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...
- Cingular
Wireless Voice-Enabled Mobile Local Search
More and more directory assistance (DA) is starting to morph into voice-enabled mobile (local) search. This piece in the NY Times over the weekend describes a new deal between automated voice services company Tellme Networks and Cingular Wireless for an expanded service that will offer a range of options that are much broader than current DA. Here's a previous post about how directory assistance call volumes indicate mobile search category demand.... - Coke
Counters Bad PR With Search Ads
Coca-Cola Counters Critics With Search Ads from MediaPost covers how Coke is using search marketing to get the word out about a court victory where it was accused by a Colombian trade union of intimidating and assassinating union leaders.... -
Microsoft Partners With Blinkx On Video Search
Blinkx signs Microsoft pact from Reuters covers how video search company Blinkx is expected to announce today a partnership with Microsoft to power Microsoft's video search needs, such as at Windows Live Search Videos.... - Windows
Live Search Mobile PPCall Deal With Ingenio
A few weeks ago Google introduced sponsored listings into mobile search. Yahoo followed last week. Now Microsoft has partnered with Ingenio to deliver pay-per-call listings into Windows Live Search for mobile. But unlike the other two programs this is not being launched in beta.... - Official
Google Blog Gets Hacked After Message On Security
The Official Google Blog was hacked over the weekend, happening embarrassingly after Google had just posted about how seriously it takes security. It's also follows a pseudo-hack earlier this year, when someone else took over the Google Blog when the company accidentally deleted it....
Headlines & News From Elsewhere
- Google moves closer to YouTube deal, VentureBeat
- Will GoogleTube Be Announced This Week?, TechCrunch
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Google Video Adds Free Warner & Sony Music Videos, Search Engine Journal
- Media Deal Monday: GOOG-YouTube Announce Content Deals While Watchers Wait For Big One, PaidContent.org
- Pure Video - meta/multi video search engine, Phil Bradley
- Podcast: Google Buying YouTube?; Google Easing Off On Product Releases; Google Blog Hacked; Google News Nudity & More!, Daily SearchCast
- New: Cover Browser, Google Blogoscoped
- Google Snags AOL's Top IM Developer, Google Watch
- SingleFeed Beta ‘Soft' Launch Announcement, ComparisonEngines.com
- Yahoo! Sites and Verizon SuperPages Lead in Share of U.S. Internet Yellow Pages Searches, comScore
- Google Freedom Browser, Google Blogoscoped
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Market share Dutch Search Engines, Multilingual Search Blog
- "Best bet" web search, Search-Science
- Companies Slash Web Marketing Budgets, MediaPost
- Market share Dutch Search Engines, Multilingual Search Blog
- "Best bet" web search, Search-Science
- Companies Slash Web Marketing Budgets, MediaPost
- Top 10 Search Terms by Category, Four Weeks Ending September 30, 2006, ClickZ
- Smarter searching: liberating information from the Internet, Currybetdotnet
- Smalltown, the hyperlocal Web site, worth a look, VentureBeat
- Google Personalization Methods, SEO By The Sea
- CSS History Stealing Applied to Black Hat SEO, SEO BlackHat
- Picasa Fixes Privacy Vulnerability, Google Blogoscoped
- John Battelle: top marketer according to Ad Age, Boing Boing
- Google Video Adds "Unlisted" Option, Google Blogoscoped
- Technorati Top 100 Experiment - Follow Up, Oilman
- Current TV To Launch in UK With Sky, PaidContent.org
- Wired-Tired-Expired, Matt Cutts
- Inside the Secret Google Think Tank Meeting, Google Watch
- Web Gambling Law Could Slash Ad Revenues, and Open Doors, ClickZ
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