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Local News Sites and Search Threaten Newspapers
Local News Sites and Search Threaten NewspapersMediaPost (reg req’d) writes about a new Borrell report about the potential rise of “independent local sites” as another threat to the newspaper industry (just add them to the list, right?). Well yes and no.T’he MediaPost piece focuses on the assertion that their “intuitive” ...

Google Analytics &AdWords Data Inaccurate
Google Analytics & AdWords Data InaccurateAll the hype on Google Analytics seamlessly working with your AdWords account may be bit too optimistic. And Search Engine Watch thread named Google Analytics improperly tracking PPC? reports on the PPC figures being wrong : "doesn`t seem to be accurately tracking the PPC conversions ...

Google GMail Adds Virus Checking
Google GMail Adds Virus CheckingGoogle`s web mail client GMail has recently updated its What`s New page with information on Google Virus Checking. GMail is not only working block viruses from infesting your inbox, but is also destroying viruses which try to use your outbox (sent mail) to spread their nastiness.“Each ...

b5media Launches (and Relaunches) 15 New Blogs
b5media Launches (and Relaunches) 15 New BlogsJeremy Wright, Darren Rowse, Duncan Riley and others like Aaron Brazell and Ingrid Diaz have been quite busy over at b5media with the launch of 15 new blogs (although a good number of them are relaunches of the AboutWeblogs network under the b5 name). ...

Yahoo Search Partners With Mozilla Firefox in Asia
Yahoo Search Partners With Mozilla Firefox in AsiaAs Mozilla celebrates the 1st anniversary of Firefox (post beta) distribution with the release of Mozilla Firefox 1.5, Yahoo and Mozilla have announced an agreement which is sure to assist with the marketing of Mozilla Firefox in the Asian market while fortifying Yahoo`s ...

Gtalkr : Google Talk on Web Based Interface
Gtalkr : Google Talk on Web Based InterfaceBrad at the Unofficial Google Weblog points to Gtalkr, a web based Google Talk interface which "fills in some of the missing pieces of the desktop Google Talk, such as conversation searching, and starring as in Gmail." Gtalkr runs using Macromedia Flash 8 ...

Sohu Upgrades Chinese Search Engine
Sohu Upgrades Chinese Search EngineSohu.com Inc., which claims to be China`s leading search media desination, launched Sogou Version2.5 yesterday, a new upgrade for Sohu`s proprietary search engine, Sogou. Sogou, which means `Search Dog` in Chinese, was initially launched in August 2004. Sohu then launched an upgraded version, Sogou 2.0, in ...

Blinkx Search Engine and The Times Partner for Desktop News Application
Blinkx Search Engine and The Times Partner for Desktop News Applicationblinkx, the multimedia and desktop search engine, today launched its first co-branded toolbar, Times Online Smart Search, in partnership with Times Online of the UK ( the online presence of The Times and The Sunday Times). blinkx and The ...

UncoverChina : New China Search Directory
UncoverChina : New China Search DirectoryThis year`s Yahoo Alibaba deal, Google`s interest in Baidu, and the Mozilla Firefox & Yahoo Search distribution partnership have all built upon the interest of China`s search market. I received an email tonight from a site called UncoverChina about their attempts to build a quality ...

Quintura Search &Blog Comment Marketing - Spam?
Quintura Search & Blog Comment Marketing - Spam?Quintura Search has been trying really hard recently to gather links to their web site via posting rather misinformed comments on various search engine blogs recently, including the Search Engine Journal, so I`m going to give them the exposure they`ve been looking for. ...

Google Desktop and IE Flaws Can Result in Phishing Attacks
Google Desktop and IE Flaws Can Result in Phishing AttacksMatton Gillon has unleashed a proof-of-concept report that explains how one can take advantage of Microsoft`s Internet Explorer to access personal information via Google Desktop. Gillon writes that recent intrigue at the possibility of utilizing Google Desktop for remote data retrieval ...

ICANN Blows Off .XXX Domain Agenda
ICANN Blows Off .XXX Domain AgendaICANN has decided to show the .XXX porn domain extension the backdoor (no pun intended) as Vint Cerf, Chairman of ICANN, Nasa Consultant, Father of the Internet and Google Employee, announced that the .XXX issue has been pulled off of the ICANN Board meeting agenda ...

MSN Shopping Indexes eBay Items
MSN Shopping Indexes eBay ItemsThe MSN Shopping Insider blog is reporting that MSN Shopping is now indexing eBay inventory for shoppers looking to compare products and online stores when doing their net shopping. The eBay inventory on MSN Shopping ranges from fixed price eBay store items to time sensitive bids ...

Vivisimo Launches Clusty Japan Search Engine
Vivisimo Launches Clusty Japan Search EngineIn an effort to showcase its clustering search technology for the Japanese market, Vivísimo has launched Clusty.jp (in Beta), a `public showcase of the company`s novel development of a Japanese-language Clustering Search Engine modeled on Clusty.com`.Clusty.jp combines custom crawls of Japanese news sites, including Asahi, ...

