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Naymz Interview: Tom Drugan on Identity Management and His Roots in Orbitz SEM
Naymz Interview: Tom Drugan on Identity Management and His Roots in Orbitz SEMI recently interviewed Tom Drugan of Naymz, a paid search identity management start up.For $5 a month (first month free, you can also buy a discounted yearly subscription for $47.50.) Naymz delivers its users an ad for ...

eBay Shakes Up Management While Banning Google Checkout
eBay Shakes Up Management While Banning Google CheckoutNot only did eBay take the questionable move of blacklisting Google Checkout from its approved forms of buyer to seller payment, but now it seems that the Google snowball has eBay shaking up their management team at PayPal. Forbes reports that eBay let ...

W3C PageRank 9 Links for Only $83 a Month!
W3C PageRank 9 Links for Only $83 a Month!For a donation of only $1,000 per year you too can be a supporter of the World Wide Web Consortium and have two links to your site, one on the PageRank 9 ranked W3C Supporters Page and the second at the Supporter ...

Business.com Responds to NoFollow Controversy
Business.com Responds to NoFollow ControversyLane Soelberg of Business.com dropped by Threadwatch today to address the Business.com nofollow tag controversy which came to life yesterday as some in the SEO world found out that Business.com is using a nofollow tag on some of its paid for outgoing links, which many companies ...

Google?s Eric Schmidt on Click Fraud ?Let It Happen?
Google`s Eric Schmidt on Click Fraud `Let It Happen`Google CEO Eric Schmidt will have some answering to do at Search Engine Strategies San Jose over this statement from a Stanford University event earlier in the year, as covered by ZDNet`s Donna Bogatin:According to Schmidt, Google?s auction-based pay-per-click advertising model is ...

Google GDrive Being Tested
Google GDrive Being TestedSigns of Google GDrive have surfaced, apparently via a bug in Writely which revealed the Google GDrive homepage. Blogger Corsin Camichel was snooping around Writely and was appending different index pages such as index.js and index.py. But, according to Corsin, when he entered index.html he was redirected ...

Jingle and MerchantCircle Team for 411 Service
Jingle and MerchantCircle Team for 411 ServiceJingle will distribute MerchantCircle ?plus?($99 per mo) level advertisers over its 1800-Free-411 DA service. This is good for Jingle because it representes more ad coverage. For MerchantCircle, which isn?t a consumer destination, it?s qualified distribution.One of the challenges in this context is taking ...

Yahoo Buys 42.5 Acre Santa Clara Property
Yahoo Buys 42.5 Acre Santa Clara PropertyYahoo has confirmed the purchase of 42.5 acres of Santa Clara property which may one day become the new YahooPlex HQ for Yahoo operations. I`m not too up on California real estate myself, but the description of the new Yahoo estate sounds quite convenient ...

Yahoo Trip Planner : Social Media Bearing Fruit
Yahoo Trip Planner : Social Media Bearing FruitTrip Planner was Yahoo!?s user-generated content travel experiment until today, when it came out of beta. And in many ways it?s the most impressive expression to date of Yahoo!?s social media strategy. Yahoo! Answers has received a great deal of attention recently (there?s ...

Google Call Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan?
Google Call Center in Ann Arbor, Michigan?Being reported in several places today is Google?s stated intention to open a ?research center?in Ann Arbor, Michigan. According to the NY Times (reg. req?d) the project will house the Google Print initiative (book digitization) and roughly 1,000 employees.But here?s what caught my ...

Move Over Google GDrive, Here Comes Windows ?Live Drive?
Move Over Google GDrive, Here Comes Windows `Live Drive`Besides the launch of Yahoo`s Trip Planner, Monday`s more generalized search engine news was hovering around the sighting of Google`s Platypus GDrive by a blogger who was sniffing around Writely index files. Corsin Camichel`s discovery unearthed what may be some Google testing ...

Google Maps Zooms With New Features
Google Maps Zooms With New FeaturesGoogle Maps has added some new zoom features to Google Maps and its Maps API v2 users which makes the service more Google Earth-like. More from the Google Maps API Blog; Happy Zooming!* Double-click to zoom. Instead of double-clicking to recenter the map, we now ...

Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Beta Expected Today
Mozilla Firefox 2.0 Beta Expected TodayThe Mozilla Foundation is scheduled to release the first beta of their upcoming Mozilla Firefox 2.0 web browser today. This release is critical for Mozilla, as it will highlight the direction inwhich Firefox is taking for its future. And its future will be enhance competition ...

Bebo Turns Down $550 Million?
Bebo Turns Down $550 Million?TechCrunch reports that up-and-coming social networking site Bebo, which has caught MySpace in the UK, has declined a $550 million buyout offer. The post also reports on The Facebook turning down $1 billion.Who knows what the truth is. But let?s assume these rumors are correct. The ...

