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Google the Advertising Agency
Google the Advertising AgencyOver the weekend, Chris Gaither wrote an interesting and entertaining piece in the LA Times about the role of the Google Maximizers. These are the folks who help (mostly large) advertisers improve their campaigns and CTRs on Google. At the SME end of the spectrum is ...

Ask Jeeves?Jim Lanzone Answers Search Questions
Ask Jeeves` Jim Lanzone Answers Search QuestionsCre8asite Forums hosted a "live" Question and Answer session with Jim Lanzone, the Senior Vice President of Search Properties of Ask Jeeves, Inc. Barry Schwartz of the SERoundtable and moderator at various search oriented foruns, hosted the session on Cre8asite and helped to set ...

Google Provides ?Weather Update?for Bourbon
Google Provides "Weather Update" for BourbonMany of you are following the most recent Google Update. In the past, at the Indexing Summit at SES NYC 05, Danny Sullivan requested the search engines to give the Webmaster a "Weather Update". By that he meant, he wants the search engines to let ...

Paris Hilton Carl?s Burger Ad Crashes SpicyParis Site, Boosts Profits
Paris Hilton Carl`s Burger Ad Crashes SpicyParis Site, Boosts ProfitsCarl`s Jr. has caused quite the stir with their new Paris Hilton commercial where America`s favorite trust fund princess washes a car, suds herself up, then goes down on a tasty Carl`s Jr. (also known as Hardees) burger. I`ve seen the ...

eBay Buys Shopping.com
eBay Buys Shopping.comBig news this evening in the world of search engines, eBay has reportedly acquired Shopping.com. Apparently the reasoning for eBay becoming interested is when eBay executives were informed that merchants who upload their shopping feeds and list products on Shopping.com were also doing so on eBay. Shopping.com`s business ...

Secret Google Evaluation Lab
Secret Google Evaluation LabAlthough it’s been speculated that Google is manually spot checking some of its rankings, this is the first time we’ve seen any evidence. (via Slashdot) Since Henk van Ess’s site is being Slashdotted - I’m putting up a mirror of the flash movie from Google’s Secret Evaluation ...

Online News Papers Face Complexity, Competition Not Found Offline
Online News Papers Face Complexity, Competition Not Found OfflineArthur Sulzberger, Jr., Chairman of the NY Times Co., spoke at the 58th World Newspaper Congress in Korea, which was covered in The Korea Herald. According to the article, Sulzberger argued that the Internet did not represent a crisis for newspapers, but ...

Porn Sites Get Own .XXX Domain
Porn Sites Get Own .XXX Domain It was announced today that porn sites will have the right to use a domain name with the .XXX domain extension. The voluntary initiative for the porn industry to differentiate its web site URLs with the .XXX domain name is heralded by some ...

eBay Buys Shopping.com For $620 Million Price Tag
eBay Buys Shopping.com For $620 Million Price TageBay plans to acquire Shopping.com for an estimated price tag of $620 million (based on the outstanding shares of Shopping.com stock at $21 per share in cash). eBay began providing an online marketplace in September of 1995 and today, almost 10 years later, ...

Yahoo and Cisco Partner to Fight Spam with DomainKeys Identified Mail
Yahoo and Cisco Partner to Fight Spam with DomainKeys Identified MailCisco Sytems, Inc and Yahoo are combining efforts to cut down on the amount of spam which is being sent and littering inboxes all over the world. The partnership will focus on combining two techniques that rely on cryptography to ...

Yahoo Develops PhotoMail Service
Yahoo Develops PhotoMail ServiceIn what seems to be yet another Internet Explorer only add-on, Yahoo! has introduced an interesting new feature called PhotoMail Service in their Yahoo! Mail functionality. It is currently in beta stage and offers integration with local Hard Disk, Yahoo! Photos, and Yahoo! Image Search for sending ...

ICANN Approves .xxx Domains for Porn
ICANN Approves .xxx Domains for PornICANN has approved the measure that porn sites will have the right to use a domain name with the .XXX domain extension. The voluntary initiative for the porn industry to differentiate its web site URLs with the .XXX domain name is heralded by some as ...

