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SEOBook Blogger Sued Over Comments Seeking Legal Donations
SEOBook Blogger Sued Over Comments Seeking Legal DonationsAugust was one hell of a month for Aaron Wall, who was sued by the dodgy Traffic-Power company over comments left on his SEOBook blog by readers. Aaron`s story has become national news as the Wall Street Journal covered his situation yesterday and ...

Mozdex Open Source Search Engine - Spotlight #1
Mozdex Open Source Search Engine - Spotlight #1I`ve been following Mozdex for about a year or so after meeting its owner, Byron Miller, on SitePoint Forums and being amazed with some of the offerings that Byron was working on at the time. Mozdex was one of the first engines to ...

Search Engine Journal?s Spotlight of 500 Search Engines
Search Engine Journal`s Spotlight of 500 Search EnginesSearch Engine Journal has now been in existence for over two years now and we`ve been having a great time reporting on aspects of the search engine world including SEO, SEM, Local Search, Portals, and of course Yahoo, MSN, Google, and Ask Jeeves. ...

Affiliate RSS Product &Coupon Datafeeds from Commission Junction
Affiliate RSS Product & Coupon Datafeeds from Commission JunctionI still can`t believe more merchants aren`t offering datafeeds in RSS format for affiliates yet. CJ recently announced tips on exactly how to do it, so now merchants who have been afraid to take the plunge can do it more easily. I ...

Hey Yahoo, Google and MSN - School Kids Use Search Engines Too
Hey Yahoo, Google and MSN - School Kids Use Search Engines TooOne week left. That`s it. One week from the time this piece is being written the school doors open and the dog-days come to a close. Summer is over in seven days for tens of millions of students across ...

TorrentSpy BitTorrent Search Engine - Spotlight #2
TorrentSpy BitTorrent Search Engine - Spotlight #2TorrentSpy is a BitTorrent search engine which indexes torrent files available online and from users who offer such files to the downloading and sharing community. TorrentSpy offers a normal search, advanced search, and directory of available torrents. With file sharing and downloading comes legal ...

Sony PSP Commercials Feature Google Search
Sony PSP Commercials Feature Google SearchSony PSP commercials in Japan are featuring the ability to search Google using the PSP as Sony`s Portable Playstation moves beyond mobile gaming and movies and into web browsing and search. The commercial was aired this evening on Japanese television and I was quite pleased ...

RSS Feed Search Added to MSN Search
RSS Feed Search Added to MSN SearchMSNdude, official MSN Search WebmasterWorld representative, posted a new thread at WebmasterWorld named Some new ways to search. In this thread he details two new releases made by MSN this week. The first is "a new set of operators for searching" at MSN Search. ...

Donate Advertising Space - Red Cross for Hurricane Katrina Victims
Donate Advertising Space - Red Cross for Hurricane Katrina VictimsWe`re aware that the majority of the Search Engine Journal`s readers are webmasters or site publishers and would like to take the time to send this message of hope and help. Do you have any ad space that you can donate ...

Google Local Hustles in China
Google Local Hustles in ChinaGoogle has launched a Chinese version of Google Local for residents of the People`s Republic of China. The Chinese Google Local is termed Google Bendi (Bendi is Mandarin and/or Cantonese for Local or `Natives`) and still in beta, Google Local China`s Beijing maps are powered by ...

Hurricane Katrina Catastrophe and Google Earth Satellite Images
Hurricane Katrina Catastrophe and Google Earth Satellite ImagesThe destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast, New Orleans and surrounding states has been, leaving me without words, atrocious. With every story I read of worthless members of society looting, murdering, and raping in a lawless New Orleans and the ...

Google Detecting Some Paid Links
Google Detecting Some Paid LinksThere is a lot of buzz recently about buying & selling links these days. Yesterday, Matt Cutts posted a blog entry named Text links and PageRank, where he warns those who sell links for the sole purpose of manipulating the SERPs. He says, "However, link-selling sites ...

FoodieView Recipe Search Engine - Spotlight #3
FoodieView Recipe Search Engine - Spotlight #3The third search engine in the Spotlight of 500 Search Engines is a nifty recipe search engine called FoodieView. FoodieView indexes recipes from all over the web into one easy to find search engines which lets its users drill down in search results by ...

Apple iTunes Motorola Phone Details
Apple iTunes Motorola Phone DetailsMore details on the Apple iPod Motorola phone (iPhone?) have been unleashed as Apple and Motorola reportedly are expected to announce their new partnership and product on Wednesday. The new iTunes enabled Motorola phone will be marketed and sold via Cingular wireless.The new iTunes phone, name ...

Sony PSP and Google Search - Follow Up
Sony PSP and Google Search - Follow UpOn Friday I wrote about how Sony PSP was featuring Google Search in its Japanese television commercials and the possibility of Google partnering with Sony PSP`s web browser for other Google offerings. Takahiro Watanabe of SEM-Research, a Japanese Language blog, emailed me today ...

Kazaa Broke Copyright Law Rules Australian Court
Kazaa Broke Copyright Law Rules Australian CourtKazaa users are in violation of Australian copyright law said an Australian court on Monday. The Australian Federal Court Judge Murral Wilcox rules that Kazaa`s owners must modify its software to not allow such illegal file swapping. "The respondents authorised users to infringe the ...

Yandex Russian Search Engine - Spotlight #4
Yandex Russian Search Engine - Spotlight #4For the forth installment of Spotlight of 500 Search Engines, Konstantin Minaton of SeoText.ru helped Search Engine Journal take our series overseas to Mother Russia to look into Yandex. Yandex is the largest search engine / portal on the Russian Internet (Runet) according to ...

