Daily SearchCast, Sept. 20, 2005: Google's Internet Access Plans, Yahoo Trust Questions, Google's Stealth Partner Event, "Miserable Failure" Result Just A "Prank," Getting Unbanned On Google & More!

Today's search podcast covers Google growing its own broadband network and offering secure wireless connections, Google's philosophical truisms being in need of change, Yahoo having trust issue, the Google event that bloggers and journalists can come to but can't blog or journal about, the famous "miserable failure" query downgraded by Google from "web's opinion" to "prank," what do do if banned on Google and more!

NOTE: Apologies for the broken link to the MP3 file earlier. It has now been corrected

Tune-in by listening to this MP3 file, listening via WebmasterRadio at 11:30am Eastern and repeated at 2pm Eastern Tuesday through Friday, via our Odeo channel or through iTunes via this link (or use alternative iTunes instructions explained here). Below are links with more information about the stories that were discussed.

• Secure Wireless Access From Google & More On GoogleNet Broadband Plans
   
• Google's Now Promoting Gmail on Google Home Page
   
• Google's Philosophical Ten True Things Not So True Anymore?
   
• BusinessWeek Looks At Yahoo Trust Issues
   
• Google Zeitgeist 05: Featuring Press & Bloggers But No Blogging Or Coverage Allowed
   
• Confirmation From Google That The Sandbox Does Exist
   
• Comments On Web Analytics Packages
   
• The Importance of Keyword Research
   
• Baidu Ordered To Stop Music Downloads
   
• Traffic Power Suit Against SEO Book Moves To US Federal Court
   
• Googlebombing Now A "Prank" And Not Web's Opinion, Says Google
   
• Feedster CTO Comments on Splogs (Spam Blogs)
   
• Can We Declare Automated Comment & Link Posting To Be Bad?
   
• Google Earth Gains National Geographic Content Links
   
• Penalized in Google? Here's What to Do
   
• Checking If You're Banned On Google
   
• Yahoo Cache Now Offers Direct Links to Wayback Machine
   
• Shopping.com's Merchant Account Center Offline for Six Days
   
• More Travel Search Resources
   
• Former Google Chef Charlie Ayers Starting His Own Restaurant

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