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Search Engine Strategies Local in Denver
Search Engine Strategies Local in DenverI like to shake people up these days by saying that “most of what’s actually going on online is about local.” People often greet that remark as though I’m under the influence of some mind-altering substance. But it’s true: Jobs, Cars, Real Estate, travel-related research, events and entertainment, offline buying [...]

Google CEO Schmidt Joins Apple Board of Directors
Google CEO Schmidt Joins Apple Board of DirectorsNo, it’s not a Google-Apple partnership (Gapple?), but Google CEO Dr. Eric Schmidt has joined the Apple board of directors with a company he says is “one of the companies in the world that I most admire.” Schmidt has been Google’s CEO since July 2001 and became chairman [...]

Los Angeles Times NewsPoint RSS Service
Today the Latimes.com launched its RSS (Really Simple Syndication) subscription service, Los Angeles Times NewsPoint, which can be used by latimes.com readers to customize personal news feeds and additional online content for automatic delivery to their desktops.Los Angeles Times NewsPoint was created jointly with Consenda, a Swiss-American media software developer specializing in online content delivery.Los [...]

Jim Hedger Joins Jayde Online
Jim Hedger Joins Jayde OnlineI’m ecstatic to announce that Jim Hedger, a good friend of mine and contributor to the Search Engine Journal, has now joined the Jayde Online team in the position of Senior Editor for SiteProNews.com and SEO-News.com (which are delivered to over 600,000 email subscribers). I’ve always considered Jim a poetic scribe [...]

Newgie : News Reader &Organizer
Newgie : News Reader & OrganizerLooking for an alternative to organize and read news on a daily basis beyond Google and Yahoo News? The people behind Newgie, dubbed News for Grown Ups, have shot us over an email on their service which seems to be a blog reader influenced site for ‘traditional’ web news. Newgie’s [...]

Yahoo Answers Gets a Search Result Makeover
Yahoo Answers Gets a Search Result MakeoverYahoo’s Social Media flagship, Yahoo Answers, is now being served to Yahoo Search users in the Yahoo search results via a new, spruced up vertical result box which breathes more life and definition into the product, just as Windows Live QnA goes live over at Microsoft. Threadwatch provides a [...]

Windows Live QnA Search Now Open for Beta Testing
Windows Live QnA Search Now Open for Beta TestingThe Question & Answer human powered search alternative has expanded beyond Yahoo Answers & Google and has now found a home with Microsoft’s Windows Live QnA. Windows Live has opened QnA up to the public for BETA testing and is looking for feedback on its product. Betsy [...]

Google Changes Domain Name Search Results
Google Changes Domain Name Search ResultsFound on Google Blogoscoped by way of Barry Schwartz, Google has changed their method of serving search results for domain specific queries. For example, if one was to search for ‘SearchEngineJournal.com’ on Google a week ago, they would have been served links to the domain, info on the domain such [...]

Microsoft adCenter Contextual Advertising Heating Up
Microsoft adCenter Contextual Advertising Heating UpJenSense has the scoop on the Microsoft answer to Google AdSense and Yahoo Publisher Network, Microsoft ContentAds beta. Jen says that Microsoft is looking for a few good advertisers who are interested in testing out the contextual ads on Microsoft’s BIG MONEY channels; “Selected advertisers just received invitations to participate [...]

Google Domains Foreshadow an Archive Search?
Google Domains Foreshadow an Archive Search?Will Google be launching their own version of the Archive.org Wayback Machine? Some recent domain name purchases have ZDNet’s Garett Rogers following his gut and predicting that such a service (perhaps even a paid for professional service?) may be right around the corner.If my gut instinct is correct, it won’t [...]

Google Gives Brazil Orkut Data on Criminals
Google Gives Brazil Orkut Data on CriminalsGoogle has made the decision to work with the Brazilian authorities by complying with a court order to supply Brazil with data which could help identify Orkut users who are using the social network for the spreading of child porngraphy and as a center for hate crimes. Unlike the [...]

