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Daily SearchCast, August 18, 2006: Google Execs Selling Stock; Washington Post Selling Text Links; Honestly, It’s Go Ogle Checkout Not Google Checkout & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Googler execs selling stock but not buying; is the Washington Post’s new text links ad program for bloggers heading for problems with search engines?;…
More On Google’s Warp Speed Run Into The Star Trek Convention
I wrote earlier about how Google was going to be hunting for engineers at the 5th Annual Official Star Trek Convention this…
Googlers Only Have Sold GOOG Stock – Cause Of Drop In Stock Price?
Bloomberg has a very interesting report on why they believe Google’s stock has been falling this year, down about 7 percent this…
Google Data Refresh: More Supplemental Results?
Wednesday night, Thursday morning, forum threads starting popping up about a Google “data refresh” taking place. A data refresh is like a…
Aug. 18, 2006 Search News Forecast: Sunny!
After reviewing Techmeme, scanning over 100 feeds and consulting with Barry Schwartz on search forums activity, the official Search Engine Watch Blog…
Search Forums Roundup: August 18, 2006
Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web:Google…
Search Headlines & Links: August 17, 2006
Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged…
Seevast: It’s Kanoodle & More
Catching up on some industry news earlier this month, Kanoodle has done some restructuring. Previously, Kanoodle offered both search and contextual ads.…
Daily SearchCast, August 17, 2006: Hot Search Blogs; GoogleTalk Gets New Features; Filing Time For Yahoo Click Fraud Settlement; Beaming Up Google Engineers & More!
Today’s search podcast covers finding search news via top search blogs; Google launches free WiFi; GoogleTalk gets new features; Google Analytics opens…
Google AdSense Prompts Ad Viewers to Download Third Party Applications
When you visit a site with Google AdSense ads, you would hardly expect the ads to trigger an auto-install prompt window to…
Human Rights Group & UK House of Commons Demand Google, Yahoo, & Microsoft To Stop Censorship
Earlier this week, GameShout.com published an article reporting that Human Rights Watch group in New York told Google, Yahoo and Microsoft to…
Ask.com Adds DVD & TV Data To Movie Smart Answers
The Ask.com Blog announced an upgrade to their movie Smart Answer feature that adds DVD purchase information and TV data. Here is…
Former Yahoo China Head Sues Yahoo For Defamation
Reuters reports that Zhou Hongyi, the former head of Yahoo China, has sued Yahoo for defamation. Yahoo said they were about to…
Aug. 17, 2006 Search News Forecast: Mostly Sunny
Today, a new feature, our daily search news forecast. I can’t say we’ll do this everyday, but we thought it might be…
Google Talk Gains Voicemail, Music Status, Photo & File Sharing Features
Google has announced that its Google Talk instant messaging platform now allows you to share files with other Google Talk users by…
Expose: Search Engine Bloggers Tell All
There is nothing like getting good scoop, and this is exactly what the panelists served up during the 2006 SES San Jose…
The Inside Scoop from Search Bloggers
The major search engines all have unofficial bloggers talking about what’s going on in their respective companies. At a recent SES session,…
Google Music Trends: See What Google Talkers Are Listening To
Garett Rogers spotted the release of Google Music Trends. The Google Labs has it listed and described as "See what music is…
Search Headlines & Links: August 16, 2006
Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged…
Orkut Causing Trouble In Brazil Again
Komfie Manalo reports that Brazil has threatened to bring Google to court over their social networking application, Orkut, again. Yesterday, the Federal…
Yahoo Partners With Go2 For Mobile Search Ads
Forbes reports that Yahoo has signed an agreement with Go2, a mobile Yellow Pages directory service, to offer Yahoo sponsored search listings…
Google WiFi Hits Mountain View For Free
Google is providing a free WiFi network under “GoogleWifi” (802.11b/g) in Mountain View, CA. Anyone can use it, including business, visitors and…
Yahoo Releases Yahoo Answers API
The Yahoo Search Blog announced the release of the Yahoo Answers API. The API will allow developers to pull questions from the…
More than Organizing Photos? Google Acquires Neven Vision
Adrian Graham, Picasa’s Product Manager, made a post Tuesday morning on the Official Google Blog titled A better way to organize photos?…
Who’s Who in Social Search
Many players, big and small, are working in the social search space. Here's a look at who's doing what to harness the…
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