Daily SearchCast, April 19, 2006: A Tricorder Patent; Googlebot Gets Indexing Help From AdSense's Bot; New Site Measures Click Fraud Rates; Yahoo's Earnings Please Wall Street; Google Australia Needs Women & More!

Today's search podcast covers new search patents including a tricorder-like device; AdSense's bot confirmed to be helping Googlebot; a new index aims to help quantify click fraud rates; Yahoo pleases Wall Street with earnings; how about a poster of Google search commands?; Google Australia is looking for a few good women -- actually, a lot of them -- and more!

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• Bill Slawski Joins SEW Blog As Patents & Search Research Correspondent
   
• Greetings From Bill Slawski, SEW's New Patent Correspondent
   
• Search Engine Watch Has Strong Bias Towards Last Names With "S"
   
• New Search Patents: April 18, 2006 - Is That A Tricorder In Your Pocket?
   
• Google's Matt Cutts Confirms AdSense Bot Helping Googlebot With Indexing
   
• New Click Fraud Index Aims To Quantify Click Fraud Rate
   
• Search Ad Providers Gaze into their Crystal Balls
   
• Revenues Up, Profits Down But Yahoo Meets Earnings Expectations
   
• Yahoo Pondering Free & Low-Cost WiFi
   
• Yahoo Buys Meedio, Gains TiVo-Like Tech
   
• Chris Pirillo Search Podcasts From SES NY & Googlefasting
   
• Interview With Ask's Jim Lanzone
   
• A Poster Of Google Search Commands
   
• Google Australia In Need Of Female Engineers

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