Google Needs Your Help - Sitemaps
Google Needs Your Help - SitemapsWant to improve your website coverage on Google - Read this. Google have started a new service called Google Sitemaps - a collaborative crawling system for improving the coverage and freshness of Google index. Participation is free. Inclusion isn`t guaranteedGoogle Sitemaps is intended for all ...

How To Record Your Own Podcast
How To Record Your Own PodcastPodcasting is a way of publishing sound files to the Internet, allowing users to subscribe to a feed and receive new audio files automatically. Podcasting is distinct from other types of audio content delivery because it uses the RSS 2.0 file format. This technique has ...

Google Sitemaps for Wordpress &Sitemaps XML
Google Sitemaps for Wordpress & Sitemaps XMLMichael Nguyen of Social Patterns has been quick to the draw in constructing a script for Wordpress which constructs a php sitemap of a Wordpress blog for inclusion into the new Google Sitemaps program. The code generates a Google Sitemaps friendly XML feed which ...

Yahoo and Google continue to update SERPs
Yahoo and Google continue to update SERPsGoogle`s most recent update is taking longer than usual to complete. As reported here two weeks ago, Google is updating its algorithm and this update is causing volatility in the search engine results under various keywords and keyword phrases. Nicknamed the Bourbon Update, it ...

Search Dominates New Advertising Spending
Search Dominates New Advertising SpendingGoogle and Yahoo are eating lunch on what used to be the expense accounts of the largest advertising and information venues in the world. Both Google and Yahoo reported record revenues last quarter, income that is expected to grow rapidly over the coming years. As the ...

Google Sitemaps Program - Take Advantage
Google Sitemaps Program - Take AdvantageGoogle recently launched a new program called Google Sitemaps. This program (free, currently still in Beta) is designed to help website owners to get their website pages get crawled by google.If you want to take advantage of Google Sitemaps, you need to place a Sitemap-formatted ...

Google Using Registrar Data to Locate New Sites
Google Using Registrar Data to Locate New SitesA thread at Search Engine Watch Forums named Google indexing parked domains from Registrar feed, shows a specific example of Google indexing and ranking a parked domain. In that thread members discuss possible methods that Google could have located the domain name. The ...

Yahoo Auctions Eliminates Listing and Selling Fees
Yahoo Auctions Eliminates Listing and Selling FeesIn an effort to grab some marketshare from Ebay, Yahoo has just announced that it is eliminating both listing and selling fees from it’s Yahoo! Auctions site. Yahoo! Auctions will switch to being totally ad-supported.Yahoo! Auctions has changed its pricing to create a model ...

Scripps Grabs Shopzilla
Scripps Grabs ShopzillaRight on the heels of eBay’s costly acquisition of Shopping.com, Cincinnati-based, “diversified media” company E.W. Scripps buys Shopzilla (formerly BizRate). The price was reportedly US$525 million in cash.Scripps owns newpapers, cable networks and local TV affiliates. Now it’s made a high profile purchase in the competitive shopping search ...

Ask Jeeves Gets in More Trouble with MySearch
Ask Jeeves Gets in More Trouble with MySearchThe bad press doesn`t stop for Ask Jeeves and this MySearch toolbar. If you run a PC and use IE, you most likely found this MySearch Toolbar installed on it without knowing you installed it. Does that tick you off? I bet it ...

Tribune Paper Drops Google AdSense for Quigo
Tribune Paper Drops Google AdSense for QuigoAccording to an article that appeared in Editor & Publisher, Tribune Co.’s Newsday has abandoned AdSense in favor of an “in-house” contextual product powered by Quigo: As more and more newspapers are embracing Google AdSense and other third-party context-based advertising, Newsday Monday announced its ...

Adware is Not Always Spyware
Adware is Not Always SpywareWhat is the difference between Adware & Spyware? Adware is considered a legitmate alternative offered to consumers who do not wish to pay for software. Generally most or all features of the freeware are enabled but you will be viewing sponsored advertisements while the software is ...

Comparing Yahoo and Google Interface Design
Comparing Yahoo and Google Interface DesignYahoo! and Google have almost similar offerings and now the interfaces are also getting closer. Google vs. Yahoo! Interface Design by Luke. At a high level, Yahoo! has better integrated business goals with their product designs. For example, their comparison shopping site features multiple entry ...

