Daily SearchCast, Feb. 7, 2006: BMW Banned By Google Over Spamming; Google Sitemaps Rolls Out Robots.txt Checker And Other Tools; Memeorandum’s Awesome For Blog Scanning & More!

Today’s search podcast covers BMW being banned by Google for spamming;
cool new tools from Google Sitemaps; scanning the blogosphere with Memeorandum and more!

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    European Automaker Sites Do Doorways & Should Search Engines Be Able To
    Enforce Spam Rules?
  • Google Bans BMW Germany, Ricoh Germany
  • Google Sitemaps Stats On Most Common Words In Your Anchor Text & Site Content
  • Google Launches Robots.txt File Checker; Now We Need Robots.txt Standardization
  • Which Search Engines Log IP Addresses & Cookies — And Why Care?
  • The Ethics and Politics of Search Engines
  • Classified Search Special Interest Group Discussion
  • Google and Others Invest in Wireless Servies Company
  • Rupert Murdoch on Web Search, No Assualt on Google or Yahoo in the Works
  • Report: Lycos May Have Laid Off Most Its Search Team Go
  • PayPal Chief Doesn’t Believes Google’s Statements About Online Payment System
  • Google: Chat a Natural Fit with Email
  • Targeting Local Searchers
  • Don Dodge Chats with Memeorandum Founder, Gabe Rivera
  • Google and Fiat Partner to Offer Google Earth Game
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