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Yahoo Search Steers Open Content Alliance Copyright Friendly Content Indexing
Yahoo Search Steers Open Content Alliance Copyright Friendly Content IndexingMove over Google Print, Yahoo`s cooking up something a bit meatier. Yahoo has joined forces with The Internet Archive, Adobe Systems Inc., the European Archive, HP Labs, the National Archives (UK), O`Reilly Media Inc., Prelinger Archives, the University of California, and ...

Google San Francisco Wi-Fi : GoogleNet Closer to Reality
Google San Francisco Wi-Fi : GoogleNet Closer to RealityFirst the rumor, then the Wi-Fi VPN, now confirmation of a bid to provide free Wi-Fi across the city of San Francisco (per Reuters): "Google has submitted a proposal to offer free, wireless Internet access (Wi-Fi) to the entire city of San ...

blinkx.tv Offering Video Blogging and Video Upload Space
blinkx.tv Offering Video Blogging and Video Upload SpaceJoining the web services which are offering free video upload and storage (including Google Video and The Web Archive) blinkx.tv has just rolled out my blinkx.tv - a new service available through its video search engine, www.blinkx.tv.At my blinkx.tv, users can upload and ...

PPC Benchmarks for Affiliate Marketers - Free Seminar
PPC Benchmarks for Affiliate Marketers - Free SeminarMarketingsherpa & KowaBunga! are offering a free seminar titled: `Search Engine PPC Benchmarks for Affiliate Marketers` on Wednesday, October 12, 2-3 pm EST. This seminar will be presented by Anne Holland, Publisher, MarketingSherpa and Rachel Honoway, VP of Sales and Marketing for Kowabunga!Based ...

WhitePages.com Quietly Building a Juggernaut
WhitePages.com Quietly Building a JuggernautWhitePages.com announced a deal with SuperPages.com to feature WhitePages.com’s residential listings on its site. WhitePages.com already has similar deals with MSN, SMARTPages (SBC) and RealPages.com (BellSouth). The latter two will merge in the next several months into the single YellowPages.com online brand, which has a deal ...

Google and Sun Microsystems Planning Major Announcement : GoogleOffice?
Google and Sun Microsystems Planning Major Announcement : GoogleOffice?Sun Microsystems and Google are planning a major news conference on Tuesday, October 4th (today) at 10:30 a.m. PT/1:30 p.m. ET. The conference will be held by Scott McNealy, Sun Microsystems Chairman and CEO and Eric Schmidt, Google Chairman of the Executive ...

Mesothelioma Still Baffles SEM World
Mesothelioma Still Baffles SEM WorldMesothelioma is one of the only words in the English language which makes cancer lawyers and search marketers drool and is also a word which most people do not understand. Values of pay-per-click ads for terms like mesothelioma on Yahoo or Google have been rumored in ...

Philadelphia Chooses Earthlink for City Wi-Fi Service
Philadelphia Chooses Earthlink for City Wi-Fi ServiceFree WiFi equals targeted ads and user data. Philadelphia chose Earthlink [sub req], a company which recently called Google`s free Wi-Fi in San Francisco unsustainable. From the Philadelphia article:In the Philadelphia program, the high-speed service will be available for free in parks and other ...

Google Maps Says Taiwan is Province of China, Sparks Protest
Google Maps Says Taiwan is Province of China, Sparks ProtestSearch engines have become hot property in the Chinese market with Google`s interest in Baidu and Yahoo handing over Yahoo China to foreign control for a share of Alibaba.com. But who was to think that a listing in Google Maps would ...

Ask Jeeves Helps With Search Engine Wedding Proposal
Ask Jeeves Helps With Search Engine Wedding ProposalBarry Schwartz, a downright good guy and die-hard search engine industry tracker, was looking for a little help with his marriage proposal this weekend and called upon Ask Jeeves for a special treat. Sure we`ve all heard of the marriage proposals in baseball ...

GMail Offering Auto Save for Email Composing
GMail Offering Auto Save for Email ComposingGoogle GMail has been adding tweaks to its interface which have not been making huge news, but have been keeping GMail users happy with Google`s email service. Such positive usability is the foundation of Google`s GMail service and will be a force in keeping ...

BodyBuilding.com Pumps Sales Via Search Engine Optimization, No Paid SEM
BodyBuilding.com Pumps Sales Via Search Engine Optimization, No Paid SEMInternetRetailer ran an article on organic search and the power of trusted content with a run down on BodyBuilding.com`s refusal to pay for search engine advertising. With a pumped up army of about 400 body building experts, BodyBuilding.com is cranking out ...

Google and Sun : Partnership to Kill Microsoft
Google and Sun : Partnership to Kill MicrosoftAs you have probably already heard, Google and Sun have partnered up to distribute the Google Toolbar with Sun’s Java. While this may seem like a minor deal in the grand scheme of things, upon further reflection I find this could be ...

Buy, Borrow, Beg and Barter for Links
Buy, Borrow, Beg and Barter for Links"How do you ask for a link? Asking for a link is about asking if you can do business with somebody. Links are much like currency on the web: If you don`t have a value proposition then don`t bother asking for a link. If ...

Mozilla Firefox Community Site Hacked Again
Mozilla Firefox Community Site Hacked AgainFor a software developing organization claiming to develop safe and secure software, a repetition of this kind is not going to help their reputation. Mozilla Foundation has revealed that for the second time since the launch of the Mozilla Firefox web browser, the security of ...

Sun + Google Partnership = More Toolbars?Yawn
Sun + Google Partnership = More Toolbars... YawnSo Google agreed to promote Open Office & Sun`s other open source software. When specifically asked how, Eric Schmidt said that they have not yet stated. Well then, what is the point of the press frenzy?Google also said they are extending their server ...

GoogGoul Halloween Event Search Engine - Spotlight #11
GooGhoul Halloween Event Search Engine - Spotlight #11Looking for some Halloween events in your area or simply looking to get spooked while performing a search? Try GoogGoul (yep , pronounced Google), the Halloween event search engine. Simply type in your zip code into GooGhoul`s searchbox and the creepy search engine ...

