IndustryThe Search Engine Update – Number 201 – July 21, 2005

The Search Engine Update - Number 201 - July 21, 2005

Search Engine Watch editor Danny Sullivan's recap of top search engine stories from the first half of July 2005.

In This Issue

+ SES San Jose News
+ Search Engine Watch Member Articles
+ Top Stories
+ More From The Search Engine Watch Blog
+ About The Newsletter

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SES San Jose News

Our next Search Engine Strategies show in San Jose this August 8-11 is less than a month away, and there’s lots to tell you about:

We’ve just confirmed that Ask Jeeves CEO and director Steve Berkowitz will be doing the keynote conversation with me on August 9. Berkowitz To Keynote SES San Jose at the SES Blog tells you more about the session.

Did I say SES Blog? Yes, it’s now live and designed to help you keep informed about the show. The SES San Jose 2005 Sessions section gives you a rundown on each session of the show. As I wrap-up and confirm a session, I’m letting people know this and telling them a bit more about what to expect. The Attendee Advice section has information on getting more out of the show. Expect even more content to grow on the blog in the weeks ahead.

The full agenda and and more about the show can be found on the SES San Jose 2005 web site itself. There are a ton of new sessions, as well as returning favorites. The conference features speakers from major search engines, along with experts on search marketing.

At the web site, you can also view the entire program at-a-glance or use the session planner to get itineraries designed for those new to search marketing, interested in ad issues, interested in organic/free listings or even what’s new in the Been Before category.

After San Jose, SES comes to Stockholm in October, and the year’s tour ends in Chicago in December. Links to sites about those shows can be found via our Search Engine Strategies site.

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SEW Members Articles
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Below are articles published since the last newsletter exclusively for Search Engine Watch members. In between newsletters, you can now also find any new articles listed on the Search Engine Watch Members Area home page. Past articles can be found in the Members-Only Articles Archive area. Need to come up to speed on a particular topic? Browse articles from Search Engine Watch and across the web in the Search Topics area.

=== July 20, 2005 ===

A Buyer’s Guide to Paid Search Advertising Agencies – Who are the key players in the paid search arena? A companion to the Buyer’s Guide to Search Engine Optimization Firms, reviewed last week, has the inside scoop.

=== July 19, 2005 ===

Become.com Adds Comparison Shopping – Become.com, a shopping research site, has added integrated comparison shopping and several additional features designed to simplify and expedite your online shopping experience.

=== July 15, 2005 ===

Google Simplifies & Loosens Requirements for AdWordsGoogle is making changes to its AdWords program intended to provide advertisers with more control over campaigns while potentially improving relevance for users.

=== July 14, 2005 ===

Choosing a Search Engine Optimization Firm – Marketing Sherpa has released the 4th edition of its Buyer’s Guide to Search Engine Optimization Firms, a comprehensive look at the players in the industry.

=== July 7, 2005 ===

Search Ad Prices Up 3% In June 2005 – The average price for search ads rose slightly last month, according to the latest Keyword Price Index from Fathom Online. The average price paid in June grew to $1.72, up 3 percent from $1.67 in May.

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Top Stories
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Below is a recap of major articles from our daily SearchDay newsletter and important Search Engine Watch Blog postings since the last newsletter. Want to receive these stories daily or via RSS/feed? See the Search Engine Watch Newsletters & Web Feeds page for sign-up instructions.

=== July 21, 2005 ===

Deeper Insight into the BlogosphereBlogPulse, Intelliseek’s suite of tools for tracking trends and monitoring activities in the blogosphere, now has a cleaner look and a host of new features.

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AOL & Ask Show Growth In Searches But Big Players Still Big – New quarterly statistics out from Nielsen//NetRatings show that AOL and Ask Jeeves had double-digit growth in the number of searches they handled, though the total number of searches handled by the major players left these other services far behind. What’s probably most interesting to me is that despite all the effort and attention put into search, MSN hit its lowest level since the beginning of this year.

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Chris Sherman’s New Book, Google Power, is Now Available – Congratulations to our colleague, Chris Sherman, on the publication of his latest book, Google Power: Unleash the Full Potential of Google. Search expert, Shari Thurow, has read and reviewed Google Power and needless to say, she loved it. And a bit more from the book’s technical editor, our own Gary Price.

