. req’d), U.S. District Judge James Ware indicated that he is going to order Google to comply with at least part of the Bush Admin’s request to turn over search records.Yahoo!, AOL and MSN previously voluntarily complied to varying degrees with the [...]
Windows Live Safety Settings
Windows Live Safety SettingsThis via BetaNews; Windows Live Safety Settings will be coming out of beta by the summer of 2006; with “content filtering for the Web, contact list management tools for communication services, and online activity reports.” There’s also a veiled reference to that bastion of evil, MySpace:“Activity reports list detailed information on what [...]
$100 Laptop + Writely + GDrive = Google?s Future?
$100 Laptop + Writely + GDrive = Google’s Future?Ever since it was announced, I have been fascinated by the potential appeal of the $100 laptop developed by MIT, with the backing of Google and AMD among others. It’s now in production. I’ve written about it a bunch in the past and won’t reproduce all those [...]
del.icio.us URL History an Excellent Tool
del.icio.us URL History an Excellent Tooldel.icio.us has launched a rather useful URL history tool which highlights who has bookmarked sites in the past and which tags were used. The tool is extremely useful for tracking how users associate or define your site and how popular that site may be among del.icio.us users.For example, when tracking [...]
Google Desktop Out of Beta with New Search Box
Google Desktop Out of Beta with New Search BoxGoogle have finally announced that their desktop searching application Google Desktop is finally out of beta. Google has also added a new helpful feature to this application. Users can press their control key two times to get access to the search box in the middle of their [...]
Cloaking Using IP Delivery Technology Issues
Cloaking Using IP Delivery Technology IssuesRand Fishkin started an excellent thread at Cre8asite forums named Cloaking Beyond IP Delivery, Discussing Other Methods to Limit Access. In his thread, he asks people for alternatives to the cloaking through IP delivery methods. He states that several black-hat SEOs have said cloaking through IP delivery “has become passe.” [...]
AOL Streaming Vintage TV Shows
AOL Streaming Vintage TV ShowsAOL begins streaming free full episodes of “vintage” or “classic” (some might say euphemisms for old) TV shows here. Like Live 8, this could prove an important moment for online video as broadband consumers get accustomed to watching full-length TV shows (as opposed to clips and shorts) on their PCs.The viral [...]
Mozilla Googlebot : Mozilla or Godzilla?
Mozilla Googlebot : Mozilla or Godzilla?Jim Trivolette of Blackwood Productions has been checking out the Mozilla Googlebot which he says is a “new Googlebot which has the ability to index many more pages then the old Googlebot.”Jim says that Mozilla Googlebot has the same tendency of Godzilla; in an effort to protect its homeland (Japan [...]
Looking for Writely Invitations?
Looking for Writely Invitations?At Google Blogoscoped Philipp has set up a comment thread on sharing Writely accounts. Writely uses an invitation system similar to Gmail and ever since the Google acquisition the demand for such accounts has skyrocketed.So, feel free to drop by Google Blogoscoped and ask for a Writely account invitation or please post [...]
Yahoo Social Search Looking for Engineers and Managers
Yahoo Social Search Looking for Engineers and ManagersJeremy Zawodny is on the lookout for future Yahoos to work on Yahoo! Answers, MyWeb, del.icio.us and other social search / social media offerings at Yahoo. This could be the chance of a lifetime for the people who can fill these spaces:Following that theme, we’re hoping to use [...]
Filtering Yahoo Publisher Network Ads from International Traffic
Filtering Yahoo Publisher Network Ads from International TrafficI hear that the Yahoo! Publisher Network does not like its banners to be served up to international users (users outside of the United States). There are even reports of YPN publishers being banned from YPN for having too many international people click or view their ads. That [...]
Building Links Too Quickly?
Building Links Too Quickly?At SEOBook Aaron Wall has been hosting SEO Q&A sessions with readers of his blog and subscribers to his eBook. One of the most recent cries for help was an issue that has been the fear of novice sandbox playing link builders for new sites - Can you build links too quickly?Aaron [...]
Competitive Link Tracking Using MSN Search
Competitive Link Tracking Using MSN SearchRand Fishkin was playing around with the MSN Search ‘linkdomain:’ operators and stumbled upon a quite useful competitive intelligence linking system, which Rand declared “the Holy Grail of Link Searches.”By using this formula in linkdomain searches (seeing what sites link to domains) one can pinpoint the sites giving link love [...]