Best of the Web Blog Directory : Zero Blog Spam Tolerance
Best of the Web Blog Directory : Zero Blog Spam ToleranceBest of the Web has launched a Blog Directory which is taking shape to actually become a decent quality directory of blogs. The blog directory is hand edited and can be found at blogs.botw.org.Bill Hartzer at Search Engine Guide reports ...

Google SEO : Sandbox, TrustRank, Jagger Update
Google SEO : Sandbox, TrustRank, Jagger UpdateContinued from Google Sandbox vs TrustRank : Affect on SEO Part 1 : Jagger – Tying it all together - The Jagger update seems to have taken the aging factor and combined the TrustRank factor into one, forming a new age for Google.In other ...

Google Sandbox vs TrustRank : Affect on SEO
Google Sandbox vs TrustRank : Affect on SEOThere’s been a lot of terms thrown out lately to do with how Google currently ranks sites. Terms like “TrustRank” and “Sandbox” have been out for quite a while stirring up heated discussions in all the major SEO forums.So I thought I’d ...

Google Desktop Fixes IE Related Security Hole
Google Desktop Fixes IE Related Security HoleGoogle has addressed a recent report on an Internet Explorer security hole and that flaw`s effect on Google Desktop by making changes to Desktop. CIO Today reports that "Google has made a correction to its Desktop Search service so that it cannot be used ...

Blog Editor Wanted at Blog Search Engine
Blog Editor Wanted at Blog Search EngineIf you`re a fan of the blogosphere and serious about blogging, the Blog Search Engine is looking for an experienced blogger who would cover the world of blog related news, professional blogging, blog software, and review a couple of interesting blogs each week. Blog ...

More Google Calendar Rumors
More Google Calendar RumorsA new maps application file page is currently resolving at the URL http://calendar.google.com/mapfiles/home.html is currently adding new fuel to the rumor fire that Google will be launching its calendaring, scheduling, and project management service, Google Calendar, some time very soon. Additionally, the Google Maps file URL brings ...

Yahoo and FIFA Relaunch FIFA World Cup Site for 2006
Yahoo and FIFA Relaunch FIFA World Cup Site for 2006Yahoo! and FIFA have teamed up re-launch the official site of the 2006 FIFA World Cup, in Germany (FIFAworldcup.com), which Yahoo says "offers an unparalleled one-stop shop for fans of the world`s biggest sporting event, and will include real-time coverage of ...

Beginner?s Guide to Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
Beginner`s Guide to Search Engine Optimization (SEO)SEOmoz`s Rand Fishkin has published a Beginner`s Guide to Search Engine Optimization (SEO) which is available on the SEOmoz website. The Beginner`s Guide to Search Engine Optimization is offered as a resource to help individuals, organizations and companies which are either inexperienced or maleducated ...

What Do Google and Craigslist Have in Common?
What Do Google and Craigslist Have in Common?While we were away at ILM:05 there was an interesting thread on John Battelle’s blog regarding MySpace Classifieds.I don’t have any insight into classifieds usage there, but casual observation indicates the postings are pretty thin (and one Battelle commenter says “it’s not used ...

Google Froogle and Christmas Spam
Google Froogle and Christmas SpamLooks like Froogle is serving its users a nice dish of Spiced Ham for the holidays. Has Froogle, Google`s comparison shopping engine, and its giving spirit of offering no setup fees or no pay per click fees for product listings, led to the spamming of the ...

AOL Video Search Partners with MTV Networks
AOL Video Search Partners with MTV NetworksAOL is continuing to add more and more premier content to its AOL Video Search and SingingFish Multimedia Search offerings as AOL has announced that it will now feature RSS feeds from MTV Networks’ programming services. Video content from MTV Networks` CMT, Comedy ...

Search Engine Strategies Chicago Live Coverage Day 1
Search Engine Strategies Chicago Live Coverage Day 1Search Engine Strategies Chicago is happening for the next 3 or 4 days and although Search Engine Journal cannot attend this event we would like to suggest the `live` coverage of SES Chicago by Barry & the Search Engine Roundtable crew. SERoundtable has ...

Search Engine Strategies Chicago Coverage Day Two
Search Engine Strategies Chicago Coverage Day TwoDuring Day Two of Search Engine Strategies Chicago, the Search Engine Roundtable crew; Barry Schwartz, Chris Boggs, and Benjamin Pfeiffer, have been making their rounds of the search sessions and also covering what`s been going behind the scenes. Here`s a rundown:News Search SEO (very ...

MSN Search Extends Basis Rosette Liguistic Partnership in Asia
MSN Search Extends Basis Rosette Liguistic Partnership in AsiaBasis Technology announced today that Microsoft has licensed its Rosette language analyzers for Chinese and Japanese to support the expansion of MSN Search into Asian markets. The Rosette analyzers are software components that enable information retrieval applications and search engines to ...

TrueLocal Making Its Local Search Move
TrueLocal Making Its Local Search MoveTrueLocal is starting to make its move. After many months of “beta"/under-the-radar status, the site is now getting attention and coverage. Today, Search Engine Watch has a nice write-up (plus one of mapping site Metrobot). Recently, TrueLocal acquired the data services business of its parent, ...