Microsoft?s Steve Ballmer to ?F*cking Kill Google?
Microsoft`s Steve Ballmer to "F*cking Kill Google"Taking a page from the Bob Knight school of anger management and business etiquette, upon learning that Mark Lucovsky, a former Microsoft engineer, was leaving for Google - Steve Ballmer reportedly picked up his chair and hurled it across his office. Then, according to ...

4checks.com Personal Checks Search - Spotlight #5
4checks.com Personal Checks Search - Spotlight #5One of the beauties of the vertical search engine is the ability to center the entire search service around one locale, product, or idea. As we saw with FoodieView, search can be designated to recipe information, while using Vivisimmo style clustering to break down ...

MSN Search Tracking Clicks
MSN Search Tracking ClicksA little bird emailed this morning to inform Search Engine Journal that MSN Search (which seems to be very slow today) is now tracking clicks and click thru. Thanks little bird. The new user tracking by MSN is probably qite similar to Yahoo`s search result click tracking, ...

Google Talk Goes Wireless with MessageVine
Google Talk Goes Wireless with MessageVineIt was only a matter of time before someone took Google Talk wireless. MessageVine today announced the release of the first Mobile Instant Messaging solution for Google Talk, Google`s Instant Messaging and VOIP messaging system. MessageVine`s Mobile Instant Messaging client for Google Talk is an ...

Yahoo! Local Adds Editorial Reviews
Yahoo! Local Adds Editorial ReviewsIt is very interesting to watch Local Search grow and mature. Today I found a WebmasterWorld thread named Yahoo Local Integrates Editorial Reviews. That is right, instead of the normal user reviews, they have added professional editorial style reviews. One example is of Connie`s Pizza in ...

Andy Beal is Back with Andy Beal RAW
Andy Beal is Back with Andy Beal RAWAndy Beal, one of the most respected and downright coolest hounddogs in the search engine world, has come out from hiding (prolonged vacation) and is now blogging again. For those of you not familiar with Mr. Beal, Andy was the VP of Marketing ...

Yahoo Spain Sues Blogging Network Over Content
Yahoo Spain Sues Blogging Network Over ContentYahoo! Spain has threatened legal action against growing Spanish blog network Weblogs SL over a post on their software blog Genbeta that provided information on how to download videos from Yahoo! Launch. Oddly though, the information in the post actually related to a third ...

Steve Ballmer Attending Google?s 7th Birthday Party?
Steve Ballmer Attending Google`s 7th Birthday Party?Not much to write about this, but just wanted to wish a happy birthday to Google, which just turned seven. Google has changed a lot in seven years, growing from a simple mathematically algorithmic search engine in a Stanford lab to a mega media ...

Yahoo?s Safe Harbor For Phishing Sites
Yahoo`s Safe Harbor For Phishing SitesKnow those damn emails that clog up your inbox saying that Paypal is Going to Cancel Your Account or eBay Needs Your User ID? Those mails aren`t from Paypal, eBay, Citibank or whomever; they`re from spammers who want your login information so they can suck ...

Yahoo Helped China Imprison Journalist Says Reporters Without Borders
Yahoo Helped China Imprison Journalist Says Reporters Without BordersAccording to a report released by Reports Without Borders (Reporters sans frontieres) Yahoo Holdings (Hong Kong, China) helped China convict a journalist by providing the Chinese government with information to identify Shi Tao. Shi Tao was convicted to 10 years for leaking ...

Verdict Expected in Google Microsoft Court Battle
Verdict Expected in Google Microsoft Court BattleLawyers for Google and Microsoft have made their closing arguments and a court verdict is expected today in the Kai-Fu Lee case. Lee basically left his position at Microsoft to go to Google to head up their Google China division. The case is quite ...

Wikipedia Traffic Booms to New York Times Traffic Levels
Wikipedia Traffic Booms to New York Times Traffic LevelsHitwise, via Reuters, reports that Wikipedia’s traffic has grown 154 percent during the past year. It now threatens to surpass traffic to the NYTimes site—one of the few successful news brands online—and other major news sites. What are we to take away ...

Google Earth Viewed a Concern by Thailand Security
Google Earth Viewed a Concern by Thailand SecurityGoogle launched its Google Earth web service and the offline software with much fanfare. However, the application has invited a lot of criticism from all around for lack of security features. It shows images taken from satellites of the world and even let ...

eBay In Acquisition Talks With Skype VOIP
eBay In Acquisition Talks With Skype VOIPFirst it was Yahoo, then Murdoch`s News Corp, now eBay is rumored to be interested in a Skype VOIP Messenger acquisition. Skype, which revolutionized Internet communication with its VOIP messaging software, is valued around $3 billion. The introduction of a profitable communications software to ...

Google Geico Trademark Suit Settled Out of Court
Google Geico Trademark Suit Settled Out of CourtCNN reports the remainder of the landmark trademark case between GEICO and Google was settled out of court: GEICO, the No. 4 U.S. auto insurer and a unit of investor Warren Buffett`s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (Research), said a suit filed in the U.S. ...

Fazzle Multi-Lingual Meta Search Engine - Spotlight #6
Fazzle Multi-Lingual Meta Search Engine - Spotlight #6Fazzle.com is a meta search engine which is available in English, French, and Dutch. Fazzle searches over 120 different search engines to deliver `fast accurate results` accompanied by a preview page along with each listing. Fazzle`s search results include Web, Downloads, Images, Videos, ...