Yahoo and Hispanic Digital Network Partner with Search Distribution Agreement
Yahoo and Hispanic Digital Network Partner with Search Distribution AgreementYahoo! and the Hispanic Digital Network (HDN) have entered into an exclusive, multi-year Web and sponsored search distribution agreement. What better time to highlight such a massive undertaking of establishing such a strong Hispanic search partnership than this week, as Search ...

MySpace.com Most Popular Site in America
MySpace.com Most Popular Site in AmericaIn a sign of the times, MySpace.com has overtaken Yahoo Mail and Google Search as the most visited web site (page) last week. Hitwise, the web traffic and behavior tracking people, say that MySpace attracted 4.46% of all US visits, which pushed Yahoo Mail down ...

Google Video Expands to Europe and Canada
Google Video Expands to Europe and CanadaGoogle Video has expanded beyond its US-centric offering by launching new video search and store services in France, Germany, Italy, Poland, the Netherlands, Spain, the UK and Canada.From BBC News:Before now, all of Google`s video offerings, which include clips made by amateurs as well ...

Google Documentary on GUBA
Google Documentary on GUBAPeter Da Vanzo points to a documentary on Google, Google : Behind The Screen, which is available for downloading or viewing from GUBA (WB and Sony partner GUBA).The first minute or so of the documentary is a nice high paced collage of Mountain View and Silicon Valley ...

Yahoo Teaming With Newspapers
Yahoo Teaming With NewspapersThis Reuters piece reports on a BusinessWeek article (I couldn?t locate), which says a group of newspapers is in talks with Yahoo! to create a partnership that would include content and distribution. It?s unclear from what I saw what the form of it would be precisely.Two of ...

David Hasselhoff Hits Google Video
David Hasselhoff Hits Google VideoDavid "The Hoff" Hasselhoff is not letting middle age or a cut up arm bring him down. With the new found fame back in the US with the top rated "America`s Got Talent" on NBC, The Hoff is harnessing as much cheese as he can find ...

YouTube Growth is Almost Shocking
YouTube Growth is Almost ShockingAccording to this Reuters article that appeared Sunday, video site YouTube is now serving 100 million (yes, that?s right) videos daily:YouTube, the leader in Internet video search, said on Sunday viewers have are now watching more than 100 million videos per day on its site, marking ...

Linking and Off-page SEO Most Important to Search Engines
Linking and Off-page SEO Most Important to Search EnginesFortune Interactive has released the results of a study which was performed by its SEMLogic Technology to determine which metrics were most crucial to the web pages organically ranked on the first page of search results for the competitive key phrase "laptop" ...

Yahoo?s New Design is Live at Yahoo.com
Yahoo`s New Design is Live at Yahoo.comYahoo has rolled out the new design of its Yahoo Home Page today with an International redesign synched to bring the new Yahoo.com to a global audience within the `coming weeks.` I had the chance to preview the new Yahoo.com back in May, as ...

Yahoo Finance Gets Makeover
Yahoo Finance Gets MakeoverHere?s the new look. Here?s a quick overview from Elinor Mills at CNET and more detail on the specific changes and upgrades from Eric Auchard at Reuters. PaidContent says a quick check of message boards indicated an initial negative response. Among several new features that have been ...

Hackers Targeting Google AdSense Code?
Hackers Targeting Google AdSense Code?Barry Schwartz points to a thread at DigitalPoint where a site publisher and Google AdSense member reports that his site was cracked and the Google AdSense Publisher ID changed. The publisher realized something was wrong when he logged into his AdSense account to see zero impressions ...

Google Out Ranks KinderStart.com in Lawsuit
Google Out Ranks KinderStart.com in LawsuitYesterday it was announced that a California judge granted a motion by Google to dismiss a lawsuit by KinderStart.com over the site`s rankings in the Google search engine. KinderStart.com alledged that a change in Google rankings is responsible for a 80% drop in advertising revenue ...

Google, Yahoo, eBay &Linking : Today?s Search Engine News
Google, Yahoo, eBay & Linking : Today’s Search Engine NewsDoing some traveling today down to Tampa Bay, so posts on Search Engine Journal will be sparse. Here are some summaries of some Search News on the blogs and news pages today.Google Accessible Web Search :Accessible Search is an early Google Labs product designed to identify [...]

Yahoo Ads Appearing in eBay Search Results
Yahoo Ads Appearing in eBay Search ResultsYahoo Search Marketing advertisements are beginning to be shown on some result pages in eBay, according to Ina Steiner at AuctionBytes. Yahoo & eBay struck up a powerful multiyear partnership in May which will result in Paypal integration throughout Yahoo, more eBay presence within Yahoo Channels and Yahoo Search [...]