NY Times About to Relaunch About.com
NY Times About to Relaunch About.comMickey Kahn at DMNews is reporting that the New York Times is about to relaunch About.com and pitch About.com to high profile national advertisers. The New York Times purchased About.com for $410 million nine months ago, and has since been working to reluanch the site ...

Answers.com Acquires Brainboost AI ?Answer Extraction?Search Engine Technology
Answers.com Acquires Brainboost AI "Answer Extraction" Search Engine TechnologyAnswers Corporation, creators of the Answers.com have acquired Brainboost Technology, LLC for $4 million in cash and 439,000 shares of restricted stock, including certain price protection rights. Answers.com plans to integrate the Brainboost answer extraction engine - artificial intelligence technology enabling ...

Yahoo Publisher Network Issues 1,000 New Beta Testing Invites
Yahoo Publisher Network Issues 1,000 New Beta Testing InvitesYahoo`s answer to contextual advertising, Yahoo Publisher Network, has been in beta testing since August of this year and, according to Yahoo, has about 2,000 publishers currently running the text advertisements on blogs, news sites, and other online publishing projects. Back in ...

Search Engine Journal?s 2005 Search Engine Blogs Contest
Search Engine Journal`s 2005 Search Engine Blogs ContestThe Search Engine Journal is proud to announce that we are now taking nominations for the First Annual Best of Search Engine Blogs Competition. Search Engine Journal will be hosting a competition for the best search engine blogs, as decided upon by our ...

Ingenio Increases Pay Per Call Distribution Network
Ingenio Increases Pay Per Call Distribution NetworkPPCall provider Ingenio is adding both InfoSpace and, in a more limited deal, 1-800-FREE411 to its distribution network. This means that the Ingenio network now includes Miva, AOL, AOL Mobile and Interchange’s Local.com (with Yahoo! testing). InfoSpace is also working with Jambo.The folks at ...

Is Microsoft Getting More Customer-Centric?
Is Microsoft Getting More Customer-Centric?In the Microsoft/Google conflict, it`s sometimes intriguing to look at the big picture. Here`s one person`s view of that big picture. In the book, "The Customer-Centered Enterprise: How IBM and Other World-Class Companies Achieve Extraordinary Results by Putting Customers First" by Harvey Thompson of IBM, ...

Google Preferred by ?Sophisticated?Searchers
Google Preferred by `Sophisticated` SearchersEarlier this week John Battelle made reference to a search-engine usage survey conducted by investment firm SG Cowen & Co. Today MediaPost (reg req’d) reports on the same survey:People who have been online seven years or longer are far more likely to use Google for search ...

MSN Spaces Now At 27 Million Blogs, 7.6 Active Bloggers
MSN Spaces Now At 27 Million Blogs, 7.6 Active BloggersMicrosoft’s blogging service has grown from an estimaited 18 million blogs in October to 27 million blogs and at least 7.6 million active bloggers, according to Dare Obasanjo from Microsoft in a post discussing server issues.The service still remains in third ...

Google To Add Advertising to Google News?
Google To Add Advertising to Google News?One of the last AdWords untouched major sections of Google is Google News. Although Google News is possibly the fastest growing and one of the most popular destinations within Google, Google has yet to tap its revenue generation potential (unless some of the rumors ...

Jennifer Aniston Sunbathing Photos on Yahoo &Google
Jennifer Aniston Sunbathing Photos on Yahoo & GoogleSearching for Jennifer Aniston`s topless sunbathing photos online is not an easy task, especially for the old search dogs who rely on Google, Yahoo and other traditional search engines for their online research. Being thay Jennifer Aniston`s sunbathing pics and her threat to ...

Yahoo Answers Launches : User Powered Social Media
Yahoo Answers Launches : User Powered Social MediaJeremy Zawodny has announced a new Yahoo Search service on the YSearchBlog, Yahoo Answers. Yahoo Answers at first glance seems to be a Yahoo user community where one can ask questions and have them answered by other Yahoo`ers or Yahoo staff. On Yahoo ...

Windows Live Local Going Live
Windows Live Local Going LiveI just met with Erik Jorgensen of MSN, and Windows Live Local is going live today/tonight. A number of features make it interesting and different from what’s out there, including personalization, ease of use (I can insert a “pushpin” with my cursor rather than entering an ...

Yahoo Officially Entering the VOIP Market
Yahoo Officially Entering the VOIP MarketThe Associated Press is reporting that Yahoo is tweaking its existing Yahoo Messenger VOIP offering to add Skype style call out features and let Yahoo Messenger users receive calls from traditional phones to their Yahoo Messenger system. This is a rather large and anticipated step ...

eStara and Sensis Search Engine Test Pay Per Call in Australia
eStara and Sensis Search Engine Test Pay Per Call in AustraliaSensis launched a pay-per-call pilot on its search engine, sensis.com.au, powered by eStara`s click to call technology. Using eStara powered pay per call ads, users can initiate a phone conversation with advertisers. The partnership was announced at this week’s Kelsey ...

