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’s
Mobile Operations Expected To See Largest Growth
The Times Online UK reports that Google’s mobile division, which is based in
London, is expected to "become the biggest driver of new business" for Google.
Search on mobile phones, wireless laptops and personal digital assistants (PDAs)
are seen as a huge opportunity for many search companies. In Britain, there is
a mobile phone for every person, but in some other areas, like Scandinavia,
"mobile ownership is almost double that rate."… - Ask.com
Sponsors NBC’s Treasure Hunters
I was flipping through the channels (actually, my wife was, I wanted to watch
the NBA finals) and saw some people wearing Ask.com t-shirts on TV. It was a
new show on NBC named Treasure Hunters. The Ask blog says that Ask is the
"Official Search Engine of Treasure Hunters." I did not watch the whole show,
so I am not sure how beyond the t-shirts and commercials Ask promoted
themselves in the show. Postscript: Got word back from an Ask rep on what took
place. Team members conducted searches at Ask for "us presidents" and another
for "mount theodore… - Google
Search Results Differ On Mac Versus PC?
Threadwatch links to a blog post named Google SERPs Platform Dependant? that
shows how a search for a query on Google, on the same network but on two
computer operating systems, can product a different result set. The screen
captures documented show the differences between a Mac and a PC…. - Google
To "Internationalize" All Products
InsideGoogle reports that Google has asked University of Limerick based in
Ireland to help find an "experienced localization guru" to help localize and
"internationalize" all of Google’s products. The PC World article goes into
more details about the job, describing that job calls for an "executive with
10 or more years of product management experience to serve as group product
director of internationalization."… - Google
Yanks Sites 5 Billion Pages After Spam Complaint
I covered a DigitalPoint thread which uncovered several domains that was able
to rank billions of pages at the top of the Google results within a couple of
weeks. The methods deployed to rank the pages seemed to include excessive use
of subdomains, cloaking, content theft scraping, alexa traffic boosting and
blog comment spam. I listed the documented steps here. Some suspect that
Google’s new URL handling with the big daddy update allowed "old school"
cloaking to begin working again….
Other Things We Read, Didn’t Blog But You Might Want To Read…
- Telecom Italia Is
Interested In AOL France, Germany Ops, PaidContent.org -
InfoSearch Introduces Video Answers, MediaPost -
Google Sandbox: Fact or Fiction?, ClickZ - Growing
Wikipedia Revises Its ‘Anyone Can Edit’ Policy, New York Times -
Google Sitemaps, David Naylor - Web Intelligence
Operations: Google Sitemaps is bro-ken…, SEOmoz - Worm
burrows into Google’s Orkut, TechWorld
Indented Second Google Listing – Double Your Ranking Real Estate, Link
Building Blog- Yahoo News Adding
Amateur Video and Photos?, Search Engine Journal -
Plagiarism and Google generation under spotlight, The Guardian - Craigslist
Adds 100 U.S., International Markets, PaidContent.org - Yahoo
Hack Day: Pure Innovation, TechCrunch
Yahoo! Hack Day Recap, Jeremy Zawodny-
"Unlisted" Picasa Albums Listed on Google, Google Blogoscoped
Flickr: we’ll give full access to competitors – if they reciprocate, Boing
Boing- Why is
Flickr afraid of Zooomr?, TechCrunch - 5 Rare
& Valuable Link Building Tactics, SEOmoz -
Everything you want to know about the AdSense API, Inside AdSense -
Six weeks to set your time zone, Inside AdWords -
Google
Employee on "Web 2.0", Google Blogoscoped - Video sites grapple with specter of smut, News.com
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Google
Censorship Word List [For China], Google Blogoscoped