IndustryThe Search Engine Report – Number 112

The Search Engine Report - Number 112

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

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In This Issue
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+ SES Everywhere Outside The US Next!
+ Goodbye Gary; Hello Barry!
+ 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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SES Everywhere Outside The US Next!
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SES New York finished last week, and I along with about 6,000 other people are now recovering slowly. Couldn’t make it? Fear not — SES is heading literally around the world in the coming weeks.

SES China is next, happening in less than two weeks and featuring a keynote by Jack Ma, Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Alibaba/Yahoo. Chris Sherman will be taking part in that show as conference chair.

SES Munich happens at the end of this month, and I’ll be taking part in some panels on the first day out there.

April sees SES Japan, SES Italy and SES Toronto happening. Chris and I can’t make it to every show, so we won’t be at the first two. But we will be in Toronto. As conference chair of that event, Chris thought it would be fun to make me do the keynote. So I’ve gotta think of some inspirational things to say 🙂

From May 31 through June 2, one of my favorite shows happens, SES London. It’s our longest-running non-US event and the first to expand to three days. It’s also the only show that doesn’t require me to get on an airplane, hence it being a favourite. Chris has just posted the show’s agenda, so check it out.

In July, SES Latino happens in Miami, our first event targeting the US Hispanic and Latin American market. Nacho Hernandez has been working hard as conference chair to make this show come together, and I’m looking forward to taking part.

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

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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Goodbye Gary; Hello Barry!
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I’m sad — but also happy — to report that Gary Price is no longer serving as Search Engine Watch’s news editor. Gary’s moving on to pastures new, and we wish him well. Coming on board to help make up for his loss is Barry Schwartz, who is our new news correspondent.

Gary’s departing to become the new Director of Online Information Resources at Ask Jeeves. Gary’s going to be posting more about it on his ResourceShelf blog, and Ask Jeeves will have a press release on it up here. He’s also posted a personal goodbye note to SEW readers here: It’s Time To Say So Long.

It’s been an honor and pleasure to have worked with Gary over the past two years. He’s a fantastic resource of knowledge, as so many are aware of. Losing him is that sad part, especially because aside from being a work colleague, he’s also become a good friend. I’d have fought tooth and nail to keep him, but Gary’s really looking for a completely new change of pace. So that’s the happy part. He’s found something new, and we here at Search Engine Watch wish him the very best. Chris Sherman sends him further best wishes here: Bon Voyage, Mr. Price.

Barry Schwartz will be well known to many of our readers as the hardworking editor of Search Engine Roundtable, where he keeps watch on interesting discussions out of various search forums. It’s a real pleasure to have him coming aboard to do search news blogging with us. Welcome aboard, Barry!

Want to send well wishes to Gary or Barry? Please visit our Search Engine Watch Forums thread, So Long Gary Price!

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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.

=== Mar. 9, 2006 ===

Search Engine Optimization for Podcasts – Podcasting is comparatively new, though there are already numerous podcast search engines and it’s important to optimize your audio files if you want listeners to find your spoken content.

=== Mar. 8, 2006 ===

Google Agrees To $90 Million Settlement In Class Action Lawsuit Over Click Fraud – Google has agreed to a $90 million settlement fund in the class action lawsuit filed by Lane’s Gifts & Collectibles that came to light last April. If approved by the court, it will cover all click fraud claims by any advertiser in the US from when Google began selling cost-per-click ads in February 2002 through the settlement date. Those with claims will be issued with credit for future purchases. See also: Google Explains Invalid Clicks.

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Microsoft Launches Windows Live Search Beta – Microsoft has added search to its suite of online services dubbed Windows Live, introducing a number of new features and enhancements including an updated version of Live.com and a Windows Live Toolbar. See also:

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SES New York 2006 Coverage Recap – Missed last week’s huge Search Engine Strategies show in New York? Here’s a rundown on ways to read and listen to what happened.