SEO, Content &Getting Links from Authority Sites
SEO, Content & Getting Links from Authority SitesWith all this talk about the Trustbox, Sandbox and Trustrank many times we get overwhelmed. One begins to wonder just how they go about building all these links from high quality authority websites.One that may surprise you at how effective it is ...

Holiday Retail Traffic Online Leads to Increased Conversions and Revenue Growth
Holiday Retail Traffic Online Leads to Increased Conversions and Revenue GrowthAll those annoying banners and popup ads seem to be working! Marketing campaigns online have been very successful during this holiday season. Paid Search and affiliate marketing in particular have played a huge role in driving traffic to ...

Google Froogle Serves Spam? Make Spam Sandwiches
Google Froogle Serves Spam? Make Spam SandwichesBrian Smith`s Comparison Engines piece on Google`s Froogle and Shopping Search Spam attracted a bit of attention, including Froogle. Brian has followed up to his Froogle Spam story with some changes Froogle has made to their merchant feed index. It`s a good start, but ...

Vote : Search Engine Journal?s 2005 Search Blogs Awards
Vote : Search Engine Journal`s 2005 Search Blogs AwardsThe Search Engine Journal`s 2005 Best of Search Blogs Awards nominations are in and its time to start voting (well, really rating) your favorite search engine blogs. Please review the following search blogs and rate them on a 1-10 basis, 10 being ...

Yahoo Answers : Ask Yahoo, Get Answers
Yahoo Answers : Ask Yahoo, Get AnswersYahoo Answers was launched about 30 hours ago and has already been hailed as a Web 2.0, beneficial and fun addition to the Yahoo Social Community. The Yahoo Answers service ties in a little bit of Google Answers, Yahoo Users, User Reviews, and Yahoo ...

Yahoo Acquires Del.icio.us : FlickrYahoolicious!
Yahoo Acquires del.icio.us : FlickrYahoolicious!This has been a huge week for Yahoo and their Social Media - Life Engine direction as they have launched Yahoo Answers and acquired del.icio.us within a 2 day span. If you baseball fans thought that the Winter GM meetings were exciting, just pay attention to ...

Google Gets On the Bus
Google Gets On the BusWill the price of gas and heightened environmental awareness lead to a resurge in public transportation in the United States? Perhaps Google thinks so and has released a test beta of a public transportation system planner; Google Transit.The Google Transit service is a Google Local-esque riding ...

SEO, Blogs &Links : Interview with Best of the Web (BOTW)
SEO, Blogs & Links : Interview with Best of the Web (BOTW)Aaron Wall, new owner and Editor of Threadwatch.org, blogger and defender of SEOBook, and occassional Search Engine Journal contributor, interviewed Greg of the Best Of The Web directory on blogs, directories, and blackjack.Best Of The Web, BOTW, also recently ...

Cre8asite Forums : Redesign, Feedback &Financial Support
Cre8asite Forums : Redesign, Feedback & Financial SupportCre8asite Forums, the usability and SEO community governed by Kim Kraus Berg, Bill Slawski, Barry Welford, Barry Schwartz and Rand Fishkin (to name a few), has just gone through a major design and forum change (even more major than the Search Engine Journal ...

Blog Ads, MSNBC and the Porn Valley Advertisement
Blog Ads, MSNBC and the Porn Valley AdvertisementAs I`m sure many of our readers have noticed, there is currently (as of 10:09 EST 12/12/2005) an advertisement running on the left side of the Search Engine Journal which reads "Porn Valley." No, we have not sold out to Danni Ashe or ...

MSN Search To Share Advertising Revenue With Users?
MSN Search To Share Advertising Revenue With Users?Bill Gates was speaking crazy talk last week during a trip to India when he eluded that MSN Search may be sharing advertising revenue with its users (isn`t that the iWon business plan?). According to the San Franscisco Examiner, Gates hinted that MSN ...

ZoomInfo Adds Business Relationships &Networking to People Search
ZoomInfo Adds Business Relationships & Networking to People SearchThe ZoomInfo people search engine now is `exposing` automatically built lists of colleagues and relationships in its summaries. According to their press release, the new ZoomInfo offering sounds like an interesting mix of a business person information search engine and LinkedIn: ...

Search Engine Roundtable Forums Open
Search Engine Roundtable Forums OpenToday is a big day for search engine forums as not only has Cre8asite Forums gone under an Extreme Makeover, but Search Engine Roundtable has also launched its own forums. Barry Schwartz, the head knight of the Roundtable (couldn`t help myself) and well respected forum moderator ...

Yahoo Small Business &Movable Type Blogs
Yahoo Small Business & Movable Type BlogsColbert Low, the new Editor at the Blog Search Engine (thanks to everyone who applied forthe position) has posted a story on Yahoo`s new Movable Type blog offering in the Yahoo Small Business channel. Yahoo is offering Small Business owners their own domain (or ...

Google AdWords Quality Score Includes Landing Page
Google AdWords Quality Score Includes Landing PageShor, last week, posted a thread at Search Engine Watch Forums named Landing Page Quality Now Influences AdWords Position. He quotes an AdWords Blog from 12/8 describing;Today, we started incorporating a new factor into the Quality Score -- the landing page -- which will ...