Yahoo Answers Opens in UK
Yahoo Answers Opens in UKYahoo has expanded its incredibly popular and successful social media reference offering, Yahoo Answers, into the UK today. Unlike traditional search, Yahoo Answers is based upon human generated answers to queries by its registered members.Stephen Taylor, head of search and search marketing at Yahoo! Europe, told The Guardian: “We do see [...]

Google Flagging Sites with Too Many Subdomains
Google Flagging Sites with Too Many SubdomainsIn a post last week about Robert Scoble visiting the Google Plex and the Windows Live Writer blogging tool, Matt Cutts lent a hint that Google is monitoring and flagging sites which launch too many subdomains at one time. Seems that the Live Windows team is using sub domains [...]

Google Teaching Search Engine Optimization Courses
Google Teaching Search Engine Optimization CoursesGoogle is continuing to expand its reach out to webmasters and lend a bit more transparency to world of SEO with a new agenda in teaching SEO to publishers at universities. Google’s Adam Lasnik will be instructing publishers on ‘Optimizing Your Websites for Google Search’ at Catholic University this month [...]

YouTube Hires Yahoo?s Yu as New CFO
YouTube Hires Yahoo’s Yu as New CFOYouTube has taken a step in the serious direction of fortifying its management team and monetization efforts with the recruitment of Gideo Yu, Yahoo’s Treasurer. Yu is now the Chief Financial Officer at YouTube.Analysts are predicting that the move marks what may eventually add up to an IPO or [...]

Google Base &Importance of Merchant Attributes
Google Base & Importance of Merchant AttributesBrian Smith of Comparison Engines has been doing some product searches at Google Base only to find very little products listed for some popular terms. Seems that merchants are overlooking or paying little attention to the optional fields in Google Base which allow merchants to set up their own [...]

Netscape Search : Digg + Google
Netscape Search : Digg + GoogleJason Calacanis has posted the news on his blog that AOL’s Netscape has now launched a new search engine dubbed Netscape Search. Basically a mashup of Netscape’s Digg-Style News posts, Tags, and Google Search Results - completed with a very 2.0 color scheme.The search results can be controlled to show [...]

How Much Does StumbleUpon Rock?
How Much Does StumbleUpon Rock?Rand Fishkin must have mentioned StumbleUpon about gazillion times at SES San Jose as a ‘not to be overlooked’ part of a successful link-bait-2.0 web marketing strategy and I’ve noticed that whenever one of our stories get Dugg, Populared, or Reddited.. StumbleUpon referrals usually follow suit and bring in a nice [...]

Yahoo Advertising Expands on eBay
Yahoo Advertising Expands on eBayThe major advertising and cross platform partnership between eBay and Yahoo is starting to solidify beyond testing of Yahoo Sponsored Search advertisements in eBay results to more targeted eBay channel advertisements and larger ads in eBay search results. Starting today Yahoo graphic (or display) banner ads will be shown in eBay [...]

Google Mobile AdWords Launching
Google Mobile AdWords LaunchingBarry Schwartz at SEW reports on Google launching mobile ads in the US, UK and Germany (this was previously tested in Japan.):The ads are being tested in U.S., U.K. and in Germany and are priced similar to how normal AdWords ads are priced, based on auction. Google has a whole help section [...]

Google News Archive Boosts News Partnerships
Google News Archive Boosts News PartnershipsChris Sherman in his Search Day article has a good general overview of the new Google News Archive search, introduced today. (Topix recently released a year-long archive of searchable news stories.) In some cases Google News Archive offers 18th and 19th Century newspaper articles (see below). To my knowledge, there [...]

Amazon.com Launches Unbox Movie Download Service
Amazon.com Launches Unbox Movie Download ServiceAmazon.com has entered the video on demand download market with its Unbox offering. Amazon.com’s Unbox sells digital video downloads of movies and television shows from over 30 studios and television networks (excluding Disney properties - see below).Television show episodes will run $1.99 a piece while films will float between $7.99 [...]

ESPN Drops Yahoo Contextual Ads for Quigo AdSonar
ESPN Drops Yahoo Contextual Ads for Quigo AdSonarBrian Morrissey at AdWeek reports that ESPN has decided on dropping the Yahoo powered contextual advertising (think high profile Yahoo Publisher Network ads) from its ESPN.com site. According to Brian’s coverage, ESPN has decided on selling the advertising placements itself.ESPN.com will begin using the Quigo AdSonar system to [...]

