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Google Steams Forward with Book Search Effort
Google Steams Forward with Book Search EffortJust featured at WebmasterWorld this morning, Google Restarts Controversial Book Digitizing Plan.Google is resuming its controversial project to digitise millions of books and make them searchable on the net.Google is pumping $200m (£110m) into creating a digital archive of millions of books from four ...

Google?s New Spin Doctor : From Sweatshops to Book Stores
Google`s New Spin Doctor : From Sweatshops to Book StoresYesterday Google hired Elliot Schrage to defend the company against fallout from its controversial growth efforts to expand Google beyond web site search, and into book search, user tracking, and Wi-Fi. Mr. Schrage is an experienced International Policy Analyst who is ...

Effective Link Building : Reputation Management
Effective Link Building : Reputation Management Today I want to look at other things you should be considering when you are doing your link building: Namely managing your online reputation. As the web evolves, reputation management becomes even more critical to your online business. This is because many ...

Yahoo Search Update ?Weather Report?
Yahoo Search Update `Weather Report`Yahoo Search is planning an update in their organic search results this evening. The "Forth Weather Report" was posted to the Yahoo Search Blog tonight by Tim Mayer of Yahoo Search.We will be making changes to the ranking of our index tonight. I would expect that ...

Yahoo Marketing Yahoo Search in its Google Results
Yahoo Marketing Yahoo Search in its Google ResultsYahoo is testing a clever marketing tactic in its search results outside of the United States. If you search for "google" on Yahoo Australia & NZ, then Yahoo will serve a "Try the new Yahoo! Search" search box in the Inside Yahoo section ...

MSN Windows Live is Dead on Firefox
MSN Windows Live is Dead on FirefoxMSN put Live.com into Beta testing today with its portal of RSS aggregation, My Web, Mail and custom formatting with an attempt to lure some of the educated web to their new non-Hotmail, non-MSN.com offering. At first glance, the page seems quite (excure me ...

Microsoft Office Live To Be Advertising Supported
Microsoft Office Live To Be Advertising SupportedMicrosoft is going to be offering a `live` hosted version of MS Office, dubbed Office Live, which may strike down any threat which Google & Sun Microsystems are working on. Then again, maybe not. Chairman Bill Gates, in an invitation only event, outlined the ...

Oodle Adds Local Classifieds Search in 23 New Markets
Oodle Adds Local Classifieds Search in 23 New MarketsJust as the local classified search market begins to heat up, Oodle has expanded into 23 new markets. With this expansion, Oodle (a local classifieds search engine) now provides service to 49 metro areas, which Oodle says supports more than 50 percent ...

Local Matters Acquires AreaGuides
Local Matters Acquires AreaGuidesLocal content aggregator and affiliate network AreaGuides.net has been acquired by Denver-based Local Matters. This is the first consumer-facing property in the Local Matters portfolio, and CEO Perry Evans expects to substantially enhance the interface and user experience of the site over time.Evans also sees AreaGuides as ...

Google PageRank &Sandbox: No Correlation
Google PageRank & Sandbox: No CorrelationA HighRanking thread busted a little myth that if you have PageRank, that means you are out of the Sandbox (or as they call it at HighRankings, Aging Delay). The thread is named Pr3 But Still Aging Delay? and the member asks...Now, because I have ...

Yahoo! Autos Custom: Ads + Community
Yahoo! Autos Custom: Ads + CommunityHere’s the long tail (sort of) in action: Yahoo! Autos Custom. It’s an enthusiast site (hence the LT reference) but it also features classifieds and display advertising. This is an interesting marriage of content + community in a highly specialized vertical (for more content richness ...

Wikipedia in Print?
Wikipedia in Print?Move over Britannica, Wikipedia is now the hottest keyword in town. The open source online encyclopedia might get a print edition if we are to believe its founder Jimmy Wales. He also said that they are even considering putting the wiki based encyclopedia on CDs and DVDs for ...

Google TV with Contextual Ads
Google TV with Contextual AdsThe other day one of the ZDNet bloggers wrote on the topic of Google: Thinking about the future of TV ads. Most would agree that Google has their eyes on TV Media, I believe John Battelle has been saying this for a while now. At DigitalPoint ...

Google Base &Froogle Feeds : Just an Exercise?
Google Base & Froogle Feeds : Just an Exercise?Brian Smith of Comparison Engines wonders outloud why Google would be launching their feed and spreadsheet based Google Base when they can`t even get the feeds at Froogle running correctly. In his post "Google Base - Is Google Really Ready for User ...

Google Print Book Search Launches
Google Print Book Search LaunchesGoogle Print now allows you to search full text of books in their Google Print program. After you search you can click on a result and enter your Google Accounts password to view a full page and the two pages before and after it.The WSJ stated: ...

Google Patent : Organic Results Ranked by User Profiling
Google Patent : Organic Results Ranked by User ProfilingGoogle has filed for an organic search patent which is a bit different than what we`re used to seeing in Google search, and perhaps something we may expect from their AdWords or AdSense divisions. Google has applied for a patent, termed ...

SEO and Web Analytics : Using Your Analytics Properly
SEO and Web Analytics : Using Your Analytics ProperlyAnalytics are very important to your web marketing campaign. If you do not use analytics properly you may not understand how effective your search engine marketing is.In this article I look at some practical examples of when to use analytics and ...

Microsoft Acquires Foldershare for Windows Live
Microsoft Acquires Foldershare for Windows LiveMicrosoft acquired FolderShare, a file sharing and synchronization system, with plans of integration into Windows Live (Live.com). FolderShare lets users share large files and `sync important information`, making it well suited for personal or small-business use. The FolderShare service also enables private, remote access to ...

Google Desktop 2 Out of Beta, Adds Maps
Google Desktop 2 Out of Beta, Adds MapsInterestingly, Google has started taking some of their services out of Beta stage for practical usage. The company has finally removed the beta tag from their very popular Google Desktop 2 product. This final release comes in both consumer and enterprise versions. The ...

Ask Jeeves Updates Desktop Search
Ask Jeeves Updates Desktop SearchAsk Jeeves has updated its Desktop Search offering which it says will make it faster to find files on the computer, mail, and online. From the Ask Jeeves Blog : Desktop search presents an interesting challenge, significantly different from Web search. In crawling files and ...