Google AdWords Starter Edition
Google AdWords Starter EditionProblogger.net’s Darren Rowse has a nice little write up on Google AdWords Starter Edition, for the novice advertiser - which is perfect for small business owners and as Darren points out, professional bloggers.[Google] AdWords Starter Edition is a useful way to start out.In essence it’s, as it’s name suggests, a simplified AdWords [...]
Search Engine Strategies China Coverage
Search Engine Strategies China CoverageSearch Engine Strategies China is currently being held in Nanjing and Marc Hil Macalua is covering the conference in a very Barry like fashion at Search Engine Roundtable.Macalua has the roundup on SES China including:Johnny Chou of Google’s Keynote Address : Johnny Chou starts out by mentioning that this is his [...]
Digg Scammed with Google Sun Stock Market Rumors
Digg Scammed with Google Sun Stock Market Rumors Graywolf posts on Threadwatch about a piece on Silicon Valley Sleuth about stock traders scamming / spamming Digg to try and manipulate stock prices. The spam practice has been quite popular on forums like Yahoo Finance Message Boards for years (and a good traffic generator) and it [...]
Google Increasing Innovation Spending in 2006
Google Increasing Innovation Spending in 2006Google has said in a statement that they would be spending a lot more than usual to continue innovating in the market where they face serious competition from big players like Microsoft and Yahoo!This means that their revenue growth will continue to decline amid increasing competition. Google also notified this [...]
March Madness : NCAA Tournament &Search Engines
March Madness : NCAA Tournament & Search EnginesIt’s March Madness time and Yahoo & AOL are gearing up their Video Search, Search & Sports offerings for the tournament. AOLSearch.com has been tracking NCAA tournament oriented searches since the beginning of March and says :The Atlantic Coast Conference dominates college searches, with six of the top [...]
Vodafone Sells Japan Divison to Softbank
Vodafone Sells Japan Divison to SoftbankVodafone Group has announced that they have decided to sell off their struggling Japanese unit to Softbank Corp, the parent owners of Yahoo Japan. This deal would be worth around $11.87 billion and it would be conducted in a cash transaction.The agreement was announced earlier today and it puts the [...]
Search Marketing Salaries : What You Should be Paid
Search Marketing Salaries : What You Should be PaidYesterday, I covered at the SEW Blog a ClickZ article about SEM Salaries. Here is a quick summary on how much SEMs get paid based on the ClickZ article.* Entry-level SEM position; $30,000 to $45,000 or about $10 per hour.* Three to five years of experience; $50,000 [...]
CenSEARCHip : Compare Censored Search Results
CenSEARCHip : Compare Censored Search ResultsCenSEARCHip is a tool developed by Mark Meiss and Filippo Menczer at the Indiana University School of Informatics for comparing the differences in the results returned by Google and Yahoo! versions for the United States, China, France, and Germany.When you enter your search terms and select one of the search [...]
New (Beta) Yahoo Local News
New (Beta) Yahoo Local NewsThis from Son-of-a-Pitch; Yahoo News is now offering Yahoo Local News headlines, something that Topix actually has been doing for quite a while now. You can kind of do the local news thing at Google if you sign up for Google Personalized Search but it’s not very streamlined. By the way, [...]
He Loves Google, He Loves Them Not
Unless today is the first day you’ve entered the SEO landscape, you are likely to be familiar with Danny Sullivan, the founder of Search Engine Watch and the host and frequently the moderator at Search Engine Strategies Conferences around the world. He began watching search engines a little over 10 years ago, way before it [...]
Link Building via DMOZ : You Down with ODP?
Link Building via DMOZ : You Down with ODP?Yeah del.icio.us and Technorati are excellent 2.0 tools for pinpointing active sites for enhanced organic link and citation building, but Rob Sullivan’s latest post at the Text Link Brokers blog busts out some of dat old school linkage building juice which sometimes gets overlooked in the here [...]
Google AOL Deal to Complete by Q2
Google AOL Deal to Complete by Q2Google has stated that they are expecting their investment in America Online complete by the second quarter of 2006. Google had agreed to acquire 5% of the internet division of Time Warner some three months alone to keep AOL on their client’s list as Microsoft had shown interest in [...]