Dogpile Search Engine Doing Pay for Placement TV
Dogpile Search Engine Doing Pay for Placement TVIn the High Rankings SEO forum Lorelle has posted the news that the Infospace owned Dogpile meta search engine is currently running a product placement campaign on various reality TV shows. "I just read in my local paper that Dogpile (based here in ...

Alexa Web Search Platform
Alexa Web Search PlatformWow. I was checking out the Amazon web services homepage for some affiliate stuff and noticed there were some new Alexa related web services. Turns out Alexa is opening up their crawler and index to anyone who wants to use it, for a cost. The new service ...

Mozilla Firefox 1.5 &Security Bug
Mozilla Firefox 1.5 & Security BugMozilla has issued a security advisory to the users of its newest browser, Firefox 1.5 about this bug, which is related to how the software handles extremely long names. This bug can at worse reportedly crash the targeted computer. However, the organization has claimed that ...

Tempe Arizona, Another Municipality, Goes Wi-Fi
Tempe Arizona, Another Municipality, Goes Wi-FiAs recently as this spring (or summer if you consult the Pew report), there were skeptics arguing that broadband penetration will stall in the U.S. Not only is it not going to stall, it’s going to eventually be free. (Consumers know this and are less ...

Local.com and Looksmart?s Furl Power Local Search Tagging
Local.com and Looksmart`s Furl Power Local Search TaggingLocal.com and LookSmart have partnered to add LookSmart`s Furl.net bookmarking, tagging & archiving technology (somewhat similar to del.icio.us), which will be powering the "Save" feature on Local.com. Furl will allow users to easily save and organize pages found on Local.com whicle the addition ...

StepUp Local Shopping Search Gets $6.6 Million in Funding
StepUp Local Shopping Search Gets $6.6 Million in FundingStepUp Commerce, Inc, a net based local shopping service, has closed a $6.6 million funding round to enhance its local shopping service for retailers. Investors of StepUp, which is helping to power Google base with its local shopping search aggregation, received the ...

Google Fights Paid Links While Yahoo Defends Them (Sort Of)
Google Fights Paid Links While Yahoo Defends Them (Sort Of)While Google`s Matt Cutts is on a campaign to eradicate all unnatural linking, Yahoo!`s Jeremy Zawodny is defending them. In recent news, WebGuerrilla writes Zawodny Says No to Link Condoms which basically describes how on Jeremy Zawodny`s personal blog, he has ...

Technorati Explore &Feedburner FeedFlare : Blog News
Technorati Explore & Feedburner FeedFlare : Blog NewsColbert Low has the low-down on Technorati`s new hot topic search engine, Technorati Explore. Colbert posts on the Blog Search Engine : "Straight from Technorati’s Kitchen is Explore that tracks what’s hot in blogs on specific topics right now. I had a look ...

MSN and MCI Offering VOIP PC to Phone Calling
MSN and MCI Offering VOIP PC to Phone CallingMicrosoft`s MSN has stepped up with its plans for VOIP outbound calling and has followed Yahoo, SkypeBay and AOL with its VOIP PC to Phone calling offering. The Microsoft MSN Messenger VOIP PC to Phone service is powered by a partnership between ...

Yahoo Spins Konfabulator into Yahoo! Widget Engine
Yahoo Spins Konfabulator into Yahoo! Widget EngineYahoo! recently acquired the Konfabulator application, which let the users run small applications known as widgets independently on the system. Apple made this concept popular when they integrated the phenomena in their Mac OS X operating system and provided native support for such widgets.Yahoo! ...

AOL Search 2005 Popular Terms : Paris Hilton, Lottery &Thomas the Tank Engine
AOL Search 2005 Popular Terms : Paris Hilton, Lottery & Thomas the Tank EngineAOL Search has put out a rather extensive list of top AOL Search terms for 2005 AOLSearch.com at http://hot.aol.com/2005/index.html which includes Paris Hilton as the most searched celebrity in 2005, "lottery" as the most popular search term, ...

Matt Cutts on Blogs, Google, SEO &RSS : Performancing
Matt Cutts on Blogs, Google, SEO & RSS : PerformancingNick Wilson of Performancing recently had the chance to corner "Senior Google Engineer and Webmaster Relations Chappy" Matt Cutts and grill him over some Blogger issues and tips for blogs which want to rank highly in Google. Matt also gives Nick ...

Google Music Search &Google?s Vertical Push
Google Music Search & Google`s Vertical PushGoogle is introducing a new music feature according to Reuters and SEW. When users search for, say Madonna (the example used at SEW), they’ll see some information: a picture and links to a page about Madonna and a link to the alliterative “more music ...

Yahoo Search Engine Plans New Update
Yahoo Search Engine Plans New UpdateAnother Yahoo Search Engine index update has been announced by Tim Mayer on the Yahoo Search Blog. Tim writes that the sixth major Yahoo update will happen this evening:"We will be making changes to the index tonight. You should see some changes in ranking as ...