Mozilla Extension Unblocks Google Cache in China
Mozilla Extension Unblocks Google Cache in ChinaSlashdot covered a story on how Chinese web searchers can use the CustomizeGoogle extension to view sites in the Google Cache that are normalyl blocked by China (or Google China). I has skimmed this before but was just reminded of it again in an ...

Google Print Live with ?Public Domain Books?
Google Print Live with "Public Domain Books"So Google Print now has what is called "Public Domain Books" in its index. The Google blog calls this Preserving public domain books but many authors are really steaming about this.Every page of these books is fully available online, so you can study, for ...

Yahoo Maps, New &Improved
Yahoo Maps, New & ImprovedHere’s the new Yahoo! Maps upgrade: It’s nicer to look at and easier to manipulate. There are a great many features here.There’s no more need to enter an address first to get a map. Now you can do a category search starting from a map interface. ...

Google Penalized Sites and Linking PageRank
Google Penalized Sites and Linking PageRankEarlier in the week Barry Schwartz from Search Engine Roundtable answered a reader question asking whether sites which have been penalized by Google pass PageRank to sites that they link to, and is the value of such PageRank dampened. Barry answers by first reiterating that ...

Don?t Buy Yahoo Publisher Network Invites
Don`t Buy Yahoo Publisher Network InvitesSmall piece of advice, do not buy Yahoo Publisher Network invites. A member at WebmasterWorld bought an invite and then was denied, since he wanted to sign up under a different URL. Afterwards, he was accepted into the program but now has two different accounts.Good ...

Local Google AdWords and Yahoo Search Marketing
Local Google AdWords and Yahoo Search MarketingA rather interesting discussion is blooming at Webmaster World about locally targeted search advertising via Google AdWords and Yahoo Search Marketing. Both Google and Yahoo offer a form of locally targeted advertising. Google`s is more precise with regional search term targeting while Yahoo offers ...

Microsoft?s Bill Gates Blasts Google
Microsoft`s Bill Gates Blasts GoogleBrian Glick of the UK`s Computing had the chance to discuss the threat of Google to Microsoft during an interview with Bill Gates. According to Glick, even though Gates respects Google as a competitor and serious company, Gates was dismissive about the Google threat to Microsoft. ...

Link Monkeys vs. Linking Experts
Link Monkeys vs. Linking ExpertsAaron Wall of SEOBook points to a Jim Boykin rant about links and folks buying irrevelvant links from any site with a Google PageRank, hoping to boost their search engine rankings. In the post, Aaron refers to Link Monkeys, which I couldn`t help but to chuckle ...

Balancing Paid and Organic Search Engine Marketing
Balancing Paid and Organic Search Engine MarketingDoes your company`s website really need to be listed in both the organic or "natural" search results as well as the paid "sponsored" results? According to panel of search engine experts at a recent Search Engine Strategies conference, the answer is yes. Most search ...

Google, Yahoo and Microsoft in Revolution 2.1
Google, Yahoo and Microsoft in Revolution 2.1The second Internet revolution has clearly started to take shape. Remember the massive changes forecast by hundreds of tech-writers, including myself, for the past two years? While slower in coming than expected, the last critical stage for their mass adoption of these changes, their ...

Windows Live : Google?s Technological Simplicity Influence
Windows Live : Google`s Technological Simplicity InfluenceMicrosoft has taken a page from Google and Yahoo with its web based search, email, and feed aggregating web based application, Windows Live. After a quick run through, Windows Live will be a breath of fresh air for the MSN family, as MSN`s network ...

Video Plug-in for Google Talk
Video Plug-in for Google TalkGoogle Talk, Google`s messaging and VOIP application, is now Video enabled with a new plug-in from Festoon. Using the video plug-in, Google Talk users can now see who they are talking to, in real time. Festoon, which also has the most popular video plug-in for Skype ...

MSN Search and British Library Partner for Book Search
MSN Search and British Library Partner for Book SearchLast week MSN Search announced that they wil be joining Yahoo in the Open Content Alliance book scanning and indexing efforts and now Microsoft and the British Library have formed strategic partnership to digitize 25 million pages of content from the Library`s ...

Yahoo and TiVo Hook Up
Yahoo and TiVo Hook UpIn a play to expand its Internet Media network from desktops and into the livingroom, Yahoo has penned a deal with TiVo which will integrate Yahoo into TiVo boxes. The New York Times reports that the new agreement will allow TiVo users to connect to the ...

Topix.net Adds 15,000 Blogs to News Index
Topix.net Adds 15,000 Blogs to News IndexTopix yesterday added 15,000 `top` bogs to their index via integration of blog posts into their 30,000 local feeds and 300,000 subject feeds. If you search Topix.net now, blogs should be indexed in the search results.Seems that the folks at Topix have been struggling ...

Google Local for Mobile Phones
Google Local for Mobile PhonesGoogle has put their Google Local for Mobile into beta testing for users who would like to have the features of Google Local available on their mobile phone. Google Local for Mobile combines directions, maps, and satellite images in a free download for finding local businesses, ...

Local.com Adds Ingenio Pay-Per-Call Search Advertising
Local.com Adds Ingenio Pay-Per-Call Search AdvertisingLocal.com, a local search engine owned by Interchange, is now working with Ingenio, Inc for the distribution of Ingenio Pay Per Call listings on Local.com. The agreement states that Ingenio advertisers will now appear in relevant Local.com search results when a consumer types in a ...

SEOmoz Out of the Google Sandbox
SEOmoz Out of the Google SandboxRand Fishkin has announced that like many sites which benefitted from the current Google `Jagger` updates, SEOmoz has now escaped the Google Sandbox. It has been 9 months since Rand moved his site to the seomoz.org URL and despite over 12,000 natural links from other ...

Yahoo &Google : Man vs. Machine
Yahoo & Google : Man vs. MachineHere’s an interesting article from Sunday’s NY Times about Yahoo! and its long term search strategy.I was at Yahoo! on Friday talking to Local GM Paul Levine about his just-added keynote at ILM:05. He and I discussed a range of things, among them social ...

Reciprocal Linking After Google Jagger?
Reciprocal Linking After Google Jagger?I am going to have to revisit this topic, since Jagger is not yet over yet. But lots of the speculation is that the Jagger update, taking place over at Google, is killing the benefits of most of the reciprocal link building campaigns. A thread at ...

