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Mixed Drinks Search : Esquire?s Drinking Database
Mixed Drinks Search : Esquire`s Drinking DatabaseEsquire Magazine has a nice search engine of mixed drinks they`re offering called the Drinking Database. I found a link to it this morning on Gary Price`s ResourceShelf blog, where he says that drinks can be found via spirit, mixer, type of glass, or ...

Video Advertising Study - Interest in YouTube, Google, Yahoo Video Ads
Video Advertising Study - Interest in YouTube, Google, Yahoo Video AdsAdvertising online via video ad spots has become easier to do with the introduction of Google AdWords Video Ads and Yahoo Search Marketing planning to introduce their own competing offering. Throw YouTube, MySpace, ESPN and Yahoo Video into the pot ...

Google Spreadsheets
Google SpreadsheetsGoogle Spreadsheets is (semi) up and running today; it`s in a limited beta test at this point, so you can`t actually use it, but you can sign up to be one of the invited few. More about Google Spreadsheets from the official Google Spreadsheets Help Page:"Google Spreadsheets allows you ...

Playboy Videos on Blinkx.TV Video Search Engine
Playboy Videos on Blinkx.TV Video Search EnginePlayboy.com and blinkx.tv have entered a content distribution partnership where blinkx.tv will make free premium online content from the Playboy TV Jukebox fully searchable via the blinkx.tv video search service. Although, well this could be depending on one`s opinion, Playboy is not porn.. it ...

8 Ways to Submit to Yahoo Search
8 Ways to Submit to Yahoo SearchLooking to make sure your site or portal is getting all it can out of Yahoo Search Technology and the multitude of Yahoo offerings? Wendy Boswell has put together a hefty list of ways to submit your site to Yahoo.From Wendy`s story on About.com, ...

New Google Pagerank Patent
New Google Pagerank PatentToday Google published a new version of its Pagerank patent, Method for node ranking in a linked database. The Pagerank patent is filed under its namesake, Lawrence Page, and assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University; US Patent 7,058,628.The abstract is as ...

Yahoo buying into GMarket
Yahoo buying into GMarketAnd no, it`s not a new Google product (but wouldn`t that be a weird news story!). According to ZDNet,"U.S. Internet firm Yahoo is buying a 10 percent stake in South Korea`s No.2 online retailer Gmarket, giving it a foothold in one of Asia`s fastest-growing e-commerce industries." More ...

AOL Inserts Ads Inside Email
AOL Inserts Ads Inside Email First, a bit of background from InfoWorld:"For the first time in its history, AOL is displaying ads along with e-mail messages to its paying subscribers, to increase the delivery mechanisms of its online ad inventory, an AOL spokeswoman confirmed Tuesday. This practice is common in ...

Jobster Buys Recruiting.com Blog
Jobster Buys Recruiting.com BlogJobster Inc.has acquired Recruiting.com, the recruiting industry blog site. Recruiting.com will continue to aggregate content from more than 70 recruiting industry blogs as well as drive thought leadership in the industry through original content created by Recruiting.com`s team of industry experts.Jobster CEO Jason Goldberg said of Jobster ...

Google Browser Sync Firefox Extension
Google Browser Sync Firefox ExtensionGoogle`s newest Firefox browser extension is attempting to synch all browser data from one computer to another using Google Web Accounts. Google says that the new tool lends to the mobility of the web browser, letting anyone take their Firefox anywhere with them; as long as ...

SEO Tips for Basic Search Engine Optimization
SEO Tips for Basic Search Engine OptimizationSometimes it`s easy for Internet companies and basic web sites to concentrate on paid search marketing, online ads, 2.0 style videos and tagging; while overlooking basic search engine optimization essentials which if implemented properly can result in incredibly low customer acquisition costs. Sharon Housley, ...

Yahoo Photos Updated With Limited Beta Testing
Yahoo Photos Updated With Limited Beta TestingYahoo is answering its promise to keep control and dominance of the social media spectrum with the new rollout of the "Flickrization" of Yahoo Photos (very limited beta testing). Chocked full of Flickr goodness with tags (comma separated!), ratings, comments, details and sharing; Yahoo ...