Yahoo and Sprint Partner for Yahoo Mail Mobile
Yahoo and Sprint Partner for Yahoo Mail MobileLookout RIM and Blackberry, Sprint and Yahoo are gearing up to bust some competitive action into the digital telecom industry with their partnership to launch the first downloadable Yahoo Mail client application that gives customers nationwide enhanced access on mobile devices. Sprint operates ...

Increase Traffic to Your Blog from Search Engines - The Top 5 Tips
Increase Traffic to Your Blog from Search Engines - The Top 5 TipsBlogs already have optimized site architecture. Most are set up with a clear navigation, where every page is set up to link back to the other main pages. They also have the inherent potential to be well-linked. If ...

Yahoo Search Engine Index Out of Room?
Yahoo Search Engine Index Out of Room?A thread at WebmasterWorld named What triggers Yahoo to fully index a site? discusses the issues many are having with having their sites fully or even partially indexed. For many who run large dynamic content sites, Yahoo! is having trouble capturing all those pages ...

Google Plans to Recreate 3D Version of San Francisco
Google Plans to Recreate 3D Version of San FranciscoSiliconValleyWatcher reports that Google plans to use trucks equipped with lasers and digital photographic equipment to create a realistic 3D online version of San Francisco.Google seems to be really pushing into local search and mapping - both offerings could benefit from this.As ...

AOL SingingFish Video Search Adds CNN, MarketWatch and Other Partners
AOL SingingFish Video Search Adds CNN, MarketWatch and Other PartnersAOL`s Singingfish video & multimedia search engine announced today it will begin featuring optimized video content feeds from more than 10 new partners including Atom-Films, Big-Boys.com, CBSNews.com, CNN, Hollywood.com, Like Television, ManiaTV.com, MarketWatch from Dow Jones & Company, The One Network, ...

Google Sitemaps ASP.Net Script: SITEMAP.NET Version 0.5.0.1 BETA
Google Sitemaps ASP.Net Script: SITEMAP.NET Version 0.5.0.1 BETAInteresting in the Google Sitemaps program, don`t have Wordpress and can`t use Python with your server? Chinook has released an ASP.Net script that will parse through an IIS site and also parse through log files if they are available. The log file parsing ...

Search Engine Study : Titles Determine Links as Not Relevant
Search Engine Study : Titles Determine Links as Not RelevantOver at Search Engine Watch, Gary Price points out a paper about consumer bias against paid listings. Expectedly, researchers found that consumers exhibit a bias for organic listings over sponsored listings. Eye tracking studies and user experience research have said the ...

Search Engine Stock Market News - Google, Ask Jeeves, IAC
Search Engine Stock Market News - Google, Ask Jeeves, IACBarry Dillar`s IAC Sells Stake in Vivendi Universal for 3.4 Billion. TheStreet reports: "The transaction results in after tax proceeds to IAC that, by any measure, exceed the company`s publicly stated valuation of the VUE securities," Diller said in a statement. ...

Search Engine Advertising to Reach $12.4 billion in 2005?
Search Engine Advertising to Reach $12.4 billion in 2005?Search engine shares in Google and Yahoo rose today as analyst forecasts showed that the search engine advertising industry may reach a record $12.4 billion in 2005. The Associated Press reports that "Investors moved into both Google and Yahoo shares, making technology ...

Search Engine Map Wars
Search Engine Map WarsBecause “war” is the metaphor business journalists like to use for competition and almost everything else. . . welcome to “Map Wars.” (Cue John Williams’ music.) According to Battelle and SiliconValleyWatcher, Google is going to “A9“ its mapping but with laser-generated 3-D imagery. (I use “A9” as ...

Evidence of Pay-per-Call Success
Evidence of Pay-per-Call SuccessAOL distribution brings a report of success with Ingenio’s pay-per-call for a Cruise Operator. Calls are ultimately a key to local for SMEs, but this model will likely be adopted by large advertisers (i.e., the cruise operator) sooner than mass adoption by SMEs.He started in February by ...

Michael Jackson Suicide Email is a Virus Hoax
Michael Jackson Suicide Email is a Virus HoaxIf you get an email saying the King of Pop has committed suicide, do not open it. Kindly delete the mail and watch out for any other quirky mails in your inbox today about Michael Jackson. Why? Well some dodgy hackers have decided ...