Looking at Yahoo &Google Through 11 Year Old Eyes
Looking at Yahoo & Google Through 11 Year Old EyesAll the debate if Yahoo! is a more relevant or better search engine than Google continues. We ran our Search Engine Relevancy Challenge, which showed at the 10,000 result mark that Yahoo! was more relevant than Google at the time of the study. But at some [...]
Yahoo! Local News
Yahoo! Local NewsFollowing the footsteps of Topix . . . Yahoo! Launches a Local News Beta. Here’s an example of San Francisco; here’s New York. In New York, Yahoo! gets its news from myriad sources, not just newspapers: New York Times, Newsday, WABC 7, WNBC 4, WCBS 2, New York Daily News, WBGO-FM. In San [...]
Google &Nike Team for Joga Football (Soccer) Community
Google & Nike Team for Joga.com Football (Soccer) CommunityJust in time for the World Cup Google and Nike have joined forces to launch Joga.com, a niche targeted online community for Jogadors, players of football (or soccer). The Orkut for Football (Soccer, Futbol) Players is currently by invite only.Joga is an online community created by Google [...]
Google Victorious in DOJ Search Data &URL Ruling
Google Victorious in DOJ Search Data & URL RulingGoogle has announced that it will not be forced to hand over its search query information to the US Department of Justice after a federal judge has ruled (ruling is available from Google via PDF) to limit the subpoena issued to Google. Although the decision is a [...]
Google Says No to MSN Search on Blogger?
Google Says No to MSN Search on Blogger?Threadwatch points to a blogger’s account of Google not being too happy with the placement of an MSN Search Box on a blog hosted by Google’s Blogger/Blogspot.‘RJDohnert’ posts on the Microsoft Developers Network :I just checked my e-mail and I got a mail from Google this afternoon. Seems [...]
Google Sued Over Lowering Company?s Ranking
Google sued over lowering company’s ranking.Kinderstart.com, a parental advice site, has filed a lawsuit against Google for unfairly lowering it’s ranking without a reason or warning. They claim that in March of 2005 their site fell in the ranking and as a result had lost 70% of it’s traffic and about 80% decline in revenue. [...]
Lawsuit Asks Google to Reveal Algorithm
Lawsuit Asks Google to Reveal AlgorithmU.K.-based KinderStart.com, a “search engine” for parents of young children, has sued Google on the basis that its organic search ranking apparently declined in March 2005, allegedly because it was unfairly “penalized” by Google. According to this Reuters article, the site lost “70 percent” of its organic traffic when it [...]
GoogleBot Wireless - Google Mobile Transcoding
GoogleBot Wireless - Google Mobile TranscodingIt looks like we have a new GoogleBot that we need to worry about. The Google spider has the User Agent; “Nokia6820/2.0 (4.83) Profile/MIDP-1.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.0 (compatible; Googlebot-Mobile/2.1; +http://www.google.com/bot.html)” and comes from a Google IP address. The bot is not incredibly new, but it is picking up speed. Many Webmasters are [...]
Baidu &Nokia Team for Mobile Search in China
Baidu & Nokia Team for Mobile Search in ChinaBaidu.com is in agreement with Nokia to offer a mobile search on several Chinese Nokia cell phone models.The application, which will include news search, image search as well as Baidu Post Bar, an online community developed by Baidu, will be available on the Nokia N70, Nokia N90 [...]
Ask.com Names Teoma?s Yang Senior Vice President and Chief Scientist
Ask.com Names Teoma’s Yang Senior Vice President and Chief ScientistAsk.com has named Tao Yang, the co-inventor of the Teoma search algorithm, as its Senior Vice President and Chief Scientist. Yang is a co-inventor of the ExpertRank (formally Teoma) search algorithm, having co-led search technology research and development since 2000. Teoma was acquired by Ask [...]
Google Finance Launches &Japan Beats Cuba
Google Finance Launches & Japan Beats CubaSpend a good 12 hours away from the Internet and you’ll find the world can change in the blink of an eye. Well, not the entire globe but perhaps the worlds of search engines and baseball. I just logged on to find that Japan has beat Cuba to take [...]
AdSenseBlacklist.com Attempts to Block Google AdSense Cheapskates
AdSenseBlacklist.com Attempts to Block Google AdSense CheapskatesAdSenseBlackList.com is a new site where Google AdSense publishers can list the AdSense advertisers who they are blacklisting due to low paying ads or non-relevant landing pages. From AdSenseBlackList:This site will teach you how to seek, recognize and filter low paying google ads which link to MFA (Made for [...]