Photos of Google China Offices
Photos of Google China OfficesWe’ve dropped by the Google Japan offices in the past, visited the Mountain View Google Plex, and have seen pictures of Google London’s offices, and now Google Blogoscoped points to a collection of Google China office photos from the Peoples Daily Online.A photo of Google China’s new office building. Google’s China [...]

Smart Phones &Mobile Local (Mo-Lo) Search
Smart Phones & Mobile Local (Mo-Lo) SearchThe WSJ (sub req’d) reports that Palm announced it wouldn’t hit its numbers “amid lower-than-expected retail sales of its Treo smartphones.” Hmmm . . . I wonder why? The %$#@ phones are so expensive — that’s why.By contrast the “Q” is being offered at a breakthrough price point by [...]

Yahoo Adds Conference Calling to Messenger
Yahoo Adds Conference Calling to MessengerYahoo continues to beef up its Yahoo Messenger Voice offering with the addition of VoIP conference calling from a partnership with Vapps ConfreeCall.Red Herring reports:“It will let you select people from your buddy list and start a conference instantly with them or schedule one for later via email,” said Vapps [...]

Ask.com?s New Research &Development Center in Germany
Ask.com’s New Research & Development Center in GermanyAsk.com is forming a new R&D center in Hamburg, Germany and the company has also announced the appointment of Eric Heymann as director of global content acquisition for Ask.com; ‘The former head of technology at Seekport, Heymann will lead the development team in Hamburg.’The Hamburg team will focus [...]

Northern Light?s New Business Research Engine
Northern Light’s New Business Research EngineNorthern Light (yes, the Little Blue Folders pre-Google domination era Nothern Light) today announced that it is releasing a new version of its Business Research Engine which now opens the service to all users. Wow, Northern Light (pause), file this in the Blast From The Past Search Engine News category.Here’s [...]

Preview Google AdWords in Other States &Countries
Preview Google AdWords in Other States & CountriesGoogle AdWords has come out with a new location targeting ad preview tool which lets advertisers see how their ads are served in other physical locations. Classic scenario, your agency is based in Philadelphia, your client is out of Tampa and the Google AdWords ads are being targeted [...]

Search Engine Market Data from Enquisite
Search Engine Market Data from EnquisiteTraffic is controversial. With so much riding on market share and momentum, web traffic has become highly politicized. One recent example of that was when Hitwise issued a press release that MySpace had surpassed Yahoo! Mail as the most visited US domain online. This drew a prompt response from Yahoo!, [...]

Google AdSense, YPN &Porn Ads
Google AdSense, YPN & Porn AdsOver at Search Engine Roundtable, Barry Schwartz covers a DigitalPoint thread about porn (or adult content) ads being show within Google AdSense ads on publisher sites. Barry gives his two reasons why adult ads should not be shown within Google AdSense:There are two reasons why these types of ads should [...]

September 11th &Google
September 11th & GoogleGoogle Operating System, one of my favorite blogs on and about Google, took the time to remind us today how the Google homepage covered the September 11th attacks 5 years ago.In an effort to help web users find more information on exactly what was happening in the US at the time, Google [...]

Windows Live Search Replacing MSN Search
Windows Live Search Replacing MSN SearchBy Thursday, MSN Search will be no more. Windows Live Search will replace it around the globe.Microsoft is also taking the “beta” label off Live, Live Search and Live Local tonight. Chris Sherman’s column in SearchDay tomorrow is about Live Search. I’ll be writing a couple of posts about Live [...]

Yahoo Mail Beta Adds News Home Page, Events &Calendar
Yahoo Mail Beta Adds News Home Page, Events & CalendarYahoo Mail has updated its email interface and start page with a new Yahoo Mail Home Page complete with top Yahoo News Stories, Advertising, Mail & News tips, along with marketing of internal Yahoo.com offerings.The new Yahoo Mail Home area extends the offerings of the successful [...]