Technorati Launches Redesign Beta
Technorati Launches Redesign BetaYesterday, Dave Sifry announced the public beta of Technorati’s redesign. I like the new features, but prefer the old design. Technorati is a blog search engine that tracks over seven million weblogs. Here are some highlights from the beta announcement:* We’ve improved the user experience, making Technorati ...

Financial Times Selling Invisible Spam Links
Financial Times Selling Invisible Spam LinksAaron Wall of SEO Book.com reports that the Financial Times is practicing some black hat SEO techniques that would get normal sites booted out of search engines: Ever get the sense that many business models are being challenged by the web? In spite of ...

Add Yahoo Search to Your Site
Add Yahoo Search to Your SiteDon’t know when this went live, but I never noticed it before. (via SEOinc’s forum - thanks Search-Engines-Web)Now you can add a Yahoo search box to your site. Nice to see that Yahoo is slowly offering more for publishers, but until they release their own ...

?Closing the Loop?with Online Shopping
`Closing the Loop` with Online ShoppingArticles today in the WSJ and Friday in the DM News argue that the recent acquisitions of Shopzilla and Shopping.com reflect that online comparison shopping is hot and speculate about further consolidation. Empirical and anecdotal evidence suggests that while many consumers visit these sites, which ...

Michael Jackson Acquittal Makes Yahoo News Before Google
Michael Jackson Acquittal Makes Yahoo News Before GoogleWhile finishing up a day`s work today and listening to the radio to hear the jury`s decision on the Michael Jackson case (the jury found Michael Jackson not guilty on all charges), I was debating on posting a short story about the results ...

Traffic Meets Technology on Amazon Yellow Pages
Traffic Meets Technology on Amazon Yellow PagesThis makes a great deal of sense for both A9, which was having trouble getting traffic, and Amazon, which has a great deal of traffic and is apparently seeking ways to expand beyond its core e-commerce model.A9 has the technology and imagery and Amazon ...

Search Engine Roundtable Wins MarketingSherpa?s Best Blog on Search Marketing 2005
Search Engine Roundtable Wins Marketing Sherpa`s Best Blog on Search Marketing 2005Congratulations to Barry Schwartz and Search Engine Roundtable for winning the Marketing Sherpa`s Best Blog on Search Marketing 2005. Barry`s blog has grown over the past year as one of the more original places online to find breaking search ...

IFILM and blinkx.tv Form Video Search Partnership
IFILM and blinkx.tv Form Video Search Partnershipblinkx today announced an agreement with IFILM, to provide video content to blinkx.tv users. Under the terms of the partnership, blinkx will be able to search rich media content available at IFILM (www.ifilm.com), a leading video-entertainment destination, offering content across a variety of channels ...

Skype Voicemail Lets VOIP Users Leave Messages
Skype Voicemail Lets VOIP Users Leave MessagesSkype Voicemail was launched this week on the popular VOIP network. Skype Voicemail allows customers to continually maintain their Skype availability while offline by the ability to leave unlimited Voicemail messages for all Skype users when they are unavailable or offline, and can receive ...

Work From Home For Google
Work From Home For GoogleAll you need is a high speed internet connection to work for Google from your home. Google, the most-used Internet search engine, is hiring temporary workers around the world to help the company refine search results as it competes with Yahoo! and Microsoft`s MSN for users. ...

Microsoft and China Censoring Blogs
Microsoft and China Censoring BlogsMicrosoft is censoring the use of words “democracy,” “human rights”, “Taiwan independence” and other terms on the Chinese version of MSN Spaces in cooperation with the Chinese Government.AP reports that Tala Dowlatshahi, a spokeswoman for Reporters Without Borders, said such arrangements are common when large technology ...

Yahoo Purchases Blo.gs
Yahoo Purchases Blo.gsIn a sure sign that Yahoo! is serious in its efforts to assert a strong presence in the blogosphere, Blo.gs owner (or now former owner) Jim Winstead has announced that the directory of recently updated blogs has been sold to Yahoo! for an undisclosed sum.Winstead writes on the ...

