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Daily SearchCast, July 14, 2006: Judge Decides Google Can Rank Pages As It Pleases; Google Lets You Just Say No To ODP Descriptions; Microsoft An Enterprise Search Player? & More!

Today’s search podcast covers KinderStart’s loss in a lawsuit over search rankings; Google allowing webmasters to prevent Open Directory descriptions from being used for their pages; Microsoft’s pot…

By Danny Sullivan · 14 Jul 2006

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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…

By Danny Sullivan · 14 Jul 2006

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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…

By Barry Schwartz · 14 Jul 2006

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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…

By Danny Sullivan · 14 Jul 2006

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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…

By Barry Schwartz · 14 Jul 2006

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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…

By Barry Schwartz · 14 Jul 2006

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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.…

By Barry Schwartz · 14 Jul 2006

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Search Headlines & Links: July 13, 2006

Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged…

By Danny Sullivan · 13 Jul 2006

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Daily SearchCast, July 13, 2006: SES Latino; Yahoo’s Expansion To US Hispanic Sites; Google Does Radio Ads Survey & More!

Today’s search podcast covers the SES Latino show that just concluded in Miami; a new Yahoo deal to reach Hispanics; Google &…

By Danny Sullivan · 13 Jul 2006

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Google Adds Supports For NOODP Tag To Opt Out Of ODP Titles

Singing for joy! Google has now added support for the NOODP tag that MSN initiated on May 22nd of this year. Yes,…

By Barry Schwartz · 13 Jul 2006

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Speculation: Google To Begin Selling Radio Ads Through AdWords Soon

TechToolBlog said he received a survey from Google specifically asking questions about radio ads. Most of the questions in the survey are…

By Barry Schwartz · 13 Jul 2006

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AdSense Consulting Group Fed Up With Google AdSense

Wired has a story on AdSense, not Google AdSense, but AdSense Consulting, the company who registered AdSense.com back in 1996. If you…

By Barry Schwartz · 13 Jul 2006

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Yahoo Reaches Out To U.S. Hispanics Via Deal With Hispanic Digital Network

ClickZ reports that Yahoo has reached a deal with Hispanic Digital Network (HDN) to supply web search and sponsored search listings for…

By Barry Schwartz · 13 Jul 2006

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Search Headlines & Links: July 12, 2006

Below, a recap of stories posted yesterday to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged…

By Danny Sullivan · 13 Jul 2006

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Highlights from the SEW Blog: July 13, 2006

Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog.

By Chris Sherman · 12 Jul 2006

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Yahoo’s Livesearch Added To Firefox

Yahoo launched Livesearch on AllTheWeb back in May. Danny has a detailed post about how it is similar to Lookahead and Google…

By Barry Schwartz · 12 Jul 2006

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Search Headlines & Links: July 11, 2006

Below, a recap of stories posted yesterday to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged…

By Danny Sullivan · 12 Jul 2006

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Daily SearchCast Programming Note

The Daily SearchCast didn’t happen on Tuesday, July 11 due to me being away in Miami for the SES Latino conference. It…

By Danny Sullivan · 12 Jul 2006

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Google Pages & Yahoo Geocities Phishing Attacks

We learn from VNUnet.com that there are phishing scams on Google Pages and we also learn from Slashdot that Yahoo’s Geocities has…

By Barry Schwartz · 12 Jul 2006

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Martin Child, VP Of Sales & Marketing Leaves Yahoo Search Marketing

Brand Republic reports that Yahoo Search Marketing’s vice-president of sales and marketing, Martin Child is leaving to work at Webloyalty. Child has…

By Barry Schwartz · 12 Jul 2006

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MySpace More Popular Than Google Or Yahoo

Bill Tancer over at his HitWise blog has data that claims MySpace Moves Into #1 Position for all Internet Sites. This is…

By Barry Schwartz · 12 Jul 2006

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Highlights from the SEW Blog: July 12, 2006

Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary search headlines from around the web.

By Chris Sherman · 11 Jul 2006

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New Search Patent Applications: July 11, 2006 – Google Patent Filings by the Dozen

Twelve Google patent applications where published this past week, including seven that focus upon geographical information and local search. (1) How good…

By Bill Slawski · 11 Jul 2006

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Gabbing, Gossip & Goings On in the SEW Forums…

In what should become a regular feature here on the SEW blog, here are some highlights from current discussions on the forums:…

By Elisabeth Osmeloski · 11 Jul 2006

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Search Engine Strategies Latino, Miami, Florida – Day Two

The conference has officially ended, it was a really great event. Huge congrats to Nacho for running this. I am writing this…

By Barry Schwartz · 11 Jul 2006

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