CareerBuilder.com Selling Contextual Advertising via Quigo
CareerBuilder.com Selling Contextual Advertising via QuigoAfter ESPN.com decided to halt the serving of Yahoo Contextual Ads on its site and replace its contextual advertising with an ‘in-house’ offering via Quigo AdSonar, I’m sure some other large publishers on the market are comparing their current contextual advertising partners with an alternative in Quigo. One such large [...]

MySpace : History of Spam &Deception Exposed
MySpace : History of Spam & Deception ExposedValleywag published a tell-all yesterday which exposes the company behind the creation of MySpace, eUniverse (later Intermix) as a spyware and spamming marketing company which used its questionable tactics to build its social networking empire with the help of spam mails to dating site members and millions of [...]

Search Mob : Digging for Search Engine News
Search Mob : Digging for Search Engine NewsSo, if Search Mob is to be the Digg of search engine news, who’s going to be the MySpace or YouTube of such? Beats me, but in the meantime there are three Search Engine Digg clones on the market, the latest launched by John Battelle.The others are Search [...]

Yahoo Local Updates With Tagging &Photos
Yahoo Local Updates With Tagging & PhotosYahoo! Local today made some updates to its local search & mapping offering with new “Collections” and “My Local Dashboard” features that enable its users to save, organize and discover information the way that they choose. The Flickrization of Yahoo is now expanding past normal search, MyWeb and niche [...]

Google Earth &Multimedia Featured Content
Google Earth & Multimedia Featured ContentGoogle has just announced that Google Earth will be integrating multimedia educational information overlays under the Featured Content for Google Earth program. One of the providers is Turn Here, an innovative travel video service which offers free short films on destination cities, restaurants and hotels.Users can access these informative overlays [...]

MapQuest Audio Directions on Sprint-Nextel Network
MapQuest Audio Directions on Sprint-Nextel NetworkLike InfoSpace, MapQuest is also launching voice (text to speech) turn-by-turn directions on the Sprint-Nextel network. Here’s today’s MapQuest announcement:“MapQuest Navigator leverages Sprint’s leading edge location-based services platforms and GPS-enabled phones to acquire wireless device location information, letting subscribers take their navigation system with them at all times and get [...]

Yahoo Search Ads Testing Paypal Cart Icon
Yahoo Search Ads Testing Paypal Cart IconAndrew Goodman at Traffick has stumbled across some Yahoo Search Marketing ads for eBay.com which are serving a Paypal Shopping Cart icon in the ad copy. This new addition to the Yahoo Search advertisements are incredibly similar to the Google Checkout Cart graphic being used in AdWords Ads by [...]

More on Yahoo Search Ads &PayPal Icons
More on Yahoo Search Ads & PayPal IconsToday it was spotted that Yahoo Search Marketing is testing Google Checkout style PayPal Shopping Cart icons on some of the eBay.com advertisements in Yahoo Search results. The sighting generated some buzz in the search marketing world as the icons do not only show that the Yahoo eBay [...]

Google &Intuit Alliance = Small Businesses Using Google
Google & Intuit Alliance = Small Businesses Using GoogleIf anyone can summarize the importance of the Google and Intuit partnership into a couple of sentences, Barry Schwartz has done so at the Search Engine Roundtable blog with the following statement:Google has a huge reach with small businesses, but guess who has a larger reach with [...]

Yahoo Now Default Home &Search on Acer Computers
Yahoo Now Default Home & Search on g ComputersYahoo Search as partnered with Acer Computers to be the default search service within the world’s fourth largest computer company. The deal was announced early this morning and is a multi-year strategic partnership which will distribute a co-branded Yahoo toolbar and start page when Acer users log [...]

Yahoo Mail : The New MyYahoo
Yahoo Mail : The New MyYahooI’ve long thought that MyYahoo! was a strategic product that wasn’t being fully leveraged by Yahoo! — a kind of potential Internet “dashboard” that would help users organize their content, calendars, etc. While some people do use it that way, I don’t think it has lived up to this potential. [...]

Increase Domain Specific Results in Google
Increase Domain Specific Results in GoogleGetting limited amounts of site specific results when doing Google site:domain.com searches? Seems that Google’s tiny results are the result of a ‘bug’ in the user preferences.If your preferences are set to ‘Search only for pages written in these language(s): English’ then Google will serve limited results from pages it [...]