Yahoo and Google Targeting VOIP Technology
Yahoo and Google Targeting VOIP TechnologyThere were two interesting pieces of news recently that may help to define the future plans of Google and Yahoo as they slowly grow into International and mobile communications channels. Google fortified itself as a search portal last month with the launch of the Personalized ...

Google Should Buy?
Google Should Buy...John Battelle points to an interesting piece at Kuro5hin, “a tech/culture site,” which reviews Google’s past acquisitions and about who/what the company might acquire next. From where I sit, I think Google needs a couple of things.The company has been working with Yellow Pages publishers and others to ...

Washington Post Replaces Google AdWords with Yahoo Search Marketing
Washington Post Replaces Google AdWords with Yahoo Search MarketingAccording to a report issued by investment firm Standard & Poor`s Equity Research division, paid advertising generated by Yahoo Search Marketing will soon replace ads generated by Google AdWords on the Washington Post newspaper website which is owned and operated by a ...

Mathematics of Search Engine Marketing &Need for Creativity
Mathematics of Search Engine Marketing & Need for CreativityDanny Sullivan writes Search Marketing Isn`t Just Math & Machines, which is in reaction to some chatter that the only way to work in search is to work it mathematically. When I was younger I was good at math, but have not ...

AOL Organic Search Engine Placement
AOL Organic Search Engine PlacementAOL has caught on to organic search engine placement in the biggest way. In an optimization and paid-inclusion campaign managed by Carat Interactive, AOL will target keywords relating to the various user "channels" AOL offers such as Black Voices, Music Sessions, City Guides, Personal Finance, etc...AOL ...

Google AdSense Not Allowed in Desktop Applications
Google AdSense Not Allowed in Desktop ApplicationsIf you are like me and the thousands of others that don`t read the Google AdSense TOS, then this will be new to you. A thread at Search Engine Watch forums named Google AdSense in desktop applications asks the question if you are allowed ...

OpenRank - Open Source Web Mapping
OpenRank - Open Source Web MappingRandfish, popular amongst the forums, has posted a thread at Search Engine Watch Forums named OpenRank - An Open Source WWW Index. Basically, he started OpenRank "with the goal of creating an open source index of web pages." In the thread there is a lot ...

Yahoo Intros Search Engine For Subscription Sites
Yahoo Intros Search Engine For Subscription SitesSERoundtable reports that Yahoo has launched a new search engine which deep searches subscription based websites. The new Yahoo search offering will search and index material within the members only section of such sites, and subscribers of these may use the personal Yahoo service ...

Google Search Engine For Mobile Screens
Google Search Engine For Mobile ScreensGoogle has introduced a new search engine for mobile users which offers a selective index of web sites which are "small screen friendly." The new Google Mobile search service gives web publishers one more reason to prepare their sites for mobile readers. Susan Kuchinskas of ...

Google Introduces Site Targeting to Google AdWords
Google Introduces Site Targeting to Google AdWordsGoogle just introduced Site Targeting for their AdWords program. Advertisers can now target their ads specifically for a particular site. Site Targeting is great for advertisers wanting to promote their product to a very specific audience. This allows for much greater control for AdWords ...

Google Wallet - The Bank of Google
Google Wallet - The Bank of GoogleLots of media outlets (here the NY Times) picked up on a story that first appeared in the WSJ online Friday about the allegedly impeding lauch of a PayPal rival (Google Wallet is the rumored name.)One of the key things this move does, if ...

Google?s Patent Application Analysis
Google`s Patent Application AnalysisGoogle`s Patent Application contains a lot to read and reading it may take some time, but if you own any type of website, this is all information you need to know. It also brings some interesting points up. While I go over some of the important points, ...

Google Wallet Service to Rival PayPal
Google Wallet Service to Rival PayPalAccording to a WSJ article, Google plans to offer an online payment system similar to eBay’s PayPal. "For Google, based in Mountain View, Calif., a payment service could represent a significant expansion beyond online advertising, which generated 99 percent of its $3.2 billion in revenue ...

Yahoo Search to Update Index Tonight
Yahoo Search to Update Index TonightTim Mayer from Yahoo! blogged today an entry named Second Weather Report: Yahoo! Launching New Search Index Tonight. The first weather report was named Tim Update because Tim announced it, I wonder what this one will be named... I am pretty sure they rushed this ...

