Seo Home > SEJ SEO News FeedsAOL Launching ?On Demand?Video PortalAOL Launching ‘On Demand’ Video PortalAs is being widely reported, AOL plans to launch a comprehensive video entertainment destination later this week. Here’s the screenshot. Here’s the current AOL video portal. According to the press release:New features on the AOL Video portal include: over 45 new video-on-demand content channels with thousands of hours of video [...]
Taking the Yahoo Publisher Network Plunge
Taking the Yahoo Publisher Network PlungeIn preparation for the Search Engine Strategies Conference in San Jose where I plan on meeting with the Yahoo Publisher Network staff and representatives, I’ve decided to make YPN the preferred contextual advertising provider for individual posts on Search Engine Journal this week. I’m not sure as to what the [...]
MSN adCenter Upgrade To Include Firefox Compatibility
MSN adCenter Upgrade To Include Firefox CompatibilityOver at Search Engine Roundtable, Barry covers the upcoming MSN adCenter upgrades which were posted in Search Engine Watch Forums. The August 5th upgrade will include compatibility with the Firefox 1.5 browser and hourly ‘real time’ reporting. More from the thread;- Now, use Microsoft adCenter with the Firefox 1.5 [...]
MSN Search Names Their Crawlers
MSN Search Names Their CrawlersFor those of you keeping a close tab on all of the MSN Search Bots, Barry at Search Engine Roundtable has the scoop on the MSN Crawler names.After first glance, Yahoo still takes the cake for most creative with Slurp… followed by LookSmart’s older group bot, Grub; MSN has taken the [...]
YouTube More Sticky Than MySpace
YouTube More Sticky Than MySpaceMySpace may be growing in popularity in great leaps and bounds while its homepage has become one of the most visited pages on the Internet, but YouTube is beating MySpace in the much overlooked field of stickiness.Site stickiness, the amount of time people spend or revisit your site, is defined by [...]
Google Testing Unbranded AdSense
Google Testing Unbranded AdSenseJen Slegg of JenSense is reporting that Google AdSense is testing the use of AdSense Ads without those “Ads by Goooooogle” or “Advertise on this site” messages which differentiate the advertising from natural site content (which is currently being done on some premium publisher sites).Jen says that the Googleless ads have been [...]
USA Today Article on Danny Sullivan with Special Guest Rand Fishkin
USA Today Article on Danny Sullivan with Special Guest Rand FishkinExcellent build-up to Search Engine Strategies San Jose as USA Today looks deep into the mysterious life of Search Engine Watch’s Danny Sullivan. Danny, the Elvis of Search Engine Industry Journalism, has found the secret of balance in his everyday life between living in the [...]
No SEO Without SEM, And Vice Versa
No SEO Without SEM, And Vice VersaToday’s MediaPost (reg. req’d) reports on new data from SEM firm 360i, which essentially points out the complex conversion path and symbiotic relationship between paid and unpaid links. This study is a complement to one released in May by the firm that showed the value of branded and generic [...]
Google Serving Advertising Via XM Satellite Radio
Google Serving Advertising Via XM Satellite RadioThe future of Google’s Radio Advertising network, dMarc, has come with Google reaching an agreement with XM Satellite Radio. XM will introduce commercial advertising inventory on XM’s non-music channels to Google’s extensive advertising base through Google’s dMarc media network. Google advertisers will now have a simple, automated way [...]
Tripmates - The MySpace of Travel?
Tripmates - The MySpace of Travel?The world of niche social networking has expanded in the travel sector beyond Yahoo Trip Planner and into a new independent site, Tripmates.com.Tripmates, which I consider the MySpace of Travel and the Tripmates Team calls ‘Yahoo travel meets MySpace - or MyTripSpace, if you will!’,seems like it will be a [...]
How Often Do You Use Google Products?
How Often Do You Use Google Products?Philipp at Google Blogoscoped has put together a nice survey / questionnaire on the frequency of usage of Google products.Please take part in this survey – how often do you use the following Google products? After submitting, you’ll see what everyone submitted (note that this isn’t the only Google [...]
