Books need an ISBN (Either ISBN-10 or ISBN-13. The new requirements are an attempt by Google to self-regulate their recently imposed Panda update and reduce the number of duplicate product listings. The impact of adding UPCs to your shopping feed...
Mike Moran's Do It Wrong Quickly: How the Web Changes the Old Marketing Rules (ISBN-13: 9780132255967) recently published by IBM Press is a must read for search marketers wanting to play larger more challenging roles in the organizations they work...
See also: Ask.com Releases ISBNNumber Smart Answers. So Long Daypop & Blogdex - Back in 2003, I wrote about a number of blog search engines emerging at that time. Google Base Adds Click & Impression Metrics For Merchants - Google Base is now...
Releases ISBNNumber Smart Answers Radio; Bloglines develops a way to block RSS feeds from being indexed; Google's Matt Cutts
does more video blogging to answer webmaster ranking and indexing questions and more!
Gary Price notes that Ask.com has added support for ISBNnumber searches. This is a neat feature, but I should note that entering in the same ISBNnumber at Yahoo Search gives you a Yahoo Shortcut that takes you to comparison shopping in the Yahoo...
Flickr Hacks by Paul Bausch and Jim Bumgardner O'Reilly, $24.99 ISBN: 0-596-10245-3 Once you've mastered the essentials of using the API, chapter seven offers a number of hacks that take advantage of it.
Google Maps Hacks by Rich Gibson and Schuyler Erle O'Reilly, $29.99 ISBN: 0-596-10161-9 In addition to creating interesting mashups combining Google maps with other sources of online web pages, a number of hacks show you how to integrate Google...
On a completely unrelated note, Glenn Fleishman is also the developer and provider of the wonderful ISBN.nu book comparison pricing database. While that number may seem small, 3,000 registered Foneros puts us at 10% of our 2006 objective in only 3...
Ambient Findability Peter Morville O'Reilly, $29.95 ISBN: 0-596-00765-5 While the book does offer a number of concrete tips and suggestions, Morville tends to lob them like grenades, blowing up conventional wisdom and then effortlessly moving on to...
Peterson O'Reilly - $24.95 ISBN 0-596-00988-7 And if you already are gaining insights from web analytics and measurement tools, the book will likely offer a number of new insights, techniques or tools that will help you get even more out of your...
Search Engine Marketing, Inc.by Mike Moran and Bill Hunt IBM Press, $49.99 ISBN: 0-13-185292-2 There are also a number of chapters that offer step-by-step approaches to crucial activities, such as keyword planning, landing page design, link...
s proposal to stop the digitisation program until 1 November, up to which date publishers may exclude their works by supplying full bibliographic details including ISBN/ISSN (a major undertaking), to offer an acceptable solution.
Yahoo to the Max by Randolph Hock CyberAge Books - $24.95 ISBN 0-910965-69-2 Although I've been a regular user of Yahoo Finance for years, I learned a number of new things about the service that I've been able to put to work straight away.
For example, the ISBN book lookup plugin only appears in your context menu if the highlighted text appears to be an ISBNnumber. Even better, you can customize ConQuery, in a number of ways. Other ConQuery specific plugins include dictionary...
I also tried searching the Google Print "only" database with an ISBN but it didn't appear to work. Remember, with most Google Print and material from Amazon's "Search Inside the Book," you can only view a selected number of pages over a 30 day...
For example, you could bookmark Amazon and call up information about any book in its catalog by typing the name of the bookmark and an ISBNnumber into the Firefox location bar, rather than a URL. Firefox Hacks Tips and Tricks for Next-Generation...
Lucene in Action by Otis Gospodnetic and Erik Hatcher Manning, $44.95 ISBN: 1-932394-28-1 Google Guys Number 55 on Forbes Rich List. A new book provides a detailed blueprint for using and customizing Lucene, open-source search engine software that...
Yesterday, I could go over to Barnes & Noble, find a page with an ISBNnumber and use the AutoLink tool in the Google Toolbar to turn the numbers into links that lead to Today, all those ISBN numbers are already links.
ISBN's As soon as I visited a page for a book with an ISBN, the link button on the browser that was labeled "AutoLink" changed to read "Show Book Info. When I clicked on the button I went directly to the ISBN link on the B&N page.
Today, the company added two new search options for SMS-based Froogle searching: Search for books by using its ISBN (International Standard Book Number) and search for a specific product by using its UPC (Universal Product Code).