IndustryThe Search Engine Report – Number 114

The Search Engine Report - Number 114

Search Engine Watch editor Danny Sullivan recaps top search engine stories from April 2006.

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In This Issue
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+ My Decade Of Writing About Search Engines
+ New Shopping & Patents Correspondents
+ SEW Live In Seattle; SES London & Other Events
+ Top Stories
+ More From The Search Engine Watch Blog
+ Daily SearchCast: Search News Via Podcast
+ Our Search Newsletters & Feeds
+ About The Newsletter

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My Decade Of Writing About Search Engines
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Ten years ago this month, I first starting writing publicly about search engines. To mark the anniversary, I’ve done a long piece, My Decade Of Writing About Search Engines, that looks back on how I got started with Search Engine Watch and recounts some stories I think are worth noting year-by-year. I hope both those new and old in the search industry will find the recap interesting. My deep thanks also to all the Search Engine Watch readers who’ve supported me and the site over the years!

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New Shopping & Patents Correspondents
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We have two new people to welcome aboard to the Search Engine Watch team, Brian Smith & Bill Slawski. Both are now posting items to our Search Engine Watch Blog.

Brian is posting items relating to the shopping search space in particular and other vertical search areas in general. Brian’s done a great job watching over shopping search at his ComparisonEngines.com blog, which he will also still be maintaining. We’re glad to have him on board to help keep our own readers better informed on shopping and vertical search.

Bill Slawski’s done a wonderful job exploring what various patents might reveal about how search engines operate on forums such as Cre8asite and at his own SEO By The Sea blog. He’ll be keeping SEW readers abreast of new patents and what insights they might give, as well as interesting search research. Occasionally, he’ll also post news about search acquisitions, as well.

Welcome, Brian & Bill!

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SEW Live In Seattle, SES London & Other Events
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In May, our Search Engine Watch Live event happens in Seattle. This is a low-cost, half-day information and networking event. We have two panels and lots of time for search marketers in the area to talk informally. I’ll be there, as will SEW managing editor Elisabeth Osmeloski who is organizing the event. Local guest speakers from the greater Seattle-area include Jennifer Slegg, Rand Fishkin, Joseph Morin and Heather Lloyd Martin. More details are available here.

At the end of May, May 31 through June 2, SES London happens. It’s our longest-running non-US event and the first to expand to three days. Then in July, SES Latino happens in Miami, our first event targeting the US Hispanic and Latin American market.

August sees our regular SES event return to the US. SES San Jose happens early in the month, and my timeline on when you can expect that agenda is posted here.

In October, we’re having our first SES Multimedia Edition show, and basic details for that event — focused on multimedia content and search — are now available.

Doing forward planning beyond this? See the Search Engine Strategies site and also keep an eye on the Search Engine Strategies Blog.

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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.

=== May. 3, 2006 ===

Class Action Fraud Suit Filed Against Yahoo Over Adware & Domain Distribution – A class action lawsuit has been filed against Yahoo and others claiming “syndication fraud” over how Yahoo ads are allegedly displayed through spyware, adware and domain parking programs that involve “typo domains.” See also:

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Yahoo & Microsoft Have Talked Partnering, Merging – It makes sense for Microsoft and Yahoo to get together. Microsoft is behind with the core search technology. Yahoo’s been struggling to upgrade its paid search service. Today in the Wall Street Journal, it turns out that there’s apparently a faction at Microsoft that wants to do just that. See also:

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Multichannel Metrics: Managing the Sea of Data – Paying attention to web metrics is an increasingly important aspect of search marketing, with methodologies, processes and tools that can dramatically lift marketing and business performance.

=== May. 2, 2006 ===

More On Amazon Dumping Google & Missing Paid Listings – Forget A9 no longer carrying Google results. More important, this means that Amazon itself no longer carries Google’s search results — and in particular, Google’s paid listings. See also: Nearly 10 Percent Of Amazon Visitors Clicked Off To Google.

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Google Worried About Microsoft’s Browser Advantage? What Advantage? – Google’s objections to US Justice Department and the European Union over Microsoft’s plans for search in Internet Explorer 7 are pretty overblown, somewhat hypocritical and most important, worry over something that’s not likely going to hurt them. See also:

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SideStep Launches Activity Search – You’ve made your travel plansnow what? SideStep’s new Activity Search lets you explore destinations and create an itinerary of things to do once you arrive.