Yahoo?s Eric Miraglia Presenting at AJAXWorld
Yahoo’s Eric Miraglia Presenting at AJAXWorldEric Miraglia of Yahoo will be showing off the technology powering such new innovative Yahoo services such as the new Yahoo Photos and Yahoo Mail Beta which have taken on more of a desktop and all inclusive community aspect with the integration of AJAX.Eric’s session at AJAXWorld Conference & Expo [...]
iPointer Mobile ?Point and Search?Technology
iPointer Mobile ‘Point and Search’ TechnologyShortly after I started writing about “point and search” technology from GeoVector, I was contacted by Jerry King the COO of Intelligent Spatial Technologies. His company has similar visual point and search product for mobile devices called iPointer.After about three weeks, I’m finally getting around to writing about it. (I [...]
Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Ask.com &LookSmart Team to Fight Click Fraud
Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask.com & LookSmart Team to Fight Click FraudThe top search engines are teaming up with the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and the Media Rating Council in what may become a major effort to combat click fraud. Following a landmark click fraud class action suit against Google, search engines Google, Yahoo, MSN/Live.com, Ask.com [...]
Testing VOIP &Google WiFi
Testing VoIP & Google WiFiGigaOM continues the excellent coverage of their GoogleFi Mountain View testing with a trip to the Hotspot to test Skype and other VoIP services using Google WiFi.Katie Fehrenbacher and crew headed over to Mountain View with handhelds, laptops and gizmos to check out how well they work in the future of [...]
Yahoo Publisher Network : Three Days of Testing
Yahoo Publisher Network : Three Days of TestingThe first three days of serving primarily Yahoo Publisher Network powered contextual advertising have been an interesting experience. For those of you who need a refresher, in preparation for the Search Engine Strategies San Jose Conference next week where I hope to meet up with some of the [...]
Google Not Good Enough for Yahoo Search?
Google Not Good Enough for Yahoo Search?Barry has been doing some searches on Yahoo for the ‘terms’ Google and Google.com which result in a Yahoo YaHandJob inserting a Yahoo Shortcut which suggests searching the web with Yahoo. My guess is that over 70% of the time when a user types the term “Google” into Yahoo [...]
Donate to Charity Via Google : GDonate
Donate to Charity Via Google : GDonateGoogle Clone and Hunger Site buddy GDonate looks like Google, tastes like Google and smells like Google; but its a gateway to an AdSense Web Search box which serves AdWords search ads that apparently benefit charities.From the GDonate.com FAQ page:The charities are members of the Google Adsense program which [...]
Comments Now Working on Search Engine Journal
Search Engine Journal has been experiencing problems with our Comments here for about one week at SEJ and have finally gotten around to fixing them. After a knuckle to the ribs by Matt Cutts in a Performancing thread I took it upon myself to do some digging and address the problem. Seems the fix was [...]
More on the Google News - AP Content Deal
More on the Google News - AP Content DealHere are more details from Reuters: “It’s a licensing agreement that lets us use original AP content in new ways than we have used in the past for Google News,” Google spokeswoman Sonya Boralv said.AP spokesman Jack Stokes confirmed the licensing deal, but provided no further details.And [...]
Yahoo Publisher Network Ads in RSS Feed
Yahoo Publisher Network Ads in RSS FeedAs part of the week long testing of Yahoo Publisher Network contextual advertising here on Search Engine Journal in anticipation of some discussion at Search Engine Strategies we have added YPN advertisements to our RSS feeds. In the past I had not been the biggest supporter of embedded RSS [...]
Google Webmaster Central &Webmaster Tools (Sitemaps)
Google Webmaster Central & Webmaster Tools (Sitemaps)Google has renamed Google Sitemaps to Google Webmaster Tools and has added the service to their Google Webmaster Central channel which includes Site Status Wizard, Submit Content to Google Base & Book Search, Google Webmaster Blog, Google Webmaster Group, and the Google Webmaster Help Center.Vanessa Fox posts on the [...]
Google Maps Adds Saved Locations
Google Maps Adds Saved LocationsGoogle Maps has added a new personalized feature which saves the addresses of businesses and locations users search for using Google’s local mapping and directions service. On the upper right hand corner of the Google Maps page is a “Saved Locations” link which lets users label their searches for further [...]