Hurricane Katrina Aftermath Online : the Good, Bad, Ugly
Hurricane Katrina Aftermath Online : the Good, Bad, UglyThe world is still reeling from the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. How is Katrina affecting the online marketing world and how is our industry helping OR hurting the issue? I believe thousands of sites are featuring Katrina donation PSA banners for victim ...

MSN APIs: APIs for MSN Search, MSN Virtual Earth, MSN Messenger &MapPoint
MSN APIs: APIs for MSN Search, MSN Virtual Earth, MSN Messenger & MapPointI get all giddy when I hear there are new APIs coming out. APIs gives developers the freedom to express a level of creativity they might not be able to reach without APIs. Just think of all the ...

Microsoft vs. Google Spurs Ballmer to Surpass Previous Performances
Microsoft vs. Google Spurs Ballmer to Surpass Previous PerformancesInteresting doesn`t even begin to describe the titanic battle that is being quietly waged between Microsoft and its archrival Google. Ever since Bill Gates had the blinding realization Google was about to eat his lunch for breakfast , Microsoft has been living ...

180Solutions AdWare Pretends to Clean up Act
180Solutions AdWare Pretends to Clean up ActCNET reports that 180Solutions is making yet another attempt to legitimize their Zango and 180search software. Here are a couple of anti-spyware experts that agree, it`s just another PR ploy.Ben Edelman, a Harvard Law School student, as well as an adware and spyware researcher ...

Google Number One Ranking: Risks, Ranking Higher, All Fun
Google Number One Ranking: Risks, Ranking Higher, All FunI call this thread, the funny thread of the week. A WebmasterWorld thread named Google Penalizes for being #1 is both funny but at the same time you can learn a lot from it. First let me quote the initial post which ...

Google Chief Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf, Father of ?Net and Chair of ICANN
Google Chief Internet Evangelist Vint Cerf, Father of `Net and Chair of ICANNThis week Google hired Vinton Cerf, the "father of the Internet" and the Chairman of ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers), to serve as their Chief Internet Evangelist. While working at the US Department of Defense ...

Yahoo Had to Open Email of Journalist to China
Yahoo Had to Open Email of Journalist to ChinaYahoo caught some flack this week from the International press community and Reporters Without Frontiers for giving the Chinese authorities the name and email information of Shi Tao, a Chinese journalist who illegally distributed Top Secret memos to foreign news sources using ...

Murdoch?s News Corporation Acquires IGN Entertainment for $650 Million
Murdoch`s News Corporation Acquires IGN Entertainment for $650 MillionLook out America, Rupert Murdoch is doing the same thing he did with cable in the `90`s and network TV in the `80`s, he`s writing checks and entering a new media to conquer. Well, its not really just Rupert, its News Corp, ...

Bill Clinton, Yahoo and China
Bill Clinton, Yahoo and ChinaBill Clinton spoke at the China Internet Summit last week, which was hosted by Alibaba.com, Yahoo`s new China partner. [Former] President Bill Clinton was the guest of Jerry Yang and Yahoo, which recently invested $1 billion in a 40 percent stake of Chinese online marketplace Alibaba.com. ...

Firefox Easy Delete Button for Google GMail
Firefox Easy Delete Button for Google GMailI love Google and its web mail service Google Gmail. In fact, I have replaced most of mail ids to start using Gmail exclusively. The speed and the concept of conversations are fantastic. It makes managing emails fun. Furthermore, the service is free, features ...

ABC?s of Google AdSense
ABC`s of Google AdSenseIt seems like everytime I visit Amit Agarwal`s blog, Digital Inspiration, something has changed on his template. Amit does a wonderful job of bringing his XML feeds, email sign up form, and links to his favorite blog posts directly into the users eye. Get used to the ...

eBay &Skype : SkypeBay (Rumors Were True)
eBay & Skype : SkypeBay (Rumors Were True)The NY Times ran an article this morning confirms the eBay-Skype rumor. The deal is worth US$2.6 billion in cash and stock. Much of it seems to be about competition and not wanting to get left behind on VoIP."Communications is at the heart ...

Seth Godin?s Knock Knock eBook Review
Seth Godin`s Knock Knock eBook ReviewSeth Godin has a new free ebook out called Knock Knock - Seth Godin’s Incomplete Guide to Building a Web Site that Works along with a follow up book about blogging. I haven`t taken the time to download the first eBook, but Jon Payne, Maryland ...

Google Sitemaps Verification Service Limited
Google Sitemaps Verification Service LimitedDon`t get me wrong, Google Sitemaps is a great tool for Webmasters and we should thank Google for setting it up (and Danny Sullivan for pushing it). When Google announced Google Sitemaps Verification Service Webmasters were in joy. But after a second look, many Webmasters are ...

Oodle Launches College Classifieds Search Engine
Oodle Launches College Classifieds Search EngineNeed to find an apartment near campus, score some ripped DVDs, sell your old iPod to buy the new Nano version, and get an internship before October? Oodle, the search engine for local classifieds, may have the answer to your prayers with its new college ...

SearchWebMedia Multimedia and Web Search Engine - Spotlight #7
SearchWebMedia Multimedia and Web Search Engine - Spotlight #7GoFish Technologies has unveiled what it calls "the first search engine of its kind to simultaneously deliver integrated web and multimedia search results". SearchWebMedia.com serves music, video, podcasts, ringtones, audiobooks, and user-generated content in a Multimedia Results box at the top of ...

MSN AdCenter Forum Member Review
MSN AdCenter Forum Member ReviewThere have been a selected number of advertisers testing out the MSN Keywords AdCenter over the past couple months. This morning, one such person has created a thread at WebmasterWorld with several posts, named MSN AdCenter: my review of the new system.. Here is a summary:- ...