=== Apr. 28, 2006 ===

Search Engine Forums Spotlight – Links to the week’s topics from search engine forums across the web: Ask.com Chief Berkowitz Heads To MSN – With Google’s New Big Daddy Index, Crawling is Changing – Are ALT Tags Back? – Changing Dynamic URLs to Static URLs – BabelFish Re-launches as Yahoo BabelFish, and more.

=== Apr. 27, 2006 ===

Google AdWords Broad Match To Act Differently For Commercial, Non-Commercial Terms – Depending on broad match or phrase match to get listed on Google? A new tweak to Google AdWords means that in some cases, that might no longer get your ad listed as in the past. See also: Revisiting Search Engine Ad Breaks.

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Yahoo’s FareChase: The Stealth Disruptor? – Although FareChase is web giant Yahoo’s travel contender, it’s nonetheless a relatively small player in the online travel search space. Now that FareChase is out of beta, though, the service could very quickly become a strong presence and dramatically transform online travel search. See also: Yahoo’s Farechase Adds Features.

=== Apr. 26, 2006 ===

Google Sitemaps Adds Spam Checking, New Webmaster Help Center & Other Features – Google has announced new features and a new layout for Google Sitemaps, including some limited penalty reporting and new reinclusion features. See also:

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Searchonomics: Search Statistics Made Fun – Whoever said statistics about search must be dry and boring hasn’t experienced presentations from two data giants of the search world, Geoff Ramsey, CEO of eMarketer and Bill Tancer, General Manager, Global Research for Hitwise.

=== Apr. 25, 2006 ===

Google Confirms More User Interface Tests – Google has officially confirmed recent tests with the Google user interface that has been spreading around the Internet. See also:

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Sphere: A New Approach to Blog Search – The blogosphere continues to both fascinate and frustrate, because great content is out there, but it’s often drowned in a sea of garbage. Newly launched Sphere aims to change that with a different approach to blog search.

=== Apr. 22, 2006 ===

Ask.com Chief Steve Berkowitz Jumps Ship To Microsoft’s MSN – Steve Berkowitz, head of Ask.com and the man who has helped steered that service to new successes, has been hired by Microsoft to run its online business group. See also:

=== Apr. 21, 2006 ===

Google Revenues Up – Google’s first quarter revenues are in, $2.25 billion, up 79 percent compared to the same time last year and 17 percent over last quarter. Net income was 62 percent higher than last quarter, various sources calculate. See also:

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Google Local Goes Back To Being Google Maps – Google Maps, formerly called Google Local, has regained its old name of Google Maps — which now absorbs Google Local. See also:

=== Apr. 20, 2006 ===

New York Times Magazine’s Deep Look At Google, Censorship & China – There’s an excellent New York Times Magazine piece looking at how Google’s entry into the country from 2000 onward, touching along the way on Yahoo and Microsoft as well. See also:

=== Apr. 19, 2006 ===

Branding through Search: Strategies & Tactics – Savvy search marketers are increasingly leveraging search for branding purposes, and not as an afterthought, but deliberately blending both old and new strategies & tactics. The longer version of this story for Search Engine Watch members offers insights on recalibrating your search efforts to support your branding goals, tips on protecting your brand’s use by other search marketers, bugeting and measuring results for branding rather than traditional metrics, and more.

=== Apr. 18, 2006 ===

Divining the Future of Search Advertising – What does the future hold for search advertising? Thousands of people attending the recent Search Engine Strategies Conference in New York packed the conference hall to hear Danny Sullivan explore this very topic with executives from Google, Yahoo, AOL, MSN and Ask’s IAC. The longer version of this story for Search Engine Watch members offers insights from the major players into new pricing models, new distribution channels that are likely to open up new opportunities for exposure in the coming months, and the lowdown on how serious click fraud is and what the advertising providers are doing about the problem.

=== Apr. 14, 2006 ===

Search Engines Forum Spotlight – Links to the week’s topics from search engine forums across the web: Google Confirms Mid-Page ‘See Results For’ Section No Longer A Test – How to Approach a Company About their SEO? – Google Buys Search Algorithm Invented by Israeli Student – Should SEO Be Part of Journalism 101? and more.