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TeraGoogle, Google’s Social Search Aspirations & More From Accidentally Released Analyst Day Notes – Imagine Google “as ubiquitous as brushing your teeth.” That’s how Google would like you to think of them, at least according to notations accidentally released in their Analyst Day PowerPoint slides. Those notes also contain other interesting tidbits such as a TeraGoogle project and plans for Google to expand with social search. See also:

=== Mar. 7, 2006 ===

Leveraging the Global SEM Landscape – Want to go worldwide with your search marketing campaigns? Here’s advice from global search marketing experts on the campaign intricacies for the European, Latin American and Asian markets.

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New French Relevancy Study Puts Yahoo & Google Tied For First But Search Overall As Disappointing – Jean Vironis has published the results of a relevancy study he conducted with his students at the Universiti de Provence showing that, at least for French searches, Google and Yahoo are tied on the relevancy front but that search engines overall disappoint. However, he also takes a different spin on the stats that give the search engines higher marks and puts Yahoo slightly ahead of Google.

=== Mar. 6, 2006 ===

Hosted Doorway Pages & Paid Links Back At Stanford University – Bouncing ball time. Last April, I wrote about how the Stanford Daily newspaper was selling links for those seeking to rank better on Google, ironic given that Google was born out of Stanford University and is very anti-link selling. Then last May, the newspaper decided to abandon paid links along with doorway pages it hosted for third parties. Today, SEW Forums moderator AussieWebmaster notices that paid links and hosted web pages have come back, such as you’ll see at the bottom of the paper’s home page here and a hosted page here.

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Google “Ashley Cole Gay” Results Suggestion Prompts Questions From His SolicitorGoogle may face legal action over Ashley Cole searches over at Pink News covers how English footballer Ashley Cole might be upset with Google because of how its clustering technology is highlighting content about “ashley cole gay” in its search results. It’s another example of Google’s user interface experiments confusing people.

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Yahoo Awarded Patents on Search Ads & More Patent Applications Issued by Microsoft, Google and Other Search Engines – Gary Price has a nice roundup of ten search patents and patent applications. See also:

=== Mar. 3, 2006 ===

Search Engine Forums Spotlight – Links to the week’s topics from search engine forums across the web: SEOs Spilling the Beans to Mr. Cutts – MSN AdCenter Beta – Google Offering Payment Option on GoogleBase – Yahoo No Longer Allow Bidding On Trademarked Terms – Teoma Merged With Ask.com, and more.

=== Feb. 28, 2006 ===

Searchers Still Like to Buy Offline – A new study says that though a majority of shoppers use the internet to research products, nearly half still prefer to make their purchases through bricks and mortar retailers.

=== Feb. 27, 2006 ===

Ask Loses Jeeves, Gains New Features – The butler has gone into retirement, and Ask.com now sports a crisp new look with a number of impressive new features.

=== Feb. 24, 2006 ===

Search Engines Forum Spotlight – Links to the week’s topics from search engine forums across the web: Google Releases Web Page Creator & Free Hosting Labs Beta – MSN Rolls Out New Search Interface & Algorithm – Photos Get Google in Trouble Over Copyright Law – Link Baiting Our Future? – Search Engines: The New Battle Ground for Middle East Conflicts? and more.

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Google Base Soon To Allow Buying & Selling Through Google’s Own Payment SystemGoogle Base is soon to allow merchants to sell through Google’s own payment system, as well as allowing buyers to use the Google Accounts system to make purchases. A quick look doesn’t show any of this live yet, but I’m sure examples will come soon. There is more information from Google here plus a note on how this fits into their overall payment system plans here. Want to sell on Google Base through its own system? Use this form to sign-up. See also: A Look at Google Payments in Action.

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MSN adCenter To Increase Traffic For Advertisers – Good news for adCenter publishers was announced by MSN today. Starting Monday, advertisers will see a 70% increase on ad impressions being served on MSN search results….[MORE”. See also:

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Search Engines Forum Spotlight – Links to the week’s topics from search engine forums across the web: Google Releases Web Page Creator & Free Hosting Labs Beta – MSN Rolls Out New Search Interface & Algorithm – Photos Get Google in Trouble Over Copyright Law – Link Baiting Our Future? – Search Engines: The New Battle Ground for Middle East Conflicts? and more.