More ?Upcoming?for Yahoo! Local
More `Upcoming` for Yahoo! LocalYahoo! announced that it had acquired upcoming.org (an events calendar that is user-driven). This is going to bolster Yahoo!’s already very strong Local product by adding more user-generated content in the events area. The events RSS feed in Yahoo! Local is a great piece of functionality, ...

Blinkx Taps MIVA for Blinkx.TV and Toolbar Sponsored Listings
Blinkx Taps MIVA for Blinkx.TV and Toolbar Sponsored ListingsRunning one of the Internet`s most innovative video search engines can become costly and blinkx.TV, the video content search engine and video blogging network, has signed on with MIVA (aka. FindWhat in the US and eSpotting in UK, depending on which side ...

PodSpider Podcast Search Engine Launches
PodSpider Podcast Search Engine LaunchesPodSpider, a podcast search engine, was launched yesterday by RapidSolution Software in Germany. PodSpider, the podcast search engine, says that its service "leaps beyond the Apple iTunes directory" by providing access to over 20,000 podcasts and "the largest directory of podcasts available in the English language." ...

Apple Video iPod Information Leaked by BBC
Apple Video iPod Information Leaked by BBCApple is planning another big announcement on October 12th and the BBC has leaked the lauch of the Video iPod according to iLounge`s Charles Starrett. Apple`s `One More Thing` event will be held in San Jose where the iPod photo and U2 iPod were ...

Opera Browser Downloads Increase After Going ?Free?
Opera Browser Downloads Increase After Going `Free`Ever since offering their browser for free and dropping the annoying banner ads, the Opera Browser`s downloads have surged to the point of 3 million new Opera users since the update. Nate Mook of BetaNews reports that this rate is four times that of ...

Former Ask Jeeves Employee Wants to Save Jeeves
Former Ask Jeeves Employee Wants to Save JeevesThere were quotes and statements leading to the dropping of Jeeves the Butler from Ask shortly after Barry Diller`s IAC acquired Ask Jeeves. A large number of people at IAC want to drop the mascot from the Ask Jeeves search engine and rebrand ...

Google Appoints Princeton University President Shirley M. Tilghman, Ph.D., to Board of Directors
Google Appoints Princeton University President Shirley M. Tilghman, Ph.D., to Board of DirectorsShirley M. Tilghman, Princeton University`s President and Professor of Molecular Biology, was unanimously elected to join Google`s Board of Directors today. Dr. Tilghman is a world-renowned scholar, an exceptional teacher, and is respected worldwide for her pioneering research ...

Yahoo Hiring Blogmaster for Yahoo Search Marketing Blog
Yahoo Hiring Blogmaster for Yahoo Search Marketing BlogTwo pieces of search and blog related news here from Yahoo. First, Yahoo Search Marketing will be launching its own divisional blog to differentiate itself from the YSearchBlog and be the ongoing voice of Yahoo Search Marketing as it expands into the Yahoo ...

AOL Buying Weblogs Inc Blog Network
AOL Buying Weblogs Inc Blog NetworkAOL is buying Weblogs Inc, the blog media network behind such sites as Engadget, AutoBlog and Luxist. PaidContent.org broke the news story last night as it learned that Weblogs Inc, which reportedly earns over $2 million per year in advertising revenue, has been shopping itself ...

Some Google AdSense Publishers Must Wait Another Month for Payment
Some Google AdSense Publishers Must Wait Another Month for PaymentJenSense reports that AdSense error means many publishers must wait until NEXT payment cycle for August earnings. This is the emails thousands of AdSense publishers received as a notification of the error on Google`s part.Hello, Due to an issue with our ...

Google Mashup: Google Maps + Google Local
Google Mashup: Google Maps + Google LocalGoogle has brought Local out of beta and combined it with the surprisingly popular Google Maps in a single “map-centric” interface. Here’s a search for “wine shops in Greenwich Village New York.”Brett Taylor, who’s the new product manager at Google for Local and Maps ...

AOL?s AIM Presence for Networking and Blog Communication
AOL`s AIM Presence for Networking and Blog CommunicationAOL is working with some blogging, networking, and podcasting communities to integrate AIM "presence" into their systems to let their users know when their buddies are online for text, voice, or video chatting. Facebook, Inc., LinkedIn Corporation., Six Apart, Inc. and Glam.com, Inc. ...

More on the Google Sun Microsystems Deal
More on the Google Sun Microsystems DealYesterday, Google Inc. CEO Eric Schmidt and Sun Microsystems CEO Scott McNealy held a mid-morning press conference to announce a distribution partnership between the two online giants. For those who watched or listened to the media event, details of the deal have not been ...

Fake Google &Yahoo Spyware Scammers Busted by FTC
Fake Google & Yahoo Spyware Scammers Busted by FTCThe FTC is clamping down on spyware companies. These guys contribute to the growing need for more consumers to buy anti-spyware to protect themselves. Many of these programs block honest marketer`s links or delete affiliate cookies. The ClientMan spyware software that was ...

Google Advertising Patents for Behavioral Targeting, Personalization and Profiling
Google Advertising Patents for Behavioral Targeting, Personalization and ProfilingGoogle filed two patents this week dealing with ad targeting based on user search history behavior and personalization in what seems an attempt to enter the post-search behavioral advertising market that Yahoo is already offering to its advertisers and will be available ...

Google AdWords Customers to Target Specific AdSense Pages (Not Just Sites)
Google AdWords Customers to Target Specific AdSense Pages (Not Just Sites)Reported over at Search Engine Watch Forums, AdWords Now Allows Targeting Ads To Sections Of A Site. That is right, and I am not sure why I haven`t seen this before today. I mean, yesterday the InsideAdWords blogged about 25 ...

Google Reader - Google?s RSS Feed Aggregator?
Google Reader - Google`s RSS Feed Aggregator?Eric Baillargeon found a new subdomain at Google which may be a hint to their newest offering (yes, another Google app or service), a feed aggregator. The subdomain Reader.Google.com now shows a 403 error page, but if we remember correctly, Google Talk also was ...

Adware - Rogue Affiliates - The Hidden Money Trail
Adware - Rogue Affiliates - The Hidden Money TrailPCWorld has just published a very long and enlightening article about Adware and Spyware and how it`s used by some of the big brand companies. The trouble is the frequent use of the word affiliate - which could make it sound to ...

