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…
- Cingular
Wireless Voice-Enabled Mobile Local Search
More and more directory assistance (DA) is starting to morph into
voice-enabled mobile (local) search. This piece in the NY Times over the
weekend describes a new deal between automated voice services company Tellme
Networks and Cingular Wireless for an expanded service that will offer a range
of options that are much broader than current DA. Here’s a previous post about
how directory assistance call volumes indicate mobile search category
demand…. - Coke
Counters Bad PR With Search Ads
Coca-Cola Counters Critics With Search Ads from MediaPost covers how Coke is
using search marketing to get the word out about a court victory where it was
accused by a Colombian trade union of intimidating and assassinating union
leaders….
Microsoft Partners With Blinkx On Video Search
Blinkx signs Microsoft pact from Reuters covers how video search company
Blinkx is expected to announce today a partnership with Microsoft to power
Microsoft’s video search needs, such as at Windows Live Search Videos….- Windows
Live Search Mobile PPCall Deal With Ingenio
A few weeks ago Google introduced sponsored listings into mobile search. Yahoo
followed last week. Now Microsoft has partnered with Ingenio to deliver
pay-per-call listings into Windows Live Search for mobile. But unlike the
other two programs this is not being launched in beta…. - Official
Google Blog Gets Hacked After Message On Security
The Official Google Blog was hacked over the weekend, happening embarrassingly
after Google had just posted about how seriously it takes security. It’s also
follows a pseudo-hack earlier this year, when someone else took over the
Google Blog when the company accidentally deleted it….
Headlines & News From Elsewhere
Google moves closer to YouTube deal, VentureBeat
Will GoogleTube Be Announced This Week?, TechCrunch-
Google Video Adds Free Warner & Sony Music Videos, Search Engine Journal
Media Deal Monday: GOOG-YouTube Announce Content Deals While Watchers Wait For
Big One, PaidContent.org
Pure Video – meta/multi video search engine, Phil Bradley- Podcast: Google
Buying YouTube?; Google Easing Off On Product Releases; Google Blog Hacked;
Google News Nudity & More!, Daily SearchCast - New:
Cover Browser, Google Blogoscoped - Google Snags AOL’s Top IM Developer, Google Watch
SingleFeed Beta ‘Soft’ Launch Announcement, ComparisonEngines.com- Yahoo!
Sites and Verizon SuperPages Lead in Share of U.S. Internet Yellow Pages
Searches, comScore - Google
Freedom Browser, Google Blogoscoped -
Market share Dutch Search Engines, Multilingual Search Blog
“Best bet” web search, Search-Science
Companies Slash Web Marketing Budgets, MediaPost
Market share Dutch Search Engines, Multilingual Search Blog
“Best bet” web search, Search-Science
Companies Slash Web Marketing Budgets, MediaPost- Top
10 Search Terms by Category, Four Weeks Ending September 30, 2006, ClickZ
Smarter searching: liberating information from the Internet,
Currybetdotnet
Smalltown, the hyperlocal Web site, worth a look, VentureBeat- Google Personalization Methods,
SEO By The Sea
CSS History Stealing Applied to Black Hat SEO, SEO BlackHat- Picasa
Fixes Privacy Vulnerability, Google Blogoscoped
John Battelle: top marketer according to Ad Age, Boing Boing- Google
Video Adds “Unlisted” Option, Google Blogoscoped
Technorati Top 100 Experiment – Follow Up, Oilman
Current TV To Launch in UK With Sky, PaidContent.org
Wired-Tired-Expired, Matt Cutts- Inside the Secret Google Think Tank Meeting, Google Watch
Web Gambling Law Could Slash Ad Revenues, and Open Doors, ClickZ