=== July 18, 2005 ===

The Best Blog Search Is All Of Them! – Metasearch The Blogosphere With Clusty – There’s plenty of talk these days about what’s “the best” weblog/RSS engine. Instead of continuing this post in search of determining the “best” engine, let’s talk about a resource that’s currently available that allows you to tap results from most of the big names in weblog search.

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Search Engine Forums Spotlight – Links to the week’s topics from search engine forums across the web: How Should Search Engines Protect Privacy? – AdSense Updates Terms & Policies – What Degrees Or Professional Backgrounds Do SEO/SEMers Have? – Optical Character Recognition And Crawlers – Interlinking of Related Sites, and more.

=== July 14, 2005 ===

Moving Past Google Privacy Fears & Toward An Industry SolutionGoogle’s balancing act from News.com revisits the well-trod path of Google as potential privacy threat. Personally, I would love to get beyond these “what Google might” do stories and more toward what the search engine industry itself ought to be doing in terms of protecting privacy, especially as everyone’s offering personalized search or search history features. Your comments will help, as I’ll explain below.

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Internet Archive Sued Over Access To Pages – Spotted via Threadwatch, Keeper of Expired Web Pages Is Sued Because Archive Was Used in Another Suit from the New York Times discusses how the Internet Archive is being sued for crawling the web and making copies of web pages. A copyright infringement case against a search engine, then? Not exactly, as we’ll see.

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Revisiting PageRank Lunacy – People continue to be obsessed by PageRank and how the idea that PR scores mean nothing may freak out some in the PageRank economy that revolves around the Google Toolbar’s PR meter.

=== July 13, 2005 ===

A Dynamite Personal Information Manager – Searching is one thing. Organizing and using the information you’ve found is quite another challenge, but a personal information manager called EverNote can really help.

=== July 12, 2005 ===

How Americans Search – A recent study from Harris Interactive shines interesting light on the behavior and preferences of Americans when searching the web.

=== July 11, 2005 ===

Local Search, From Locals – Online yellow pages are great for finding nearby businesses, but nothing beats a recommendation from a local in making a decision to patronize a business.

=== July 8, 2005 ===

Yahoo’s Blog & RSS Search Engine Outed – Yahoo said a blog and RSS search engine was something it was considering. Steve Rubel has come across what looks to be the test site. Well, it was the test site. I played with it for about two minutes, then found it had been taken down. See the screenshot over at Steve’s blog.

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Search Engine Forums Spotlight – Links to the week’s topics from search engine forums across the web: Reporting Click Fraud to Google AdSense – Google Sitemaps One Month Later – Future of Web Directories – Is There Such A Thing As Spam Anymore? – Google Teaser Problems – How Much Is An AdSense Website Worth?, and more.

=== July 7, 2005 ===

Still More Cool Firefox Tools – The Firefox development community has been busy developing a range of new tools that enhance your searching and browsing activities, and best of all, they’re free.

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Yahoo Now Offering SMS Search Tool; Expands Reach of Mobile Web Search – A new Yahoo SMS Search service is now available, allowing searchers in the US to get back certain types of information from Yahoo via text messages. In addition, Yahoo has expanded its web search service designed for mobile users to work with WAP-compatible browsers.

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More From The SEW Blog
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Below are posts from the Search Engine Watch Blog since the last newsletter and not mentioned above. Want to keep up on daily news from the blog? Visit the home page or subscribe to the blog feed. Note that references to “I” may becoming from Danny Sullivan, Gary Price or Chris Sherman, all of whom post to the blog.

=== July 21, 2005 ===

Do Or Die Domain Name Registration SoarsPay-per-click speculation market soaring takes a look at numbers from VeriSign that show hundreds of thousands of domain names are being registered each week, “purely to publish pay-per-click advertising links from the likes of Google Inc and Yahoo.”

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Share Of Surfing Time On Search Still HealthyOPA: Consumers Spent More Time On Content, Less On Search, In June from MediaPost alerts us to the fact that the Online Publishers Association’s Internet Activity Index had the search category with the “biggest loss” of all surfing categories. Are consumers losing their love of search? Reality check time….[MORE”

=== July 20, 2005 ===

It’s All in the Name: IceRocket Will Become BlogScour – According to Mark Cuban to relaunch IceRocket from News.com, IceRocket’s new name will be BlogScour. No word as to what will happen to the other search services IceRocket offers. At the moment, BlogScour.com shows the IceRocket home page….[MORE”

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Google Acquires Brazilian Search Tech Company – Nice work by Dirson spotting this press release (in Portuguese) from Google announcing their acquisition of Akwan Information Technologies, a Sco Paulo-based search tech provider. Google will use the acquisition to open an R&D center in Latin America. Here’s a mechanical translation of the announcement using Google’s translation software, caveat emptor.