Yahoo?s Semel: ?Google Has No Plan?
Yahoo`s Semel: `Google Has No Plan`AP’s Mike Liedtke, covering Web 2.0 in San Francisco this week, wrote a piece in which he quoted Yahoo! CEO Terry Semel who reportedly said the following about Google at the show: "So far they don’t seem to have a plan, but maybe they do,” ...

Topix ?Contextual News?Links
Topix `Contextual News` LinksNewspaper-owned news aggregation site Topix, which has a number of third-party, local news distribution deals with the likes of AOL and Citysearch, among others, launched a very interesting offering recently. Unfortunately, I don’t have a great deal of time right now to discuss it.It basically pushes a ...

Google?s Matt Cutts Interviewed by Aaron Wall
Google`s Matt Cutts Interviewed by Aaron WallAaron Wall of SEOBook.com got the chance to conduct an interview with Google`s Matt Cutts, Google Search Engineer, about topics ranging from SEO, Spam, SEM, and volleyball. For those of you who have not heard of Matt Cutts, he has more or less become ...

MSN AdCenter Wants Small and Medium Businesses for Beta
MSN AdCenter Wants Small and Medium Businesses for BetaThis was posted on MSN’s Search Blog: As you know, we launched MSN adCenter --our next generation advertising platform—in France and Singapore last month. This was an important first step to delivering our global vision to connect advertisers to consumers in a ...

Yahoo Podcast Directory
Yahoo Podcast DirectoryIn what may be a fun filled week of Yahoo announcements, Yahoo has launched its answer to Odeo, Yahoo Podcast. Yahoo Podcast is now in beta testing and gives Yahoo users the ability to search, subscribe, and listen to Podcasts. Yahoo Search Blog reports :"Yahoo! Podcasts offers a ...

Yahoo Search Marketing Changing Ad Copy
Yahoo Search Marketing Changing Ad CopyA thread at WebmasterWorld named Does Yahoo Change Your Ad Copy? discusses a annoyance some advertisers are having with YSM (Yahoo! Search Marketing). Basically, the advertiser creates, what they think, creative ad copy and Yahoo! changes the copy without letting the advertiser know. Then Yahoo ...

Yahoo Adds Blogs to News Search
Yahoo Adds Blogs to News SearchHere’s Yahoo!’s new and improved news search with a dash of blog search. (This is probably not a full-blown Yahoo! blog-search offering.) In this example for “local search,” see the right column. Yahoo is also integrating Flickr content and audio/video results.While integrating all these different ...

Google Wallet Coming Soon to a Pocket Near Year?
Google Wallet Coming Soon to a Pocket Near Year?Gary has found some speculative evidence that Google Wallet or Some Other Google Payment System Getting Closer to Reality. He told me he isn`t sure but he rarely blogs about rumors, so why not (cool guy).In the past week, Google has made ...

Blog Advertising Survey - Revenue and Sources
Blog Advertising Survey - Revenue and SourcesJust discovered some enlightening surveys about blog revenue. The graphs are great and the info is interesting. Not sure how wide the survey was or how representative it is of the average blogger. But I find the stats interesting enough to start a discussion ...

Google Offers Search History Tags
Google Offers Search History TagsOh so quietly Google added a tagging feature to their My Search History product. I believe Google will eventually find ways to trust Google accounts more the same way they trust domains more as they age. The tags surely can be abused, but so can links. ...

Google Auctions to Rival eBay and Yahoo?
Google Auctions to Rival eBay and Yahoo?Google is reportedly sending 600 workers in engineering and support to a new location in the Phoenix area which is the center of a new Google complex in Arizona. The site has not been established yet, but Google announced their plans on Arizona expansion ...

AOL Launching Blog Search This Week
AOL Launching Blog Search This WeekIn a month where Google and Yahoo have both added blog search appetizers to their search menus, AOL is reportedly working to add blog search too. AOL is working with Intelliseek`s BlogPulse to provide the AOL Blog Search tool.AOL has recently gotten serious about blogs ...

Translating Google?s Privacy Policy
Translating Google`s Privacy PolicyPrivacy may not have been much of a controversy with Google 6 years ago when they were only performing web searches at the time with no advertising, personalization, behavior tracking, or offering questionable web usage tracking software such as Google Sidebar`s Web Clips. With plans for a ...

Google Earth and Maps and Terrorist Concerns
Google Earth and Maps and Terrorist ConcernsFollowing the lead of Thailand, The Netherlands and South Korea, India`s President APJ Abdul Kalam has expressed concern over the Google Maps and Google Earth satellite mapping systems and the ability for terrorists to use such intricate mapping systems for planning attacks on targets. ...

Splog Content Thieves Take AdSense Code in Package
Splog Content Thieves Take AdSense Code in PackageStolen content is a major issue, with RSS and people creating scripts to pull your content and dynamically publish it to blogs, the amount of splogs (blogs with stolen content) is incredible. But this is the funniest report of stolen content I have ...

Skype Names Yahoo, AOL, and Microsoft as Threat
Skype Names Yahoo, AOL, and Microsoft as ThreatSkype, the company which made VoIP usable and cool and the latest acquisition of the internet giant eBay, has said that they see potential threat in their primary market coming from the biggies like Microsoft, America Online and Yahoo! Interestingly, Google is ...

GoogleBastards.com - Two Great Google Cartoons
GoogleBastards.com - Two Great Google CartoonsAussieWebmaster shared a couple great Google editorial cartoons ealier this week that I have been saving for the Friday funnies. The forum software over at SEW blocked out the swear word in first link, but I don`t think my readers will mind a bit. Relax!!! ...

Inform - News Aggregation Supersite Launches
Inform - News Aggregation Supersite LaunchesToday next-generation news aggregation site Inform unveiled itself. I spoke to CEO Neal Goldman a couple of weeks ago and got a demo of the site, which was very impressive. I don’t have a great deal of time this morning to run through the site’s ...

Monetize Your Site with Google AdSense
Monetize Your Site with Google AdSenseWith the advent of blogs and other informational sites, the search engine market space has become increasingly competitive. Sometimes website owners begin to wonder if they will ever make money off their product or service. In this article I give you other ideas on ...