Google Jagger 3 Update
Google Jagger 3 UpdateMatt Cutts announced the Google Jagger 3 update is live at 66.102.9.104. It sure is amazing the number of large vertical sites, .edu, and .gov results I saw in a few searches I did. Although there will probably still be a good amount of flux most the ...

Feedster Offers Self Service RSS Advertising
Feedster Offers Self Service RSS Advertising Feedster has launched an automated self service engine for the Feedster Media Network, for publishers to sign up and participate in Feedster’s RSS ad solution. This will populate 20 different channels to enable advertisers to reach users via RSS ads in highly targeted channels ...

Google Maps &Local on Phones
Google Maps & Local on PhonesPreparing for a day when there is meaningful usage of wireless devices as local search tools, Google has launched Google Local for phones. Maps are the centerpiece.It currently works on "Java-enabled (J2ME) mobile phones, especially those purchased within the past year; this includes phones offered ...

Request for Features for MSN adCenter
Request for Features for MSN adCenterLooks like msndude is both the organic guy and ppc guy at WebmasterWorld forums. MSNdude posted a thread at WebmasterWorld named MSN adCenter - WishList where he asks you to "Share your product recommendations with the adCenter team."He writes;I’m writing today on behalf of the ...

Yahoo Search Marketing Lowers Minimum Deposit
Yahoo Search Marketing Lowers Minimum DepositYahoo Search Marketing has dropped its minimum deposit for US based advertisers from $30 to $5 in an effort to attract more small businesses which may be a bit hesitant to start an online search engine marketing campaign. What`s the difference between $30 and $5? ...

Chitika eMiniMalls Adds Channels
Chitika eMiniMalls Adds ChannelsDarren Rowse (the guy with the wig boogey woogey dancing in the ad to the left) of Problogger.net stumbled across some changes in the Chitika eMiniMalls reporting system which has finally added channel tracking along with CTR% (click thru rate percentage) and CPC (average cost per click) ...

Yahoo Local Running Ingenio Pay Per Call?
Yahoo Local Running Ingenio Pay Per Call?Here`s a hot scoop about Yahoo from a post on the Search Engine Watch forums. Seems a member of the forums was doing some searches on Yahoo Local and noticed something different about the sponsored links. Yahoo Local (US based) was running some Pay ...

Video Blog Network Launches
Video Blog Network LaunchesReelBlogs today announced the launch of the ReelBlogs video blog network. Blogs on the ReelBlogs network will produce short-form video content made specifically for Internet and video podcasting audiences.“There is a rapidly growing demand for good video content online, but no one is producing it yet,” said ...

SEO Linking : Andy Hagans of TextLinkAds Interview
SEO Linking : Andy Hagans of TextLinkAds InterviewFor those of you whoare interested in natural linking and its effects on search engine ranking (or search engine optimization), Aaron Wall of SEOBook and Search-Marketing.info has published an insightful interview with Andy Hagans of TextLinkAds. Aaron, who in part claims responsibilty for ...

Search Engine Updates : Spot Them Before They Happen
Search Engine Updates : Spot Them Before They HappenOver the past few weeks we’ve seen all the major engines update in some form. From major Google updates to minor MSN And Yahoo updates. Sometimes these updates catch website owners off guard.While the search engines are getting better at ...

Holiday Shopping at Yahoo, MSN, Shopzilla and Smarter
Holiday Shopping at Yahoo, MSN, Shopzilla and SmarterYahoo! seems to be the first out of the gate in pushing a holiday gifts section. The company is currently emphasizing tons of top 10 lists (toys, laptops, cellphones, clothing, etc.) and their gift finder service (which seems to now be ...

Feedburner Launches RSS Advertising Network
Feedburner Launches RSS Advertising NetworkFeedBurner has launched its RSS advertising network as part of its expansion of subscription services for publishers. The FeedBurner ad network has attracted a number of well known publishers across business and consumer publications, newspapers, marketing and technology sites, and popular bloggers. Among the initial participants ...

Free Google Mini, But There?s a Catch
Free Google Mini, But There`s a CatchGoogle is giving away free Google Mini`s, but there`s a catch. You have to switch from another enterprise search appliance to a Google Search Appliance. More from the Google Blog:We’re hearing a fair number of stories from customers using our enterprise search products about ...

Google Automat - AdWords Classifieds for Google Base
Google Automat - AdWords Classifieds for Google BaseDirson at the `New Google Blog` (is that Google 2.0?) scooped up some info from a Google Patent which profiles Google Automat, an online user assisted advertising program (think Google AdWords Classifieds) which may be the commercial side of Google Base. Dirson writes ...

Yahoo Search Reinclusion Easier &Quicker?
Yahoo Search Reinclusion Easier & Quicker?A WebmasterWorld thread named Yahoo Penalty Removed describes two or more cases of members complying with Yahoo!`s guidelines after being penalized and then being reindexed and reincluded.One member describes fixing his site and then resubmitting the site; then;Within a week, I saw 3 pages indexed ...

Performancing - Monetize Your Blog
Performancing - Monetize Your BlogIf you want to make more money blogging and want to discover the best ways to do it, by learning from the pros - I have a GREAT new resource for you. Nick from ThreadWatch and Patrick from TextLinkAds have joined forces to bring you Performancing.com. ...

Yahoo Local IS Running Pay Per Call
Yahoo Local IS Running Pay Per CallWe reported yesterday that Yahoo may be testing Ingenio Pay Per Call ads in their Yahoo Local Search offering. Greg Sterling, Search Engine Journal contributor and Managing Editor/Program Director of the Kelsey Group, received a phone call last night which more or less confirms ...

GoDaddy Uses Google Patent to Boost Domains &Hosting
GoDaddy Uses Google Patent to Boost Domains & HostingThe marketing crew at GoDaddy has found a great way to boost domain sales and get in that extra end of the year cash flow from site publishers and businesses. GoDaddy has published information from a Google Patent which, in an attempt ...

MSN Addresses MSN adCenter Complaints
MSN Addresses MSN adCenter ComplaintsThere has been this two page thread at Search Engine Watch Forums named MSN AdCenter Rough Start which has a load of complaints and issues with MSN adCenter. Some complaints include;* Price estimator tool UI and information lacking* Learning center information is far from sufficient* It`s ...