Yahoo &Zillow Partner for Home Estimate Search
Yahoo & Zillow Partner for Home Estimate SearchZillow and Yahoo have teamed for real estate estimate search as Zillow Zestimates are showing up as a shortcut in Yahoo search results. In addition to the search shortcuts, Zillow is also be featured in Yahoo’s real estate section for finding the value of a home.From the Yahoo [...]

LookSmart?s AdCenter for Publishers
LookSmart’s AdCenter for PublishersLookSmart as unveiled a new version of its AdCenter for Publishers, which is a platform that helps online publishers maintain and grow critical small and large advertiser relationships. LookSmart says that several additional publishers are now licensing the white label AdCenter to “increase their online advertiser base and corresponding revenue.” Such publishers [...]

AOL &Calacanis Recruiting Netscape Navigators at $1,000 a Month
AOL & Calacanis Recruiting Netscape Navigators at $1,000 a MonthJason Calacanis and the new Netscape project (AOL Digg) are working to recruit active Digg, Flickr, Newsvine and MySpace users in an effort to build the transition of the mass social bookmarkers of the world from their current homes over to Netscape. The Netscape Navigators will [...]

Million Dollar Homepage Meets Mass Linking : TagsPage
Million Dollar Homepage Meets Mass Linking : TagsPageJust when you thought you’d seen it all, TagsPage takes the mass limited adspace & linking concept of the Million Dollar Homepage and adds some text to it, with a 2.0 style tagging format.Want to list a link to your site on TagsPage? Although I doubt how effective [...]

On India?s Banning of Blogs
On India’s Banning of BlogsAmit Agarwal, Indian blogger extraordinaire, has answered some of the questions on the recent banning of certain blog networks & blog hosts by the Indian government. The blog ban in India is speculated to be connected to the recent Mumbai Train attacks; ‘Probably the groups behind the bomb blasts used blogs [...]

Microsoft Tells Google To Keep Off Corporate Search
Microsoft Tells Google To Keep Off Corporate SearchMicrosoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner did not pull any punches when discussing Google’s entry into the corporate search & enterprise space in Boston this week.“Those people are not going to be allowed to take food off our plate, because that is what they are intending to do…. [...]

Social Search Engines Having the Answers?
Social Search Engines Having the Answers?The LA Times is featuring an Associated Press article which addresses the question of social search & social media and whether the human powered suggestion and citation model will grow to become more useful than, or a cherished and fact checking partner to more ‘traditional’ bot & link based search [...]

Ask.com Adds RSS Smart Answers
Ask.com Adds RSS Smart AnswersAsk.com has put together which may be one of their most useful and, well, smartest Smart Answers offerings to date; RSS Smart Answers. Currently when searching for specific blogs on Ask.com (try TechCrunch), the three latest RSS feeds from that site are served at the very top of the Ask.com search [...]

Umdum &V7N Directory Half Price Specials
Umdum & V7N Directory Half Price SpecialsI’m quite happy to announce that the Umdum Directory has partnered with the V7 Network’s V7N Web Directory (remember V7ndotcom Elursrebmem?) for a special summer time promotion which offers a ‘two for one’ deal on directory submittals at both of these highly trafficked listings hubs.Here’s how it works; submit [...]

Yahoo Taps Ramakrishnan As Social Search Research Head
Yahoo Taps Ramakrishnan As Social Search Research HeadYahoo has taken yet another major step to show how serious they are about their commitment to Social Search with the naming of academic database expert Raghu Ramakrishnan to head Yahoo’s research on their human assisted search projects.Rueters reports that Ramakrishnan, Vice President and Yahoo research fellow in [...]

Google Mobile Adds Traffic &Drive Times
Google Mobile Adds Traffic & Drive TimesTraffic and drive times were added to Google Mobile Maps and the company is offering more customization for its mobile Personalized Homepage. Here are excerpts from the release:The latest version of Google Maps for mobile will enable users in the U.S. to view comprehensive information on traffic conditions in [...]

ReachLocal Opening Local Sales Offices
ReachLocal Opening Local Sales OfficesI’ve now heard from several people that local search engine marketing firm ReachLocal is opening or planning to open local sales offices in selected cities. The company has for some time had a program to attract independent local sales agents. And from the beginning the plan at Reach was to build [...]

Google?s New Open Source Service
Google’s New Open Source ServiceCNet reports that Google’s Greg Stein plans to describe a new Google service for the Open Source community at the Open Source Convention in Portland this Thursday. CNet points to a quickie post on the Google Code Blog:I’ve been working with a great team for a while now to produce [...]

Fake Google Toolbar Spreading Viruses
Fake Google Toolbar Spreading VirusesSurfControl of northern California has said in a release that they have noticed that computer hackers are now using a Google Toolbar look-alike application to lure people into installing malicious program on their computers.This malware application is capable of turning the victim’s machine into a zombie, which the hackers can later [...]