YouTube &Warner Strike Music Licensing Deal
YouTube & Warner Strike Music Licensing DealYouTube and Warner Music have announced an advertising revenue sharing deal with will distribute and license Warner Music Group Corp’s copyrighted songs and other material through YouTube.Under the deal, Warner Music has agreed to license its songs to the people who upload their videos to YouTube. Meaning that any [...]

Web Hosting by Google?
Web Hosting by Google?Gary Price points to a new Google domain (”Googlehostedservices.com”) and speculates about whether Google will become a webhosting company. He also points to “Google Apps for Your Domain” as further evidence of this possibility.(This is the point in the post where the analyst says: “See how smart I am, I said something [...]

Google AdSense Running in Email Newsletters
Google AdSense Running in Email NewslettersGoogle AdSense, according to a DigitalPoint thread covered by Barry Schwartz, seems to be letting select publishers serve Google AdSense ads in newsletters and mass commercial emailings. I’ve tried (as a test) placing Google AdSense in Constant Contact powered emails and the ads were served and targeted almost perfectly.So, if [...]

Yahoo?s Massive Marketing Campaign
Yahoo’s Massive Marketing CampaignThis week Yahoo is set to rollout an onslaught of integrated television, radio, cinematic and online advertising which will focus on its new Yahoo Homepage, Yahoo Mail Beta and Yahoo Answers; among other offerings.According to a Reuters story, the campaign’s theme will center on life; with and without Yahoo. Allen Olivio, Yahoo’s [...]

Google Updates Picasa Photo Sharing
Google Updates Picasa Photo SharingGoogle has added a slew of new features to Picasa, its online digital photo storage and sharing service. The new version of Picasa went live today and Michael Herf, Picasa Engineer, posts on the Google Blog:It has a feature called Picasa Web Albums that lets you post and share your photos [...]

Soapbox Video : MSNTube
Soapbox Video : MSNTubeMSN is making its bid to get in on the YouTube phenomenon with its new “Soapbox Video.” The product launches in an “invitation only beta” today. Here’s the WSJ’s (sub required) coverage. From the Microsoft press release:Soapbox on MSN Video utilizes powerful Web 2.0 technologies to provide a dynamic, fun and entertaining [...]

Rotating Google AdSense with Related Links?
Rotating Google AdSense with Related Links?A recent post on the Inside AdSense blog suggests running the Google Related Links publisher tool on your site and rotating it with Google AdSense. The basic theory behind the suggestion is that regular users of a site will naturally become attracted to the relevant video, news, and search content [...]

Writely Switching To Google Account Logins
Writely Switching To Google Account LoginsWritely, the online word processing system acquired by Google earlier this year, has taken one extra step into becoming a breathing member of the Google Borg by requiring that their userbase make the switch from their old Writely user login to that of Google Accounts. The Google Account program is [...]

Microsoft Expanding Live Search into China
Microsoft Expanding Live Search into ChinaUnder a deal with China Telecom, Microsoft will be serving a Chinese version of Live Search to China Telecom’s 25 million broadband customers. The People’s Daily Online reports:Microsoft has been looking for an opportunity to get into the search market since Baidu.com, Yahoo! and Google joined. The launch of Live [...]

NYTimes.com Integrates Answers.com Content
NYTimes.com Integrates Answers.com ContentAnswers Corporation and The New York Times Company have partnered for the integration of Answers.com reference content into NYTimes.com. The agreement includes direct access from NYTimes.com to Answers.com’s patented 1-Click Answers technology. Applying this feature, users can hold down the “Alt” key and click with the mouse on any word or phrase [...]

Thai Coup D?etat Blog Coverage
Thai Coup D’etat Blog CoverageToday marked the first Thai coup d’etat in almost 20 years as the Thai military, with the permission of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej, took over the government and will set up interim leadership until a new Prime Minister can be elected.While Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra was in New York attending [...]

Google and its Acquisition of Transformic, Inc.
Google and its Acquisition of Transformic, Inc.Remember the Google acquisition of Transformic, Inc.? Well, neither did I, until today that is when I read a post from Bill Slawski of SEO by the SEA in my feed reader. Bill digs into the Google acquisition of Transformic, Inc., the papers, patents and studies of Dr. Alon [...]