Google Opera Acquisition Rumor Makes Sense
Google Opera Acquisition Rumor Makes SenseThere is a rumor floating around today that Google may be acquiring the Opera browser (and its 1% market share). Opera is an independent browser funded by search engine advertising. When someone performs a search on the Opera default search box, they are served partnered ...

AOL to Drop Google AdWords For MSN adCenter?
AOL to Drop Google AdWords For MSN adCenter?Last week, during the SES show, I heard the rumors about the possibility that AOL will be dropping Google AdWords for MSN`s adCenter product "really soon." But I haven`t had time to post the information here until now. Gary Price has some information ...

Opera Browser Denies Google Takeover
Opera Browser Denies Google TakeoverYesterday there were some rumors floating around about a highly regarded source (with old connections to Yahoo! Search Engine) talked about a possible Google takeover of the Norway based software company Opera Software ASA that develops the popular Opera web browser.However, the Opera Company has today ...

Google GMail Mobile and New Features
Google GMail Mobile and New FeaturesOne day there may be an official phobia related to fear of email in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. An obvious moniker would be “emailopobia.” Or maybe it will be swept broadly into a more general fear of the Internet and the ...

HowStuffWorks Receives Funding, Builds Partnerships
HowStuffWorks Receives Funding, Builds PartnershipsHowStuffWorks, the informational web site rich in useful and original content,well indexed in the major search engines, has received a "significant investment" from financier Carl Icahn. Reuters reports that the investment was in the amount of "tens of millions" of dollars.In addition to the investment, HowStuffWorks ...

Ingenio Pay Per Call Adds New Bidding and ROI Features
Ingenio Pay Per Call Adds New Bidding and ROI FeaturesIngenio, the pay per call search advertising provider which provides locally targeted PPCall advertising for partners such as Local.com, Infospace, AOL, Miva and possibly Yahoo Local, has added two new features.Received this rundown from Ingenio this morning that the new features ...

Matt Cutts : Google &SEO Interviews
Matt Cutts : Google & SEO Interviews2005 may be remembered as the year of the Green Chicken for some, and the year of Paris Hilton and the Pritt-Aniston break up for others, but for the SEO community, I`m taking the liberty to declare 2005 to have been the Year of ...

Google Landing Page Quality Rankings &Organic SEO
Google Landing Page Quality Rankings & Organic SEOI saw this a couple days ago but didn’t give it much thought until an idea occurred to me. What if Google decides, after tweaking this landing page measurement algorithm, to begin applying it to regular SERPs? Well in this article I ...

Local.com Search Engine Offers Insider Pages Reviews &Advertising
Local.com Search Engine Offers Insider Pages Reviews & AdvertisingLocal.com has been building some strong partnerships over the last three months, including new partners in Looksmart`s FURL and Ingenio Pay Per Call advertising. Now, Local.com has announced a new advertising and user review content partnership with Insider Pages, a community oriented ...

Yahoo Sponsored Listings Getting Face Lift
Yahoo Sponsored Listings Getting Face LiftAn email went out last night to all Yahoo! Search Marketing (Overture) customers notifying them of new changes to come to YSM in 2006. YahooSarah at Search Engine Watch created a thread named New Look Coming For Yahoo Sponsored Search Listings where she informs the ...

Google Buying 5% of AOL for $1 Billion
Google Buying 5% of AOL for $1 BillionIn something of a surprise, Google is set to buy 5% of America Online from Time Warner for $1 billion. We had anticipated a Microsoft announcement. There’s more on this story from The N.Y. Times. This is obviously a big deal and may ...

Google GMail on the SONY PSP
Google GMail on the SONY PSPThe Sony Playstation Portable (Sony PSP) is the #1 item on my Christmas list this year and today some screen shots of a Sony PSP accessing Google GMail even added to my anticipation of finding one in my stockings this year. Dirson points to some ...

Google Acquisitions : Papers, Employees &Patents
Google Acquisitions : Papers, Employees & PatentsBill Slawski of WebAdvantage.net and Cre8asite Forums (you know, the guy with 10,000 forum responses and who`s always digging around search patents), recently too the time to look into some of the companies which Google has acquired, their employees, and papers published by the ...

Yahoo Search Open Shortcuts in Beta
Yahoo Search Open Shortcuts in BetaOn the Yahoo Search Blog, Don Chennavasin and Lalgudi Kannan have announced a new Yahoo Shortcuts tool which lets Yahoo users construct their own customized Yahoo Shortcuts; Open Shortcuts. The whole idea looks like a pretty good way to let Yahoo users not only develop ...

Yahoo Free Submit Your Site Broken
Yahoo Free Submit Your Site BrokenIf you have been trying to submit your site to the Yahoo! Submit Your Site form, you are probably getting a timeout error.Submit Your Site Request FailedYour submission request was not accepted because: The following resulted when trying to access your document: timeout Please correct ...

Google Bundling Google Toolbar with Hardware
Google Bundling Google Toolbar with HardwareGoogle is expanding its toolbar partnerships beyond web downloads & computer software and into the hardware market. Aaron at Threadwatch points to a story on Google`s partnership with Lexar Media and USB Flash Drives.Lexar Media Inc. on Tuesday said it is adding Google applications, including ...

