Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search
Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged
separately:
From The SEW Blog…
New
Interview on Belgian Press vs. Google News (Microsoft Next?)
Sean Daly, from Groklaw, interviewed Margaret Boribon of Copiepresse on
September 28th about their copyright lawsuit against Google, which targets the
use of Belgian news in Google News, and cached copies of those articles. He
has posted their discussion, in English and French, as well as some commentary
and analysis of the litigation, including some late breaking news involving
demands made by Copiepresse for MSN, and a potential new plaintiff. I’ve
written a brief synopsis of some of the points she raises in the interview at
SEO by the Sea. Danny also talked with Margaret Boribon earlier in
September….
Google’s
Blogspot.com Down, Blogger Content Inaccessible
It seems like most of the morning, Google’s Blogspot service that hosts
Blogger blogs has been down. For example, I have been trying to access any of
the various official Google blogs such as the main one here, and they all time
out or return a 500 server error. The same is true for the Google Press Blog,
as well as any site using the blogspot.com domain, it seems. FYI – it seems
that www.blogger.com is also down….
How To
Make Custom Search Engine With Live Search
The Live Search blog posted today tips on how to build a custom search engine
that pulls pages back from sites you select. It seems very similar to when MSN
Search added “Search Macros” at the end of March of this year. Yahoo Search
Builder and Eureskter have similar offerings….
New Tool
Measures Your Blog Juice
Text Link Ads has released a new fun tool named Blog Juice Calculator. You
basically enter in your site/blog URL, and it tells you have juicy your site
is. Search Engine Watch is a whooping 8.8, the SEW Blog is an 8.6, my search
blog is a 8.3. Patrick Gavin of Text Link Ads told me, “Blog Juice calculates
its score from Bloglines RSS subscriber data, Alexa rank, Technorati rank, and
Technorati inlinks. It is not a perfectly accurate data tool but is fun to
compare your blog to others in your vertical.”…
Google
For Educators & Become A “Google Certified Teacher”
Google has launched a special Google For Educators site with designed for
teachers and educators. The site consolidates many of Google’s products in one
area, where each product is pitched to educators with special guidance about
how it might be used by teachers and educators. If you are an educator, you
can become a “Google Certified Teacher” by attending the Google Teacher
Academy….
University of Wisconsin-Madison Joins Google Book Search Project
University of Wisconsin-Madison is the next university to join Google’s Book
Search Project. The University has one of the largest collections of
historical documents and books in the US, accounting for about 7.2 million
holdings. The University houses the famous Wisconsin Historical Society
Library which is also part of this project. The University of
Wisconsin-Madison has their release here and Google has their release here and
Reuters has their article here….
Resources For Finding Statistics For Any Web Site
Rand over at SEOMoz wrote an excellent post detailing all the different
resources publicly available to gather statistical data on pretty much any web
site out there. He breaks down the tools into several parts including
“Technical Data,” “Ownership/Hosting Data,” “Statistics/Popularity Data,”
“Search Engine Indexing Data,” “Link Data,” “Social Tagging Data,”
“Third-Party Trust Metrics,” “Important Directory & Site Listings,” and “Press
& Media Mentions.” This comprehensive list of resources is bookmark-worthy and
I seriously hope Rand keeps this particular post up-to-date….
Bug
Leaves Advertisers Unable To Change Ads On Yahoo
As I reported at reported at Search Engine Roundtable twice already, Yahoo has
left their search advertising customers out to dry. Advertisers and agencies
are reporting they are unable to properly manage their accounts due to a 3+
day old bug in the Yahoo Search Marketing system. Email responses back to
Yahoo customers state that Yahoo is aware of the problem but have “no
estimated date or time frame for the issue to be resolved.” One person emailed
Search Engine Watch saying, “Users are unable to view the remaining balance in
their accounts, nor are we able to modify or…
Ballmer:
YouTube Overvalued & Google Transferring Wealth From Content Owners
The Web According to Ballmer from BusinessWeek has Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer
questioning the value of the Google-YouTube deal and oddly warning that Google
is transferring wealth away from rights holders. It’s an odd statement, since
that’s what Microsoft wants to do as well….
Ask
Mobile Search Launches
Ask.com has launched a mobile search product at m.ask.com or mobile.ask.com.
Ask Mobile is optimized for mobile devices and uses Skweezer throughout to
improve readability and download speed on your mobile device. Navigating Ask
Mobile was a pleasure on my Treo. You click on links, navigate to them, but
especially nice is the ability to type in a number that corresponds to the
link you want to navigate to….
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