=== Apr. 13, 2006 ===

Google Calendar Makes an Impressive Debut – Google has released its long-rumored calendar service, offering an appealing set of features that makes it easy to keep track of your own schedule and share calendars with others.

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Da Vinci Code Promotion Puts Ad On Personalized Google Home Page – Is it true? Has the Google home page gotten its first ad? There’s a new Da Vinci Code promotion that puts a puzzle on the Google home page through cooperation between Google and Columbia. You could call it an ad, but you’ve got to roll out the qualifications. See also: Google Promotes First Non-Google Product On Homepage – Firefox.

=== Apr. 12, 2006 ===

Microsoft Launches Windows Live Academic Search – Microsoft has rolled out Windows Live Academic Search, a targeted search service focused connecting students and researchers with peer-reviewed scholarly information. See also: Google Scholar Adds Recent Articles Sort Option.

=== Apr. 11, 2006 ===

Searcher Behavior Research Update – Two new studies examining how people search show that internet users are becoming more discriminating, with important implications for search marketers.

=== Apr. 10, 2006 ===

An Evening with Danny Sullivan – A favorite session for many at Search Engine Strategies is the evening forum with Danny Sullivan, a lively give-and-take between the conference chair and show attendees.

=== Apr. 7, 2006 ===

Eva Longoria In Google Earth & Other Google Earth Deals – I skipped the entire iPod from outer space thing last month because it was clearly a hoax. But Desperate Housewives actress Eva Longoria being viewable in Google Earth is not. Well, sort of. The longer version of this story for Search Engine Watch members looks at some other Google Earth deals, including thoughts on them going into cars and taking ads along the way. See also: Mazda’s Google Earth Game.

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Search Engines Forum Spotlight – Links to the week’s topics from search engine forums across the web: EarthLink & Google Win San Francisco Wi-Fi Bid – Position Preference – New Feature For Google AdWords – Pros & Cons of SES & WMW Conferences – PPC Agency Key Performance Indicators, and more.

=== Apr. 5, 2006 ===

Google Real Estate? It’s Google Base Again, Google’s Vertical Play – New reports of Google Real Estate are simply what we’ve covered before, Google Base results flowing into regular Google. But it’s interesting to see how Google’s delivering on the promise of Google Base as the engine that drives a variety of vertical search engines, plus how it’s skipping the step of creating standalone sites for each vertical. I think those will still come, but the current moves that underscores what I’ve been saying to marketers for ages now — pay attention to vertical search. The longer version of this story for Search Engine Watch members looks at what exactly vertical search is and why we call it that; how vertical search is part of the third generational jump to improve relevancy; why the latest Google Base integration is part of the invisible tabs / vertical creep change marketers must understand; how Google Base will remain the master submission site for future verticals on Google.

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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 any of the Search Engine Watch staff who post to the blog.

=== May. 3, 2006 ===

Google Not Tops In South Korea Google fails to make inroads in South Korea from the Associated Press is a interesting look at how there’s at least one country where Google is not tops or a major player: South Korea. Instead, the human-based Naver service remains far-and-away the most popular….[MORE”

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Ask.com Second TV Blitz Stars Chief Scientist Guru, Apostolos Gerasoulis – ClickZ reports that Ask.com will be launching its second set of “post-Jeeves campaigns” today (see 1st set here). In these TV campaigns, you may notice that one of the founders of Teoma, the technology being used to power Ask.com, Apostolos Gerasoulis will be the main star….[MORE”

=== May. 1, 2006 ===

Microsoft Launches Windows Live Shopping Beta – Microsoft announced Friday that they have launched Windows Live Shopping in beta….[MORE”

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Google Suggest For Google News – Google announced that they have added the Google Suggest feature to Google News. To try Google Suggest for Google News out, visit http://news.google.com/news?complete=1. This is a nice feature to help people narrow down the news searches they perform.

=== Apr. 28, 2006 ===

Your Network Added To del.icio.us – Yahoo My Web Like Features – del.icio.us announced a new feature they call “your network.” You network lets you keep track of your friends most recent bookmarks….[MORE”. See also: Yahoo Enhances My Web with “People Centric” Tools.