YPN Serving WiFi Ads in Denver Airport
YPN Serving WiFi Ads in Denver AirportI’m sitting in the Denver International Airport right now waiting for my 3:00 pm (15:00) connection to San Jose for the Search Engine Strategies Conference / Convention and after logging into their AT&T Wi-Fi Service (which runs $7.95 for 24 hours usage) noticed something a bit different in the [...]
Bill Slawski, SEO &Wordpress
Bill Slawski, SEO & WordpressOn the way to San Jose, Bill Slawski decided to stop by Wordcamp, the Wordpress gathering in San Francisco yesterday. Bill, a popular forum moderator at Cre8asite & in-depth blogger at SEO by the SEA took the chance to volunteer his knowledge of SEO at the conference, volunteering to lead a [...]
Yahoo! Launches Yahoo Search Bulider
Yahoo! Launches Yahoo Search BuilderToday at Search Engine Strategies Tim Mayer of Yahoo announced he launch of Yahoo Search Builder, a social media powered application where Yahoo members can build their own niche targeted search engine. Adding to the Social Media palette of MyWeb, Del.icio.us and Flickr, Yahoo is capitalizing on the tendency of their [...]
Yahoo Up Close : Social Search
Yahoo Up Close : Social SearchTim Mayer of Yahoo introduces this seminar on the Social Media direction of Yahoo and its core web search which is leaning in the socail direction. Tim reviews the International success of Answers and Yahoo’s plans of building upon that success.Timeline : Directory, PageRank and then Yahoo sees the next [...]
Comments Down Again
Experiencing comment problems again and had to take them off of the blog. Please have patience as we address this problem (luckily there are a bunch of Wordpress experts here at SES).Expect comments to be back up and running by tomorrow afternoon.Thanks, Loren
Google Pimps MySpace : $900 Million Search Deal
Google Pimps MySpace : $900 Million Search DealGoogle and Fox Interactive Media announced today that the two companies have reached a multi-year agreement whereby Google will now become MySpace.com’s exclusive search engine and search advertising provider. Under the terms of the agreement, Google will be obligated to make guaranteed minimum revenue share payments to Fox [...]
New My Yahoo Format?
New My Yahoo Format?It appears that Yahoo may be testing a new format for their My Yahoo start page, which has due for a facelift for a long time. I just logged into my account from the Wi-Fi Lounge at Search Engine Strategies and found this strange template which was served to me only once [...]
Google Adds Video to Related Links
Google Adds Video to Related LinksGoogle is sprucing up their Related Links webmaster content program with the addition of videos in the Related Links box. If you have not heard of the Related Links program, think AdSense but with sites, news and search terms which are relevant to your own site’s content.Brian Chen covers on [...]
Kanoodle Rebrands, Now Seevast
Kanoodle Rebrands, Now SeevastKanoodle has now shed their skin and is rebranding as Seevast, here’s the release : Building on more than seven years of innovation and success, Kanoodle today announced that Seevast will be a parent company overseeing three distinct operating companies and will be managed by seasoned industry professionals to provide the latest [...]
Become Japan?s CEO Masahiro Ueno Talks Entering the Japanese Online Shopping Space
Become Japan’s CEO Masahiro Ueno Talks Entering the Japanese Online Shopping SpaceI recently had the opportunity to interview Become Japan’s new CEO, Masahiro Ueno. I became interested in him after learning of his work in developing the Japanese market offering of Overture and his presidency at DoubleClick Japan.For more details on Become Japan check out [...]
Wikipedia, Tagging &Search Engine Strategies
Wikipedia, Tagging & Search Engine StrategiesAndy Hagans, Rand Fishkin, Neil Patel, Todd Malicoat and Chris Pirillo addressed a packed room of SEO’s and search marketers on the importance of managing community relationships, blogging, tagging, getting in Digg, and building informative & influencial pages in Wikipedia. Also touched upon were spamming techniques and the difference between [...]