Coverage of Webmaster World Conference on Search Engine Roundtable
Coverage of Webmaster World Conference on Search Engine RoundtableBarry Schwartz, of the award winning blog Search Engine Roundtable, will be covering the Webmaster World Conference in New Orleans this week (which I couldn`t attend).Barry has set up a category for this specific conference named WebmasterWorld 2005 New Orleans on his ...

Contextual Advertising Firm ContextWeb Secures More Funding
Contextual Advertising Firm ContextWeb Secures More FundingContextWeb, an ad link in site text contestual targeting network similar (but not the same as) Intellitxt, today announced that it has closed a $9 million Series B round of funding, led by Updata Partners. This round of funding, combined with an initial round ...

Yahoo Allows for Personal Spam Filtering
Yahoo Allows for Personal Spam FilteringI just noticed that Yahoo is allowing users to block search results. You click the “block” link and this prevents the result from showing up in future searches.I can see Yahoo using this data to implement Bayesian filtering for personalized web searches. As people continue ...

Google Wallet Sign of Relief for PayPal Users
Google Wallet Sign of Relief for PayPal UsersNews broke yesterday that Google is releasing an online payment system dubbed as Google Wallet. This will be one of the first major steps by Google to diversify its offerings beyond search and Greg Sterling of the Kelsey Group writes that "the market ...

ZoomInfo -Meta People Search Engine
ZoomInfo -Meta People Search EngineWanna find out about someone you`re dating, hiring, or working with? Try out ZoomInfo, a meta search engine of sorts which looks up the history of people`s names you search for. Googling someone only goes so far, ZoomInfo brings alot of public information to its users ...

Infosearch Media (ArticleInsider) Battles Click Fraud
Infosearch Media (ArticleInsider) Battles Click FraudInfoSearch Media today announced it has integrated two new click fraud-prevention offerings which are dubbed Dynamic Traffic Distribution, a traffic delivery system, and Dynamic Monitoring, a real-time fraud-detection tool.According to the InfoSearch Media release, Dynamic Traffic Distribution displays anonymous text ads across InfoSearch Media’s content ...

Microsoft Avalanche to Challenge BitTorrent
Microsoft Avalanche to Challenge BitTorrentBitTorrent has proven itself as a useful technology for both file downloading and even downsizing the costing of hosting huge files for companies. The darkside of file sharing seems to always include controversy since "BitTorrents are also being used to share pirated digital content inviting the ...

MSN Local Search Launches for Beta Testing
MSN Local Search Launches for Beta TestingAfter giving beta users a sneak peak of its Local Search function with the Near Me button in MSN Web Search Beta, Microsoft has now launched its MSN Local Search live on the MSN site yet still in Beta). MSN uses a basic local ...

Answers.com and IceRocket Partner for Blog Search
Answers.com and IceRocket Partner for Blog SearchAnswers.com, a Gurunet owned answer-based search engine, and IceRocket.com have partnered to direct IceRocket.com visitors to Answers.com for reference content, and Answers.com will send its "blog search" traffic to IceRocket. Answers.com/GuruNet will receive a share of any revenues generated by its referral traffic to ...

MSN Local Search Goes Live
MSN Local Search Goes LiveToday is the summer solstice, an auspicious day for the beta launch of MSN Local Search. Though late to the party, MSN is the last but not least major search entrant in the effort to deliver local.With the transformation of its “near me” functionality into ...

Google?s Wallet Not Another PayPal
Google`s Wallet Not Another PayPalThat’s according to Google CEO Eric Schmidt. The tantalizing quote from Schmidt was: "The payment services we are working on are a natural evolution of Google’s existing online products and advertising programs, which today connect millions of consumers and advertisers." The San Jose Mercury/Silicon Beat’s Michael ...

AOL Unwraps Its New Portal
AOL Unwraps Its New PortalAOL beta-launched its new portal, with certain pieces to follow later (e.g., video, personalization). Internal and external expectations are high for the new site and strategy, which seeks to leverage the AOL user-base and network to drive more advertising revenue. We were briefed by AOL last ...