Link Spam Detection Based on Mass Estimation
Link Spam Detection Based on Mass EstimationNot sure how many people believe TrustRank is in effect in the current Google algorithm, but I would be willing to bet it is. Recently another link quality research paper came out by the name of Link Spam Detection Based on Mass Estimation [PDF], ...

SEO Consulting &Contracting
SEO Consulting & ContractingThe other day someone asked me what sort of information should be in an SEO contract. As I was writing my response, it occurred to me that there were probably a lot of small businesses and consultants who were wondering the same thing. Unfortunately, many people ...

Personalized Search Engine Optimization
Personalized Search Engine OptimizationI think personalization represents more business for SEMs that understand how people search. [This is a repost from my response over at the SEW forums.]For instance lets say you have a web page about blackberry - the fruit. Right now it would be impossible for you to ...

Google Testing Print Advertising with Publication Ads
Google Testing Print Advertising with Publication AdsWe know Google`s intentions of keeping literature alive with Google Print, but will Google also be saving the newspaper industry? Google has launched its print advertising spinoff of Google AdWords, Google Publication Ads. Currently in invite only beta testing, Google Publication Ads is new ...

IBM Blog Search &Tracking Software
IBM Blog Search & Tracking SoftwareIBM has launched a new blog search & trend tracking system for its corporate customers called the Public Image Monitoring Solution. At the starting price of $100,000 (according to influxinsights) "the entry of IBM into the marketplace is a clear indication of the importance companies ...

Find a Google Advertising Professional
Find a Google Advertising ProfessionalThe Google AdWords Google Advertising Professional is a course and quiz to award an individual or company of being a preferred Google AdWords `broker`. The program works with AdWords managers at Search Engine Marketing agencies to become experts in managing multiple campaigns under Google AdWords and ...

Does Google Read Your CSS Files?
Does Google Read Your CSS Files?In the past, everyone knew that Google and the other engines, stayed away from your CSS files. However, after on October 19th, Matt Cutts posted a blog entry named SEO Mistakes: Unwise comments which showed an example of someone using CSS. Matt wrote;I don’t recommend ...

LiveDeal AdShare Brings Newspaper Classifieds to Web
LiveDeal AdShare Brings Newspaper Classifieds to WebWhile Google is making deals with newspapers to run AdWords style Google Publication Ads in print, eBay is gearing up for the threat of Google Base Classifieds, and not to mention Yahoo hiring its own journalists; one company is working with newspapers to expand ...

Linkbait, Not Just Bloodworms and Grass Shrimp
Linkbait, Not Just Bloodworms and Grass ShrimpWe dabbed a bit into Linkbaiting earlier in the week with a bit on natural link building done by Randfish at SEOmoz. Linkbaiting is a link building technique used by sites which is actually quite simple, do something or create something on your site ...

Yahoo Leaves AOL Bidding to Google &Microsoft
Yahoo Leaves AOL Bidding to Google & MicrosoftYahoo has reportedly dropped out of the bidding for AOL, leaving Google and Microsoft as the current parties interested in purchasing AOL from Time Warner. According to The Independent, a key stumbling block between Yahoo! and Time is thought to have been the ...

Yahoo Acquires Shares of Yahoo Korea from Softbank
Yahoo Acquires Shares of Yahoo Korea from SoftbankYahoo has been quite busy lately buying out the International Yahoo portals from the Japanese Softbank Corporation, which was the majority owner of Alibaba before the Yahoo, Alibaba, Yahoo China deal this past summer. Yahoo has purchased Softbank`s shares in Yahoo Korea, Yahoo ...

Pingoat Blog Pinging Service Needs Help
Pingoat Blog Pinging Service Needs HelpAmit Agarwal of Digital Inspiration writes that Pingoat is in urgent need of help and their server is about t ocrash due to some misfortunate happenings over the past couple of weeks. Kailash Nadh of Pingoat needs help with computer power and server space, Amit ...

eBay Adds RSS Feeds for eBay Stores
eBay Adds RSS Feeds for eBay StoreseBay has finally added RSS support to their web stores on the net. The company has rolled out its RSS-based content syndication facility to all eBay Stores. As a result, consumers and prospective buyers can now subscribe to feeds from specific stores. This way, ...

Amazon Patents Consumer Reviews? Absurd!
Amazon Patents Consumer Reviews? Absurd!I was never a patent attorney, but I think that the USPTO is going too far in granting certain “business method” patents. Case-in-point: According to this InternetNews article, Amazon was recently awarded a patent covering the collection of user reviews.Huh? Come again? Apparently, yes. Here’s how ...

Google Analytics Launches to Enhance Conversions
Google Analytics Launches to Enhance ConversionsGoogle has finally spun Urchin into a new Google branded analytics tool which Google is offering for free to site publishers; Google Analytics. Well, its free up to 5 million pageviews per month, so if you have a fairly high traffic site in need ...

Interchange Local Search Expands to 10 Newspaper Sites
Interchange Local Search Expands to 10 Newspaper SitesInterchange Corporation, owners of Local.com, have extended their local search application on ten additional Morris Communications newspaper sites including The Florida Times-Union, Savannah Morning News, The Hannibal Courier-Post, and The Topeka Capital-Journal. All newspaper sites are now utilizing Interchange’s local-search platform to power ...

Findlaw Launches Family Law Center
Findlaw Launches Family Law CenterFindlaw, the law and lawyer search engine, has launched a Family Law Center with information for families, as `family law impacts nearly every household in the United States.` I really don`t visit Findlaw much, but do remember that their head of marketing is one heck of ...

New Google Domain Names
New Google Domain NamesGary Price, always a sleuth for finding new search patents and Google domain registrations, has identified four new Google Domains which have the potential to lead to future Google projects. For those interested in diving into the domains, Gary has compiled a master Google domain list on ...

Microsoft?s Windows Live on Firefox
Microsoft`s Windows Live on FirefoxWindows Live, after a much anticipated launch by Bill Gates & company, has initially forgotten that not all Internet users prefer the Internet Explorer browser. On their launch date, Live.com, was not supported by the Firefox browser, ignoring almost 13% of web users.The Windows Live launch ...

Google Targets Verticals As Ad Sales Tool
Google Targets Verticals As Ad Sales ToolGoogle has set up a page of metrics and marketing copy (by vertical) to show advertisers by industry how consumers are looking for their goods or services online.Local metrics and Google’s local targeting capabilities are featured in several of the vertical pages (i.e., Automotive, ...