Video Podcast Search from PodZinger
Video Podcast Search from PodZingerPodZinger sent out this announcement last night about their podcast search engine now being able to search and index the content of video podcasts.For the more than 70 million iPod and MP3 player owners looking to fill their gadgets with the latest viral videos, video podcasts, news, entertainment and gossip, PodZinger’s [...]
Google Health Next Niche Channel After Finance?
Google Health Next Niche Channel After Finance?Sure, Google Finance launched today but that’s old news by now. Garett Rogers at ZDNet’s Googling Google asks what is Google Health? It could be another fine use of the world’s content which Google is aiming to host, using the Google Finance example of Google News, Google Groups, and [...]
Podscope vs. Podzinger: A Podcast Search Engine Cage Match?
Podscope vs. Podzinger: A Podcast Search Engine Cage Match?I received this from the powers that be over at Podscope today (with the subject line of “More Hogwash from Podzinger”): “In the lead paragraph of its news release yesterday, BBN says of its PodZinger podcast search engine, “PodZinger’s new video search feature introduces the only available [...]
Yahoo Canada Beta-Testing New Yahoo Mail Features
Yahoo Canada Beta-Testing New Yahoo Mail FeaturesThis via the Social Software Weblog; Yahoo is testing a variety of really interesting new features in their email service in various venues around the world (excluding the United States). More from the official Yahoo press release:“Yahoo! Canada Co., an affiliate of Yahoo! Inc., a leading global internet company, [...]
Google AdWords Opens Keyword Research Tool, Adds Seasonal Data
Google AdWords Opens Keyword Research Tool, Adds Seasonal DataGoogle recently opened up their AdWords keyword research tool by allowing it to be accessible from outside AdWords accounts. They also added seasonal search volume data for global and local searches, and allowed it to be accessible by match type (ie: broad, phrase, exact).That will likely just [...]
Search Engine T-Shirt Winners &Update
Search Engine T-Shirt Winners & UpdateLee’s post on Blog Optimization reminded me how we’ve been a bit late with the Search Engine T-Shirt winning announcements.The design process has slowed down a bit, but I’m speaking with our sponsor Spreadshirt right now about them designing and printing the winning shirts. We should have an announcement on [...]
Blog Optimization - Make Your Blog Stand Out
Blog Optimization - Make Your Blog Stand OutAccording to Dave Sifry’s last State of the Blogosphere post/report, Technorati is tracking nearly 27 million blogs and there are about 75,000 new blogs launched every day. How can a blog stand out with this kind of competition? Like anything else, there’s no silver bullet answer. One [...]
Mozilla Firefox Bon Echo Available
Mozilla Firefox Bon Echo AvailableThe first alpha release of the much-awaited Mozilla Firefox 2.0 web browser is available online. Mozilla Foundation has nicknamed this release as Firefox Bon Echo and brings about UI changes in bookmark, tab, and extensions.In simpler words, users on this test release would most likely find all their extensions dead for [...]
Looksmart Closes Zeal, Concentrates on Furl.net
Looksmart Closes Zeal, Concentrates on Furl.netIn what is a bit of a sad day in the world of search engines and directories, Looksmart has announced the closing of their Zeal directory. Being an O.Z. Original Zealot (who has not used the directory in 4 years) I highly enjoyed being active in the Zeal directory after [...]
Yahoo Bid Jamming Yahoo Advertisers?
Yahoo Bid Jamming Yahoo Advertisers?Yahoo! is reportedly bid jamming, the process of bidding slightly under a competitor, to ensure they pay top dollar for a keyword, their own advertisers, according to this DigitalPoint Forums thread. The member reported that Yahoo! came in and started bidding 45p (Pence) for a phrase he had a bid on [...]
Loki Local Search Toolbar from Skyhook Wireless
Loki Local Search Toolbar from Skyhook WirelessIf you want to see something pretty cool, go to Loki.com and download Shyhook Wireless’ new Local Search toolbar. It’s the first toolbar built around Local and it’s got a bunch of really useful features:* It can automatically locate your position so you don’t need to enter it when [...]