Search Engine Blog Awards To Be Announced Wednesday December 20th
Search Engine Blog Awards To Be Announced Wednesday December 20thThe reader voting for the 2005 Search Engine Blog Awards is finished and the Search Engine Journal will be announcing the awared winners tomorrow, Wednesday December 20th. I was originally planning on announcing the awards winners yesterday, but due to the ...

Ask Jeeves To Grow 20% Says IAC
Ask Jeeves To Grow 20% Says IACAndy shows that The Street reports that Diller Asks Jeeves to Grow. Specifically by 20% says Berkowitz;Barry Diller`s Internet empire expects to increase the staff at its Ask Jeeves search engine by about 20%, Ask Jeeves head Steve Berkowitz says. The expansion comes as ...

Zawodny &Mayer : Yahoo?s Towers of Power
Zawodny & Mayer : Yahoo`s Towers of PowerWebmaster Radio (webmasterradio.fm) is hosting a new radio show with none other than Jeremy Zawodny and Tim Mayer of Yahoo Search. The monthly hour long show, Power Source, will feature reviews of different tech companies and behind the scenes scopes of the online ...

2005 Search Engine Blogs Awards : Blog Search, Search Marketing Blogs
2005 Search Engine Blogs Awards : Blog Search, Search Marketing BlogsThe Search Engine Journal 2005 Search Blog Awards votes have been tallied and I`d like to thank our readers who nominated their favorite search blogs and all of those members of the blogging and search community which voted and ranked ...

Ask Jeeves Translation Service &Word Tools
Ask Jeeves Translation Service & Word ToolsAsk Jeeves launched new language search tools this week in their continued effort to add quality content and ease of search satisfaction to Ask.com (Ask Jeeves). The new language services include Page Translations, Dictionary Smart Answers, Synonyms and Audio Pronunciations for words.Living the life ...

Gravee Search Engine : Gravy Search Revenue Sharing Model
Gravee Search Engine : Gravy Search Revenue Sharing ModelReceived an email this week from a new search engine which is named after a food which will consist of about 10% of my caloric intake over the holiday season : GRAVY! Turkey gravy, chicken gravy, beef gravy... one of my favorite ...

Google Book Search &TextRank
Google Book Search & TextRankAlthough the technology Google uses for ranking the results and indexing of the books in the Google Book Search project is still a bit unknown, Bill Slawski has put together some interesting research that points to TextRank, which was co-invented by Professor Rada Mihalcea.Professor Mihalcea received ...

Google Ranking &Indexing Lesson from Matt Cutts
Google Ranking & Indexing Lesson from Matt CuttsMatt Cutts has given librarians and school teachers an early Christmas present. In an article published in Google`s Newsletter for Librarians, Cutts gives a basic explanation of how Google ranks and sorts documents found in its index. Along the way, he offers search ...

Japan Government Creates Search Engine Exploration Group
Japan Government Creates Search Engine Exploration GroupThe Japanese tradition of finding the best products and services in the world, and then perfecting them, has been common practice in Japan for centuries. Such business practices have included the perfection of products or services like the automobile, video cassette recorders, beer, cameras, ...

Santa Claus Worm on Yahoo, AOL &MSN Messenger
Santa Claus Worm on Yahoo, AOL & MSN MessengerThere is a new Grinch which has been unleashed on the web with Christmas just being a few days away. There is currently a "Santa Claus worm" which is targeting the users of MSN Messenger, Yahoo Messenger, and AOL Instant Messenger. The ...

Google AdSense for Domains and Poor Traffic
Google AdSense for Domains and Poor TrafficI was reading this disturbing thread over at Search Engine Watch Forums named AdSense For Domains Garbage Traffic. The thread shows how one AdWords advertiser that spent "20K+ dollars worth of garbage traffic that came as a result of parked domains and similar types ...

Jews for Jesus Files Suit Against Google &Blogger
Jews for Jesus Files Suit Against Google & BloggerJust in time for Christmas, a religious group is looking to cause a bit of a legal spat or possibly a rather large PR play as they have filed suit against the Google owned Blogger for farming out their official name in ...

Best SEO Blog of 2005 : Best Search Blog Awards
Best SEO Blog of 2005 : Best Search Blogs AwardsWhat perhaps may be the most expanding niche of search engine related blogs in 2005, SEO blogs have followed the transformation of the Search Engine Optimization industry in 2005 into a legitimate marketing vehicle for both innovative & traditional businesses. Following ...

Google Patent Application Explains Google Suggest
Google Patent Application Explains Google SuggestBill Slawski, over at Cre8asite Forums, tears deep inside how Google Suggest suggests terms for you, as you type them. Of course, we have the Google Suggest FAQ but that doesn`t explain it how Bill does.Bill believes that the terms suggested come from the following ...

2005 Best Search Engine News Blog : Search Engine Watch Blog
2005 Best Search Engine News Blog : Search Engine Watch BlogIn a pretty tight race for the top three spots in the Best Search Engine News Blog of 2005, Search Engine Watch`s Blog, Search Engine Roundtable, and Threadwatch top the reader rankings in the Search Engine Journal 2005 Search Blog ...