Yahoo Search Engine Update #5
Yahoo Search Engine Update #5Yahoo Search is running another update to their search engine today, as Tim Mayer pointed out on the Yahoo Search Blog last night. Tim said in the post that "You should see some changes in ranking as well as some shuffling of the pages that are ...

Enter the Yahoo Shoposphere
Enter the Yahoo ShoposphereBuilding on its “social search” template, Yahoo! has revamped shopping and added in a range of new personalization and community features.There’s a heavy emphasis here on community reviews as a way to “filter” information. There are also degrees of trust built into the system (i.e., my community, ...

Smarter.com Shopping Search Expands to China &Japan
Smarter.com Shopping Search Expands to China & JapanAs I’ve been hinting at for a while, Smarter.com became the first US shopping comparison engine to move into both Japan (www.smarter.co.jp) and China (www.smarter.com.cn). Read the official press release. Smarter.com made the announcement in conjunction with the beginning of Ad Tech ...

Blocking Google Analytics Tracking
Blocking Google Analytics TrackingThe free launch of Google Analytics is a great thing for many smaller web publishers and bloggers, who could not afford services such as Webtrends or Urchin, and is sure to lead to widespread adoption around the site publishing industry, as well as privacy concerns. Google Analytics ...

Google Analytics Fast Adoption Leads to Slow Service
Google Analytics Fast Adoption Leads to Slow ServiceGoogle Analytics, the new Google branded free web based version of Urchin, launched this morning to webmaster fanfare, which may lead to the end of such stat providers as Freestats or Extreme-DM. However, like many other Google launches, Google Analytics has been experiencing ...

Microsoft Business Desktop Search
Microsoft Business Desktop SearchGoogle has Google Mini and Google Search Appliance products for business users looking for solutions to searching for content on their intranets. Now, Microsoft has entered this market. They released a business version of software that aims to help people more quickly find documents, e-mail, and other ...

Blog Comment Spamming Leads to Google Banning
Blog Comment Spamming Leads to Google BanningFor those of you who are new to search engine optimization and have been approach by or have seen ads for "blog submission software", be warned, such blog comment spamming software probably will lead to your site being banned by Google and other search ...

Gawker Blogs Grab Yahoo Distribution
Gawker Blogs Grab Yahoo DistributionIn a landgrab for both Yahoo and Nick Denton`s Gawker, Yahoo (the company which is so into blogging it had the cajones to name its latest shopping search product Shoposphere) and Gawker have entered into an agreement to integrate Gawker blog content into the Yahoo Media ...

Google Base Has Launched
Google Base Has LaunchedSeems like the rumors were true, Google Base has launched this morning an is now accepting content. At first glance, Google Base may not be the "eBay Killer" everyone was beefing it up to be, but it will get there soon.The Google Blog has also officially announced ...

Yahoo Publisher Network Debuts RSS Feed Ads
Yahoo Publisher Network Debuts RSS Feed AdsYahoo Publisher Network, which is in beta testing, has added RSS feed advertising, available for Wordpress and MovableType powered blogs, to its selection of site and blog monetization and publishing tools. For those of you who have not heard of Y!PN yet, its is ...

Attending CNET Japan Search Engine Conference on Friday
Attending CNET Japan Search Engine Conference on FridayOn Friday November 18th CNET Japan is holding their seasonal CNET Innovation Conference in Tokyo. This Autumn`s conference is all about search engines and has a fabulous lineup from both Japan based and US oriented search companies. I will be attending the conference ...

Ask Jeeves Stopping Paid Search Listings?
Ask Jeeves Stopping Paid Search Listings?More rumors and scandal in the Search Engine Marketing world, as Ask Jeeves cuts back on its paid listings in UK, leading to rumor of dropping the program. Nick at Threadwatch started quite a Ask Jeeves hoopla with his post on ASK Axing their PPC ...

Google Base Live Tomorrow?
Google Base Live Tomorrow?Phillip at Google Blogoscoped was tipped off by an anonymous source (who Phillip trusts enough to post the source`s story) that Google Base will go live tomorrow. Google Base, the live database riven classifieds, auction, and calendaring service was running in test mode last month. If the ...

Google Analytics : Branding and Packaging Results
Google Analytics : Branding and Packaging ResultsGoogle has scored a major coup with the release of Google Analytics. In the spirit of helping webmasters and search marketers move site visitors into converted site users, Google is offering its enormously useful site analytics tool, Urchin, free of charge under the re-branded ...

TrueLocal Local Search Engine Goes Live
TrueLocal Local Search Engine Goes LiveTrueLocal is a consumer-facing local search engine that has been operating “under the radar” (except for appearances at SES) for awhile. Run by search-engine veteran Jake Baillie, the company is owned by database provider Geosign, which delivers local data to many of the marquee search ...

Site Downtime &Negative Search Engine Rankings
Site Downtime & Negative Search Engine RankingsAll too often I come across sites that are slow or even go down for a few minutes. Worse, I’ve had clients sites go down for days at a time due to hosting issues. Many times the site owner does not realize how ...

Netscape DMOZ Part of Google, MSN, and AOL?s Future?
Netscape DMOZ Part of Google, MSN, and AOL`s Future?We all know that AOL is looking at some kind of partnership with the likes of MSN or Google. But many people do not realize how big this deal could potentially be. For one thing, AOL owns Netscape which maintains the ...

Google Base All About Local
Google Base All About LocalThere are a bunch of people out there who believe The Kelsey Group overhypes local. And that’s certainly the lens through which we view the world. But if you pay attention, we clearly have a balanced view of the local marketplace (the fragmentation, complexity, inertia). But ...

Newstex Blogs on Demand : Blogs to News Syndication
Newstex Blogs on Demand : Blogs to News SyndicationNewstex today announced its new Blogs On Demand product, which makes available full-text blog content from premier Weblogs for content distributors and enterprise customers. Newstex licenses blog content directly from bloggers and then takes in each carefully selected blog feed in text ...

Metrobot Expands Mobile Local Search Service
Metrobot Expands Mobile Local Search ServiceMetrobot, a map based, mobile oriented local search engine and city guide, has expanded coverage nationwide to all 50 states (they previously only offered services for 11 cities). Metrobot uses a mapping concept which depicts businesses that occur on either side of individual road ...