Google Plans on Advertising in Google WIFI
Google Plans on Advertising in Google WIFIGoogle’s patent filing on advertising funded WIFI is available for reading : Method and system to provide advertisements based on wireless access points. At Threadwatch MSGraph points out that the patent “‘lists different ways for how they might display advertisements to offer free or reduced-rate wifi access.”Here’s a snippet [...]
ABCSearch Offering $100 in Free Search Advertising
ABCSearch Offering $100 in Free Search AdvertisingIn an effort to build the advertisers in their paid search network, ABCSearch (aff.) is running a limited time campaign where they will match the initial deposit of new advertisers by up to $100. I’ve signed up with ABCSearch for a trial account and am looking for some feedback [...]
Yahoo Publisher Network to Help with International Traffic Problems
Yahoo Publisher Network to Help with International Traffic ProblemsThere is no mistake today that Yahoo doesn’t want to their publishers to display the YPN ads to those outside of the United States of America. There have been dozens of reports of bans being placed on some publishers for having too much international traffic. For many [...]
Link Popularity : Three Essential Listings Out of the Sandbox
Link Popularity : Three Essential Listings Out of the SandboxRob Sullivan at Text Link Brokers posted a story last week about using established sites to build efficient link popularity. In the article Rob recommends three essential places to list your new business oriented site which will dig it out of the long term Google Sandbox [...]
Google Base Sightings in Google Real Estate Results
Google Base Sightings in Google Real Estate ResultsOver the past 24 hours American & English users of Google have been reporting sightings of a Google Base search box which appears above the main web results when performing specific Google searches.One example is the search on Google for “homes for sale” in which a lot of [...]
Round Two of Podzinger vs. Podscope
Podscope and Podzinger - An UpdateI’ve had a pretty productive email exchange with a few folks from bothPodscope and Podzinger (see my previous post about the podcast search enginetiff), and here’s the story from both sides.First, from Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of TVEyes, Inc. (thecompany behind Podscope) David Ives:“BBN’s claims for Podzinger can only [...]
Google Joining S&P 500
Google Joining S&P 500This has been a big week for the Financial arm of Google ( GOOG ) as their Google Finance channel launched and today the news was made public that Google has been chosen to join the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index. Google stock surged on the news, up 9% to $372.56 a [...]
Yahoo Japan Makes News Search Acquisition
Yahoo Japan Makes News Search AcquisitionYahoo Japan is buying the news search and clipping service NewsWatch, Inc. from Toshiba reports Forbes. Yahoo Japan will be purchasing 69 percent of the 89 percent stake Toshiba holds in NewsWatch.Other NewsWatch investors include Dentsu Inc (the massive Japanese advertising company), Toppan Printing Co Ltd and Mitsui and Co [...]
Yahoo and CBS Bringing 60 Minutes Online
Yahoo and CBS Bringing 60 Minutes OnlineYahoo and CBS have agreed to bring interactive content and video segments to millions of Yahoo users, especially younger ones. The partnership will include a Yahoo 60 Minutes microsite with interactive maps, photo galleries and reporter blogs… no word on if Andy Rooney will join the Yahoo 60 Minutes [...]
Google Transit Trip Planner Expanding to Toronto?s TTC?
Google Transit Trip Planner Expanding to Toronto’s TTC?Google may be planning the expansion of Google’s Transit Trip Planner to the Toronto area soon, writes Angine McKraig (found via Slawski). From Angie : “Google wants the TTC’s station, stop, schedule and route data to create a trip planner. Torontonians would be able to input a start [...]
Ask.com TV Commercials Successful?
Ask.com TV Commercials Successful?If you watch some TV in the US or even outside the US, you may have noticed some apes searching on a search engine named Ask.com. Ask.com has released a blitz of TV commercials in Europe and the US to try to show users the unique flavor of Ask powered search and [...]
Google Adding Graphical Ads to Maps
Google Adding Graphical Ads to MapsA few weeks ago at SES, Google told me they were going to be allowing advertisers to add logos and graphical images to the mapping balloons that appear on Google Local. I looked for them but couldn’t find them. Today, apparently, they started appearing. This blog has a screenshot. I [...]
PayPal Mobile Launching with Cell Phone Text Payments
PayPal Mobile Launching with Cell Phone Text PaymentsIt did not take long, but the buzz about text message cell phone to cell phone payment systems that started with the launch of TextPayMe.com has lit the fire under PayPal’s butts to get their own version together and running. Now PayPal, which is part of the eBay [...]