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Survey Results Show Most Americans Have No Clue About RSS – A new data brief (PDF format) from the Pew Internet & American Life project titled: The average American internet user is not sure what podcasting is, what an RSS feed does, or what the term phishing means, looks at the results of a just completed survey….[MORE”

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Creating Searchable Text from Geographic Coordinates – If you’re interested in geotagging, digital maps and related matters, here’s a new article (PDF format) by several members of the Stanford Info Lab that you might want to take a look at….[MORE”

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MSN Updates Start.com Site with New Features – Yesterday, MSN’s experimental Start.com customizable homepage received a few updates and bug fixes that you can read about on the Start.com blog. The most noticeable change comes in the way search results are displayed. Start.com results pages now allow you to quickly move between web results, news results, and RSS results via tab links at the top of the page. RSS results come from feed directory that’s powered by Moreover….[MORE”

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Yahoo Weatherman Tim Mayer Announces Release of New Web Index – Yahoo’s Tim Mayer alerts the search community that Yahoo Search released a new index last night. If you want to discuss the new Yahoo index, check out this thread in the SEW Forums. Barry (aka RustyBrick) points out other threads here.

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SMS Search Provider 4INFO.net Adds Email Search Service, WiFi Hotspot Search Coming Soon – Two quick news items from Palo Alto’s 4INFO.net, an mobile email search and wifi hotspot finding service….[MORE”

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PubSub Plays Ball with New Feature – The PubSub team released a new feature today that offers pre-built prospective searches to track blogosphere and other syndicated content about Major League Basball teams and players….[MORE”

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IAC/InterActiveCorp Completes Acquisition of Ask Jeeves – According to a news release and a brief item in the Los Angeles Times (reg. required), IAC/InterActiveCorp has completed its acquisition of Ask Jeeves.

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Google Alerts Now Available for Google GroupsPhilipp points to a blog post about the availability of Google Alerts for Google Groups to monitor the top 50 most recent search results there….[MORE”

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The Launch of Google Moon – To celebrate the 36th anniversary of the first moon landing, Google has not only put up a special logo on all of their home pages but they’re also releasing Google Moon. That’s right space fans, you’re now able to use the same technology that you’ll find at Google Maps and Google Earth to wander around the Moon….[MORE” See also Google Earth, Google Moon, and Beyond?

=== July 19, 2005 ===

How Many RSS Feeds Really Matter? – Everyday we read estimates of the total number of blogs and feeds out there. Of course, we rarely get solid definitions of just what a blog is. Does every feed belong to a blog? Do blogs or feeds that haven’t been updated in x amount of time count? Do all the sites that post totals use the same criteria? Bloglines post some numbers they feel may be relevant….[MORE”

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Yahoo Announces Q2 2005 Results – Yahoo released their Q2 earnings this afternoon and the News.com article: Yahoo profit rises, but revenue falls short, has the story. You’ll find all of the numbers in this Yahoo news release (PDF). Also available is an archived copy of today’s conference call along with a set of >slides (PDF). and in our post, a summary….[MORE”

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Google Will Open Research Center in China, Hire Microsoft VP to Run China OperationNews from the Googleplex today that the company is increasing their presence in China by opening a product research and development center sometime this quarter….[MORE”. See also Microsoft Sues Google Over China Hire.

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What’s New at Snap.com – Michael Liedtke’s AP story: Snap.com Plans to Combat ‘Click Fraud’, offers a look at what Bill Gross and Snap.com are up to these days including news that the company has just secured more than $10 million in venture capital funding….[MORE”

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A Chat with Rob Solomon from Yahoo Shopping – Brian Smith over at Comparison Engines has published a Q&A interview with Rob Solomon, Yahoo Shopping V.P.

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New from Bloglines: Subscription Suggestions and UI TranslationsBloglines has just launched a new service called Quick Pick Subscriptions service that allows users to quickly find blogs that they might be interested in subscribing to….[MORE”

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Inquisitor: A New Search Tool for Safari Users Inquisitor Inquisitor 1.0 is a new search app that those of you who use Safari might want to take a look at to add predictive search feature to the web search field in Safari.