Ask Jeeves Serving IDG Content on Video Game Searches
Ask Jeeves Serving IDG Content on Video Game SearchesAsk Jeeves and IDG Entertainment have announced a deal to serve IDG Entertainment content from Games.net, GamerHelp.com, GamePro.com, GameDownloads.com and Blogfaction.com at the top of all videogame-related searches. The content will be served as Ask Jeeves Smart Answers and "cuts down ...

Buy an Open Directory DMOZ Editor Account on eBay
Buy an Open Directory DMOZ Editor Account on eBayIf you cannot find the dough to buy your own search engine, then there`s always the alternative of buying the right to be a Netspace Open Directory Project (DMOZ) Editor via a recent auction on eBay. Exposing the alledged corruption of DMOZ ...

Your Competition Doing SEO or Search Engine Marketing?
Your Competition Doing SEO or Search Engine Marketing?With the growth of the web, more and more companies are beginning to realize that a storefront is not all that is required to compete. Many more traditional businesses are getting online in a big way, increasing competition and reducing the amount of ...

Meta Search Engine Jux2 For Sale on eBay
Meta Search Engine Jux2 For Sale on eBayDon`t know what to get the wife for Christmas? How about her own search engine? If you`re looking to buy an award winning meta search engine with a somewhat know brandname and an easy to implement business model in paid links, well jux2 ...

Google Update on the Horizon
Google Update on the HorizonRemember the old days of the Google Dance? Yes, those were the days. Like clockwork, at the first or end of the month, Google`s index would update with new listings and backlinks as site owners and the SEO community would do the Google Dance of Joy, ...

Fake Yahoo News Site Reports Chinese Troops Attack Okinawa
Fake Yahoo News Site Reports Chinese Troops Attack OkinawaEither someone was trying to make a political statement or pull a fast joke on Japanese news readers as a fake site was set up whch resembled Yahoo! Japan News exclaiming that China had invaded Okinawa. No jokes aside, this is excellent ...

LookSmart to be Booted from NASDAQ
LookSmart to be Booted from NASDAQLate yesterday, LookSmart reported that they received a delisting notice from NASDAQ staff on October 13. Stating that shares in the search company had failed to remain above the $1.00 level, NASDAQ began the process of removing LookSmart from its stock-board under MarketPlace Rule 4450(a).LookSmart ...

Yahoo Maps and ?Contextualizing?a Local Search
Yahoo Maps and `Contextualizing` a Local SearchOne of the things I’ve always liked about Yahoo! Maps is the ability to plot a point—say the Hilton Hotel in downtown Atlanta - and then perform category-based local searches in relation to that point. This is the main way I use Yahoo! Maps. ...

Create Your Own Yahoo Blog Search Box
Create Your Own Yahoo Blog Search BoxYahoo caught up with some of its competition last week by adding blogs to the Yahoo News index along with integrated Flickr and audio content. Yahoo Blog Search is not full blown search, but more of the featuring of blogs along with traditional news ...

Google Getting into Real Estate?
Google Getting into Real Estate?HousingMaps, Yahoo! Apartments, HomePages, Trulia and now Google may be seeking to combine real estate listings and related data with Google Earth and/or Google Local. (Thanks to John Battelle for pointing to the article on the SJ Mercury News Site):Commercial real estate’s largest data provider is ...

Pingoat Blog Pinging Service
Pingoat Blog Pinging ServiceTara at ResearchBuzz took a look at Pingoat, the mass pinging service for blogs this morning. This is entirely unrelated but when I loaded up ResearchBuzz (yes it has been a while) I couldn`t help but notice the fonts look just like the Google Blog now.Anyway, if ...

Chitika eMiniMalls and Google AdSense
Chitika eMiniMalls and Google AdSenseOver the next couple of days the Search Engine Journal will be running a 50/50 split of eMiniMall advertisements and Google AdSense in our main content ad spot, shown to the right of this post (if you don`t see them, just try reloading the page a ...

Gmail Now GoogleMail in the UK
Gmail Now GoogleMail in the UKAccording to the BBC, Google has renamed their web mail in the UK from Gmail to GoogleMail. There were apparently some trademark disputes in England and Germany which led to the change in Deutschland, and now Google UK has followed suit. GoogleMail may be about ...

More Google Print Lawsuits
More Google Print LawsuitsRecently Google was sued by the Authors Guild for copyright infringement. It seems the Google Print product is making a few more enemies, as publishers sue Google as well:Book publishers sued Google, escalating a nasty spat over the search-engine giant`s ambitious book-indexing project.The Association of American Publishers ...

Google Update Jagger Crashing Forums?
Google Update Jagger Crashing Forums?As warned by Matt Cutts of Google earlier in the week, Google is working on an update which has been coined as the Jagger Update by the SEO community. Google`s Cutts has put out a request for searchers to review the new update and contact Google ...

SplogSpot Spam Blog Search Engine
SplogSpot Spam Blog Search EngineSplogs, spam blogs, got alot of attention over the weekend as hundreds of thousands of fake blogs were launched via the Google Blogger / BlogSpot interface resulting in some trashed search results and feed aggregators.Jim Hedger, columnist for SEJ and editor at Stepforth, says that "Splogs ...

Search Marketing Pumps Yahoo Earnings
Search Marketing Pumps Yahoo EarningsWell, its the end of a quarter again and time to hear how much money all the big industry leaders have pulled in over the past 3 months. Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Ask will all be spilling their guts on how much search marketing and advertising ...

Froogle Updates Layout, Looks Like Comparison Engine
Froogle Updates Layout, Looks Like Comparison EngineAs one industry insider stated in an email, Froogle’s new layout is “very comparison engine-esque!” Froogle quietly updated its site yesterday. There are a number of changes, but here are the basics:1) The sponsored links (Google AdWords) are no longer flooding the right side ...

Get Your Future Google PageRank Update
Get Your Future Google PageRank UpdateThe latest Google PageRank update is on its way and web publishers from all over the world are reporting changes in Google rankings and the Google algorithm. Along with the update will also be new Google PageRank for some sites and backlinks indexed by Google.If ...

Firefox Celebrates 100 Million Downloads in Space
Firefox Celebrates 100 Million Downloads in SpaceMozilla let out the big news yesterday that the Firefox browser has been downloaded by 100 million different web users. Firefox is approaching its 1st Anniversary out of beta (feels like yesterday) and will be celebrating the downloads and birthday with a big 21st ...