World Cup 2006 Coverage on Opera Browser and Mini Mobile
World Cup 2006 Coverage on Opera Browser and Mini MobileSearch engine coverage of the World Cup not enough to keep you on top of the tourney over the next few weeks? Want more Copa Mundial 2006 coverage out of your desktop or web browsing experience? What about World Cup coverage ...

?Secret?Google Products
"Secret" Google ProductsVia Google Operating System, Tony Ruscoe has an interesting post on secret Google stuff. More from GOS:"Tony Ruscoe has found many interesting Google services, using an automated tool that fetches URL addresses like https://www.google.com/ accounts/ Login?service= [GoogleService].""Google LH2, a service that for the moment redirects to http://lh2.google.com/lh/invitationRequired. That ...

eBay AdContext Advertising System Launching
eBay AdContext Advertising System LaunchingeBay will be taking a page from both the contextual advertising model which has been perfected by Google and Yahoo as well as a page from the affiliate marketing model to launch eBay AdContext next week. Reuters says that AdContext will allow eBay merchants to advertise ...

Google Geo Developer Day
Google Geo Developer DayGoogle is hosting its Google Geo Developer Day for major Google Earth API developers, local search gurus, and to announce a new version of Google Earth. Greg Sterling, Frank Taylor and Mike Pegg are at the event and covering the presentations and announcements.From Greg Sterling : According ...

Home Improvement Business? Submit to ImprovementWeb.com
Home Improvement Business? Submit to ImprovementWeb.comOver the past month or so Sushubh and I have been toying with building some niche targeted business profile sites, powered by Wordpress. First was MarylandYellow.com, a business profile directory for Maryland, and now, ImprovementWeb.com - for the home improvement industry.If you own, work for, ...

Google Spreadsheet Invitations on eBay
Google Spreadsheet Invitations on eBayNot only can you buy GMail, Writely or Google Analytics invitations on eBay, but now some entrepreneurs are getting about $2 a pop for Google Spreadsheet invitiations.Todd Bishop reports :Maybe it was inevitable: Google`s new spreadsheet program has gotten enough attention that people are now trying ...

Yahoo Directory Blog : The Spark!
Yahoo Directory Blog : The Spark!The folks at the Yahoo Search Directory have had their blog, The Spark, running for about 6 months now, but today I received an email from them about showcasing it on BlogSearchEngine.com and thought that the blog was good enough to share with all of ...

Yahoo Answers : Ask the Planet in Times Square
Yahoo Answers : Ask the Planet in Times SquareYahoo is launching a pretty large promotion for its Yahoo! Answers "Ask the Planet 2006" campaign today with the unveiling of the world`s biggest brain, a two-story terrarium built on top of the Hard Rock Cafe Marquee in Times Square at 7:30 ...

Google Photos : Picasa Web Albums
Google Photos : Picasa Web AlbumsGoogle Flickr, oh I mean Picasa Web Albums, is live and running now in Test Mode. In order to try out the photo storage, sharing and communications tool you`ll need a Google Account and to use Picasa Web Albums at full blast, you`ll also have ...

RSS - Things That Make You Go Hmmm
RSS - Things That Make You Go HmmmWhy doesn`t the new Yahoo Spark Blog publish an RSS feed? Of any kind? Not even an "add to my Yahoo" button?Why can`t I subscribe to the Technorati Hot Tags widget that`s (supposedly) updated hourly?How come eBay has RSS feeds enabled on the ...

Yahoo Local and Yahoo Shopping Blogs
Yahoo Local and Yahoo Shopping BlogsYesterday I wrote a bit about the Yahoo Directory Blog, The Spark, and today Fleishman Hillard / Yahoo reminded me that they have recently launched two new blogs for their Yahoo Shopping and Yahoo Local offerings (and let`s not forget the YSearchBlog and the YPNBlog).From ...

Blinkx.TV : More Video Than Google, Yahoo or YouTube
Blinkx.TV : More Video Than Google, Yahoo or YouTubeWhen it comes to search, the big boys on the block tend to receive the bulk of attention when they offer a niche search service, even if some smaller innovators are holding their own in the ultra competitive fields. One such niche ...