SEO Link Building with Clusty
SEO Link Building with ClustyFor those looking for sites to target for link building efforts, Rob Sullivan at Text Link Brokers has been looking at ways to identify such authority hubs outside of the normal Google search result identification methods. Last week Rob looked into identifying authority link sites via Ask.com’s ExpertRank algorithm and today [...]
Directory Listings Still Relevant to SEO &Marketing
Directory Listings Still Relevant to SEO & MarketingAs the link building and SEO schools of thought seem to be moving a bit too rapidly away from traditional onsite content and anchored text, Pankaj Gupta poses a question which may lead to a bit of a slowdown in the community to still gives props to old [...]
Yahoo Toolbar Adds del.icio.us Tool
Yahoo Toolbar Adds del.icio.us ToolIn what can be seen as a big step in the evolution of bookmarks & tagging beyond the tech crowd and into the living rooms of mainstream America (hence, Social Media), Yahoo has announced that they have added some new tools to the Yahoo Toolbar including a del.icio.us button.From the Yahoo [...]
What?s Wrong With Google Print?
What’s Wrong With Google Print?BusinessWeek has a nice inside look at Google’s effort to expand the AdWords style automated advertising planning and buying process beyond its search engine and into publications; Google Print. Seems that Google Print is struggling selling tis print space to advertisers right now - in what may be a reflection of [...]
Local.com to Add Judy?s Book Local Reviews &Blog Content
Local.com to Add Judy’s Book Local Reviews & Blog ContentJudy’s Book and Local.com are now working together to add Judy’s Book local reviews and local blogging capabilities to Local.com’s fast-growing local search service.Add Judy’s Book to the high profile and strong partnerships Local.com has made over the past two quarters which include Looksmart & Furl, [...]
Mesothelioma Still Highest Paying Google AdSense Term
Mesothelioma Still Highest Paying Google AdSense TermCyberwire has put together a list of the Top 230 highest paying Google AdSense terms, which seem to all be centered around either hiring a lawyer or refinancing your home. Other noticable terms topping off the list (which would also be a nice top 230 blog spam subject list) [...]
Sprint to offer local information search
Sprint to offer local information search This from eWeek:“Sprint Nextel Corp. said it plans on Monday to kick off a local directory cellphone service with information such as driving directions and movie times as it aims to boost revenue by having customers use their phones for more than just talking.….the service from the No. 3 [...]
Lycos VOIP : Video, Movies and MP3 Under the Hood
Lycos VOIP : Video, Movies and MP3 Under the HoodWho needs just search when you have content, networking and now VOIP? Not Lycos (sure they have search, but they used to be one of the cutting edge search engines on the market back when Page & Brin were at Stanford playing with their math algorithms). [...]
Google Blog Accidentally Deleted By Google
Google Blog Accidentally Deleted By GoogleJennifer Slegg over at the Search Engine Watch blog reports that the Official Google Blog Deleted. In short, yes, Google had accidently deleted their own blog. They have confirmed the mistake;We’ve determined the cause of tonight’s outage. The blog was mistakenly deleted by us (d’oh!) which allowed the blog address [...]
Verizon Selling Google AdWords - Ma Bell &Local Search
Verizon Selling Google AdWords - Ma Bell & Local SearchVerizon SuperPages will begin taking full advantage of their reach to thousands upon thousands of small businesses under a recent agreement with Google where Verizon has become a Google AdWords reseller. The announcement was made at The Kelsey Group’s Drilling Down on Local Conference in San [...]
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Bans Google &iPods
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Bans Google & iPodsIn a recent Fortune interview with Steve Ballmer, the newer kinder Microsoft CEO is not only ready to take on the videogaming, search, music download and mobile markets - but he’s also laying down the law in his own house. Steve says that his kids are not allowed [...]
Yahoo Search Update with More Slurp Crawler Activity
Yahoo Search Update with More Slurp Crawler ActivityPriyank Garg has posted on the Yahoo Search Blog that the Yahoo Search Index will be updating this weekend. Garg says the the update should result in ranking changes along with the ’shuffling’ (does this mean ‘booting’?) of pages which are included in the current Yahoo Search Index.This [...]
Link Building via Press Releases For SEO Rankings
Link Building via Press Releases For SEO RankingsPress Release optimization for search engine purposes has been a growing segment of the SEO industry. One of the first companies to catch the wave is SEO PR, by Greg Jarboe. They have a service that will take your press release, optimize it to rank well in the [...]