=== Feb. 23, 2006 ===

Yahoo To Ban Bidding On Competitor Trademarks To Stop Comparison Advertising – Yahoo will no longer be allowing companies to purchase ads linked to the trademarks of their competitors, to do competitive advertising. It’s a move that seems aimed more toward protecting big brands spending to generate buzz than from legal pressures. See also: Check ‘n Go Sues Google Over Keyword Trademarks.

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Google Introduces Web Page Creator – Want to create your own web page, but don’t know how to begin? The new Google Page Creator is a simple, free tool that allows you to publish to the web with ease. See also: Google Stops Page Creator Enrollment.

=== Feb. 22, 2006 ===

Perfect 10 Photo Site Wins Injunction Against Google Image Search – Perfect 10, an adult photo site, was won an injunction against Google Images, with a judge findind that thumbnail copies are a violation of US copyright law….[MORE”. See also:

=== Feb. 21, 2006 ===

News Search Engine Optimization – News search engines offer companies a great way to receive targeted traffic related to breaking topics through press releases and other public relations information. The longer version of this story for Search Engine Watch members offers specific tips on copywriting for news releases, creating unique URLs and landing pages for specific purposes and tips for crafting a powerful public relations strategy that complements your search engine optimization efforts.

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Google License To Operate In China Questioned; Will Disclosure Have To Go? Google has no license for China service: newspaper from Reuters covers new questions on whether Google is able to operate legally in China. That seems absurd given the worldwide coverage of Google bending to the Chinese government’s censorship demands last month. The fracas also raises questions on whether Google will find that it can no longer even disclose that censorship is happening, something that is the company’s best defense against critics that say it shouldn’t filter results. See also:

=== Feb. 20, 2006 ===

Jeeves Retires – After nearly a decade of service, Jeeves is retiring from his duties at the search engine, which will assume the long used but little promoted name ‘Ask.’ See also: Ask Releases “Jeeves Leaves” Video Farewell.

=== Feb. 17, 2006 ===

Search Engine Forums Spotlight – Links to the week’s topics from search engine forums across the web: AOL #1 in Conversions – Link Development vs. Traffic Development – Google Buys Blog Analytics Firm MeasureMap – BMW Debacle Good for SEO? – Goodbye Jeeves, and more.

=== Feb. 15, 2006 ===

Google Desktop Fears Overblown? – Consumer watchdogs including the Electronic Frontier Foundation are urging a boycott of Google’s new Desktop Search program, citing privacy concerns. Is it really too risky to use the program? See also:

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Google Acquires Blog Tracking Software, Measure Map – Google announced that they have acquired Measure Map, a blog tracking software product. This product “helps you understand what people do at your blog, and what influence you are having on the world.” I haven’t tried the product, but reportedly, it is easy to set up and gives you information that you want to see, quickly. Some of the information includes number of visitors, number of links to your blog, number of comments and number of blog entries views out of the ones posted.

=== Feb. 14, 2006 ===

Finding Articles Online – When you’re looking for magazine or journal articles, search engines can be helpful, but other specialized search tools are often a better betparticularly in the academic, scholarly and sci-tech areas.

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Hacking The MSN Search & Win Contest – MSN’s giving away prizes to attract searchers, but some have found ways to better the odds of winning. See also:

=== Feb. 13, 2006 ===

Google Officially Confirms Traffic-Power Ban From Index – Google’s Matt Cutts has provided official confirmation of a ban on the Traffic-Power domain name and some Traffic-Power client sites, which has been a key issue in a court case against a protest site and search blogger Aaron Wall.

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Gracenote: A Ubiquitous Music Database – Any time you play an audio CD and your computer’s music player automatically looks up information about the album, it’s likely you’ve just used Gracenote, a huge online database of audio information.

=== Feb. 10, 2006 ===

NBC Scores Graphical Ads/Promos On Google – So much for no flashy ads in Google search results. NBC Olympics Partners With Google, ESPN from MediaPost covers how NBC effectively has an image/video ad running in Google’s results.

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Search Engine Forums Spotlight – Links to the week’s topics from search engine forums across the web: Google Publication Ads – New Specialist Search Engine: Kosmix – Amazon in the Contextual Ads Game? – Google Removes BMW Germany For Spamming, and more.