Apple iTunes Planning Video Store
Apple iTunes Planning Video StoreAccording to a BetaNews story, "bloggers" have found some hidden code in the Apple iTunes music download store which suggests that Apple will be adding video download services to iTunes. Adding videos to iTunes may also be a sign from the heavens that new Video iPods ...

Microsoft?s Kai-Fu Lee Can Work for Google
Microsoft`s Kai-Fu Lee Can Work for GoogleBright-eyed Google just got a bit brighter, with a court ruling allowing Kai-Fu Lee, former Microsoft executive, to work for Google. Under the condition that he does not recruit other Microsoft employees to work over at Google. The Wall Street Journal says;Kai-Fu Lee remains ...

AOL Launching Podcast Search Engine
AOL Launching Podcast Search EngineOn the heels of an announcement that AOL is offering a variety of Podcasting tools at AOL.com/podcasting, where listeners can "discover, experience and download some of the web’s most popular podcasts" which include KCRW`s “This Week in Tech,” AOL’s “Sports Bloggers Live,” and AOLRadio’s new Podcasting ...

Google Targets Universities with ?College Life?
Google Targets Universities with "College Life"Found by way of WebmasterWorld, a little Google directory that looks like http://www.google.com/university/. The URL takes you to a splash page with a selection of Google products that can be helpful to the typical college student. These products include; Gmail, Google Talk, SMS, Maps, Toolbar, ...

Yahoo Shopping Search Goes Mobile
Yahoo Shopping Search Goes MobileYahoo Shopping has released what it feels is its own internal application built upon the open Yahoo API`s which let developers build products using the Yahoo Search Services. The `sample` development product is a good one, Yahoo Shopping Search for Mobile. Yahoo Japan had already released ...

Google Blog Search Goes Live
Google Blog Search Goes LiveGoogle Blog Search went live in the wee hours of the morning today and though at first glance it seems a bit basic when comparing with other Blog Search services, the new offering from Google is receiving decent reviews. Given that Google has been active with ...

Yahoo!?s New Mail and Loyalty
Yahoo!`s New Mail and LoyaltyYahoo! intitated a beta test with a limited number of users (sadly I’m not among that select group) and is preparing to launch a much-improved Web based email product. Beyond putting pressure on rivals (especially Hotmail), it will seek to cement loyalty among users (and prevent ...

Google, Blog Search and You
Google, Blog Search and YouIt would appear, as some have speculated, that Google is working on just about everything that its hundreds of engineers can sink their intellectual teeth into. Today, for example, Google launched blog search from both its Blogger site and from a separate URL (same results) available ...

Google Looking for Search Engine Marketers
Google Looking for Search Engine MarketersGoogle is heavily recruiting established Search Engine Marketers according to Teddie ar Search Engine War who received a call from Google`s recruitment agency on Wednesday. Teddie says he could not believe his ears and was flattered. As Google positions itself as more of a media ...

Eliminating PSAs on Google AdSense
Eliminating PSAs on Google AdSenseRarely do you find a publisher that is happy to find Google AdSense serving up PSA (Public Service Announcements) instead of those high paying real ads. So how does one eliminate those PSAs from coming up? A member at WebmasterWorld, incrediBILL, started a thread on how ...

Murdoch?s Fox Interactive Media Needs a Shopping Search Engine
Murdoch`s Fox Interactive Media Needs a Shopping Search EngineAfter announcing the formation of Fox Interactive Media (FIM), Rupert Murdoch spent $580m to acquire Intermix, the owner of MySpace, the insanely popular (28m unique users) community site. He bid around $94m for a leading Australian real estate site, although the company ...

Google Gets More Personal
Google Gets More PersonalGoogle added a link to its “personalized home” in the upper right of its Google.com home page. If you click on the link and are not signed in to Google, you’ll see weather, quote of the day, word of the day and top news stories. The page ...

Shopping Comparison Engine News : Snap, Smarter.com, and Shopping.com
Shopping Comparison Engine News : Snap, Smarter.com, and Shopping.comA number of stories today about shopping comparison engines. Mylene Mangalindan writes a piece in the WSJ Personal Journal section. The article mentions Smarter.com’s coupons, Vendio’s toolbar, and BuySafe’s antifraud guarantees as services offered by “a new crop of start-ups [that are] ...

New to Affiliate Programs? Top Tips for Getting Started
New to Affiliate Programs? Top Tips for Getting StartedWhat are the 5 most important things to learn to be successful as an affiliate? What`s the best way to get started? How do you find great programs? I get asked these questions on the forums all the time, so here are ...

Ask Jeeves Launches Blog Search in Japan
Ask Jeeves Launches Blog Search in JapanAsk Jeeves has released a blog search engine into the Japanese market. The service, currently in beta, includes the ability to subscribe to feeds in Bloglines, and currently has over 4 million Japanese blogs in its index.In May of 2005 Japan Today reports that ...

Vint Cerf Talks Google
Vint Cerf Talks GoogleLast week Google hired a net-god, Vinton Cerf, as its "chief Internet evangelist". Google`s hiring of Cerf has set off a wide range of speculation among Internet watchers. Vint Cerf is not what many would consider a "normal" person and is no where near a "normal" employee. ...

Yahoo Instant Search is Nifty
Yahoo Instant Search is NiftyYahoo is beta testing a new feature called instant search which, when you type in a search term, serves a pop-up balloon with the first search result listed for that term. So, you type the term - wikipedia, and after you finish typing the term and ...