Google U.S. Government Search
Google U.S. Government SearchLooking to keep up on White House feeds or the Weather around Washington, DC? Google has come out with a new search service and customizable homepage targeted towards US Government employees and contractors called Google U.S. Government Search.I`m on my way to run some errands, but Candace ...

Google Does Shakespeare
Google Does ShakespeareEt tu, Google? Google has added full text of every Shakespeare play as part of Google Book Search, Explore Shakespeare with Google. All plays are nicely divided into Comedy, Tragedy, Romance, and History; in addition, Google Earth is prominently featured with the opportunity to search Shakespeare landmarks such ...

Netscape Relaunched as AOL Digg
Netscape Relaunched as AOL DiggAOL and their Savior, Jason Calacanis, have transformed the once Mozilla powered browser, ISP and homepage brand; Netscape, into a wild and whacky multi-tier version of Digg for AOL users. Sure, using the succesful Digg social news sharing, commenting and ranking model for mass AOL news ...

Jux2 Meta Search Engine Adds MSN Results and Firefox Extension
Jux2 Meta Search Engine Adds MSN Results and Firefox ExtensionJux2, the meta-search engine that allows users to compare search results from three major search engines, has announced the launch of several new search enhancements such as the inclusion of MSN search results and a Firefox extension that makes it possible ...

BackFence Launches Palo Alto Bay Area Site
BackFence Launches Palo Alto Bay Area SiteBackfence.com, which recently purchased Dan Gillmor`s Bayosphere as a strategy for entering the Bay Area market, formally launched its first Bay Area site for Palo Alto with the hire of two former newspaper staffers, Daniel Payomo and Mark Loundy. Media maven Dan Gillmor continues ...

Yahoo! : Buy Wordpress or SixApart!
Yahoo! : Buy Wordpress or SixApart!I use WordPress and it has glitches and "cludgey" aspects (like the time I thought I`d lost all my posts :0). But overall it`s pretty smooth and, I gotta say, it`s a lot better blogging platform than Yahoo!`s 360 (although upgrades are coming). That`s the ...

Google AdWords Adds Scheduling / Dayparting
Google AdWords Adds Scheduling / DaypartingJennifer Slegg posts on the Search Engine Watch Blog that Google AdWords has added time scheduling to its advertising interface. The new feature allows advertisers to change the look of their AdWords ads dependent upon day of the week or time of day.MSN adCenter also ...

Yahoo Search Marketing UK Lowering Minimum Bid
Yahoo Search Marketing UK Lowering Minimum BidAccording to a thread in Webmaster World, Yahoo Search Marketing UK will be lowering its minimum bid from 10 Pence to 5 Pence. MSN adCenter reportedly has a minimum bid of 5 Pence in the UK.From Webmaster World:I have just read an article about ...

Running Google Calendar on Web Sites
Running Google Calendar on Web SitesGoogle Calendar has taken a page from the Google Video school of content sharing with the option for site owners to share their maps on their sites or blogs via embedding the calendar for all to see. This is not only just a cool feature ...

New York Times Happy About (.com) Online Results
New York Times Happy About (.com) Online ResultsThe New York Times reported ad revenues for May, compared with last year. Here are some highlights:* May 2006 advertising revenues for the Company`s business units increased 4.4% and total Company revenues increased 4.0% compared with May 2005.* The Internet ad revenues included ...

Yahoo Breathes Life into One.org
Yahoo Breathes Life into One.orgYahoo! has collaborated with U2 lead singer and humanitarian Bono to revamp the anti-poverty online project One.org. With Yahoo’s efforts, One.org has turned into an online platform for community organizing. The new updated website went live on Friday and the company said that it took them ...

Ask.com Part of Treasure Hunters Reality Series
Ask.com Part of Treasure Hunters Reality SeriesAsk.com is not only getting all kinds of product placement on the new NBC reality game show Treasure Hunters, its also part of the show. The Ask.com Blog says that Ask.com is used by contestants in the show to solve clues quickly and move ...

Microsoft?s Live.com Updates With New Themes and Templates
Microsoft`s Live.com Updates With New Themes and TemplatesMicrosoft has updated their Live.com user controlled startpage, desktop and search engine service with new updated theme and features. Mark the new Live.com as the first post-Gates relaunch with a much better interface and usability.The developers said in a blog post that they ...