Google Jagger Update is Official
Google Jagger Update is OfficialIn case you haven`t noticed, there is a fairly significant update happening at Google right now. As with all other major updates, Brett Tabke from WebmasterWorld has given it a name, Jagger.Jagger is keeping true to previous Google updates and is wreaking havoc on the nerves ...

OpenOffice.org 2.0 Becoming the Next Mozilla Firefox?
OpenOffice.org 2.0 Becoming the Next Mozilla Firefox?Upon reviewing the news of the OpenOffice.org 2.0 launch, I ran across an interesting opinion on OSDir about the Mozillarization of OpenOffice.org. The piece looks at the similarities between OpenOffice.org and Mozilla, cutting down a piece of software to its "open source" core, then ...

Suicide Girls on the Video iPod
Suicide Girls on the Video iPodIt is only a matter of time before either Playboy or Hustler released their Video iPod offerings to off-set the balance of the family friendly downloads marketed by Apple, including Disney shows and episodes of TV`s Lost. Flynt and Hefner, however, were beaten to the ...

PayPal Customer Records Wanted by IRS
PayPal Customer Records Wanted by IRSPayPal may not be the tax-free safe harbor that some folks always thought it was. According to David Utter of WebProNews, the Internal Revenue Service has requested the records of some PayPal customers who may be using PayPal along with offshore credit cards to avoid ...

OpenOffice.org 2.0 Released by Sun Microsystems
OpenOffice.org 2.0 Released by Sun MicrosystemsOpenOffice.org, the open source alternative to Microsoft Office which is gathering steam after Sun Microsystem`s announcement of a Google partnership and multiple governments swapping Windows licensing fees for the free OpenOffice.org, has just released its OpenOffice.org 2.0. Personally, I`ve used OpenOffice.org on my personal PC ...

Hurricane Wilma Blog Coverage
Hurricane Wilma Blog CoverageHurricane Wilma is easing up the Mexican Coast and on its way to Florida in a year which has been a major blow to the southern United States Gulf area. In the wake of Hurricanes Rita and Katrina, Wilma`s path and hopefully minimal wrath is being documented ...

Google Earnings Show Search Business is Stronger Than Ever
Google Earnings Show Search Business is Stronger Than EverGoogle shares shot up about $30 today as Google released its earnings numbers from Q3 which blew away industry and Wall Street expectations. The earnings amounts even shocked one of the top Googlers. "We surprised ourselves this quarter," Google CEO Eric Schmidt ...

Ask Jeeves Integrates Recipes into Smart Answers
Ask Jeeves Integrates Recipes into Smart AnswersAsk Jeeves is calling them tasty cheats, because not only can Ask tell you Final Fantasy PS2 Cheats but also tell you some turkey recipes for one of my favorite holidays.We`ve partnered with AllRecipes.com in order to provide a powerful Smart Search experience that ...

MSN?s Google PageRank of 2 and Canonical URL Problems
MSN`s Google PageRank of 2 and Canonical URL ProblemsMSN’s homepage - www.msn.com is now showing a Google toolbar PageRank of 2. This is another example of the canonical problem I covered in an earlier post. Looking up the link information for msn.com and www.msn.com, you can see that Google ...

Craigslist Blocking Oodle : Destination vs.Aggregation
Craigslist Blocking Oodle : Destination vs.AggregationCraigslist has been the proverbial poster child for friendliness, openness and online cooperation. However, as John Battelle reported, Craigslist has apparently blocked Oodle CEO Craig Donato’s Craigslistassifieds aggregator from crawling and indexing Craigslist’s listings. Currently, the local marketplace accounts for a large percentage of Oodle’s ...

Yahoo Search Marketing Drops $20 Minimum Spend
Yahoo Search Marketing Drops $20 Minimum SpendThe following email went out to Yahoo! Search Marketing (Overture) customers;Dear Sponsored Search Advertiser:We’ve listened to your feedback and are happy to announce that we’ve eliminated the $20 monthly minimum spending requirement for Sponsored Search. Previously, all Sponsored Search advertisers were required to spend ...

Yahoo?s Podcasting and Audio Search Discussion
Yahoo`s Podcasting and Audio Search DiscussionJeremy Zawodny has made a post on the Yahoo SearchBlog about a SDForum Search SIG session at Yahoo about a month ago where some of the top names in Podcasting discussed, well, Podcasting and Audio Search. The speakers of the session, which was moderated by ...

HealthLine Healthcare Search Engine Launched
HealthLine Healthcare Search Engine LaunchedHealthline this week today announced the launch of their search engine dedicated to consumer healthcare. Healthline sports what it calls Medically Guided Search, which it says "make it easier for users to find comprehensive healthcare information and interact with the search results in a manner that ...

Google?s Matt Cutts Hosting Coffee Talk at WMW Vegas PubCon
Google`s Matt Cutts Hosting Coffee Talk at WMW Vegas PubConGoogle`s lead senior engineer, webmaster relations, and quality control specialists, Matt Cutts, will be interviewed in-depth on major issues revolving around Google`s search offering in a morning talk over coffee at WebmasterWorld`s Search Engine & Internet Marketing Conference, "PubCon," in Las ...

Google Addresses Blogger Splog Spam Blog Issue
Google Addresses Blogger Splog Spam Blog IssueSplogs became an overnight horror with the launch of thousands of search results and aggregator clogging spam blogs last weekend. For the most part, Google`s Blogger has been a target of Sploggers due to its "easy to spam" blog building service. Robots were building ...

Google &Yahoo Financial Earnings Expert Rundown
Google & Yahoo Financial Earnings Expert RundownThis was a big week for Yahoo and Google, as both announced some intense earning numbers this quarter. Google blew most analysts away with revenues coming in at a record $1.578 billion, representing a 96% increase over third quarter 2004 revenues of $806 million, ...

New Google AdWords Keyword Suggestion Tool
New Google AdWords Keyword Suggestion ToolGoogle has launched a new AdWords Keyword Suggestion Tool and what better a person to give it a look over than Aaron Wall of SEOBook. Aaron has compared and tested multiple keyword suggestion tools and given that he hascreated his own, is a perfect authority ...