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Are You A Click-O-Phobic? – Hundreds of publishers have been banned from clicking on their own ads and this resonates with the publishers, so much so that some of them are afraid to click on any ad – not even their own….[MORE”

=== Apr. 27, 2006 ===

Washington Post Talks About The SEM Community – Leslie Walker from the Washington Post wrote an article named How to Juice Up a Site’s Rank, which is basically an article about the SEM community….[MORE”

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Google Sued In Israel For Search Ad Trademark Dispute – EEFTimes.com reports that Google is being sued in Israel for enabling an advertiser to buy AdWords targeting a trademarked company’s name….[MORE”

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Google Makes SketchUp Free – Google SketchUp launched a free version of the 3D modeling programfor “for personal use”….[MORE”

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Yahoo Adds Babel Fish – Yahoo has integrated the classic AltaVista Babel Fish translation service into Yahoo Search….[MORE”. See also: Google Translates English To & From Arabic.

=== Apr. 26, 2006 ===

Search Engine Strategies Toronto – Day Two – Coverage of the SES Toronto show. See also:

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Arabic Language Search Engine ETA Q4 2006 – News.com reports on plans to building an Arabic language search engine called “Sawafi” by the end of this year….[MORE”

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Yahoo Launched Go TV – DVR ServiceYahoo Go for TV Beta is now live, a service that allows you to “view photos, search for video clips and watch movie trailers on your TV”….[MORE”

=== Apr. 25, 2006 ===

20% Of Google Mobile Searches Are Adult Specific – One of every five Google searches on a phone are for adult oriented keywords….[MORE”

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Yahoo’s Ad Inventory Beats Out Google – Susan Kuchinskas informed me of this post that shows recent comScore qSearch stats where Yahoo’s ad inventory is higher as a percentage, when compared to Google….[MORE”

=== Apr. 21, 2006 ===

This Internet Thing Isn’t Just a Fad – New research from the Pew Internet & American Life Project confirms that the internet has become a crucial source of information at major moments and milestones in our lives….[MORE”

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ClickTracks & Performancing Offering Up Free Stats – Sure, Google Analytics is free, but on an invite only basis. Those looking for good free stats now have two new options….[MORE”

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Marketing to Hispanics Part II Released – Nacho Hernandez from iHispanic released part II of his Marketing to Hispanics report. I have pulled out some of the highlights of part two, with Nacho’s help….[MORE”

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And Now, Google Takes Flak Over Google Logo Doodle – Those crazy kids at Google, always whacking together some twist on the Google logo to honor someone or something. Now it’s gotten them into trouble….[MORE”

=== Apr. 20, 2006 ===

Conference Coverage: PubCon 2006 & SES Japan 2006PubCon has been happening out in Boston, while Search Engine Strategies is going in Japan. Here’s a round-up to some coverage on search-related sessions….[MORE”

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Google’s New GData API Format – Niall Kennedy points to what looks to be a new Google API format, the Google Data API or GData for short, which it says is based on existing formats of Atom and RSS 2.0 (and here). It’s designed to let you send requests for data and get back results as an Atom or RSS feed.

=== Apr. 19, 2006 ===

Chris Pirillo Search Podcasts From SES NY & Googlefasting – I’m belated in getting a link up to Chris Pirillo’s many podcasts he did out of the Search Engine Strategies show last month. He talked with a ton of people on a huge number of topics, which you’ll find listed here. I really enjoyed talking with him about his Googlefasting project, where he found he could live without Google, but he didn’t want to…[MORE”

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A Poster Of Google Search Commands – Can’t remember special commands that help in doing special searches at Google (and often work elsewhere, as well). The latest edition of Google’s newsletter for librarians points to two posters you can print with the commands. Suitable for framing — well, for tacking to a wall, you might find them handy. Need something more comprehensive? There’s also the long-standing Google Cheat Sheet.

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New Search Patents: April 18, 2006 – Is That A Tricorder In Your Pocket? – There were 4251 patents granted on April 18, 2006. Following are five that looked like good candidates for my first post on search patents as SEW’s new patents correspondent. They include a Yahoo patent on money exchanges; a Google patent on controlling access to documents based on URLs, another on personalizing results; Gateway’s social tagging-like patent and a GeoVector’s patent on a rudimentary tricorder-like device. See also:

=== Apr. 18, 2006 ===

comScore: Google Leads On March 2006 US Search Share – You may have seen some rumblings a couple of weeks ago about Google being up in search traffic compared to competitors, based on comScore figures. I’m going to do a big drill down on that later this week, bringing in some NetRatings and Hitwise figures as well. But more comScore figures have just arrived for March, so here they are….[MORE”. See also: Keyword Prices Drop Slightly In First Quarter 2006.