Yahoo Publisher Network Simplifies Ads
Yahoo Publisher Network Simplifies AdsYahoo Publisher Network (YPN) has cleaned up the presentation of their contextually targeted link advertisements by dropping some descriptions, trimming back some titles, and has changed the number of link displays.Tom Furukawa, Director of Product Management, posts on the YPN Blog:We’ve been doing some tinkering under the bonnet recently, so some [...]

Zillow and Home Owner Content
Zillow and Home Owner ContentZillow.com; the real estate search, mapping and home value comparison engine, has taken user-generated content to the next level with Home ‘Owner-Generated’ content.Over at the Search Engine Watch blog, Greg points out that Zillow.com is letting home owners add their own customized information along with the Zillow.com generated ‘Zestimates.’Zillow previously allowed [...]

Google Outsourcing Copywriting to India?
Google Outsourcing Copywriting to India?Looks like SEO practicioners, blog network owners, and general web publishers are not the only entrepreneurs taking advantage of the lower waged and well educated Indian content producers, as Google has also joined the information outsourcing advocacy.Philipp Lenssen covers on Google Blogoscoped : Google is looking for writers in India to [...]

Create Multiple Sites in Google Page Creator
Create Multiple Sites in Google Page CreatorThe Google Operating System blog (not associated with Google) has published some tips on creating up to five sites on Google Page Creator using one single Google Account.First, enable “experimental features” in Site Settings. Then go to the page manager and click on “Create a site with a different [...]

Google Losing Market Share in China
Google Losing Market Share in ChinaTwo research reports (Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou internet users were interviewed) have been released about the Search Engines Market in China and both come to the same conclusion. The only part they differ on is the percentage of loss.The China Internet Marketing Network Information Center (CNNIC) puts Google’s overall loss [...]

AdBrite Changes CPC Ad Targeting System
AdBrite Changes CPC Ad Targeting SystemAdBrite has made some changes to the order of the ads, or their ranking, in its ‘text’ advertising network (with over 20,000 publishers). Instead of showing the highest bid first, AdBrite is taking a more performance oriented approach to determining which ads are shown and the order of multi-link ad [...]

Google AdSense Adds Small Square Ad Size
Google AdSense Adds Small Square Ad SizeGoogle AdSense has come out with a new sized ad unit, the 200 x 200 “Small Square.” The new Google AdSense ad size can run both text and image ads and may be large enough for some multimedia advertising.Jen Slegg comments that the new 200 x 200 Google AdSense [...]

Yahoo Buying Facebook for $1 Billion
Yahoo Buying Facebook for $1 BillionStill think Yahoo is having money problems? According to an article published by the BBC, Yahoo is incredibly close to sealing a one billion dollar deal with Facebook, the social networking site. A Facebook acquisition would add yet another strong community offering to the Yahoo Social Media family, which now [...]

MySpace Comes to China
MySpace Comes to ChinaRupert Murdoch’s News Corp intends to have another go at the China Market. After leaving the Chinese TV Market in June this year New Media will be the next attempt.From the Financial Times:Rupert Murdoch said on Tuesday that his wife, Wendy Deng, was working with senior News Corp executives to help [...]

Microsoft’s Digital Advertising Solutions
Microsoft’s Digital Advertising SolutionsAt Advertising Week this week, Miscrosoft is announcing the launch of “Digital Advertising Solutions� and a media campaign to go with it. It’s an effort to bring together Microsoft’s various properties into a unified platform that gives advertisers ways to buy reach and audiences efficiently: Xbox, mobile, PCs and, maybe, TV.The press [...]

Hiding Google AdSense in iFrames
Hiding Google AdSense in iFramesI’m not sure if this is a surefire way to get a site booted from Google AdSense or not, but Hari K Gottipati, a Software Engineer with Motorola Inc (according to his blog) has figured out a way to earn Google AdSense Page Impressions without displying the Google AdSense ads. [...]