Direct Marketers Still Don?t Get Search Engine Marketing
Direct Marketers Still Don`t Get Search Engine MarketingJeremy Zawodny attended the annual conference of the Direct Marketing Association in Atlanta this week and reconfirmed the mantra one of my old clients (a master of direct marketing) was preaching for years "Direct Marketers know nothing of search marketing."From Jeremy : In ...

Flock?s Firefox Based Browser For Blogs, Tagging &Networking
Flock`s Firefox Based Browser For Blogs, Tagging & NetworkingFlock is yet another browser is out in the market. Interestingly enough this new browser is based on the open source Mozilla Firefox code.There is a minor difference between Flock and other browsers based on Firefox engine, Flock claims to be a ...

Internet Advertising On Local Sites Increases
Internet Advertising On Local Sites IncreasesDeutsche Bank conducted a survey of 87 media executives in conjunction with MediaPost about their clients’ third-quarter media spending. The survey indicated that some display ad budgets are shifting more dollars to locally targeted online media:Media buyers and planners reported spending 18 percent of their ...

MSN Search Video - Search on Channel 9
MSN Search Video - Search on Channel 9Andy Edmonds, Erik Selberg and Robert Scoble sat down for an hour long discussion on MSN Search for Channel 9 (the MSDN site). They discussed such MSN Search aspects as the neural network, static and dynamic rank, SEO, relevancy, index size, and linking.From ...

MSN Messenger Serving Sponsored Text Links
MSN Messenger Serving Sponsored Text LinksWhen Google GMail was launched, its Google AdSense ads matched to the personal email content of users stirred quite a bit of controversy. It was the first time that such advertisements were actually targeted to the text of a private discussion, and not behavioral, local ...

Woah! XBox 360 eBay Bids Top $10,000
Woah! XBox 360 eBay Bids Top $10,000Last week it was DMOZ and now its Microsoft products with outrageous bids on eBay. Can`t wait for the Christmas Eve rush to pick up a Microsoft XBox 360 and can`t place a pre-order? Apparently there is some sort of shortage on the game ...

Citywide Wi-Fi for Madison, Wisconsin
Citywide Wi-Fi for Madison, WisconsinMadison, Wisconsin`s Mayor Dave Cieslewica stuck to his 2004 campaign promise and is now establishing Madison as an offical Wi-Fi Hotspot. Madison is rolling out Wi-Fi across the entire city with help from Cellnet Technology. TechWeb reports :Cellnet Technology said it has begun deploying a Wi-Fi ...

Hurricane Wilma Update
Hurricane Wilma UpdateLast week we posted a list of Hurricane Wilma blogs with up to date information on the hurricane which has gained strength on its way to Florida. Useful information can be found on the blogs such as ways to prepare for the hurricane, wind speeds and sea swell ...

Google BlogSearch PageRank Phenomenon
Google BlogSearch PageRank PhenomenonLast week we had a major Google update named the Jagger Update. That update increased and decreased many site`s pagerank including http://blogsearch.google.com/.The question raised in Search Engine Watch forums by Sharon and Roy was, why did Google`s BlogSearch page jump from a PR0 to a PR9 in ...

Skaffe Directory Offers $2 Submittals - Today Only
Skaffe Directory Offers $2 Submittals - Today OnlyFor yesterday and today only Skaffe, the web directory, is offering $2 express submittals of web sites into their categorical listings. Skaffe usually charges $39.95 for a 24 hour site review but the $2 discount is part of their 2 year anniversary celebration.Once ...

Search Platform, Operating System
Search Platform, Operating SystemThere has been a lot of talk lately about search engines like Google launching their own branded operating system. While such a system doesn’t necessarily correspond with Google’s vision of making the world’s information universally accessible, it could be a consideration in that plan. Search as a ...

Wikipedia and Answers.com Partner for 1-Click Answers Search Tool
Wikipedia and Answers.com Partner for 1-Click Answers Search ToolAnswers.com and The Wikimedia Foundation announced a partnership to feature one-click access to Wikipedia, the free-content, user-edited encyclopedia. Answers, which provides the content for Google Definitions links, will create a software-based co-branded version of Answers.com to be called 1-Click Answers, Wikipedia Edition, ...

Google Update Effects Web Businesses
Google Update Effects Web BusinessesThere is a thread at Digital Point about web publishers who were kicked out of Google or lost significant ranking during the lastest Google "Jagger" Update. Some of those publishers are claiming substancial loses which brings back memories of the "Florida" Update years ago when Google ...

Webmaster World Back Up and Running
Webmaster World Back Up and RunningAfter being down and out for about a week after a data center outage and then being moved to another web host at Rackspace, Webmaster World is up and running again. I hope that Brett & company followed Matt Cutt`s steps on a Google friendly ...

Del.icio.us Adds Keyword Search
Del.icio.us Adds Keyword SearchDel.icio.us is now offering a keyword search for its index of social bookmarks. When searches are performed on Del.icio.us, the results are different tags which have been shared by Del.icio.us users.Del.icio.us is a social bookmarks manager which allows users to add sites which they like to their ...

Google Base Info &Screenshots
Google Base Info & ScreenshotsWhen I first heard that the Google Base url was running I immediately thought that Google was offering a Googlefied version of the Basecamp calendar project management platform. Instead, it seems that Google is offering some sort of personal database where users can upload and store ...

Google OpenOffice Rumors Squashed?
Google OpenOffice Rumors Squashed?Ever since the Google and Sun Microsystems press conference earlier in the month there has been a world of speculation around Google`s role in distributing Sun Microsystems software and a new addition to the Google application suite. The obvious rumor spinned from the partnership between the two ...

Holiday Online Shopping - Get Ready for a Big Season
Holiday Online Shopping - Get Ready for a Big SeasonHope everyone is all geared up for a big holiday shopping season. Growth indicators all point to a nice upward swing in online spending and gift shopping this year. Consumers are also starting to shop online earlier than ever with many ...

The Rebirth of LookSmart
The Rebirth of LookSmartLookSmart has recently been in the news due to the value of their shares dropping and the possibility of them losing their spot on Nasdaq. October 27th, 2005 may go down in web history as judgement day for LookSmart, one of the major search engine workhorses of ...