=== Feb. 9, 2006 ===

Data Privacy Bill Introduced, Not Well Thought Out – “Bill would force Web sites to delete personal info” from News.com is an excellent write-up on a new bill introduced to the US Congress that would require web site owners of all types and sizes — not just search engines — to delete data. However the bill, which was sparked out of search privacy worries, might not correct problems it’s aimed aim. See also:

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Buttons, Buttons, Get & Make Your Google Toolbar ButtonsGoogle Releases Upgraded Toolbar from us earlier covered how the new Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer allows for custom search buttons, which can benefit both site owners and searchers. I wanted to highlight a few new resources since then. For Search Engine Watch members, also see this longer version that goes into more in depth on how to make your own buttons for visitors without needing to be a tech guru.

=== Feb. 8, 2006 ===

Google Testing Expanded Print Ads Program – Google is testing a new auction-based print advertising program, allowing advertisers to choose ad size, set a price, and decide how to use the space. Bidders pay only if they win the auction. Google is testing the program with a couple-dozen magazines in the automotive, lifestyle and technology sectors. More information is available on the FAQ page. See also: Google Extends Print Ads Deadline to 24th of February

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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 Danny Sullivan, Gary Price, Jennifer Slegg or Chris Sherman, all of whom post to the blog.

=== Mar. 8, 2006 ===

Google AdWords Launches Demographic Site Targeting Via Andrew Goodman, news that Google AdWords has updated their control panel interface today to provide demographic targeting of content ads….[MORE”

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Tips On Monitoring Online Reputation – If you missed my coverage of the Reputation Monitoring & Management session from the this past conference or the conference last December, you can get some great tips from Andy Beal, one of the presenters on the panel, at his Online Reputation Monitoring Beginners Guide….[MORE”

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Divining the Future of Search – The March issue of California Magazine (the alumni magazine of UC Berkeley) features a number of essays on the future of search. Articles include “Is Cyberspace Still Anti-Sovereign” by John Perry Barlow, “Mitch Kapor Loves Wikipedia,” “Can We Know Everything? The Future of Search” by Quentin Hardy, and others.

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Ask France, Italy and Netherlands Launched – Ask.com has launched an expanded European presence with Ask France, Ask Italy and Ask Netherlands today….[MORE”

=== Mar. 7, 2006 ===

Writing for Search Engines by Copying and PastingClickZ links to a great undercover project by the Wall Street Journal named Our Columnist Creates Web ‘Original Content’ But Is in for a Surprise. The article is written by a columnist that went under cover, and was hired by Web “publishers” that want so-called “original content” for ranking well in search engines. The writer explains how he was hired to write 50 articles, each 500 words long for a total sum of $100. In the end, the “publisher” wanted plagiarized copy for his 50 articles….[MORE”

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AOL Launches In2TV Beta; Free Access to Classic TV Shows – Gary Price reports in AOL Launches Access to Vintage TV Programming that TV classics are available at AOL In2TV Beta for free. All you need is a free username and password (your AIM login should work). The shows include many popular classics including; Growing Pains, Babylon 5 and Beetlejuice. For a full list of episodes currently available, click here. See also: Updated AOL Video Coming; Free Classic TV Shows.

=== Mar. 1, 2006 ===

Google Sitemaps Adds Top Keyword Positions, Top Mobile Queries and CSV DownloadsGoogle Sitemaps has announced the ability to see your average position for search queries, top search queries from mobile devices and the ability to now download “details, stats, and errors” to a CSV file that you can then do what you like with it. More details at Google Sitemaps Blog.

=== Feb. 25, 2006 ===

Yahoo “Search Light” Award Winners Named – Yahoo Search Marketing sponsored its first, invitation-only “Search Light” Awards event in New York, featuring presentations from advertisers including Honda, General Motors, Miller, and Chase Bank. Attendees voted on the presentations, and the first Search Light award went to RPA Interactive for “Honda Element: A Different Animal.” Search Engine Journal has more on the event and other award winners.