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Google Will Open Research Center in China, Hire Microsoft VP to Run China OperationNews from the Googleplex today that the company is increasing their presence in China by opening a product research and development center sometime this quarter….[MORE”

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RSS + Video Search = BlinkxTV SmartFeed – Word of new service from BlinkxTV that was just released named SmartFeed. Beginning today, you can create an RSS feed (aka SmartFeed) for any BlinkxTV keyword search….[MORE”

=== July 18, 2005 ===

Where’s My Bus (or Train or Plane)?, Services That Offer Real-Time Info and Maps – If you’ve never taken a look at the NextBus.com service you should. It’s one of those resources that’s not only very useful (if it’s available in your area) but also very cool. It’s also another example of real-time info on the web….[MORE”

=== July 17, 2005 ===

MSN Search Releases More International Versions of Toolbar – A post on MSN Search’s WebLog points out that more international versions of the MSN Search Toolbar with Windows Desktop Search are now available. As of today, the toolbar is available for 37 locales and in 15 languages.

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Drive Around Town with Google – Yes, it’s another new item from the Google Store. If you’re out and about and want to share your admiration for all things Google with others, check out the new Google License Plate Frame. By the way, it also the lowest priced item available from the Google Store, only $1.20.

=== July 15, 2005 ===

MSN Shopping Beta Now Available – Brian Smith at Comparison Engines has posted news about today’s official beta launch of MSN Shopping. Brian’s post includes several comments from Chris Jolley, Group Programming Manager of MSN Shopping.

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Yahoo Announces New Research Laboratory – According to an article in the San Francisco Chronicle and this news release, Yahoo is opening a new research laboratory in a partnership with the University of California, Berkeley….[MORE”

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Google CEO Shares Thoughts About Information Industry – In late May I mentioned that Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, would be giving a lecture at the University of Washington in Seattle. Today, I came across an archived copy of Schmidt’s presentation that’s viewable on the web….[MORE”

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Material from LexisNexis and Factiva Begins Appearing in Yahoo – When Yahoo Search Subscriptions launched a few weeks ago, Yahoo said that material from Factiva and LexisNexis, two well-know online information aggregators, would eventually become accessible via the service. Well, eventually means today….[MORE”

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Flash Content Added to Yahoo’s Video Database – The Yahoo Video Search database received a major update last night. The Yahoo Search Blog notes that you’ll now find more international material and support for Macromedia Flash content (animations, games, etc.) A tweak has also been made to the Yahoo Video Advanced Search Interface allowing you to limit a search to Flash material.

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Yahoo Using Search Profile To Trigger Banner Ads Over Time – The PC World article, Yahoo Tailors Graphical Ads to Users’ Search Queries, discusses changes to Yahoo’s “Impulse” advertising program.

=== July 14, 2005 ===

Google PageRank Update Underway – According to Search Engine Roundtable, a Google PageRank update is underway. If you want to discuss, here’s a link to an SEW Forums thread. More discussions about the update are listed here.

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An RSS Feed for Google Zeitgeist is Now Available – Since Google doesn’t offer an “official” RSS (or ATOM) feed for their Google Zeitgeist rankings of popular search terms, Kunal Anand decided to create one using a “screen scraper” he built with Perl code. Here’s a link to the GZeitgeist feed along with some technical details posted on Kunal’s blog. On Searchblog, JB wonders if the feed will be around for long since it’s a screen scrape. On a related note, the Yahoo Buzz Index of popular search terms offers a number of “official” RSS feeds.

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Yahoo Search Translator Released – The Yahoo Search Blog and a News.com article: Parlez vous Deutsche, provides a look at the new Yahoo Search Translator. It takes search queries submitted in German, translates the query into English and French, and then allows the searcher to quickly find and read not only German language material but also English language content that has been mechanically translated into German….[MORE”

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Zenome, A New Human-Edited Web DirectoryCanada’s Globe and Mail offers up a look at a new human-edited directory of web resources called Zenome. Although Zenome might look like the ODP, its founders say Zenome has been designed to overcome some of the ODP’s problems by paying editors….[MORE”

=== July 13, 2005 ===

Google Adds Video On Demand…Button! – Just posted on the Google Blog is word of interface tweak on the Google Video site that enables you to search “all video” (still images/transcripts from telelvision programs AND playable video) or limit your query to only playable video. This is something I wished for in a recent post about Google Video….[MORE”

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Andy Beal Departs WebSourced Over Differences – Andy Beal of Search Engine Lowdown has announced he’s left his day job — vice president of search marketing for WebSourced — due to philosophical differences over the direction of WebSourced….[MORE”

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Rediff.com CEO Talks Search – News.com has just published an interview with Ajit Balakrishnan, the CEO of the leading Indian portal (over 35 million registered users) Rediff.com. Lots of talk about Internet usage, social networking, mobile access to info, and e-commerce in India and China.