Matt Cutts Confirms Google Sandbox Exists
Matt Cutts Confirms Google Sandbox ExistsIf you have read my coverage of the Coffee Talk with Senior Google Engineer : Matt Cutts you would have read;Q: Does the sandbox exist? A: Matt said here comes the audience part? How many feel there is a sandbox? How many feel there is ...

Google Global : Open Source, API, Mission - CNET Japan
Google Global : Open Source, API, Mission - CNET JapanAngela Lee, Google`s International Product Manager, followed the Blog Search Session here at CNET Japan`s Fall Innovation Conference with a overview of Google`s global mission, and growth in Japan`s search market. Angela introduced herself to the crowd a bit and then ...

Blog Session at CNET Japan Search Conference
Blog Search Session at CNET Japan ConferenceThe blogging session here at CNET Japan Innovation Conference is moderated by the CNET Japan Blog Editor. First up is Ask Jeeves Japan, which covered their Bloglines powered Ask Blog Search for Japan, which tracks over 10,000,000 blogs, podcasts, and RSS feeds and also ...

Ask Jeeves Search &Web 2.0 - CNET Japan Search Conference
Ask Jeeves Search & Web 2.0 - CNET Japan Search ConferenceDaniel Read, VP Consumer Products, from Ask Jeeves addresses the crowd at the The CNET Japan Innovation Conference. The conference is centered around Web 2.0, Blogging, Tagging and those effects on the traditional search engine. Daniel`s presentation was based on ...

Yahoo Japan : Search Social Media
Yahoo Japan : Search Social MediaYahoo Japan`s CNET Japan Search Engine Conference presentation seems to have a similar focus as Daniel Read`s Ask Jeeves review, addressing the history of Yahoo, the web as we knew it, and the new "Web 2.0 influenced" social search engine. Yahoo Japan puts an emphasis ...

Mobile &Local Search Japan - CNET Japan Search Conference
Mobile & Local Search Japan - CNET Japan Search ConferenceCurrently there is a panel discussion at the CNET Japan Search Engine conference about mobile search and mobile portals in the Japanese market and innovations in such offerings. On the panel are representatives from Microsoft Japan R&D, Yahoo Japan, LiveDoor, Big ...

CNET Japan Search Engine Conference and Microsoft?s Marketing Vision
CNET Japan Search Engine Conference and Microsoft`s Marketing VisionRyuichi Ishida, Editor in Chief of CNET Japan, kicked off today`s conference with a review of the Innovation Conference and this fall`s theme of search technology. Search Engines presenting at the conference include Yahoo Japan & Overture, Google Japan, Ask Japan, Goo, ...

Linkbaiting for Fun &Profit
Linkbaiting for Fun & ProfitLinkbaiting is one of the most universally effective tactics for promoting a site, both for search engine rankings and short-term traffic boosts. There`s no special list of guidelines that sets linkbaiting apart from normal content building or promotion except the knowledge that you`re creating something that`s ...

Yahoo and Google Go Venture Capital
Yahoo and Google Go Venture CapitalBusiness is funny sometimes. Massive amounts of capital, planning and commitment can be marshaled, administered and suddenly put to use backing a project or initiative that even surprises close contacts. A funny thing happened in London yesterday. John Battelle, author of "The Search", blogger extraordinaire, ...

Google Analytics Pauses Account Sign Ups
Google Analytics Pauses Account Sign UpsDue to the publisher demand of the free Google Analytics tool and Google`s lack of beta testing or limited accounts, Google has put a temporary halt on Google Analytics sign-ups, asking publishers to join a waiting list. Posted on the Google Analytics sign up page ...

Search Engines Gain in Daily Usage
Search Engines Gain in Daily UsageSearch continues to show big gains among US users. comScore data comparing September 2004 to September 2005 showed that the average daily use of search engines was up from 49.3 million users to 60.7 million. Separately, the Pew Internet & American Life Project said that ...

Google AdWords Opens Up Content Bidding
Google AdWords Opens Up Content BiddingA while ago in SEM2.0 Andrew Goodman mentioned that Google was enabling separate content bids. JenSense just posted on the topic from the publisher perspective.Google was intentionally slow to roll this feature out and makes the feature a bit hard to access, because they would ...

CNET Goes Local Search &Shopping
CNET Goes Local Search & ShoppingCNET is dipping one of its tentacles into the Local Searchophere and the Local Shoposhere (couldn`t help myself) with some tech & gadgets oriented local shopping comparions services. Kelsey Group`s Greg Sterling, the Maharishi of Local Search, points to this CNET release.CNET announced local shopping ...

Google &Riya Face Recognition Photo Search
Google & Riya Face Recognition Photo SearchGoogle is apparently on the acquisition trail again and has its sights set on Riya, an online photo community similar to Flickr which has the technology to recognize human faces and automatically tag their photos with names. According to Amit Agarwal of Digital Inspiration, ...

Google Base : Porn Haven
Google Base : Porn HavenIt was only a matter of time before this happened. The porn website industry has found a new target to spread their innovative search marketing know-how beyond image search redirects; Google Base.QuickSilverScreen.com notes (with sample searches) : "The new Google Base service ,which was designed to ...

Google Base Fixes Security Bug
Google Base Fixes Security BugGoogle Base has reported that they have fixed a security issue with the functionality of this new service. This security flaw allowed attackers to steal sensitive information from users of the new content-hosting service. Google fixed the flaw within hours of its discovery though has failed ...

Local Search Engines : Digging Deeper
Local Search Engines : Digging DeeperIn addition to the data jointly put out by Pew and comScore about the rise of search are data on local search and IYP usage. According to comScore, Yahoo! Local was not far behind AOL in terms of the number of uniques. This is a ...

WebmasterWorld Bans Search Engine Bots from Crawling
WebmasterWorld Bans Search Engine Bots from CrawlingDanny reports that WebmasterWorld Bans Spiders From Crawling where he points to a thread Brett started which he named lets try this for a month or three...Brett explains that the bots, mostly from unauthorized sources are taking a toll on the server. He explains; ...

Google?s Froogle Local Merchant Search
Google`s Froogle Local Merchant SearchI got a release of sorts from Google this a.m. explaining in more detail the offline/local product data that Froogle will be featuring online. As an example, here’s “digital camera, San Francisco”— just in time for Black Friday/Cyber Monday. Here’s Google’s statement:Thanks to a new feature ...