California SEO/SEM Event - Search Engine Watch Does Disney
California SEO/SEM Event - Search Engine Watch Does DisneySoCal is finally going to have a real SEO/SEM/Affiliate Marketing event. Search Engine Watch does Disney - LIVE! Join Search Engine Watch`s own Founder and Editor, Danny Sullivan, Mod Squad leader Elisabeth and some of your favorite SEW Mods like: JenStar (from ...

Microsoft Eyeing AOL Partnership
Microsoft Eyeing AOL PartnershipFrom Bloomburg: Shares of Time Warner Inc., the world`s largest media company, rose as much as 2.4 percent after the New York Post said the company is in talks to sell a stake in America Online to Microsoft Corp. Microsoft, the world`s biggest software company, would pay ...

Grotica - Google Erotica Engine or Webmaster World Joke?
Grotica - Google Erotica Engine or Webmaster World Joke?While running across the search engine news this morning I found a press release, apparently from Google, hosted on Pressbox.co.uk and indexed in Google News. The release is titled "Google Unveils New Erotica Search Engine" and appeared to be a release from ...

Snap Brings ?CPA?to Shopping Search
Snap Brings `CPA` to Shopping SearchIdealab’s Snap.com search engine has launched comparison shopping. The site was developed in partnership with Smarter.com and CouponMountain.com.Shopping search is one of the most furiously competitive market segments and Snap is fighting an uphill battle to gain traction (just as in the general Web search ...

SEO &Competition Analysis - Part Two
SEO & Competition Analysis - Part TwoOnce you have optimized the onsite factors from part one of this series it`s time to launch into the external factors. External SEO factors generally refer to the internal links to your, and your competitor`s, website.Analyzing the links to your competitors is not a ...

SEO &Competition Analysis - Part One
SEO & Competition Analysis - Part OneAnalyzing your competition should be the second step taken during the SEO process (right after and sometimes even during keyword selection). Looking at what and how your competition have positioned their website where you want yours to be placed will lend great insight into ...

SEO Benefits Of CSS
SEO Benefits Of CSSThis article is most useful if you are somewhat familiar with HTML and CSS. I explain the concepts well enough that you do not have to be an expert, but I want to provide material that will introduce you to more advanced design in ways you can ...

Google Sends Warning to Sites &Webmasters
Google Sends Warning to Sites & WebmastersNick Wilson at ThreadWatch uncovered that Google Pilot New Webmaster Communications Initiative at a Search Engine Forums thread named Google offers advice to sites on penalty. Basically, Google sent the following email to a Webmaster.Dear site owner or webmaster of [url removed],While we were ...

Myriad Search Meta Search Engine - Spotlight #8
Myriad Search Meta Search Engine - Spotlight #8Aaron Wall of the SEOBook has developed a new meta search engine which serves results from Yahoo and Google API`s, MSN Search RSS feeds (soon to be API) and Ask.com. What? Another meta search engine with Google, Yahoo and MSN results? What`s so ...

Google and Microsoft to Battle Over AOL?
Google and Microsoft to Battle Over AOL?Google and Microsoft may be taking their next battle out of the courtroom and into the Time Warner board room as the analysts are boiling over who may be acquiring a large part of AOL. Last week the New York Post (a News Corp ...

Ask Jeeves Celebrates Talk Like A Pirate Day
Ask Jeeves Celebrates Talk Like A Pirate DayJeeves is sporting a new pirate costume this morning, in respect for something called Talk Like A Pirate Day. I would have never heard of the special day, if it wasn`t for Jeeves.What I find humorous is that if you do a search ...

Blog Search Engine Going Through Blog Makeover
Blog Search Engine Going Through Blog MakeoverBlog Search Engine (BlogSearchEngine.com) is currently in the works of a new format, which will make its core design more of, well, a blog. Sure, you can still use the Blog Search Engine to search one of the world`s largest indexes of over 10,000,000 ...

AOL Enters VOIP Market with TotalTalk - Watch Out Google, Yahoo, SkypeBay
AOL Enters VOIP Market with TotalTalk - Watch Out Google, Yahoo, SkypeBayOn the verge of Google and MSN takeover rumors and the major search entities going VOIP, AOL has announced that its old Internet Phone service will now become TotalTalk VOIP. Yahoo added VOIP to its Yahoo Messenger last spring, ...

Vivisimo and RAND Offer Clustered Enterprise Search
Vivisimo and RAND Offer Clustered Enterprise SearchVivisimo, the search cluster technology parent company of Clusty.com, is now entering the Enterprise search market. Vivisimo today announced that the RAND Corporation has deployed the Vivisimo Velocity enterprise search suite to provide visitors to RAND’s corporate Web site with a superior way to ...

Google Secure Access Wifi Application
Google Secure Access Wifi ApplicationYou see what happens when you give your employees 20% of the time spent on the job, to fiddle with any idea they come up with? They create Google Secure Access.From Google "Google Secure Access is a downloadable client application that allows users to establish a ...

Google Looking to Build National DWDM Optic Network
Google Looking to Build National DWDM Optic NetworkGoogle is reviewing contractor bids from tech firms in a plan to build a nationwide optical DWDM (dense wavelength-division multiplexing) network. Such a network would have few rivals and it appears that Google plans to wire every address in the United States with ...

Bloggers Launch b5media Blog Network
Bloggers Launch b5media Blog NetworkJeremy Wright, Darren Rowse, and Duncan Riley are all fairly well known people in the blogosphere, and now, they`ve formed a new blogging network which pays its writers a respectable income. Mr. eBay, Mr. Six Figures, and Mr. Herald have joined forces to bring us b5media, ...