Google &Treatment of International Top Level Domains
Google & Treatment of International Top Level DomainsBelgian blog Netlash looks at different International Google sites (Google.com, Google.be, Google.nl) and does some Belgian based and proxy based searches. They then list the types of sites which appear in each location’s results and which Top Level Domain (TLD) those sites are hosted on.For example, when searching [...]

DMA?s Certification Program in Search Engine Marketing
DMA’s Certification Program in Search Engine MarketingThe Direct Marketing Association (DMA) is now offering a Certification Program in Search Engine Marketing which will be inaugurated at DMA06, DMA’s Annual Conference and Exhibition. DMA06 will be held October 14-19 in San Francisco.With cooperation from the major search engines Yahoo!, MSN, and Google, the DMA says that [...]

What is Google IndexBench?
What is Google IndexBench?Someone at Google is up to something that has to do with indexes or benches, or both, and has been purchasing several domains related to the term “index bench.”Gary Price of ResourceShelf and Ask.com pointed out on Friday that Google has registered the following domain names: bench-index.com (and .org, .info), benchindex.com (and [...]

Yahoo Refunding NFL Game Pass Members
Yahoo Refunding NFL Game Pass MembersDue to problems yesterday with the Yahoo NFL Game Pass system, which steams live NFL games to paid subscribers over the Internet, Yahoo is issuing refunds to its customers.From Reuters : Fans who paid for Week 2 games will be refunded the $24.99 purchase price while annual subscribers, who pay [...]

Andy Hagans on Beating the Google Sandbox
Andy Hagans on Beating the Google SandboxWhen you hear the name Andy Hagans, what comes to mind? My best guess that if I posted this question in poll form, the number one response would be link bait (or possibly #2), followed by link building and possibly article distribution.What comes to my mind is an honest [...]

Del.icio.us Hits 1 Million Member Mark
Del.icio.us Hits 1 Million Member MarkThink only the elite opinion leaders of the tech and online worlds are using social bookmarking services such as Yahoo’s del.icio.us? Think again. Social bookmarking and social media is moving beyond its core grassroot following and bringing in more and more users daily, with the help of Yahoo!.Yahoo! has taken [...]

Beware of Trackback Submitter : Wordpress Blog Spam
Beware of Trackback Submitter : Wordpress Blog SpamUpon fixing the comment template and files here at Search Engine Journal today one of the first trackbacks to come in reminded me of the downside of having a popular Wordpress blog with comments enabled; comment spam.The comment spam reads as follows:Search Engine MarketingThis comment was submitted automatically [...]

Wallop Social Network (Microsoft Spin-Off) Launches
Wallop Social Network (Microsoft Spin-Off) LaunchesWallop has been waiting a long time to get going. Finally it has launched in beta (or limited beta). Microsoft spun it off and it’s now VC-backed. According to Michael Arrington it will rely on a consumer-pays model and have no ads. According to Rafe Needleman at CNET it’s flash-based [...]

Sproose.com Social Search Engine Launches in Beta
Sproose.com Social Search Engine Launches in BetaA new social search and personalization engine joined the mix today as Sproose.com has opened in Beta form. Sproose.com provides a peer-moderated ranking, prioritization and community networking solution for individuals and affinity groups, with a focus on utilizing user and group information to produce the most relevant results for [...]

Google Transit Adds 5 New Cities
Google Transit Adds 5 New CitiesGoogle Transit, the Google Maps & Public Transportation Mashup, has expanded outside of Portland, Oregon to 5 new destinations. The new Google Transit destinations include Tampa, Florida, Honolulu, Eugene, Oregon, Pittsburgh, and Seattle.Most of the towns on this list make great sense for Google Transit given their existing superb public [...]

Google Promoting Google Base Listings in Product Searches
Google Promoting Google Base Listings in Product SearchesIn preparation for the online holiday shopping season, Google plans to integrate Google Base into its main web search results. According to information a Google official shared with those attending the Professional eBay Sellers Alliance (PESA) Summit, Google will be serving an alternative Google Base search box when [...]

eBay China Rumors
eBay China RumorsA lot of rumours about the future of eBay’s China division (eBay Eachnet) and its PayPal service are finding its way over the web.The most cited one is that eBay Eachnet and it’s paypal service will be sold to HONG Kong-listed Tom.com, a media company that already distributes Skype (owned by eBay) in [...]