New Yahoo Search Marketing Preview
New Yahoo Search Marketing PreviewYahoo Search Marketing has basically been using the same auction bidding system since GoTo.com launched nearly 8 years ago and with the new direction of the Yahoo company and the success of Google AdWords, the public (advertisers) have been screaming for a new up-to-date system which compliments the diversity of the [...]
Topix.net Launches Massive News Search Engine
Topix.net Launches Massive News Search EngineBig news from Topix.net today as they have unveiled their news search technology platform which searches news stories and news trends over a one year archived index. I ran into Chris Tolles today at Search Engine Strategies and he filled me in a bit on their new search direction, which [...]
What If Guy Kawasaki Was The CEO of Yahoo?
What If Guy Kawasaki Was The CEO of Yahoo?Cameron Olthuis of Pronet Advertising recently interviewed Guy Kawasaki; blogger extraordinaire and venture capitalist on an array of subjects ranging from Apple to blogging to Yahoo. Seems that Kawasaki actually turned down an interview for the CEO position at Yahoo! back in the early days because he [...]
Fire Breathing at Ask.com Party
Fire Breathing at Ask.com PartyAsk.com hosted an awesome party Monday evening which lived up to total expectation of the crowd who have been pampered with Ask.com marketing team craziness at many a Search Engine Strategies get together.Not as many dancing girls this time, nor were we treated with a special appearance by William Hung, but [...]
Google Dance Photos and Google Food
Google Dance Photos and Google FoodSo last night was the Google Dance at GOOGplex in Mountain View with lots of Google-riffic stuff going on such as Robot Wars, a live soulful & funky band, and some nice conversation. Lee Odden has an excellent photo summary of the event and a simple search on Flickr will [...]
Google?s Eric Schmidt at SES From The Search Perch
Google’s Eric Schmidt at SES From The Search PerchBecause the interview with Eric Schmidt ran long there wasn’t much time to ask questions (especially about local or SMEs). A few things struck me however about the discussion. Here are some thoughts and random observations:Schmidt made a very sincere and believable “appearance” (as they say in [...]
Search Engine Blogroll Suggestions?
Search Engine Blogroll Suggestions?One of highlights of the Search Engine Strategies Conference was gathering reader feedback and constructive criticism of Search Engine Journal, our content, advertising structure, commenting, links and blogroll. Beyond the amazement that most (maybe everyone in the industry I spoke with except for Chris Pirillo) people I ran into at Search Engine [...]
Recipe Time &Ingredient Search from AllRecipes.com
Recipe Time & Ingredient Search from AllRecipes.comGary Price, who I finally had the pleasure of meeting at a well planned Ask.com dinner Wednesday evening at McCormick and Schmick’s San Jose, was seen on numerous occasion at Search Engine Strategies chatting up the attendees on different image and content rich database structures in the industry. Mr. [...]
Google Syndicating Viacom MTV Video With Google Ads
Google Syndicating Viacom MTV Video With Google Video AdsGoogle will syndicate and distribute Viacom-produced content (MTV music videos and various shows) to third party sites across its network. The content will be ad-supported (from Wall Street Journal): Under the deal expected to be announced today, Google beginning this month will deliver video clips from programs [...]
Google Video is the Future of Google
Google Video is the Future of GoogleLast week Google took a step in their new direction by adding a link to Google Video above their main search box, and dropping their link to Froogle. The change in search option choices on the main page of Google and its internal pages is reflective of the search [...]
Link Building : Blogs, Sponsors &Eyes and Brain Massager
Link Building : Blogs, Sponsors & Eyes and Brain MassagerDarren Rowse of ProBlogger is orchestrating a group writing project for professional bloggers who are interested in participation. Darren has done so in the past, with excellent participation from the blogging community.This latest project’s theme will be that of Lists (a favorite PR/linking spin of many) [...]
Fox Selling Video On Demand Via MySpace.com &FIM
Fox Selling Video On Demand Via MySpace.com & FIMSticking to this week’s underlying news theme of search engines & video revenue production, News Corporation has announced that Fox Interactive Media has penned a deal with Twentieth Century Fox to feature video downloads of Fox’s films and television programs across the FIM properties which include MySpace.com, [...]