Trojan Hosted on Google Pages
Trojan Hosted on Google PagesGoogle has been the target of some folks who have been up to no good as its hosting server was targeted when attackers uploaded a malicious file to the Google Pages server. Google Pages is the Google service which lets Google Account holders create and host ...

Comments on Search Engine Journal : Registration?
As our regular readers may have noticed, over the past month or so Search Engine Journal was not running its comments. Due to database errors which possibly stemmed from comment spamming, we had to take the comments template off of our site. We use Wordpress Akismet and other anti-spamming tools ...

Google CEO Eric Schmidt at Search Engine Strategies San Jose 2006
Google CEO Eric Schmidt at Search Engine Strategies San Jose 2006Danny Sullivan announced on the SEW Blog today that Search Engine Strategies San Jose will be featuring a session with Google CEO Eric Schmidt this August."A Conversation With Eric Schmidt" will happen from 10am to 10:45am on August 9, the ...

MySpace Limiting Adult Access To Child Profiles
MySpace Limiting Adult Access To Child ProfilesIn what is sure to become a major victory for child protection groups, advertisers, and the future adaptation, expansion and public perception of Fox Interactive`s MySpace, starting next week MySpace will be initiating tougher age restrictions which will make it a lot harder for ...

How Google AdSense Geotargeting Works
How Google AdSense Geotargeting WorksJedi Master of the Search Engine Forum World, Barry Schwartz of Search Engine Roundtable points to a discussion going on at Webmaster World on Google AdSense and Geotargeting. After reading, I found the explanation quite valuable, especially after living in Japan up until 3 weeks ago.While ...

Are You a Search Engine Spammer?
Are You a Search Engine Spammer?Peter Davis, Sitepoint Moderator and Small Business Forum owner, has moved past the denial stage in his search engine marketing practices, and is starting to confront the fact that the shady SEO practices which have grown in popularity over the past 18 months, may infact ...

Yahoo Study Shows Health Searchers More Active and Educated
Yahoo Study Shows Health Searchers More Active and EducatedYahoo! today released the findings from research examining the habits of consumers that search online for health information. The study revealed that 61% of searchers have visited or plan to visit their doctor after searching for health information online. According to Yahoo`s ...

Google AdSense Testing Cost-Per-Action Payments
Google AdSense Testing Cost-Per-Action PaymentsGoogle AdSense is planning on testing publisher revenue payments on a Cost-Per-Action basis, and according to an email sent to David Jackson of the SeekingAlpha network, is inviting AdSense publishers to test the new revenue structure.David received this message from Google AdSense : The Google AdSense ...

Ingenio?s Ether Now Out of Beta
Ingenio`s Ether Now Out of BetaThe ether "private beta" has been running for several months, but now comes the public beta. There`s no marketing or marketplace here; it`s essentially a distributed billing and calling infrastructure that allows experts and service providers (where advice is the primary product) to do "e-commerce." ...

Google Sitemaps Update
Google Sitemaps UpdateGoogle Sitemaps has announced on the Google Blog that they have released a `raft of new features` including increased crawl errors, expanded query stats, increased number of common words, increased limit of sites and Sitemaps that can be added to an account, and a robots.txt analysis tool addition.On ...

Google Premium Video Offers Free Test
Google Premium Video Offers Free TestIn an experment on selected (not all) premium video content, Google Video is offering users the ability to watch that content, which would otherwise cost from $1.99 to $14.99 without having to pay. An advertiser banner appears at the top of the screen for the ...

Yahoo Answers Grows Globally
Yahoo Answers Grows GloballyLesley Kao, Sr. Product Manager of International Yahoo! Answers, reminds us all on the Yahoo Search Blog that Yahoo Answers has added to its International expansion with nine new markets in five new languages, including Argentina, Mexico, Italy and Google Orkut`s backyard, Brazil. From the YSearchBlog:For months ...

YouTube Breaking Into MySpace Territory
YouTube Breaking Into MySpace Territory?Garrett French has the Lowdown on YouTube creeping into MySpace`s backyard with the targeting of musicians and the usage of more personalized profiles. MySpace initially made it big as a central location for music fans to gather and meet on another based upon their musical and ...