MSN Book Search Joins Yahoo in Open Content Alliance
MSN Book Search Joins Yahoo in Open Content AllianceMSN is now getting into the book scanning and indexing game along with Google Print, Yahoo, and a handful of European groups with MSN Book Search. MSN Search will soon be launching MSN Book Search, digitizing the content from books, academic materials, ...

FastClick Pop Up Boycott Gaining Steam
FastClick Pop Up Boycott Gaining SteamHave a pop up blocker on your browser (most are default now) but those pesky pop ups still finding a way to work around the blocker? It happens to me everyday, even on Firefox and I`m not talking about DHTML ads, but normal browser window ...

Google Base Tests Classifieds, Real Estate and Recipes
Google Base Tests Classifieds, Real Estate and RecipesWhat is Google Base? Is it Google classifieds system, a content upload database driven multi-use tool, a possible auctions area? Google tested their Base.Google.com page for about an hour yesterday and set off a swarm of buzz about the new Google Base program, ...

Yahoo Blog Search Desktop Application
Yahoo Blog Search Desktop ApplicationYahoo integrated Yahoo Blog Search into its Yahoo News results weeks ago, but has not introduced an independent blog search product outisde of its Yahoo News listings. Duncan from BlogHerald found a release about Yahoo possibly licensing its blog search technology to third parties. The following ...

Google Video Adds Academy of Television Arts &Sciences Interview Series
Google Video Adds Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Interview SeriesGoogle and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation are working together to make TASF interviews available for viewing on Google Video. The first 75 of the 284 historic films (which equals to about 240 viewing hours) can ...

Google Updates Jagger 2 &Jagger 3 On The Way
Google Updates Jagger 2 & Jagger 3 On The WayWho said that the latest Google updates were not a big deal? Instead of conforming its latest algorithm and indexing changes to a big Florida-esque Google Update, Google is releasing a series of three index updates which will result in one ...

AOL Feeding Featured Content into Video Search Engine
AOL Feeding Featured Content into Video Search EngineAOL has added new RSS feeds from partners for its video search engines, AOL Video Search and SingingFish. Such video content partners include Blastro.com, EVTV1.com, Forbes.com, GameTrailers.com, PC World and Time4 Media properties.“We’re thrilled to include these partners in our industry-leading AOL Video ...

Google Base : User Reviews, Auctions, Classifieds, Real Estate &More
Google Base : User Reviews, Auctions, Classifieds, Real Estate & MoreGoogle Base is coming, but what is it? Some folks have called it an eBay Killer. Others, the next Google Classifieds. Or will it be Google Auctions? And will Google Wallet launch to give all of these possible scenarios a ...

Village Voice to Develop Portal
Village Voice to Develop PortalThe best known of all weekly alternative newspapers, New York`s Village Voice has been purchased by New Times Media. New Times owns eleven other large alternative weekly papers including The Pitch (Kansas City MO) and the Houston Press. The two publishing companies will be merged into ...

Shopping Search Toolbars Now Obsolete?
Shopping Search Toolbars Now Obsolete?Brain Smith of Comparison Engines does a rundown on Shopping Search Toolbars and compares their likability to that of Clippy the Paper Clip : "Remember Clippy the Paper Clip? Remember how much you hated Clippy?". Brian has an inside track on the shopping toolbar scene after ...

Yahoo?s Trip Planner
Yahoo`s Trip PlannerThere are three dimensions to local: “where I am,” “where I’m going” and “where can I buy it?” The new Yahoo! Trip Planner seeks to leverage a number of Yahoo!’s locally oriented applications and information, including search, maps and user-generated content (ratings/reviews). The app also lets users share ...

Google Cozies Up To Older Sites
Google Cozies Up To Older SitesPatrick Gavin from TextLinkAds just posted a theory on the LinkBuildingBlog about how Google is giving preferred rankings to trusted sites which have been in existence for over three years. Such older domains have been around long enough to gain a status of being an ...

Flickr Offers Photo Printing via Mail or Target Stores
Flickr Offers Photo Printing via Mail or Target StoresFlickr is now offering the ability to print Flickr images as photos which can be delivered via mail or picked up at Target`s one hour printing booths. To incentivize users to order Flickr Fotos, Flickr is offering the first 10 4x6" prints ...

Competitive Intelligence : Domains, Hosts and WHOIS
Competitive Intelligence : Domains, Hosts and WHOIS Sometimes it is hard to figure out who your online competitors are, or worse, what they are doing to beat you. Sometimes it feels like you are beating your head against a wall because no matter how hard you try you just ...

AT&T-Yahoo! DSL?
AT&T-Yahoo! DSL?Here’s a piece in the NYTimes that says SBC will take the venerable name AT&T once the acquisition is approved.One response: Will the AT&T brand support the kinds of Internet-age services that SBC is offering and wants to offer (i.e., IPTV)? One could argue it’s really a 19th Century ...

FTC Tops Payday Loans on Google &Yahoo
FTC Tops Payday Loans on Google & YahooAn FTC issued consumer alert on payday loans titled "Payday Loans = Costly Cash" enjoys the #1 spot on Google and Yahoo for the terms "payday loans", "pay day loans" and "payday" (on Google). I`ve seen the FTC and the FDA advertising on ...

Meta Search Engine Sold for $101,000 on eBay
Meta Search Engine Sold for $101,000 on eBayRemember Jux2, the award winning meta search engine which was jetisoned by its owners who are focusing on other projects, then relaunched just in time for a listing on eBay auctions? Well the Jux2 meta search engine was just sold on eBay for ...

Blinkx Launches Multimedia Search in China : CBlinkx.tv
Blinkx Launches Multimedia Search in China : CBlinkx.tvBlinkx, which is probably the most innovative multimedia and video search online, is taking its search engine into China with Cblinkx.tv. The Chinese version of Blinkx.tv was launched on Tuesday in the land where Google, Yahoo, and eBay have been competing to get ...

Google Base Haiku
Google Base HaikuGoogle Base has been live and down, working for some, showing error messages for others, and catching me in a login / password loop early this morning. Ever since its live testing two days ago writers from around the web have decalred Google Base everything from an eBay ...