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Search Ads Getting More Attention From Big Advertisers – The Wall Street Journal ran an article named Once-Wary Industry Giants Embrace Internet Advertising yesterday. It discusses the recent shift in large retailer ad budgets towards online ads. For example, Pepsi-Cola is expecting its online spend to increase to between “5% and 10% of the overall ad budget in 2006, from 1% five years ago.” Also Anheuser-Busch is expecting its ad spend for online advertising to double in 2006, to account for 5% of the overall advertising budget. Business Week is running an article calling out the same theme, “Rise Of The Lowly Search Ad.” The Business Week article shows some of the more unique ways of using keywords to reach potential consumers.

=== Apr. 17, 2006 ===

Branded Searches Lead To Non Company Site 15% Off The Time – ClickZ reports on a Hitwise study that shows that 15% of branded searches lead to competitor’s sites, comparison shopping engines and affiliates as opposed to the official brand Web site….[MORE”

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Finding Public Radio Podcasts – Gary Price reports on Public Radio Fan’s podcast directory with over 650 currently active podcasts from public radio stations around the world. You can sort by category, by name, or by source – there seems to be about 35 different podcast categories listed.

=== Apr. 14, 2006 ===

Terrorists & Extremists Worry About Their Search Privacy – Worried that governments might spy on you through search engines? So are terrorist and extremist groups. Terrorists’ Web Chatter Shows Concern About Internet Privacy from the Washington Post covers how one extremist web site warns against using Google and the Google Toolbar (which the post calls a relatively new product. It’s been around since at least 2001).

=== Apr. 13, 2006 ===

Talking With Frucall, New Comparison Shopping Service For Your PhoneFrucall, a mobile shopping comparison service, launched in beta last week. I’ve tested Frucall for books and electronics and found the system fairly easy to use (figuring out bar codes turned out to be the most difficult part of the process). More importantly, when I tested Frucall in a local BestBuy, the service consistently delivered competitive prices. Following is my email Q&A with Nasser Manesh, CTO of Frucall….[MORE”

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Euro Conference On IR Recapped – What? You didn’t make the European Conference on Information Retrieval in London this week? Don’t fret. Xan Porter did and has a rundown here, with one interesting paper from Microsoft Research on how key terms appearing in a URL can be used to predict if a page has a good answer….[MORE”

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Traffic-Power Case Against SEO Book Dismissed – A bit of catch-up, Aaron Wall of SEO Book notes that the case against him filed by Traffic-Power.com was tossed out of court on jurisdiction issues….[MORE”

=== Apr. 12, 2006 ===

Google Buys Dulance; To Open Russian Research Center – Sergei Burkov, Founder & CEO of Dulance will run Google’s development center in Russia and has acquired Dulance….[MORE”

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Simply Google Places Most Of Google Services In One Place – So Google has dozens and dozens of services and search features out there. Heck, I forget how to locate some of these services when I need them. Phil Bradley found a new site that places many of Google services all in one spot. The site is named Simply Google. It contains links to Google Sites, “Google Fun”, Google Downloads, Google Blogs, other search blogs, and quick access to Google Searches. Danny has this listed as #5 on his 25 Things I Hate About Google, since Google didn’t make it easy to find all of their services, this site has taken the initiative.

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Some SEO Resources For Flash Sites – Flash and multimedia content has always presented SEOs a challenge when it comes to ranking that content and those pages in search engines. Garrett French discovered a post by Natasha Robinson who decided to take on the challenge of working on a framed-flash site for a client and making it rank well. In her post she documented several SEO flash resources worth checking out.

=== Apr. 11, 2006 ===

Whois.sc Changes Name To DomainTools.com – Popular domain name registration name look up, Whois.sc, has changed their name to DomainTools.com, Gary Price reports. The name change was because the company wanted to broaden their focus, the name allows them to be a “little more tool focused and a lot more domain focused.” The new name comes with a new design and nicer interface.