Google Print Sued by Authors Guild
Google Print Sued by Authors GuildGoogle is being sued by the Authors Guild over copyright laws associated with Google Print`s plans to scan and index the world`s libraries. Google Print came under the target of various authors in August after complaints were raised about Google planning to scan and index ...

Opera Goes Free with Help from Google
Opera Goes Free with Help from GoogleLookout Microsoft IE and Mozilla Firefox, the boys at Opera have finally released their browser for free (and sponsored ad free) in an attempt to escalate its share of the browser market by brining in more loyal users. "Today we invite the entire Internet ...

Google Wi-Fi Imminent?
Google Wi-Fi Imminent?Paid Content reports Google is: reviewing bids received from multiple technology vendors for the development of a national DWDM fiber network, an optical switching fabric that would cover the entire continental U.S., and ultimately the globe.Here are more details from Reuters which appear to confirm the veracity of ...

Yahoo Search Results Add Quick Links
Yahoo Search Results Add Quick LinksLast night Yahoo! blogged a topic they named Fewer clicks, more answers..., which was there way of describing a new feature added to the SERPs page, called "Quick Links". So for example, you do a search on Walmart at Yahoo! and you see a new ...

Anatomy of a Search Engine Crawler
Anatomy of a Search Engine CrawlerWhen you go to a search engine and perform a search many people don`t understand how those results end up there. Some people may think that sites are submitted while others know that a piece of software finds the pages. This article explains one piece ...

Ask Jeeves Will Be Ask.com - Diller Confirms
Ask Jeeves Will Be Ask.com - Diller ConfirmsLooks like Jeeves is finally on his way out the door as the symbol of Ask.com. Barry Diller confirmed yesterday ar a Goldman Sachs conference that Ask Jeeves will be rebranding to Ask.com. The Street reports that Diller also stressed the importance of ...

Wikipedia Hot Property in Blogosphere
Wikipedia Hot Property in BlogosphereAccording to BlogPulse.com, consumer references and blog links to Wikipedia have increased steadily in recent months, fueled by increased blog traffic and a need for real-time updates about breaking news events. Blog references to Wikipedia have tripled since Hurricane Katrina hit the U.S. Gulf Coast in ...

I Want My Google TV
I Want My Google TVGoogle has a tendency to leak their future projects via job postings. The latest find is GoogleTV, which may be some TIVO type service or perhaps even a future plan for their GoogleNet. Google is looking for a Product Manager for GoogleTV and judging by the ...

Search Engine Blogs as Public Relations Tools
Search Engine Blogs as Public Relations ToolsBlogs are used for various reasons including reporting news, communicating with specific groups of readers, and as Mark Cuban may tell you, spamming. With millions of active blogs being constantly launched by journalists, students, CEO`s and celebrities, the blog can be seen as a ...

Yahoo Search Indexing Yahoo Search Marketing Advertisers?
Yahoo Search Indexing Yahoo Search Marketing Advertisers?Yahoo Search, never one to keep a division between Church (organic search) and State (paid search), is reported to be giving its Yahoo Search Marketing (Overture) advertisers a jump on other sites in its organic search index. And no this is not Site Match.EmoMilk ...

Kanoodle and Click Fraud
Kanoodle and Click FraudClick fraud is a virus which has spread for years in the online advertising industry. As advertising payment systems grew from per click to CPM or commissions, click fraud seemed to be on the low for a couple of years. Enter paid search network distribution and contextual ...

blinkx.TV Adds HBO Video Content
blinkx.TV Adds HBO Video Contentblinkx has added HBO video content to its search index and will include highlights, updates on new shows and behind the scenes content from HBO. HBO`s online library includes news, episode guides and other bonus footage, much of which is available exclusively on the web. blinkx`s ...

Google AdSense Easily Integrated into Blogger
Google AdSense Easily Integrated into BloggerJenSense reports that Enhanced AdSense interface launched on Blogger where you can easily now add AdSense to your Blogger templates. This was something that was very hard for most Blogger users to do, until now. Besides for the standard AdSense features; JenSense says that;Another unique ...

Watson 2.0 Desktop &Search Assistant Alternative to Google Sidebar
Watson 2.0 Desktop & Search Assistant Alternative to Google SidebarCNet`s Elinor Mills reports that Watson 2.0, an AI based "context-sensitive" desktop search tool, is about to launch as an application which will be seen as an alternative to Google`s Desktop Search and Sidebar. Like Google Sidebar, the Watson 2.0 sifts ...

Firefox Google Toolbar Out Of Beta, Adds Google Suggest
Firefox Google Toolbar Out Of Beta, Adds Google SuggestGoogle has taken its Firefox Toolbar out of beta testing and has added Google Suggest which recommends relevant search queries as you type terms in the search box. For example, type in wool and Google may suggest terms like wooly mammoth or ...

IceRocket Hurricane Help Center
IceRocket Hurricane Help CenterAfter Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and the gulf coast, IceRocket set up a Hurrican Katrina search center on its engine with three selections of missing persons searches, Yahoo Groups Hurricane Katrina search, and other useful tools for those trying to find or contact family members. Hopefully ...

Google Building Alternative Internet
Google Building Alternative InternetGoogle is working on its most ambitious project to date, the creation of a global data transfer network that could effectively serve as a private Internet. Since the introduction of AdWords three years ago, Google has become the world`s largest media company and advertising vehicle. It has ...

Hurricane Rita Internet Scams
Hurricane Rita Internet ScamsThe Washington Post published a story today on how spam and scam artists are registering Hurricane Rita oriented sites and domain names to prepare for email and web based scam operations. Such questionable operations range from relics for auction on eBay which clain that a percentage of ...