Google Setting Up Datacenter in India
Google Setting Up Datacenter in IndiaGoogle will be setting up a new server farm in Andhra Pradesh, India to serve as its second datacenter / back office in the Asian region. The server farm is expected to primarily house Google’s user generated content.From CNBC’s Moneycontrol TechBlog:The project will reportedly cost $1-billion but Google is keen [...]
Guy Kawasaki?s Tips on Silicon Valley Job Interviews
Guy Kawasaki’s Tips on Silicon Valley Job InterviewsEverything I know about Silicon Valley I learned over the past week during a trip to San Jose for Search Engine Strategies, and what I learned is barely the tip of the iceberg. Guy Kawasaki, on the other hand, lives, breathes and eats Silicon Valley and has lent [...]
Yahoo CEO Terry Semel on YouTube, MySpace &YSM?s Panama
Yahoo CEO Terry Semel on YouTube, MySpace & YSM’s PanamaFortune Magazine’s Adam Lashinsky has an interview with Yahoo CEO Terry Semel where Mr. Semel discusses YouTube & MySpace, iTunes and Yahoo Search Marketing’s new Panama platform. Here are some highlights of the interview, which is a bit McNews but does bring up some interesting [...]
MySpace.com : Fastest Growing Top Site
MySpace.com : Fastest Growing Top SiteAccording to Nielsen, the fastest growing sites/brands on the Internet prominently featured social media and at least one surprise, the Associated Press. Flickr, MySpace and Wikipedia experienced year-over-year traffic growth of 201%, 183% and 181% respectively, while the AP grew 234%.However, among the top Internet sites generally MySpace was [...]
AOL &Blinkx Search Partnership
AOL & Blinkx Search PartnershipLast week when AOL announced its relationship with Blinkx I thought, “Why are they partnering with Blinkx given Truveo and SingingFish?” It appeared to be some sort of implied statement regarding potential limitations of those engines in the video search context.However, AOL subsequently clarified with me that the Blinkx relationship is [...]
Google?s Direction in Content &Video Distribution
Google’s Direction in Content & Video DistributionKevin J. Delaney of the Wall Street Journal looks into Google’s latest content deals with Viacom’s MTV Networks and Fox Interactive Media’s MySpace.com (two vicious competitors) and how this new Google Video and Advertising direction is key to the company for long term growth.From Google Sees Content Deals As [...]
YouTube Down : Updating?
YouTube Down : Updating?YouTube has been down for a while this morning, probably waiting until the West Coast checks into work to launch some new upgrades to the system; which would be sweet after Google’s ramping up of Google Video.The YouTube, we’re up to something, message is currently being served on the site and it [...]
Google Maps Adds Free Merchant Coupons
Google Maps Adds Free Merchant CouponsGoogle Maps has added a new way for local merchants to attract more customers to their storefronts and track those customer sales via a new breath taking step in local search technology; coupons. Ok, forgive the sarcasm as from a merchant standpoint, the simplicity of Google Maps Coupons just my [...]
Google WiFi Network Launches in Mountain View
Google WiFi Network Launches in Mountain ViewAfter one year of planning and testing, Google has opened GoogleFi; its WiFi network prototype, in its own backyard of Mountain View. GoogleFi opened at 9 pm PST, and it’s now 1 am on the East Coast, so I’m going to give the mike to Om Malik and his [...]
Google, Neven Vision &Image Recognition
Google, Neven Vision & Image RecognitionGoogle today acquired a key player in face and image recognition biometrics, Neven Vision. The benefits and new features which Google can roll out with Neven Vision under its belt are seemingly endless and if I were to compare the opportunity of Google’s new buy with any other recent acquisition [...]
USA Today Piece on Google AdSense Features Scott &Slegg
USA Today Piece on Google AdSense Features Scott & SleggBarry points to a USA Today article on the Google AdSense program and its effect on web publishers. There are some nice quotes in the article, and with Jen Slegg, John Scott and Rand Fishkin in the mix, you can tell who’s doing their PR homework [...]