=== Feb. 24, 2006 ===

Google Video Adds Video Categories – Philipp Lenssen reports that Google added Google Video Categories. Visit http://video.google.com/ and look at the top of the page, you will notice these categories ranging from Popular to TV shows. See also: Google Video Adds US National Archives Historic Films to Google Video

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Google Mac Widgets for Blogger, Gmail and Search History – Yesterday the Google Blog informed us that three new Google Widgets for the Apple Macintosh’s OS X Tiger have been released. They let you post to Blogger, check your Gmail account and view your past search history at Google….[MORE”

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Yahoo Adds Quick Links to Wikipedia Search Results – Yahoo announced that they now include Yahoo Quick Links for Wikipedia results. What that means is that when you do a search at Yahoo and a Wikipedia result is found in the search results page, it will add “Quick Links” to “deeper” pages or anchors within the Wikipedia….[MORE”

=== Feb. 23, 2006 ===

Baker of Search Engine Journal Visits Google Japan – Loren Baker of Search Engine Journal posted pictures and comments about him Hanging Out With Google Japan. Loren lives just outside of Tokyo and he met up with John Scott of V7N to visit Google Japan. Google Japan’s office is in the famous Cerulean Tower, they lease one full floor in the huge tower. Check out some cool pictures of their adventure at Search Engine Journal.

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Technorati Adds Technorati Favorites – Technorati added a new feature Tuesday named Technorati Favorites. This feature allows you to add your favorite blogs and sources to your favorites list….[MORE”. See also: Filter By Authority is Added to Technorati Search.

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Yahoo Answers Adds AJAX Functions, Better Integration, Badges and MoreYahoo Answers, launched on Dec. 7, 2005, has recently added new features such as an Ajax widget, more integration with other Yahoo services, Yahoo Answers Badges, and more RSS functionality….[MORE”

=== Feb. 22, 2006 ===

Google Launched Google Research Blog – Philipp Lenssen located a new Google Blog, at googleresearch.blogspot.com, which will be a blog written by some of the smartest people at Google….[MORE”

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Cost Per Keyword Spikes to $55 During Holiday Season – A MediaPost article reports on DoubleClick’s Performics data released recently that shows the overall “cost-per-keyword” “rose to around $55 in December, from around $26 at the end of August….[MORE”. See also:

=== Feb. 21, 2006 ===

Google Tops Search Loyalty Study, Though Many Searchers Aren’t That Loyal – A new search loyalty study by Compete shows that Google leads its competitors by far in having the most loyal searchers, those who stick with it exclusively and don’t use other services. But even Google still has nearly one-third of its searchers willing to “cheat” on it and use other search engines….[MORE”

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Getting Reincluded In Yahoo Via Paid Inclusion Tough? Try The Independent Reinclusion Forms – Getting reincluded in Yahoo through paid inclusion a nightmare, as marketer Rand Fishkin found recently? Try some of the Yahoo reinclusion forms….[MORE”

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Current TV Launched Google Current – Dirson reports that Current TV has recently launched Google Current on its own site. Google Current will be a broadcast of the most recent and popular Google News stories every 30 minutes. Gary blogged about this back in August 2005. It was previously only seen on Google Video.

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Google Maps at Night – Peter Pesti created Google Maps at Nighttime. This map overlays both night, dusk and day versions of the standard Google Maps product. The site remarks, “The underlying 128 megapixel night imagery from NASA uses a map projection different from Google Maps’. The two are aligned near the NYC-Madrid-Tokyo axis only.” I forgot exactly where I found it yesterday, but I thought it was worth a quick note.

=== Feb. 16, 2006 ===

HBO’s “The Sopranos” Uses Google Maps & AdWords for Show Promotion – AdAge.com reports (free registration required) ‘The Sopranos’ Use Google Maps to Promote New Season. The article claims The Sopranos is “likely to be the first advertiser to have paid the search giant to use its map technology for promotional purposes.” However, Danny did report that some companies might have used Google Maps to promote themselves, like Target, even though it may have been unintentional. The article says that HBO is developing a Google map of New Jersey “to remind viewers about some of the story lines.” And they are reportedly buying keywords like Sopranos Map to direct traffic to the site.