Best Search Engine Community Blog : 2005 Search Blogs Awards
Best Search Engine Community Blog : 2005 Search Blogs AwardsAlthough Threadwatch and Search Engine Roundtable were both nominated for different awards for covering search engine news and search related issues, I felt that giving them their own category would help to differentiate these blogs a bit from the normal search ...

Meta Keywords Do Not Need to Match Page Copy
Meta Keywords Do Not Need to Match Page CopyA thread at our forums named Penalty for metakeywords not being in the body asks the question; "If I have keywords in my META keyword tag and some of these words doesn`t show up in the body anywhere, could I then get ...

Google Maps Limiting Resolution of Israel Satellite Images
Google Maps Limiting Resolution of Israel Satellite ImagesAccording to IsraelNN.com, Google is limiting the resolution of sensitive Israeli military installations and `vulnerable` sites. Google has come under pressure from various nations such as India & Thailand over the detailed satellite images used in the Google Map program. Such map images, ...

Ford Explorer Google AdWords AdSense Campaign
Ford Explorer Google AdWords AdSense CampaignApparently Ford did a pretty big advertising deal with Google AdWords/AdSense last week that splashed Ford Explorer ads all over blogs and search related sites. I had the pleasure of witnessing the ad campaign on the Blog Search Engine last week, which featured a big ...

Search Engine for Economists - Nutch Powered
Search Engine for Economists - Nutch PoweredTara at ResearchBuzz has a nice little write up on a new search engine launched by Resources for Economists. RFE, a categorized list of Economics Resources has a search engine housed at ese.rfe.org which is powered by the Nutch open sourced search engine project. ...

Google Starting Video Movie Rentals?
Google Starting Video Movie Rentals?A ZDNet Blog entry named Google to start renting videos? shows how Google recently updated their terms and conditions for the Google Video Upload program, "and with it comes some insight into new features that Google may be preparing to launch for Google Video — including ...

Yahoo 360 Social Blog Network Updates Features
Yahoo 360 Social Blog Network Updates FeaturesAdding to the holiday gift giving, Yahoo 360 has just released a stocking full of updates for its social blogging platform. On the Yahoo 360 blog this week, Yahoo announced the following additions.Ratings and Reviews: In addition to Yahoo Local business reviews, Yahoo ...

MSN Search Testing DMOZ Descriptions
MSN Search Testing DMOZ DescriptionsAccording to a thread titled MSN uses DMOZ description at Webmaster World, site publishers have been noticing that the default descriptions of their web sites which are served in the MSN Search results are being provided by the Netscape Open Directory Project (DMOZ). While Google has ...

Jeremy Zawodny vs. Matt Cutts : Search Blog Award
Jeremy Zawodny vs. Matt Cutts : Search Blog AwardIn an unofficial tribute to two bloggers who represent their search engine employers on a sometimes official and sometimes unofficial basis, Aaron Wall and I decided upon adding this final `category` to the Search Engine Journal 2005 Search Blog Awards; Matt vs. ...

Long Tail Search &Web Analytics
Long Tail Search & Web AnalyticsThere is a theory called “The Long Tail” that noted that a relative handful of blogs have many links going into them but “the long tail” of millions of blogs have only a handful of links going into them. It is very similar to ...

Best Search Engine Watch Forum Threads of 2005
Best Search Engine Watch Forum Threads of 2005Search Engine Watch Forums has released its end of the year round up of its most popular threads in the SEW Search Day article 2005 in Review: The Best Search Engine Watch Forum Posts. Chris Sherman of SEW asked Forums Editor Elisabeth Osmeloski ...

SEO Contests : Win $1,000 for Google Ranking
SEO Contests : Win $1,000 for Google RankingThe v7 Network is hosting a new SEO contest for sites around the globe to compete for the #1 thru #5 rankings of a currently non-existant term on Google. The contest is offering a first place prize of $1,000, $500 to the runner ...

Search Engine Marketing Budget - Top Five Places to Spend
Search Engine Marketing Budget - Top Five Places to SpendThere is a nice new thread at Search Engine Watch Forums named SEO Top 5 money investments. The member asks, "which you consider the top five SEO techniques for money investment?"The first few responses accurately reply that it is almost impossible ...

Google Base?s New Interface
Google Base`s New InterfaceI’m feeling very rusty after being off for a week—a veritable enternity in “Internet time.” But I wanted to comment briefly on the new Google Base interface. When Google Base launched and people said it’s the “Craigslist killer” or the “newspaper classifieds killer” I argued that might ...

Mobile Web &Search from Google and Opera
Mobile Web & Search from Google and OperaGoogle happens to be the world’s most popular search engine and the dominating player in the search engine market. And Opera Software ASA develops the Opera Web Browser, which despite its lack of market share in the desktop segment rules the mobile browser ...

NSA Gives New Meaning to ?Spyware?
NSA Gives New Meaning to `Spyware`Politics don’t usually appear on this blog because of a variety of differing views at The Kelsey Group (and in most cases it’s not relevant to what we’re writing about). But I must say the National Security Agency has given new meaning to the idea ...

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