Google Testing Remove Result and Spam Report Options
Google Testing Remove Result and Spam Report OptionsMatt Cutts confirms that Google is testing a new "Remove Result" features that lets users of Google personalized search exclude various sites from their search results. If Google Personalized Search users are sick of spam showing up in their results or irrelevant sites ...

Feds Bust 4,600 RX, Drug, Online Pharmacy Web Sites
Feds Bust 4,600 RX, Drug, Online Pharmacy Web SitesI always warn affiliates about promoting online pharmacy or RX sites, it`s just not worth the risks. 18 people were arrested for allegedly selling drugs illegally, including the ringleaders of more than 4,600 rogue Internet pharmacy websites. Agents shut down all the ...

Flash and SEO - Using Flash on Websites
Flash and SEO - Using Flash on WebsitesFlash movies can be a great thing. They can help catch eyes that are otherwise bored with static looking pages, and they can help tell a story better than plain text. However the use of flash must be tempered with the ability to ...

MSN to Debut Paid Search Ads Today?
MSN to Debut Paid Search Ads Today?I believe it is going to be a limited beta test open to select advertisers, but... From the Internet Herald Tribune: "Microsoft will unveil on Monday its own system for selling Web advertising as it struggles to compete with Google and Yahoo in the ...

Server Issues Can Affect Search Engine Rankings
Server Issues Can Affect Search Engine RankingsI was recently helping someone troubleshoot some server and SEO problems and it struck me that I should write an article about this and other issues. Because sometimes when you run into a brick wall and can not figure out why your site ...

China Strengthens Regulations of Internet News
China Strengthens Regulations of Internet NewsToday China introduced a new set of rules intended to regulate news posted on Chinese Internet news sites. Xinhua news, the official state news of the People`s Republic, reported "The State bans the spreading of any news with content that is against national security and ...

PubSub LinkRanks Measures Blogs, Links, and RSS Feeds
PubSub LinkRanks Measures Blogs, Links, and RSS FeedsPubSub today announced the release of LinkRanks, which PubSub dubs"the Blogosphere’s most comprehensive tool for tracking the popularity and influence of blogs and websites". LinkRanks provides detailed data that bloggers and feed publishers can use to actively monitor the results of their publishing ...

FeedShot RSS or Atom Feed Submit Service
FeedShot RSS or Atom Feed Submit ServiceWant to get your blog or site`s RSS feed submitted to 18 different blog and feed search engines in one click of a button saving you about an hour or so of work? Well I just read on ThreadWatch about a new service called ...

White Sony PSP - Looks Like Big iPod
White Sony PSP - Looks Like Big iPodLast month I wrote about how the Sony PSP commercials in Japan feature Google`s search engine in the PSP browser. Well, the commercials are still airing but now with a White Sony PSP. Sony, which is getting its o-shiri kicked in the portable ...

Infospace Launches GPS Based Mobile Local Search
Infospace Launches GPS Based Mobile Local SearchInfoSpace is introducing a group of mobile local search products that mobile phone carriers can integrate to enable subscribers to search and find nearby restaurants, movie times, maps and driving directions. Infospace provides nearly half of the mobile content sold in North America and ...

Jobster Network Integrates Job Search Engine
Jobster Network Integrates Job Search EngineOn Wednesday Jobster.com will be officially launching its Jobster search engine. According to Jobster, the launch of their new job search will be the final step in integrating WorkZoo.com`s technology into the Jobster interface.Jobster acquired WorkZoo in July due to its search popularity, which was ...

Google Debuts Chris Rock?s Show and Flash Video
Google Debuts Chris Rock`s Show and Flash VideoGoogle Video showcased its changes to the service this week while using Chris Rock`s stardom and launch of a new sitcom to declare, like Yahoo, Google is serious about airing content on Google Video. Recently Yahoo has fortified itself as a web based ...

New Google Duplicate Content Filter
New Google Duplicate Content FilterCornwall at ThreadWatch has the scoop on New Duplicate Content Filter at Google? He reports on a really long WebmasterWorld thread that I wasn`t yet able to read. In that thread he reports Caveman posting in msg # 171;There are cases where established site homepages and ...

Health Pricer Shopping Engine - Spotlight #10
Health Pricer Shopping Engine - Spotlight #10The 10th installment of the Spotlight of 500 Search Engines is a comparison shopping engine targeted to the vertical market of health and wellness. HealthPricer reviews different products and compares their prices. Brian Smith, who interviewed the people behind HealthPricer feels that they have ...

eBbay reveals Hot Affiliate Niche for their API
eBbay reveals Hot Affiliate Niche for their APIThe Affiliate API Program is part of the eBay Developers Program and is offered to give affiliates a wide variety of industry-leading tools and services and provides API access to eBay Web Services so affiliates can create exciting new content and tools. David ...

Google Classifieds and Local Action
Google Classifieds and Local ActionThere are lots of things happening and announcements in the local space. However, I’m in the thick of conference schmoozing so I’m just stealing a few moments to mention something that Peter Zollman reported to me about Google launching classifieds (via partners). For more see Peter’s ...

Blogs Bring Home the Bling Bling for eHobbies
Blogs Bring Home the Bling Bling for eHobbiesWe know companies use blogs to increase traffic and search engine rankings. How are retailers are using blogs in creative ways to increase sales? One company reports doubling sales conversion rates from 2% to 4% after customers read their blog.The search engines are ...