AOL and IAC Invest in Web TV Startup Brightcove
AOL and IAC Invest in Web TV Startup BrightcoveLooks like AOL and IAC both want a piece of video search : Brightcove, an Internet television startup that helps programmers syndicate shows across the Web and collect money from it, plans to announce on Tuesday it has attracted new high profile ...

Yahoo Publisher Network Targeting Working?
Yahoo Publisher Network Targeting Working?DigitalPoint forum members discuss the pros and cons of targeting with YPN. The thread creator rationalizes that since YPN only has a total of 150 categories and subcategories and DMOZ has ~590,000, so there is no way to target perfectly with an almost 585,850 difference in ...

Google PageRank Updating
Google PageRank UpdatingI`ve been noticing Google PageRank bobbing up and down on some of my favorite sites over the past few days, and did not really think much of it, thinking that it was just a repricusion of the Jagger Update.Now Barry Schwartz points out on Search Engine Roundtable that ...

Feedster Top 500 - Search Engine Blogs
Feedster Top 500 - Search Engine BlogsThe Feedster Top 500 has been updated to reflect the most popular, "interesting and important" blogs for November and as Barry Scwartz points out, there is a nice showing of search engine industry blogs.Search Engine Journal is ranked at #93 on the Top 500, ...

Google Video &CBS Partnering for Google TV?
Google Video & CBS Partnering for Google TV?Brad at the Unofficial Google Blog says that Google is talking with CBS about providing more timely `on demand` content for the Google Video system. CBS has been quite an aggressive netwrok when it somes to distributing its content via Comcast On Demand. ...

Google Testing Google AdWords Click-To-Call
Google Testing Google AdWords Click-To-CallGoogle has come out with a test of their new Google Pay-Per-Call service dubbed "Google Click-to-Call." Google is reportedly only testing this service in designated areas of the United States and like Ingenio Pay-Per-Call (which is currently testing its service with Yahoo Local and is running ...

Windows Live Classifieds Coming Soon
Windows Live Classifieds Coming SoonEveryone has been speculating about whether Google Base is Google’s entry into online classifieds. I have argued that it’s about much more than classifieds. But I can tell you with confidence that MSN is soon to enter the online classifieds market. The company has been for ...

Ask Jeeves Adds Multimedia Smart Answers
Ask Jeeves Adds Multimedia Smart AnswersExpanding their Smart Answers to multimedia oriented searches, Ask Jeeves has announced a partnership with GoFish to provide Smart Answers content on Ask. Ask Jeeves is reportedly phasing in the multimedia Smart Answers, with the first phase including music, video and podcast content provided by ...

WebmasterWorld Delisted from Google, MSN.. Yahoo Soon
WebmasterWorld Delisted from Google, MSN.. Yahoo SoonAfter banning spiders from crawling its site last week, WebmasterWorld has been delisted from Google and MSN, and is sure enough to be delisted soon from Yahoo. Want to see for yourself? Just perform a site search command at Google you`ll get this response ...

Google?s Jagger Update Completing Cycles
Google`s Jagger Update Completing CyclesEver since Google introduced its latest algorithm update in September, a fair amount of column space has been dedicated to telling webmasters and small business owners to wait until the update is complete. In so much as it can be said that the Jagger Update will ...

BitTorrent &Hollywood Halt Pirated Film Downloads
BitTorrent & Hollywood Halt Pirated Film DownloadsInternet piracy and the BitTorrent technology has almost become synonymous in the last couple of years. Software designer Bram Cohen developed the technology with the aim of making it simpler for software developers and other companies to distribute large sized files on the internet ...

Build and Publish a Successful Blog
Build and Publish a Successful BlogRecently I`ve been putting a bit of thought into the amount of new bloggers who are entering the blogging market with an empty tin cup in one hand and a cane in the other. There are so many blind blogs being launched with no real ...

Google Base SafeSearch Was On the Fritz
Google Base SafeSearch Was On the FritzIn a follow up to the commotion centered around Google Base serving porn results earlier in the week, Philipp Lenssen writes that Google Base SafeSearch was actually broken. "Keywords like “xxx” or “porn”, which recently triggered a load of adult content – some of ...

Animated Google AdSense Testing on Search Engine Blog
Animated Google AdSense Testing on Search Engine BlogAs part of my morning coffee ritual I sift through some of my favorite blogs to look into stories which have run over the course of the evening (I`m in Asia right now so my late morning is the US midnight). After clicking ...

Christmas For Sale Starting at $180,000
Christmas For Sale Starting at $180,000Want to boost your holiday online sales in the UK, just buy the Chirstmas.co.uk domain name which is being put up for sale. Just in time for the holiday shopping season which began with Black Friday in the United States (the day after Thanksgiving), Christmas ...

BizRocket Wins $800,000 in Damages from Interland Hosting
BizRocket Wins $800,000 in Damages from Interland HostingBizRocket.com, announced this week that they won a federal court jury verdict against Interland, Inc (the web hosting and marketing company). The jury verdict (which was decided in September) amounted to $800,000 in damages. BizRocket.com had claimed damages against Interland, Inc., for ...

KartOO Search Engine Adds Entireweb Results
KartOO Search Engine Adds Entireweb ResultsKartOO, the old school graphical search results clustering engine, is now working with Entireweb, which will supply search results to Kartoo. Don`t worry if you`re a KartOO users and are worried about the quality of its results faltering, KartOO is a meta-search engine and Entireweb ...

SEO Myths and Duplicate Content
SEO Myths and Duplicate ContentExperiencing a bit of search engine blogger`s block this evening and when I do so, I usually turn to the Cre8asite crowd to get my juices stirred up again. There is a new thread in the Search Engine Optimization forum dubbed SEO Myths.Bill Slawski (Bragadocchio) starts ...

Top Yahoo Ranking, But Where is the Traffic?
Top Yahoo Ranking, But Where is the Traffic?A thread I can relate to at WebmasterWorld is named #1 in Yahoo but No Traffic. I hold the number one position for a few top keyword phrases that, according to Overture`s keyword suggestion tool, gets over 3,000 searches per day. And guess ...