Yahoo Adds ?Save to My Web?To Yahoo Directory
Yahoo Adds ‘Save to My Web’ To Yahoo DirectoryEvery now and then I check the directory listings I have at Yahoo! to see what is up with them. I have bookmarked them ages ago and when I have some free time I check them out. I checked last night and noticed that Yahoo! [...]

Google AdWords Reporting Fraud or Invalid Clicks
Google AdWords Reporting Fraud or Invalid ClicksGoogle plans on opening up their invalid clicks information to its Google AdWords advertisers in an attempt to address concerns about click fraud. Google Business Product Manager for Trust & Safety, Shuman Ghosemajumder, told Elinor Mills at CNet’s News.com that Google will report the number of fraudulent clicks to [...]

iTunes Now Features Friends &Other Warner Bros Shows
iTunes Now Features Friends & Other Warner Bros ShowsApple iTunes is now featuring classic Warner Bros. TV shows such s Friends & Babylon 5 for the price of $1.99 per download. In an aggressive month of entertainment download moves by WB which includes deals with BitTorrent and Guba.“Making our television content available to iTunes consumers [...]

Google Search Results Shifting
Google Search Results ShiftingTwo forum threads, one at DigitalPoint Forums and the other at WebmasterWorld show how some, but not all, of the changes that took place on June 27th have been “fixed.”dazzlindonna said this morning at DigitalPoint;Just so you know, things aren’t back exactly as they were. I know because I had some rankings [...]

LiveDeal to Cross Sell Print &Online Ads
LiveDeal to Cross Sell Print & Online AdsI ran into a couple of people form LiveDeal at Inman’s Real Estate Connect yesterday and they told me they had a big announcement coming. Here’s the release:AdStar, Inc. and LiveDeal.com announced a strategic partnership to integrate AdStar’s functionality into LiveDeal.com. The combined capabilities of AdStar and LiveDeal [...]

Facebook Giving Away iTunes Songs
Facebook Giving Away iTunes SongsGiven the competition between MySpace & Facebook among others over the young networking & searching auidences, I found this promo to be of interest. Facebook, “the social directory that allows people to share information“, is running a back-to-school promo and will be giving away 10 million music samplers to Mac and [...]

Testing Google WiFi in Mountain View
Testing Google WiFi in Mountain ViewKatie Fehrenbacher of GigaOm has been selected to be a beta tester of Google’s Mountain View WiFi network; “I’m not sure if it was a random invite or not, after writing a bit about Google’s Mountain View plans, but I felt like a lucky golden ticket winner with a trip [...]

Shift in Google Webmaster Communications?
Shift in Google Webmaster Communications?A Webmaster World thread questions the possible shift by Google in its open communications with webmasters, especially in forums. Seems that some out there feel that the company has become a bit more cautious in announcing updates or explaining new algorithmic changes since it became public. I wonder if this WMW [...]

Tune In to Google Radio Advertising
Tune In to Google Radio AdvertisingElinor Mills at CNET has written a long pieceon the coming of Googe/dMarc advertising on local radio stations (many people are pointing to this article). She quotes sources who say ads are already running in “Motown” (Detroit). Without getting into the finer points of the article, what’s interesting to me [...]

Google Talk Adds Voicemail &File Transfers Among New Features
Google Talk Adds Voicemail & File Transfers Among New FeaturesGoogle is starting to beef up its Google Talk messaging, VoIP & communications tool with File Transfer, Voicemail, and Music Status options. More from Google Talk;File TransferWith this top requested new feature, you can send unlimited files and folders to your friends through Google Talk. There [...]

Yahoo Search Launches New Slurp Crawler
Yahoo Search Launches New Slurp CrawlerYahoo Search has updated its Slurp Crawler to crawl web sites faster and more efficient. Yahoo’s David Simpson says on the Yahoo Search Blog that the result will be a “25% reduction in the number of requests and bandwidth consumed by the crawler.”Reductions in bandwidth is good news to this [...]

JobsinSearch : Find Search Engine Jobs or Employees
JobsinSearch : Find Search Engine Jobs or EmployeesLooking for a change of scenery in the search engine marketing employment world? Or looking to fill an SEO Manager or PPC Search Specialist position and not happy with the calls your company is receiving from the local help wanted classifieds? Look no further than JobsinSearch.JobsinSearch is currently [...]

Matt Cutts Answers SEO Questions on Google Video
Matt Cutts Answers SEO Questions on Google VideoGoogle’s Matt Cutts took the time this weekend to discuss some Google & SEO myths and facts via Google Video. Matt comments on his blog:As you can probably tell, I shot these videos at home this weekend. I wanted to make a video so that I could give [...]

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