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A Couple of My Favorite Mobile Web Tools – I’m often asked about the tools and sites I use for keeping up while on-the-go. So allow me to point out two favorite services, Yahoo Alerts via SMS and Bloglines Mobile….[MORE”

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The Lastest from Business.comSearch: Jake Winebaum, CEO, Business.com, Santa Monica, Calif., from BtoBOnline has a look at the latest happenings at this vertical engine along with a couple of comments from Winebaum.

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Claria Planning “Behavioral Search Platform” – Claria, the company formerly known as Gator, is getting into the search game with a forthcoming site that will use searcher behavior rather than link analysis as a primary measure of relevance….[MORE”

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A New Image Search Tool Named PixsyPixsy is a new engine that provides access to imagery posted on various social networking services, blogs, mobile blogs, and other web sites….[MORE”

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Search Branding: You Want It, But How To Measure?Search Branding: Loving the Clicks That Don’t Convert from Gary Stein at ClickZ looks at how many marketers say search has a branding goal for them but still fail to figure out ways to measure if this is happening. Gary then offers some tips on how to do so, such as establishing a “beacon” conversion event to ways to measure a building relationship.

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Ad:Tech Chicago 2005 Roundup: Day 1 – Ad:Tech Chicago is happening this week, and here’s a round-up of search related sessions…[MORE”

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Click Fraud Case Will Stay In ArkansasFederal judge sends Internet-ad suit back to state court covers how an attempt to get a click fraud case filed against Google, Yahoo and others moved to the US federal court system has failed. It will remain within the Arkansas state court system. The case came up earlier this year and is notable as the first major one seeking class action status.

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PressDisplay Makes Visual Copies Of Newspapers Available Online – Spotted via Robert Scoble, PressDisplay is an interesting site that lets you view newspapers from around the world as they appeared in print….[MORE”

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Chinese Search Company Baidu Files for NASDAQ IPOBaidu files to go public on Nasdaq from SiliconBeat covers Chinese search provider Baidu filing for an IPO on the NASDAQ. The company hopes to raise $80 million with the offering. SiliconBeat’s post also contains links to the prospectus and some discussion about what US copyright laws, if any, Baidu might be subject to regarding music downloads….[MORE” See also Baidu Removing Links to Pirated Music Files from Database.

=== July 12, 2005 ===

Google Employees Affect Real Estate Prices in California Town – The Wall Street Journal story (free to non-subscribers): Searching for a Home In Atherton, Calif.? Look Out for Googlers, reports on the booming price of real estate in this California town due in part to Googlers taking profits from stock sales and using the money to purchase homes.

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Yahoo Confirms HotJobs Crawling – What’s Old Is New In Job Search – Matt Marshall from the San Jose Mercury News offers up an interesting read in Yahoo to ‘copy’ jobs to beef up its listings that takes a look at the new HotJobs database of open-web content that we blogged about last week. The new Yahoo/HotJobs service officially launched this morning. Here’s the official announcement….[MORE”

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Schwarzenegger Visits Yahoo – We’ve noted from time-to-time about high profile visitors that have come to Google. This time, Yahoo gets a turn, with a visit from California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. InsideGoogle points to an NBC report on how anti-Arnold protestors turned up outside Yahoo. From inside Yahoo, Jeremy Zawodny gives his account of listening to the audio stream that I gather Yahoo employees could hear.

=== July 11, 2005 ===

GoogleGuy Confirms “More Results” Display Experiment – I haven’t been able to see it when running Google searches today but a post in the SEW Forums offers a screen cap of a Google user interface experiment….[MORE”

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Yahoo Maps Mash-Ups Begin Rolling Out – It has been about two weeks since Yahoo released an API for Yahoo Maps. Since then, developers have started releasing “mash-ups” that overlay various types of info on top of Yahoo Maps. Here’s a list of a few of them….[MORE”

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Sight-Impaired Users Have Problems with Registration Process at Google“Is Google Shutting Out The Blind?” by Susan Kuchinskas at InternetNews.com, reports that some sight-impaired Internet users are having problems with the “captchas” that Google uses when registering for a Google account thats required to access Gmail and other services.