Google Outage on Major US ISP
Google Outage on Major US ISPThere was apparently a major (or minor, depending on how you look at it) Google outage on Tuesday which ‘blacked out’ parts of the North East US and the Comcast Online ISP.The outage, which effected many in the Boston area, blacked out usage of all Google properties, including Gmail, Google [...]

Librarians?Internet Index Adds New Search Technology
Librarians’ Internet Index Adds New Search TechnologyOne of the most trusted and quality oriented directories on the Internet, the Librarians’ Internet Index (or LII.org) has recently undergone some changes to its search and navigational features. Gary Price has the scoop on ResourceShelf : The new Librarians’ Internet Index database is online today powered by [...]

InsiderPages Chooses FAST to Improve Site Search
InsiderPages Chooses FAST to Improve Site SearchInsiderPages, which just had its Web 2.0 makeover, has chosen FAST to improve its site search. I also received comScore data with the press release, which shows the following metrics (a limited audience of local sites). comScore August uniques (000):ServiceMagic – 2,233InsiderPages – 1,150Yelp – 529Judysbook – 315AngiesList — [...]

MySpace.com vs YouTube : Online Video Wars
MySpace.com vs YouTube : Online Video WarsMySpace and YouTube are beginning to duke it out over which site serves the most online videos and according to a couple of recent studies, it is still undecided which site streams the most content. Yahoo Video and Google Video are both fairly active in the online video market, [...]

Country Specific Link Building
Country Specific Link BuildingAre you running a US centric link building campaign for a site which is targeted for the residents of another country? Cre8asite member Phaithful addresses link building for various geographic locations when a forum member asks “does the geographical location matter when u plan to buy paid link. i mean as if [...]

Google Advertising Google Video via Google Video AdSense
Google Advertising Google Video via Google Video AdSenseWhat a better way to get the Google Video Ads off and kicking than by Google advertising their own video upload, search and sharing service, Google Video.Ionut Alex posts on Google Operating System:In one of the ads, they show a popular video from Google Video and ask you: [...]

Yahoo Search Teams with HP Computers
Yahoo Search Teams with HP ComputersYahoo has signed another search toolbar and home page distribution partnership with a large computer manufacturer, this time Hewlett-Packard Co. The Yahoo / HP deal is the second announced this month, as Yahoo and Acer formed a similar partnership on September 14th.The Yahoo-HP deal will distribute Yahoo toolbars on all [...]

Google &Yahoo Driving Local Search Growth
Google & Yahoo Driving Local Search GrowthLast night comScore released a new analysis of the size and growth of the local search market in the United States. comScore defines local search as ‘searches conducted by consumers on the local or directory (Yellow Pages) sections of leading search sites, and other searches identified as having local [...]

Only A Moron Would Buy YouTube
Only A Moron Would Buy YouTubeIs YouTube the darling success story of Bubble 2.0 or a legal train wreck waiting to happen? Mark Cuban spoke about the uber-popular video uploading and sharing destination yesterday with a group of advertisers in New York.Here are some snippets from a Reuters story on Mark’s comments:“They are just breaking [...]

Google Reader Update : Tags, Sharing, Blogging
Google Reader Update : Tags, Sharing, BloggingGoogle has taken its blog & feed aggregator, Google Reader, to the next level with an across the board update which adds to the service’s usability while also adding a more social experience to feed aggregation. The new Google Reader, about a year old and part of the Google [...]

Alexa : Worthless &Easy to Manipulate?
Alexa : Worthless & Easy to Manipulate?This week blogger John Chow revisited the 8 year old argument on the value of Alexa ranking. Alexa is an Amazon owned web search and traffic measurement company which gauges the popularity of a web site based upon the visits of Alexa Toolbar, A9 Toolbar and other web tool [...]

Domains, Branding &Web 2.0
Domains, Branding & Web 2.0If you’re a traditional (offline) company you can create a domain name that doesn’t identically match your company name. For example, if you are “Widgets R Us” you could be WidgetsRUSonline.com or GetWidgets.com, and so on. Your offline brand and online presence don’t need to match 100%, although it’s desirable if [...]

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