LookSmart Goes Deep Vertical
LookSmart Goes Deep VerticalIn a very interesting bid to revive its fortunes and its consumer brand, LookSmart has launched 160 vertical sites on everything from sports to city guides (here’s New York, for example).The content comes from Furl, Web crawling and LookSmart’s Find Articles database. The company is hoping the ...

Chitika eMiniMalls Google Listing an Affiliate Link
Chitika eMiniMalls Google Listing an Affiliate LinkHeard of Chitika eMiniMalls yet? Well they are one of the hottest forms of contextual advertising since AdSense or Y!PN and have stormed various blogs and publisher sites as an alternate form of garnering high click thru rates and high PPC`s. The interactive ads ...

Google AdSense and Yahoo Publisher Network?s Fight For Publishers
Google AdSense and Yahoo Publisher Network`s Fight For PublishersThe battle for publishers between Google AdSense and Yahoo Publisher Network is heating up beyond CNN and Washington Post as Google AdSense representatives are now telephoning some old AdSense users who made the switch over to Yahoo Publisher Network. Google is asking ...

iPhone : Yellow Pages &Local Search on the Telephone
iPhone : Yellow Pages & Local Search on the TelephoneTeledex has introduced a Local Search readied telephone for the hotel industry which lets hotel guests search YellowPage local search services by Commoca. The iPhone includes a touchscreen where hotel guests can press the Yellow Pages walking fingers icon to access ...

SEO Links Firefox Extension
SEO Links Firefox ExtensionNick at Threadwatch is all giddy about a new Firefox extension for the SEO crowd put out by WebmasterBrain. The extension gives you the ranking of a site which a term is linked to and the amount of links indexed by Google, Yahoo or MSN pointing to ...

High Rankings Search Engine Marketing Workshop in Philly
High Rankings Search Engine Marketing Workshop in PhillyThis is a bit short notice but if you live on the East Coast and can make it to King of Prussia, PA (outside of Philadelphia) next week, Jill Whalen will be hosting the High Rankings Search Engine Marketing Workshop Thursday, November 3 ...

Anti-Spyware Coalition Defines Spyware Guidelines
Anti-Spyware Coalition Defines Spyware GuidelinesThe Anti-Spyware Coalition (ASC), an alliance of technology companies and public interest groups, unveiled its final, consensus definition of spyware, which was developed by coalition members including major anti-spyware companies, software developers and public interest groups. The definitions were further shaped by almost 400 comments submitted ...

Google the Agency, Google the Network
Google the Agency, Google the NetworkHere’s a fairly comprehensive piece from the NY Times’ Saul Hansell, reviewing Google’s model, history and speculating about its future: Google the one-stop shop for all forms of advertising (TV, print, online, etc.). Traditional ad agencies don’t generally like and don’t get Google in my ...

SEO Bytes : Tracking SEO Forum Threads
SEO Bytes : Tracking SEO Forum ThreadsWebmasterWorld, DigitalPoint, Site Point, SEO Chat, Search Engine Watch, Cre8aSite, High Rankings.. etc. The amount of search engine oriented forums on the web is staggering and trying to keep up with them can be as tiring as, well, trying to keep an eye on ...

Smash My iPod Video
Smash My iPod VideoEver want to know what its like to smash an iPod? See its innards? Conduct a non-violent protest directly in front of Apple and the world wide web. A group of budding social scientists formed SmashMyiPod.com in an effort to gather $400 in donations to by their ...

Getting Delisted From DMOZ
Getting Delisted From DMOZSure, webmasters may have no problems being delisted or `banned` by Google due to some redirects or canoncial URLS, but when it comes to trying to change your site`s description or take your site out of DMOZ (Open Directory Project) publishers run into a different story.Abakus covered ...

Google Recruiting for OpenOffice.org
Google Recruiting for OpenOffice.orgGoogle is on a mission to improve OpenOffice.org and show its affinity for open source projects. Google wants to trim the memory requirements of OpenOffice.org and its huge 80 MB download size in what may be a first step in the GoogleOffice project. Google is now looking ...

Google AdSense Responds to Smart Pricing Talk
Google AdSense Responds to Smart Pricing TalkJenSense stirred up quite a controversy surrounding Google AdSense and AdSense Smart Pricing with the report of a Google rep spilling the beans to a publisher on how one rotten site can spoil the publsiher`s AdSense earnings. From JenSense : "While AdSense was attempting ...

Apple iTunes Hits One Million Video Sales
Apple iTunes Hits One Million Video SalesStrike up another win for Apple`s iTunes as the entertainment download store as issued a statement that over one million videos have been purchased & downloaded from iTunes over the past 19.5 days. n October 12, 2005 iTunes began offering video content for download ...

Country Specific Searches and Paid Search Ads
Country Specific Searches and Paid Search AdsA very interesting featured thread at Search Engine Watch forums named Google places "Dummy Bidders" in Regional Search artificially raise required bids discusses a topic, I believe is very important. The poster says that when he does a search in Google and specifically requests ...

Sprint?s Wireless Music Store for Cell Phones
Sprint`s Wireless Music Store for Cell PhonesSprint today joined iTunes & Cingular in the mobile music download market as they launched their wireless music store for Sprint customers to download music and play songs on their mobile phone players. Sprint Nextel Corp`s wireless music download store will be charging customer`s ...

Yahoo Music Raising Download Prices
Yahoo Music Raising Download PricesAfter entering the music download market in a Rhapsody type fashion by undercutting the iTunes competition, Yahoo is now raising the price of its one year unlimited music downloading service - Yahoo Music Unlimited. Starting tomorrow, Yahoo will be jacking up the price of its service ...

Google Print Resumes Tomorrow
Google Print Resumes TomorrowDespite lawsuits from both authors and publishers alike over questionable copyright violation tactics, Google will be googling full speed ahead start tomorrow with the Google Print project. Google Print hopes to digitize the world`s book collection and offer the index online.Google Print has run into some roadblocks ...

Google and IBM Partner for Search
Google and IBM Partner for SearchIBM and Google are now working together in a strange bedfellows sort of way with their new agreement in which Google will be providing desktop search for the IBM OmniFind corporate search system. The whole idea behind the venture is to have a system which ...

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