Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along
with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged separately:
- Google:
No, We Don’t Let Click Fraud Happen
We posted earlier about Google CEO Eric Schmidt quoted as saying click fraud
was “self correcting” with an economic solution of “let it happen.” Those
quotes got the blogosphere buzzing. Google’s now responded on its official
blog in “Let click fraud happen”? Uh, no., to say that Schmidt was talking
about hypothetical approaches to click fraud rather than what Google itself
does. The post also links to the entire presentation, so people can watch and
judge for themselves….
Microsoft: “Enterprise Search Is Our Business” (It’s Not) & Google Can’t Have
It (They Don’t)
Microsoft to Google: Hands off enterprise search from News.com and a similar
report from The Register both cite Microsoft Chief Operating Office Kevin
Turner declaring “enterprise search is our business, it’s our house and Google
is not going to take that business.” Gosh — I though enterprise search was
Autonomy’s business, Autonomy’s house. This recent Investors Business Daily
article had Autonomy as the “clear leader” in enterprise search, followed by
FAST, IBM and then Google. Microsoft isn’t even mentioned — not once….- Caffeine
and Tin Foil At Windows Live Search
What do Microsoft Interns, birthdays, caffeine and tin foil have to do with
each other? Well, nothing. But at Microsoft, they have tin foiled and over
caffeinated an Intern in the Windows Live Search group. Check out this picture
of the Intern sitting at his desk, with his computer wrapped up in tin foil
and with 99 cans of Cherry Coke. Why did they do this to that Intern?…
KinderStart Becomes KinderStopped In Ranking Lawsuit Against Google
Kinderstart has lost its case over lost rankings on Google, though the company
will be allowed to amend defamation claims relating to its PageRank zero
score. If it does by September 29, I suspect that reattempt will go down in
flames as well. But the entire case exposes vulnerabilities Google has created
for itself with mixed messages over how keyword ranking and Pagerank work….- Many
Advertisers Are Frustrated With Google’s New Quality Score & Pricing
On July 7th Jennifer Slegg reported that the new Google AdWords landing page
quality score algorithm has been updated. Since then, the effects of the new
algorithm have been rippling through AdWords campaigns and digging deep into
the pockets of many of Google’s advertisers….
Newspapers To Team Up With Yahoo To Create An Online Classifieds Network
Reuters reports on a Business Week article that shows how a “loose consortium
of newspaper publishers” are in discussions with Yahoo’s HotJobs to build an
online classifieds network. For Yahoo, this can help increase the popularity
of HotJobs and for the newspapers, it can help them drive more ad dollars, but
this time, online ad dollars….
Specialty Search Roundup #7
Another week and another set of specialty databases and research tools that
were posted on ResourceShelf during the past week or so….
Headlines & News From Elsewhere
Dr. Google Sends Pain Relief, Marketing Pilgrim- Weather Report:
Yahoo! Search Index Update, Yahoo Search Blog
How 46% of SEO?s get away with not buying text links, Jim Boykin
Wikipedia gets RSS feeds, The Long Tail
The World Cup- The Internet “Red Card,” The Spyware Guide (blog spam at
Blogger ranking well on MSN)- Google Adwords Bot Using
Fake User Agent, Threadwatch
A Week in the Valley: GData, O’Reilly Radar-
Advertising Placements by Industry and Top Sponsored Links, June 2006,
ClickZ
Web Ad Rivals Unite on Net Neutrality Plea to Senate, ClickZ- Nielsen’s TV Moves and Google’s Quality Score, ClickZ
- MSNBowling in
Canada, SEOmoz
New WordPress Plugin for SEO, Natural Search Blog
ExactSeek Releases Search Beta, Marketing Pilgrim
Daily Show clinches it: “Series of Tubes” is the new “Internets”,
Valleywag (not search, but you need a laugh on Friday, and Senator Ted Stevens
explaining the internet will give you one.)