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… Yahoo Acquires AdInterax Rich Media Advertising Company Yahoo...
Windows Live Search has added a new linkfromdomain command designed to show you all the sites that a particular domain links to. For example, want to see all the sites we link to off the Search Engine Watch Blog? Do this:...
Via News.com, news of a news site that wants out of Google News not over a copyright dispute but simply because they don't like it. The site is Daily Kos, which explains: I voluntarily asked for Daily Kos to be removed from Google News...
Earlier, we touched on the fact that Copiepresse was threatening to go after MSN for carrying Belgian newspapers in the way it went after Google. Via PaidContent.org, Update: MSN is latest target of Belgian copyright complaint from InfoWorld...
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… How Can Search Engines Rank Results? Let Bill Count The Ways 20 Ways...
20 Ways Search Engines May Rerank Search Results from Bill Slawski at SEO By The Sea looks at the many ways search engines can or could rank search results after an initial ranking has been determined. Duplicates might be dropped; personal...
The Google Sandbox concept used to be the idea that a new site couldn't rank well on Google until a certain time period had passed. Over the past two years, it's been debated, redefined, morphed and then largely something I'd say people have...
Yahoo adds CBS news to video lineup from the Associated Press covers how Yahoo News will be getting CBS News video clips from 14 local markets in the US to post to Yahoo News. Meanwhile, CBS Puts News on the Map Inside Google Earth from Micro...
Planet Google Wants You from the New York Times looks at Google being everywhere, as "ubiquitous as brushing your teeth." Actually, the Times didn't say that -- it's what slipped out in notes earlier this year on how Google was pitchi…
Google faces copyright fight over YouTube from The Guardian cover how chair and CEO of Time Warner Dick Parsons said his company plans to go after YouTube for copyright violations. It's still talk rather than legal actions: Mr...
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… New Interview on Belgian Press vs. Google News (Microsoft Next?)...
The Web According to Ballmer from BusinessWeek has Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer questioning the value of the Google-YouTube deal and oddly warning that Google is transferring wealth away from rights holders. It's an odd statement, since that's...
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… Selling Information in a Free Web World The web has disrupted...
Several Google offices now have "master plans" written on dry erase boards, but the original one at the Googleplex is probably best known. Googlers and others have added to it over time about things Google might do. Now Robert Scoble …
Google's taken its Writely online word processor, combined it with the Google Spreadsheets product released in June and put the two out in a combined new service called Google Docs & Spreadsheets. Visit the site, and you can create a text...
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… Google Blog: Please Get Descriptive With Your Headlines! A public...
A public rant, and I'm sorry -- but I've had it with the Official Google Blog having post headlines that give people no idea what the post is about. First some recent examples, then why this is bad in general. (Note: Be sure to see my...
I don't have a ton to say about the Google acquisition of YouTube. That's because to me, it's more an eyeball landgrab than a search development. There's no doubt people search for video on YouTube, and getting the leading property will help...
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...
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. A...