Google AdSense Tests Images Blended in Text Ads
Google AdSense Tests Images Blended in Text AdsGoogle AdSense seems to be testing and experimenting with a new style of contextual advertisement which is a blend of image, text, and links to search results which integrates the 3 major offerings of the Google AdSense program into one advertising format. Google ...

Alexa Site and Toolbar Down Today This Morning
Alexa Site and Toolbar Down Today This MorningThis morning I`ve noticed that the entire Alexa.com site seems to be down and some other sites which feed off of Alexa, like Alexaholic, are not able to serve Alexa info. After opening my Internet Explorer browser to view some Alexa stats on ...

GenieKnows?GenieLocal.com Running Verizon Superpages Advertisements
GenieKnows` GenieLocal.com Running Verizon Superpages AdvertisementsGenieLocal.com is now running Verizon Superpages advertisers in its local search results along with GenieKnows.com pay-per-click ads says IT Interactive Services, parent company of GenieKnows. SuperPages.com will provide GenieLocal.com local Pay-Per-Click and Pay-For-Calls advertiser information when users request specifics on pertinent local products and services.GenieKnows.com ...

Yahoo?s YPN Blog Needs Your Help
Yahoo`s YPN Blog Needs Your HelpThe Yahoo Publisher Network`s blog, the YPN Blog, is looking for some reader and YPN member feedback on the direction of the blog and new topics readers would like to see explored at YPNBlog.From the YPN Team:The Yahoo! Publisher Network blog will only be successful ...

Crazy Yahoo Videos Found On YouTube
Crazy Yahoo Videos Found On YouTubeLike many out there on the web I spend a good amount of my free time online searching YouTube, Flickr and other media sharing sites for interesting tidbits or behind the scenes info on my favorite search engines. Well, being that the info I`m searching ...

Searchles : Tags, Video, Bookmarks and Group Searching from Dumbfind
Searchles : Tags, Video, Bookmarks and Group Searching from DumbfindIn what appears to be a strange hybrid of Digg, Friendster and Flickr influenced tagging, Dumbfind has launched yet another thought provoking search engine service, Searchles (search + circles = Searchles). Pronounced "circles", Searchles is a search platform centered on social ...

Baidu.com Launching Blogs : Baidu Space
Baidu.com Launching Blogs : Baidu SpaceChina`s Baidu.com will soon be launching their own blogging service named Baidu Space. This service would be similar in way to Google Blogger and MSN Spaces. Cynthia He, a spokeswoman for Baidu said in a statement: ?There?s a product named Baidu Space. I can?t describe ...

Microsoft Buys iView Multimedia Photo Organizer
Microsoft Buys iView Multimedia Photo OrganizeriView Multimedia, a British photo organization software company, announced today that they have been acquired by Microsoft. iView`s technology manages digital photos and enjoys a following among photographers and graphic artists which also includes Mac users. Will iView power the Microsoft answer to Yahoo`s Flickr ...

Microsoft Windows Live QnA Invites
Microsoft Windows Live QnA InvitesMicrosoft`s Windows Live QnA, which is expected to be a similar question and answer powered informational resource to Yahoo Answers, Answerbag and Google Answers, has sent out limited invites to US based beta testers of Live.com.LiveSide reports :Windows Vista beta testers, living in the US (yes, ...

Google Checkout Payment System Streamlines Online Shopping
Google Checkout Payment System Streamlines Online ShoppingGoogle`s shopping cart system and its answer to rival eBay`s Paypal, Google Checkout, has launched today in an attempt by Google to streamline the search to purchase process into one easy and all encompassing Google system. With Google AdWords and Google Accounts integration, Google ...

Jambo Airs Pay Per Call on the Radio
Jambo Airs Pay Per Call on the RadioJambo is going to introduce PPCall ads via remnant radio inventory. Here`s a write-up in MediaPost (reg. req`d):Jambo, known for distributing through directories like InfoSpace, will buy remnant ad time from BidForSpots.com, which aggregates airtime from roughly 2,000 different stations, and arbitraging the ...

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