MSN Search Updates Results Based on RankNet
MSN Search Updates Results Based on RankNetBesides the news yesterday that MSN Local has launched, the people at MSN Web Search snuck in an update to their search results with an algorithm based on what MSN calls RankNet. The search results seem more relevant to the query and MSN feels ...

Technorati, Google, Yahoo, Blogs and Accusations of Inflated Results
Technorati, Google, Yahoo, Blogs and Accusations of Inflated ResultsDavid Sifry, CEO of Technorati, is calling out Google and Yahoo to explain why their reported results are sometimes much larger than their viewable results. "Can someone from Google or Yahoo help me to understand why their reported results are sometimes 1000 ...

Search Engine Marketing Kit By Dan Thies - Everything But Yoko Ono
Search Engine Marketing Kit By Dan Thies - Everything But Yoko OnoTrying to document the search engine marketing industry is like trying to chase your reflection in a room of mirrors, every time you think you have it in your hands - you turn around and a new opportunity is ...

Yahoo Search Marketing &Richard Branson Announce Big Idea Winner
Yahoo Search Marketing & Richard Branson Announce Big Idea WinnerYahoo Search Marketing today announced that Phoenix, AZ company StairCycle Innovations was selected from among nearly eight thousand entries as the winner of Yahoo Search Marketing`s national "Think Big" contest. StairCycle, co-founded by cardiovascular ultrasound specialist Craig Ridenhour, offers a first-of-its ...

SEO By The SEA - Gathering on Search Engines, Boats, and Maryland Seafood
SEO By The SEA - Gathering on Search Engines, Boats, and Maryland SeafoodLive on the East Coast and can`t make it to Search Engine Strategies San Jose in August? Looking to meet up and share a few pints with some others in the search engine optimization or paid search marketing ...

Yahoo Testing Behavior Based Ads
Yahoo Testing Behavior Based AdsYahoo, in conjunction with Revenue Science, has been testing its contextual ads on web pages based on user behavior. (via AdWeek) [Not to be confused with their current graphic ad behavioral advertising, this is for Yahoo Partner Publishers - Loren]In contrast to Google’s AdSense, Revenue Science’s ...

Google Planning Pay-Per-Sale Advertising Model?
Google Planning Pay-Per-Sale Advertising Model?Here’s what I think Google is building - A pay-per-sale advertising model. CEO Eric Schmidt has already spoken out and specifically said that Google is not building a PayPal killer, “We do not intend to offer a person-to-person, stored-value payments system…The payment services we are working ...

eBay ProStores to Build Sites for SMEs
eBay ProStores to Build Sites for SMEsOne of the announcements coming out of eBay Live, which I’m merely reading about rather than attending, is that eBay is launching a Web site initiative for SMEs : ProStores.It will allow SMEs to build sites (with e-commerce capability) that are separate from the ...

Microsoft Getting Serious About RSS
Microsoft Getting Serious About RSSAfter visiting the Microsoft Internet Explorer team and their RSS group, Dave Winer was surprised that Microsoft was thinking bigger than using RSS for lists and bookmark aggregation and management. Winer, the Godfather of Really Simple Syndication, writes "I found out, when I visited Microsoft in ...

Google?s Patent Implications
Google`s Patent ImplicationsYou may have already heard or read about Google`s latest patent application regarding "information retrieval based on historical data", but if you`re like me, you probably didn`t bother to read it all. Patents are not easy to read, that`s for sure! I had skimmed it and glanced at ...

Microsoft Building Lifestyle Blog Network
Microsoft Building Lifestyle Blog NetworkMicrosoft is advertising for paid bloggers to write and edit proposed blogs on five topics: fashion/food/style, music, sports, technology, and television for a new network of lifestyle blogs as part of MSN.Salary details were not available however successful applicants are expected to contribute around 15 hours ...

Anatomy Of An Internet Search Engine
Anatomy Of An Internet Search EngineFor some unfortunate souls SEO is simply the learning of tricks and techniques that, according to their understanding, should propel their site into the top rankings on the major search engines. This understanding of the way SEO works can be effective for a time however ...

Blogger Adds Picture Uploads - The WSJ Effect
Blogger Adds Picture Uploads - The WSJ EffectBlogger was the last choice for The Wall Street Journal when it came to comparing Blogger vs MSN Spaces vs Yahoo 360. Seems like Google was quick to react to the WSJ report. Atleast to some part of the report. Now you can ...