Google and Yahoo Search Engine Technology Comparison
Google and Yahoo Search Engine Technology ComparisonWith so much talk about relevance these days, I thought I’d introduce you to some of the technology behind the search engine, and what the potential differences between them could be. There are some interesting takes on search technology from pre-ranking results on ...

Yahoo?s Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone is Live
Yahoo`s Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone is LiveYahoo is taking great steps in its direction of providing original content with its own Yahoo News corespondent, Kevin Sites, and his one year journey among the world`s conflict hot beds with Yahoo`s Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone. Kevin Sites in ...

Google AdWords Customers Change Login to Google Accounts
Google AdWords Customers Change Login to Google AccountsSmart? Annoyance? Privacy Issues? Easier Management? Just like Orkut, Google AdWords accounts will be migrated into the Google Accounts username/password system. Why are they doing this? Most probably for consolidation, integration and flexibility for its current programs and future developments. Next time you ...

Bulgaria?s Search Engines, Yogurt, and Kotooshu Sumo
Bulgaria`s Search Engines, Yogurt, and Kotooshu SumoAdmittingly, I do not know much of Bulgaria besides that it is a former quasi-Soviet Republic, produces excellent yogurt, and is the home country of Mahlyanov Kaloyan Stefanov (aka. Kotooshu). But more on Stefanov later, as I`ve just learned of a new export from ...

Multilingual Search Blog Covers International Search
Multilingual Search Blog Covers International SearchWe missed this announcement earlier in the month and feel that this search blog is deserve its due. Multilingual Search is an International Search Blog launched by Andy Atkins-Krüger in beta in April and has since built a team of editors around the world covering ...

Chinese Blog Contest Rebirth of Hundred Flowers Campaign?
Chinese Blog Contest Rebirth of Hundred Flowers Campaign?In what hopefully is not a 2005 version of the Hundred Flowers Campaign, the Chinese portal Sina.com is hosting a Chinese blogs contest. In a "hey, that`s not fair" approach, Sina.com is hosting the Blog Awards, and anyone can join, as long as ...

Search Engine Advertising Choices
Search Engine Advertising ChoicesSearch advertisers are offered two basic marketing models, paid-ads and free organic ads. While there are advantages and disadvantages to both models, one clearly stands out as a better advertising option than the other. Why is it then that advertisers from small business to mega-corporation tend to ...

Search Engine Journal Editors and Columnists
Search Engine Journal Editors and ColumnistsThe Search Engine Journal has been reporting on search engine industry news for the past two years. With well over 2,000 posts on search engine related news stories, the Search Engine Journal has become one of the most popular search related news sites in the ...

Google Optimizing Ad Sales, Creatives and Landing Pages
Google Optimizing Ad Sales, Creatives and Landing PagesGoogle is taking steps with its AdWords and AdSense programs to assist advertisers in launching site targeted campaigns, help publishers sell those advertising spaces, and even optimize the advertising creatives and landing pages for the advertiser. This direction will be intended to smooth ...

Ask Jeeves and MSN Search Engine Technology Comparison
Ask Jeeves and MSN Search Engine Technology ComparisonWith so much talk about relevance these days, I thought I’d introduce you to some of the technology behind the search engine, and what the potential differences between them could be. There are some interesting takes on search technology from pre-ranking results ...

Google AdSense Testing ?Advertise Here?Link on Sites
Google AdSense Testing "Advertise Here" Link on SitesGoogle AdSense is marketing its site targeting service by testing an "Advertise on this site" link in its AdSense contextually targeted advertisements. Darren Rowse of Problogger.net picked this up after seeing the Google AdSense test on Tim Carter`s Ask the Builder website. Once ...

Bittorrent Receives $8.75 Million in Funding
Bittorrent Receives $8.75 Million in FundingThe developer of the Bittorrent technology has just got the commitment of $8.75 million financial support from a venture capital firm. The plan is to further develop the technology to develop it into a commercial distribution tool for media companies. The technology, which is giving ...

MIT?s One Laptop per Child Movement Sponsored By Google
MIT`s One Laptop per Child Movement Sponsored By GoogleMIT`s plans for a $100 durable laptop to be distributed to the children of the world were announced today with pictures of the laptops and the distribution plan. Nicholas Negroponte, chairman and co-founder of the MIT`s Media Lab, confirmed that five countries ...

Google Building R&D Center at NASA?s Ames Research Center
Google Building R&D Center at NASA`s Ames Research CenterGoogle and NASA have announced their plans to collaborate on a number of technology-focused research-and-development activities at the newly planned Google SpacePlex in Silicon Valley`s NASA Ames Research Center. Now Google will have an excellent spot for their ever growing number of ...

Google Takes Backhanded Bow Out of Size War with Yahoo
Google Takes Backhanded Bow Out of Size War with YahooEarlier this week, the document-counters at Google did two silly things. First, they announced they were ending their participation in what has become known as the "size war". They removed the document-counter on their front page and acknowledged the size of ...

MSN Search Indexing Google 302 Redirects
MSN Search Indexing Google 302 RedirectsSearch engine marketers have been steaming up a discussion about how some searches on MSN Search, such as "batman room decor", are serving Google redirects to different websites via Google Groups links or Froogle. Dave Naylor (DaveN) notes that MSN Search is in a love ...

Google AdSense Electronic Funds Transfer Out Of Beta
Google AdSense Electronic Funds Transfer Out Of BetaGoogle AdSense has taken its Electronic Funds Transfer system out of beta after months of testing and is offering wire deposits to bank accounts of AdSense publishers in 16 different countries. For international AdSense publishers, the Google EFT system is a fiscal need ...

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