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DNS Cache Poisoning & Hijacking Search Results – I reported earlier this morning that some scam artists are using DNS Cache Poisoning to redirect your PPC and organic listings to other pages….[MORE”

=== Apr. 10, 2006 ===

Newspapers Thinking More About SEO This Boring Headline Is Written for Google is an interesting look from the New York Times about how newspapers are learning to adapt to search engines, in particular to ensure headlines are targeted toward using terms that people are searching for, rather than grabbing attention but being non-descriptive….[MORE”

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Keyword Research Tools And Keyword Data Figures – Aaron Wall has a nice write up on many of the keyword research tools available today. He runs down some of the pros and cons with each, as well as gives you a list of items you should be aware with for any of these tools….[MORE”

=== Apr. 7, 2006 ===

E-consultancy UK Shopping Comparison Engine Buying Guide – Linus Gregoriadis of E-consultancy recently published a shopping comparison engine buyer’s guide focusing for the UK market. E-consultancy estimates that shopping comparison engines made between #120m and #140m in UK revenue during 2005….[MORE”

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MSN, Yahoo Seek SEO People To Help Them Rank Better – There’s still the occasional person who I encounter who thinks that SEO overall is somehow wrong to do or something the search engines frown upon. Yahoo, MSN & Ebay recruiting – SEO hits the big time is an example of why this isn’t so. It covers how Yahoo, MSN and eBay in the UK are all recruiting internal SEO people to help promote their own sites….[MORE”

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Yahoo Go Mobile Search & Portal Tools Coming To BlackBerry – The Yahoo Go mobile search and portal applications announced earlier this year are coming to BlackBerry users. The companies announced a partnership yesterday. You can’t get it yet, but watch this page for more. That page also has tips on how to get some of the same Go services now on your BlackBerry until the Go application makes it easier.

=== Apr. 6, 2006 ===

Search Marketing Magazine Coming Soon – Boris Mordkovich has been after me to mention his forthcoming quarterly magazine, the Search Marketing Standard. And I’m happy to do so, since it’s definitely looking real now….[MORE”

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Search Technologists Flake & Broder Speak – There are two good interviews with search technologists out there for us to read. John Battelle posted A Frank Interview with Gary Flake yesterday. Battelle introduces Gary Flake as “a veteran of Overture, Yahoo and now Microsoft’s vaunted research labs (he’s founder and director of the new “Live Labs.”)” Also about a month ago, the Yahoo Search Blog posted “A chat with Andrei Broder” Part I, Part II and Part III. Andrei Broder was the VP of research and chief scientist at AltaVista, and is now the Yahoo Research Fellow and Vice President of Emerging Search Technology.

=== Apr. 5, 2006 ===

First Street Named After Search Technologist – Word via Stephen Green about the University of Waterloo’s Professor Frank Tompa getting a street named after him. And the search connection? He helped found Open Text, which back in the day (1994-95ish) was the Google of its era….[MORE”

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Google’s Many Vertical Search Products & Other Services – While Google Real Estate might not be a standalone vertical search site for Google, they’ve got plenty of other ones. Barry pinged me about spotting a new reorganization of the More Google Products page, where you can better see the search range, from Blog Search through Web Search.

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Pixsy Visual Search Uses RSS To Power Image Search Index – Stefanie Olsen of News.com reports on Pixsy’s launch of visual search at http://www.pixsy.com/. So what makes Pixsy unique? Well, it burns through RSS feeds to generate an image index of fresh and keyword relevant pictures and videos….[MORE”

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Daily SearchCast: Search News Via Podcast
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Want to keep up with the latest in search news while you’re on the go? Try our podcast, The Daily SearchCast. It’s a 10-15 minute recap of the previous day’s news. How to tune-in?

  • Subscribe to our main SEW Blog feed, and you’ll receive the podcasts automatically when we alert readers to them each day.
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  • Tune into WebmasterRadio.FM, where we go out live at 11:30am Eastern and then repeat at 2pm Eastern. The show archive at WebmasterRadio is here.
  • Listen via our Odeo channel, where it’s easy to see our past shows and hear them by using little play buttons right within your browser.
  • Listen online or subscribe for MP3 player downloads via our Yahoo Podcasts channel.
  • Listen via iTunes 4.9 or higher. Click here and you should find the show will load automatically in iTunes, if you have it installed. If not, then see further instructions here.

Here are the last two days’ worth of shows:

You can find all shows from previous days listed on the Daily SearchCast home page. Just select any file to download it and listed on your computer or digital audio device.

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