Google Video Gets Real
Google Video Gets RealJohn Battelle has an interesting discussion regarding the impending launch of genuine video on Google, what it might mean for third parties, and how it might integrate with Google’s new payments system.Google has been inviting people/organizations to submit video for some time. We said before that this ...

Microsoft Integrating RSS into Longhorn
Microsoft Integrating RSS into LonghornMicrosoft announced Friday that they will be integrating several new RSS features in the next version of Windows, code-named Longhorn. The Longhorn Browsing and RSS team also announced a new RSS extension, to be released into Creative Commons, called Simple List Extensions. The extension will allow ...

In-Browser Video Player by Google
In-Browser Video Player by GoogleThe day before tax day, April 14th, 2005 I posted an entry named Google Wants Your Videos, where we discussed how Google is allowing people to upload video that will be hosted for free at Google. John Battelle today posted News: Google To Launch Online Video ...

Google Earth - Google Maps The World in 3D
Google Earth - Google Maps The World in 3DGoogle today relaunched their Keyhole satellite Image mapping system as Google Earth. Google Earth combines 3D buildings and terrain with mapping capability and Google search and is based on Keyhole technology. Google Earth enables users to "fly from space to street level ...

Google Video Hacked
Google Video HackedInsideGoogle and PCMagazine report that Google Video has been hacked by world famed cracker Jon Lech Johansen. Apparently, DVDJon (his alias) targets different multimedia download programs and his hack of Google Video lets any use the software to play a video on their webpage.From InsideGoogle : Jon Lech ...

Buying Out Blogs - 2000 Bloggers Post Sponsored Content
Buying Out Blogs - 2000 Bloggers Post Sponsored ContentMarketing firm USWeb is paying over 2000 bloggers for inline commercial comment and placement on their blogs. A report in the Boston Globe states that the company is using bloggers such as Jeff Cutler, who is blogging about products without having used ...

Google Earth Has Landed
Google Earth Has LandedGoogle has launched its much anticipated Google Earth (GE) makeover of Keyhole. Dubbed “a 3D interface to the planet,” it’s basically an upgraded version of of the Keyhole software, integrated with Google Local and personalization.Yes it’s cool, it’s loaded with features . . . but will people ...

Can A SubDomain Ban the Main Domain?
Can A SubDomain Ban the Main Domain?Yes. It is only logical to say that it is possible for a subdomain that is deploying SEO tactics that warrant a penalization by the search engine to have the potential to spread that penalty across the whole domain. This is the current discussion ...

Yahoo Mail Testing Desktop Style Interface?
Yahoo Mail Testing Desktop Style Interface?Yahoo Mail is apparently overhauling its free email service to make it function and appear more like a Desktop mail software than web based email. Heck, with so many people using broadband and wireless connections now, why not? I`m a user of Yahoo mail and ...

Apple iTunes 4.9 Goes Podcasting
Apple iTunes 4.9 Goes PodcastingApple updated its iTunes music store today with iTunes 4.9, which has a heavy focus on supporting podcasting. Sharon Housley describes Podcasting as online audio content that is delivered via an RSS feed which gives far more options in terms of content and programming than radio ...

Yahoo MyWeb 2.0 - Personal and Social Search Collide
Yahoo MyWeb 2.0 - Personal and Social Search CollideThe MyWeb upgrade from the original Yahoo! MySearch was a great improvement, allowing users to save and annotate Web pages. I have been using this for months and love it.Today Yahoo! further upgraded the offering (MyWeb 2.0) and made it possible to ...

Google Earth and Google Maps API
Google Earth and Google Maps APIAfter playing around with Google Earth this morning I’d have to say: it’s really, really cool (to use the vernacular). I especially like the way the map can be manipulated and the perspective (from overhead to “3D") changed. Once the satellite and ground images are ...

Update on Google Sitemaps
Update on Google SitemapsWhen Google Sitemaps was released the forums had both positive and negative things to say about it. Some said Google was lazy and wanted a lower costs, more efficient method to find new pages on the Web but others praised Google for offering a solution of indexing ...

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