=== Feb. 13, 2006 ===

AdWords Adds Click to Call Feature to Ads – Seth Godin found a feature I have never seen before at AdWords. Do a search on Artisan Hotel at Google and look at the ads without URLs. The ads have a little phone icon on the right hand side of the link. Click on the ad and you get a AJAX pop up that asks you for your phone number. Google calls this click to call and Gary has reported on this back in November of 2005. It seems like this is the first time the test can be seen by a wide audience.

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Microsoft Buys MotionBridge, A Mobile Search Company – News.com reports in Microsoft acquires mobile-search company that Microsoft has acquired MotionBridge. Microsoft is expected to use MotionBridge’s solutions to power Windows Live in the future, while continuing to support MotionBridge’s current customer base. See also: Vodafone to Add Google Web Search Capabilities.

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Lee Odden Interviews Eric Ward Eric Ward is a long time speaker at the Search Engine Strategies conferences and is considered by many the granddaddy of link building. Lee Odden of Top Rank Blog has posted an Interview with Eric Ward. Outside of the ordinary search chat, it seems that Eric is an Elvis fan.

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Searching for Music on Satellite Radio – Gary Price has an excellent post named Searching for Music on Satellite Radio OR What’s the Name of that Tune? In that post he writes about two databases where you can locate what songs are currently playing on satellite radio channels and search on past music tracks. The first database Gary lists is named XMFan.com and the second is SiriusBackstage.com.

=== Feb. 12, 2006 ===

Time Interviews Google’s Brin, Page and Schmidt – Time Magazine features Sergey Brin, Eric Schmidt and Larry Page of Google on the February 20, 2006 edition. The cover story is named In Search Of The Real Google. There is also a detailed interview by Adi Ignatius of Time named Meet The Google Guys.

=== Feb. 10, 2006 ===

NBC Scores Graphical Ads/Promos On Google – So much for no flashy ads in Google search results. NBC Olympics Partners With Google, ESPN from MediaPost covers how NBC effectively has an image/video ad running in Google’s results.

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Yahoo Adds Features to My Web 2.0 – Yahoo has enhanced My Web with a number of new features including easier access to your saved searches from the My Web 2.0 homepage, the ability to search everyones tags and share them with the world, a My Web To Go button for bloggers and the ability to edit 20 saved pages at once. More information in this Yahoo Search Blog post.

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FareCompare Adds Flight Costs to Google Maps – Every want to just go fly somewhere but didn’t care where it was, as long as it wasn’t too expensive? SYS-CON Media reports that FareCompare has integrated Google Maps to show you flight costs from your origin….[MORE”

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Yahoo Releases Firefox Toolbar 1.1 – Gary Price back in July 05 covered the release of Yahoo Toolbar for Firefox 1.0 and yesterday Yahoo Search blog reports that 1.1 is out. Some new features include; improved stability for Firefox 1.5, one click to Email, Messenger, and 3600, and quick methods of saving to Yahoo My Web or Yahoo Bookmarks. Download from here.

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Rate Yahoo & MSN Evilness, Too – Remember Evil Or Not? That’s the site we wrote about last month that lets you rate how evil (or not) Google is based on current news stories. Growing concern over evilness has allowed the site to grow rapidly into new areas. In addition to rating Google’s evilness here, you can now rate Microsoft’s evilness here and Yahoo’s evilness here….[MORE”

=== Feb. 9, 2006 ===

Yahoo Launches Audio Search in UK – Netimperative reports Yahoo debuts audio search in UK. You can view the Yahoo Audio Search for the UK & Ireland by clicking here….[MORE”

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Searches Grow 55% & Google Gains 5.7% in Search Share – Late last month, Danny reported that the search share remained the “status quo.” The stats from Nielsen//NetRatings shows that search growth overall has increased 55 percent from December 2004 to December 2005. And with that growth, Google gained in market share 5.7 points, whereas MSN dropped 3.1 points. However, Danny says “there’s a danger in picking any two months and comparing” and even doesn’t like to compare “same months from year to year.”….[MORE”

=== Feb. 8, 2006 ===

IAC Revenues Up 45%, Turns Profitable – Paid Content reports that Ask Jeeves’ parent company IAC reported better revenue and earnings figures for the last quarter of 2005.

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Daily SearchCast: Search News Via Podcast
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