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International Group of Publishers Asks Google to “Cease” Scanning Library Books – An international group of publishers is requesting that Google “cease” scanning copyrighted materials for the Google Print for Libraries project until “appropriate licensing” can be worked out….[MORE”

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National Public Radio Reports on Yahoo’s Entertainment Play – NPR’s Morning Edition program ran a six minute report today focusing on where Yahoo has been and where the company is headed, specifically in the world of media and entertainment….[MORE”

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FeedPlex Adds Advanced Search Options – Nathan Enns from FyberSearch has just updated his FeedPlex engine of RSS/XML material with 11 new advanced search options, including a couple that are unavailable elsewhere….[MORE”

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Ask Jeeves UK Begins Offering “Local Search” Services – Over the weekend I noticed that Ask Jeeves UK is beginning to roll out some local search services. You’ll now find clickable links on the AJ UK homepage to driving directions and maps for the UK and Ireland. Both services are branded as part of “Ask Jeeves Local.”

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Google SMS Adds Stock Quotes – It looks like Google has added another feature to their SMS search tool. You can now use Google SMS to find stock quotes. Yahoo’s SMS service that launched last week, 4info.net, and Synfonic also provide stock quotes.

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New Click Fraud Calculator – How much click fraud is there? When I’m asked, my answer is honest. Who knows? We’ve had a few stats and estimates, but depending on the industry and the terms involved, the stats could be completely off — not to mention the source behind the stats being a factor. What are some factors that may put you at risk? Vinny Lingham at Clicks2Customers has just posted a Click Fraud Risk Calculator that by asking a few reasonable sounding questions gives you some idea of this. Some background from Vinny here.

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Measuring Brand Value Of Search Ads – Trying to tell if your search ads have branding value? Paid Search Ads and Site-Side Brand Metrics from Kevin Lee at ClickZ offers some tips on metrics you can gather on your site to make an assessment.

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Google Maps Mania For Centralized Look At Google Maps Projects – Spotted via Tara, Google Maps Mania is a much needed resource covering those making use of Google Maps in various ways. See the right-hand navigation at the blog for various mapping projects grouped by category. It would be nice to see Google itself offer this type of compilation, as well. See also A Growing Compilation of “Hacks” for Google Earth.

=== July 9, 2005 ===

Google SMS Graduates from Google Labs But Remains in Beta; Web Demos Now Available – Google SMS leaves the labs and gains online demos…[MORE”

=== July 8, 2005 ===

Google Wins Domain Name Dispute – This news release points out that Google has emerged victorious in a domain name dispute. You can read the full text of the decision here. It will be worth monitoring to see if the Googlepex will begin asserting their legal rights over other registered domains that either resemble Google or include the word Google in the domain name.

=== July 7, 2005 ===

Gigablast Releases Travel and Blog Search Verticals – I just noticed that Matt Wells over at Gigablast has released Gigablast Blogs and Gigablast Travel. These new specialty engines (verticals, if you like) appear to allow the searcher to search topic-focused portions of the main Gigablast web database of more than two billion pages. See also Gigablast Now Offering Government Info Search Tool.

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Ask Jeeves: Barry Diller Ponders Leaving Google Ad Network – The AP article: Barry Diller turns to Ask Jeeves for answers, takes a look at how Jeeves might fit into Diller’s IAC/InterActiveCorp an organization that the AP’s Michael Liedtke calls a “crazy quilt of electronic commerce.” ….[MORE”

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Google Joins Jeeves and Yahoo in Providing Currency Conversions – Via Google Blogoscoped, word that Google has joined Ask Jeeves and Yahoo in offering online currency conversion rates posted directly onto web results page….[MORE”

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China News For Google, Baidu & Yahoo – Lots of news in terms of China and search, ranging from Google perhaps eyeing Baidu, Baidu saying it’s happy staying independent and Yahoo China losing its president.

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Google Invests In Broadband Access Over Power LinesGoogle, Goldman And Hearst Invest In Broadband Firm from the Wall Street Journal (paid subscription required) reports that Google, along with Goldman Sachs and media publisher Hearst, are investing in a company that provides broadband Internet access via power lines….[MORE”

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News Sources On London Bombings – How various news search services offered special ways to track news of the London bombings.

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