Google Calendar Coming : Calendar.Google.com
Google Calendar Coming : Calendar.Google.comGoogle Calendar may be launching very soon as Amit Agarwal from Digital Inspiration reports that the calendar.google.com domain is live, although it is redirecting to the Google.com homepage instead of serving one of those annoying Google Server Error messages like previous pre-launch Google subdomains have. Amit ...

Ask Jeeves Smart Answers Timeline
Ask Jeeves Smart Answers TimelineLast week I touched a bit upon the Ask Jeeves Smart Answers offerings and their latest partnership with GoFish. GoFish will be providing multimedia content to the Ask Jeeves Smart Answers program, which works with multiple content oriented web entities to provide useful and rich information ...

Usability Strategy and Search Engine Optimization
Usability Strategy and Search Engine OptimizationUsability is already a critical component of successful online ventures but with the advent of Google Analytics and the implementation of the Jagger algo update, user-activities and behaviours are going to play an influencing role in search engine rankings. How people act when they visit ...

Yahoo Search Movie Shortcuts
Yahoo Search Movie ShortcutsNick Nguyen, Product Manager of Yahoo! Search Shortcuts, has posted a rundown of Yahoo Search Movie Shortcuts on the Yahoo Search Blog."To make your search for a movie easier, I’d like to tell you about two movie shortcuts on Yahoo! Search. The first shortcut is the Movie ...

Yahoo?s Flickr Blocked by United Arab Emirates / Dubai
Yahoo`s Flickr Blocked by United Arab Emirates / DubaiDuncan at the Blog Herald is reporitng that Yahoo`s Flickr has been blocked in the country of Dubai. Apparently government censors in the Mid Eastern country have issued the Flickr block. Duncan believes that the block is due to the amount of ...

Dunkin Donuts Doesn?t Get Local Search Marketing
Dunkin Donuts Doesn`t Get Local Search MarketingMy initial plan of doing a post on Intuit`s new Local Search 2.0 offering Zipingo ran into a detour when I noticed the lack of user reviews, the obstacle that most nation wide local social projects are running into without a form of centralized ...

TiVo to Permit Commercial Ad Searching (Not Just Skipping)
TiVo to Permit Commercial Ad Searching (Not Just Skipping)Here’s another movement in the transformation of TV (from reach to targeting) . . . per the WSJ, TiVo is working with Comcast and others to enable users to “search” for ads that are more relevant to them:TiVo users will be able ...

Google or Yahoo Manchester United?s New Sponsor?
Google or Yahoo Manchester United`s New Sponsor?Back when my uncle used to race Unlimited Hydroplanes he decided to stop racing for Miller & Ford and start his own racing team. He went down to New Zealand and purchased a mammoth boat from Sir Peter Knight in Christ Church, brought the ...

Vibrant Media / IntelliTXT Contextual Advertising Gets $25 M in Funding
Vibrant Media / IntelliTXT Contextual Advertising Gets $25 M in FundingVibrant Media, the owners of the Intellitxt on site link advertising network, have secured $25 million in funding from backers such as ABS Capital Partners and Messpierson Investeringsmaatschappij of The Netherlands. Rafat at PaidContent was one of the first to ...

Mamma.com Adds Related Search Powered by SLI Systems
Mamma.com Adds Related Search Powered by SLI SystemsMamma.com today is set to announce that it will now be using SLI Systems’ Related Search to offer relevant search suggestions to its users. Mamma chose SLI Systems’ Related Search for its customizable search functionality and specifically for its ability to increase the ...

Centro Local Site Advertising Network
Centro Local Site Advertising NetworkLocal Search has been getting a lot of buzz recently with ShopLocal partnering with Google`s Froogle Local and Local.com to help bring more web searchers into local establishments. User reviews are on the rise and mashups are as much of a part of Yahoo, MSN, and ...

Threadwatch Community is Changing Hands
Threadwatch Community is Changing HandsJust a quick post that upon reading Threadwatch this morning I learned that Nick Wilson is leaving Threadwatch to concentrate on his Performancing blog project. Nick has been editing Threadwatch now for 14 months and seeing him, well, his slant on happenings around the web and ...

Yahoo Mail RSS Reader (Screenshots!) Integrates Blogs into Email
Yahoo Mail RSS Reader Integrates Blogs into EmailYahoo has announced the extension of its My Yahoo RSS (Really Simple Syndication) services with the addition of RSS feeds in the new beta version of Yahoo! Mail (available by invite only). The Yahoo Mail RSS Reader offering is just one part ...

Firefox 1.5 Offers Enhanced Navigation, Usability and RSS Discovery
Firefox 1.5 Offers Enhanced Navigation, Usability and RSS DiscoveryMozilla Firefox, with over 100 million downloads and an estimated 45 million users under its belt, has released the latest version of its Firefox browser; Mozilla Firefox 1.5. One year after its finalized Firefox 1.0 version was launched to much fanfare, Firefox ...

Local.com and ShopLocal Partner for Local Shopping Search
Local.com and ShopLocal Partner for Local Shopping SearchOn the heels of its recent partnership with Google Froogle, ShopLocal has just added another local search partner, Local.com. ShopLocal and Interchange (who own Local.com) have partnered to enhance Local.com`s index of more than 16 million business listings with information from ShopLocal.com`s geo-targeted ...

Searching the Yahoo Shoposphere
Searching the Yahoo ShoposphereOne of my pet peeves about the Yahoo Shoposphere was that Yahoo! Shopping hid the search feature at the bottom of the page. Well, that’s changed. There’s now a prominent ’search pick lists’ field on the right side of the page and links to popular searches like ...

Craigslist the King of Classifieds
Craigslist the King of ClassifiedsWhile Craig Newmark would undoubtedly bristle at that characterization, the network of sites that bears his name is the undisputed king of online classifieds (not counting eBay).According to a report put out by Pew, using comScore data, traffic to classifieds oriented Web sites has grown 80% ...

Commas in Meta Keyword Tags?
Commas in Meta Keyword Tags?"Should I separate my keywords in my keywords tag by using commas or just spaces?" This is the koan of the search engine optimization world which has been asked and never completely answered since the meta tag was first developed. Having heard this question for the ...

ShopLocal Powers Google Froogle Local Shopping
ShopLocal Powers Google Froogle Local ShoppingWas sifting through Brian Smith`s Comparison Engines blog today and found this little fact which has not been covered much in the search news arena. Remember Froogle Local, a new way to search for local merchants who carry specific products? Well Brain points out that ...

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