Google Analytics Offering Instant Access
Google Analytics Offering Instant AccessGoogle has opened up its Google Analytics registrtion program to allow instant access to new users. By taking away that waiting period, perhaps Google Analytics will discover a new, less patient group of web publishers.More from Brett Crosby, Sr. Manager, Google Analytics, on the Google Analytics Blog:I’m happy to tell you [...]
Yahoo Answers API
Yahoo Answers APIYahoo Answers and its wealth of over 38 million responses has put together a Yahoo Answers API which is now available on the Yahoo! Developer Network.The API allows developers to access Yahoo! Answers content in several ways:* Search for questions and answers by keyword about a particular topic* Narrow the search down [...]
Cyworld vs. MySpace.com
Cyworld vs. MySpace.comCyworld, the Korean import which has just launched in the US yesterday, is all set to give MySpace a run for its money with new twist on social networking. While MySpace is a bit behind in its look, template features and basic technology, Cyworld is beyond cool; with virtual rooms, worlds and [...]
Social Media Optimization : 13 Rules of SMO
Social Media Optimization : 13 Rules of SMOCameron Olthuis at Pronet Advertising has a nice write up on optimizing for social media, dubbed Social Media Optimization (SMO) by Rohit Bhargava.The concept behind SMO is simple: implement changes to optimize a site so that it is more easily linked to, more highly visible in social media [...]
Google AdSense Serving 3rd Party Downloads
Google AdSense Serving 3rd Party DownloadsSeems that a flaw in Google AdSense was triggering downloads for users of Microsoft Internet Explorer, JenSense reports:Several days ago, reports starting coming through about people being prompted to download third party applications on pages containing AdSense, prompting publishers to receive complaints from site visitors about the warnings of applications [...]
YouTube Plans on Music Video Distribution
YouTube Plans on Music Video DistributionYouTube is currently in talks with the recording industry to add currently popular and archived music videos into its video search & sharing index. Such a distribution deal with the major labels may bring yet another revenue building alternative to YouTube which does not include the addition of 15 second [...]
Del.icio.us Adds Thumbnails and Search Advertisements
Del.icio.us Adds Thumbnails and Search AdvertisementsDel.icio.us underwent another facelift today which brings more usability to the product, which is bringing in more and more users, while also adding to its ability to earn revenue. The new del.icio.us homepage is much more Digg-like than before, with the entire homepage featuring bookmarked stories which range from being [...]
Mozilla Firefox 2 Launch Delayed Until October
Mozilla Firefox 2 Launch Delayed Until OctoberMozilla has revealed that they are delaying the launch of their upcoming Firefox 2 browser until sometime in October 2006. As per incoming information, the foundation has discovered as many as 40 bugs in the under-construction Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 and another 100 are required to be fixed before [...]
Testing Search Engines with W3C HTML Validator
Testing Search Engines with W3C HTML Validator Google Blogoscoped reader Jake took the initiative of running the major search engines through the W3C HTML Validator to find out which search engine has the least HTML syntax errors.As simple as the task may seem, sometimes it takes someone to think a bit outside of the box, [...]
Google &China.com Partner For Search
Google & China.com Partner For SearchGoogle has partnered with China.com to bring Google search results to the Chinese portal and business oriented service. The partnership with China.com may be “Google’s most comprehensive business alliance since entering the China market” according to the two companies.“China is a key area of focus for Google and we are [...]
30 Days of Yahoo Publisher Network
30 Days of Yahoo Publisher NetworkAs an experiment to dive into Yahoo’s contextual advertising network, Yahoo Publisher Network, Search Engine Journal had originally taken the vow to stick with YPN for the 7 days leading up to the Search Engine Strategies Conference earlier this month. The results of that week were quite revealing as when [...]
Yahoo Gains Search Market Share As Google Dips One Percent
Yahoo Gains Search Market Share As Google Dips One PercentIt will need to be verified by at least one of the other traffic trackers, but comScore said that Yahoo!’s search share showed a modest, fractional gain for the second month in a row (but down vs. a year ago). Google, by comparison, showed a single [...]
