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…
Evil
Matt Cutts: Matt’s Evil Twin Brother
Spotted via SEO Home, it appears someone launched an alter ego to Matt Cutts’s
blog at evilmattcutts.com. You got to admit, this is funny. The picture, the
reworded blog posts, and the concept. One example blog post is named How to
Verify Google Bot, then Kill and cook him. Who owns the site? Well, I know who
owns the domain, http://whois.domaintools.com/evilmattcutts.com. Matt, what
happened to your front tooth?…
Indeed
Launches Salary Search Beta
Indeed, the job search engine, announced the launch of a Salary Search tool.
It basically allows you to enter in a job title description and a location
(optional) to find “objective” and “current” salaries for jobs offered based
on your search. It pulls the data from “millions of current job listings.”
Below is a screen cast I performed on my computer while testing it out, you
will need to boost up your speaker volume to hear it (sorry)….
OneSky
Jet Travel Search Engine For Private Jet Flights
Can’t afford your own private jet, like the 767 the Google cofounders own, but
like the idea of flying privately? OneSky is a new search engine allowing you
to book room on private jets between destinations within the United States.
They tell me:…
2006
Online Ad Spend: 37% Increase in ’06 & Search Remains Hot
The Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) in conjunction with
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) released online ad revenue figures for the first
two quarters of 2006, showing a 37% increase year-over-year for the same
period. The first half of 2006, revenues from online ads were $7.9 billion.
Search counted for approximately 40 percent of those figures, at $3,164
million. Like in the past, they do not break out contextual ads from search
ads….
Google’s
8th Birthday
Google put up a special birthday logo for themselves today, since today is
Google’s 8th birthday. Or is it? In last years post, we asked Didn’t Google
Just Have A Birthday? We quoted the When is Google’s birthday? from Google’s
support page, which said back then;…
Google
Talks On Its Approach To Content & Copyright
Our approach to content at the Official Google Blog has Google explaining to
the world how it works with content owners and its desire to respect their
rights. In terms of copyright, Google stresses that it generally sticks to
what’s known as fair use, though the post doesn’t use those words. The idea is
that it shows very short summaries of stories, pages, thumbnails of images but
doesn’t reprint this material, requiring people to clickthrough to the actual
material from places like Google News….
John
Battelle Talks With Matt Cutts & Nofollow Attribute The Same As Meta Robots
Nofollow?
John Battelle has a short interview with Google spam fighter Matt Cutts. The
most interesting part I found was news that the W3C has added a meta nofollow
tag to their page with paid links, which Matt seems to say is the same as the
completely different nofollow attribute and thus something acceptable for to
do by those selling links who fear the wrath of Google….
What’s
Cooking in Search Engine Labs
Many of the major search engines showcase the projects they are working on in
their respective research labs. Want a peek behind the scenes? Read on in
today’s SearchDay article, Behind the Scenes in the Search Engine Labs….
The
Internet, ‘Family 2.0’ And The 43-Hour Day
Yahoo and OMD issued the findings from the latest round of their ongoing
global research project in 16 contries that involves online surveys and
in-person interviews. What they found is that through technology and
multitasking families are cramming the equivalent of 43 hours of activity into
a 24 hour day. They also found that the Internet (and mobile phones) are a
significant part of the fabric of daily family life. There’s a lot of
interesting material in the findings. The top level data can be found in this
release….
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