Google Shares Peak After AOL Announcement, Fall in After Hours Trading
Google Shares Peak After AOL Announcement, Fall in After Hours TradingGoogle shares took a roller coaster ride today as American optimism in the search engine advertising & information company peaked with finalized deals with AOL and Verizon. Shares of Google GOOG reached $399 on Wednesday and then dropped in after hours trading by $14 after [...]
Co citation &SEO Linking
Co citation & SEO LinkingJim Boykin has a rather nice go over with Co citation, which is a way some search engines measure a site’s categorical niche popularity among other sites which are associated in the same link groupings.Jim points to this definition found on Sourceforge.net:Bibliographic Co-Citation is a popular similarity measure used to establish [...]
Directories Ranked by Inbound Link Quality
Directories Ranked by Inbound Link QualityHave a directory submittal budget set aside as part of your site’s SEO and link building campaign but not sure exactly which directories to submit to outside of Yahoo and DMOZ? After our piece earlier in the week, Directory Listings Still Relevant to SEO, there were some questions floating around [...]
Paid Links &Google: Hot Argument at SEOMoz
Paid Links & Google: Hot Argument at SEOMozIn a nice question and answer session on the Matt Cutts blog this week, Matt answers a concern about Internet advertising and the use of links (which are the backbone of the Internet and online advertising).From the Matt Cutts Blog:Q: “If one were to offer to sell space [...]
Bizarro World : Associated Press Plagiarizing Blogs
Bizarro World : Associated Press Plagiarizing BlogsLarisa Alexandrovna at The Huffington Post shares an account of her material and ideas being stolen by an Associated Press writer with no credit to the blog what-so-ever. Better yet (better as in it makes the story juicier) an AP Senior Editor told Huffington Post that the Press did [...]
Google Foundation Working with TechnoServe in Ghana
Google Foundation Working with TechnoServe in GhanaGoogle has announced on the Google Blog that the Google Foundation is now working with Technoserve, an organization who’s mission is to help entrepreneurs organically grow businesses which boost fair wage employment in impoverished countries.Google and Technoserve are launching a national business plan competition this week in Ghana, called [...]
Google AdSense &Advertising Killing Site Linkability?
Google AdSense & Advertising Killing Site Linkability?Do the Google AdSense ads on your site hurt the linkability of the site? Aaron Wall of the AdSenseless SEO Book looks at how stuffing a site full of Google AdSense ads may affiliate the goals of that site with purely being focused around gathering AdSense clicks.I’ve thought about [...]
Get Your Blog on Google Finance
Get Your Blog on Google Finance Now that Google Finance has launched and includes blogs as sources of stock market influenced information, just how can one get their blog into the Google Finance listings?Seth Finkelstein spills the beans on his Infothought Blog:The algorithm used by Google to rank blog posts for Google Finance doesn’t have [...]
Google Local Business Ads (Beta) Launches
Google Local Business Ads (Beta) LaunchesGoogle AdWords and Google Local are working together to bring response driven advertising to local businesses with the new Beta offering of Google Local Business Ads. (Yes, the Google Map ads with the cool AdWords ad & logo in the tack balloon.)Available for small or big brick and mortar businesses [...]
Google AdWords Dynamic Keyword Insertion Not Working?
Google AdWords Dynamic Keyword Insertion Not Working?There have been some sporadic reports of the Dynamic Keyword Insertion feature within Google AdWords has not been working. There is a good thread where AdWordsAdvisor sums up the reports at WebmasterWorld.To be precise, there have been three threads about this subject so far this week, with two of [...]
Chinese Journalist?s Family May Take Yahoo to Court
Chinese Journalist’s Family May Take Yahoo to CourtYahoo may become the target of legal action by the family of Shi Tao, a Chinese journalist who was leaking government information to others via his Yahoo Mail account. Against Chinese government warning not to do so, Tao had distributed a Chinese government order banning the media mention [...]
YouTube 10 Minute Limit Deters Copyrighted Video Uploads
YouTube 10 Minute Limit Deters Copyrighted Video UploadsYouTube has taken action to prevent the uploading of copyrighted material into its video hosting, sharing and search service. By limiting videos to a maximum run time of 10 minutes, YouTube hopes to prevent clips of TV shows and movies from being made illegally available for online viewing [...]
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