Yahoo Growth Confirmed by Hitwise &Nielsen
Yahoo Growth Confirmed by Hitwise & NielsenAgain we’re talking a fraction of a point, but according to a write up today in MediaPost (reg. req’d) Nielsen data seem to confirm a slight gain in Yahoo!’s search share (almost a point) vs. a holding pattern for Google:Nielsen//Netratings reported Monday that Google accounted for 49.2 percent of [...]
MSN Expands Search Results Past 250
MSN Expands Search Results Past 250MSN Search / Live.com is now serving more than 250 search results, for those people who actually sift that far into SERP’s who do not work in the SEO industry. More from Barry Schwartz:Until some time recently a search at MSN only went up to 250 results displayed. For example, [...]
Google MP3 Player Powered by GMail
Google MP3 Player Powered by GMailGoogle evidently has an MP3 Player which publishers can use on their sites that was discovered by Amit Agarwal of Digital Inspiration. Amit was looking around GMail today and came across the player, which plays MP3 files via the GMail interface, “without having to download the MP3 or open an [...]
Six Ways To Keep Your Search History Private
Six Ways To Keep Search History PrivateQuestions are arising around the search engine world about the controversy of behavioral tracking by the search engines and privacy invasions such as the AOL Data leak and some governments demanding the search history or information kept secure by the major search engines of the world. Most recently Brazil [...]
Google Checkout &Customer Ownership
Google Checkout & Customer OwnershipBrian Smith at ComparisonEngines has an interesting post (citing research from Piper Jaffray’s Safa Rashtchy) on retailer fear surrounding Google’s control of customer data and the customer relationship. (Eric Schmidt in his remarks at SES gave an unsatisfying implied “trust us” response regarding Google’s management of customer data and consumer privacy [...]
Yahoo Search Marketing Preparing Upgrade to New Platform
Yahoo Search Marketing Preparing Upgrade to New PlatformAs Yahoo Search Marketing (Overture) prepares for their relaunch during the forth quarter of this year to their new Yahoo Search Marketing ‘Panama’ format, one of the keys to the transition is smoothly bringing campaigns from the current YSM into the new interface.Seems like that is beginning to [...]
Google Updating Backlinks
Google Updating BacklinksAccording to a WebmasterWorld thread there is currently a Google backlink update going on at some chosen Google data centers; 64.233.187.104 and 64.233.187.99. Google, unlike Yahoo, has a tendency of showing only a sample of the sites which link to a specific site when the link:url search command is used.Although Google also updated [...]
Yahoo Search Index Update
Yahoo Search Index UpdateLike Google’s backlink update, Yahoo also updated its search technology today with a Yahoo Search Index Update. The announcement was made on the Yahoo Search Blog, which also includes an invitation to join in the Yahoo Site Explorer Forum.As usual, you’ll see some changes in ranking along with what is in the [...]
Google &eBay Partner for ?Click to Call?
Google & eBay Partner for ‘Click to Call’The WSJ (sub req’d) and NY Times (reg. req’d) are reporting this morning on a deal in which Google will distribute ads on eBay’s pages outside the US. eBay has a similar deal with Yahoo! domestically. This is something of a surprise given that eBay aggressively courted Google [...]
Google Apps : Prelude to Google Office
Google Apps : Prelude to Google OfficeIn what is a precursor for a ‘Google Office’ type total business suite offering which further enhances the competitive playing field with Microsoft, Google Inc. has launched the Google Apps for Your Domain product, a set of Google hosted communication applications for businesses and organizations; “In addition to customizing [...]
Yahoo News Drops Blog Search
Yahoo News Drops Blog SearchIn what almost marks the one year anniversary of Yahoo adding blog search to its Yahoo News search results, Yahoo has mysteriously taken its blog search area out of the news game.Besides the deletion of blog search results from Yahoo News (not to be confused with blogs indexed in the Yahoo [...]
YouTube Video &Usage Facts
YouTube Video & Usage FactsThere’s an interesting article in the WSJ (sub req’d) on YouTube, with some data and metrics, by Lee Gomes today:I did a scrape of YouTube a month ago and found there were 5.1 million videos. By Sunday, the end of another scrape, that number had grown by about 20% to 6.1 [...]
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