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Thousands Protest Google China’s New Name
Google’s new Chinese moniker GuGe is drawing criticism from many Chinese users who say it is “weird,” “unsophisticated,” and could damage the “cool” image of Google in China.…
News.com Interviews Ask.com’s New CEO, Jim Lanzone
News.com has published an interview with Jim Lanzone, the new CEO of Ask.com. As you know, Jim Lanzone was appointed the CEO…
Ask.com’s IAC Earnings Fall; Not Due to Ask.com
IAC/InterActiveCorp, the company that owns Ask.com, reported earnings today, which showed earnings for IAC have dropped 32% from the previous year. TheStreet.com…
Google to Host Annual Stockholders Meeting May 11th
Google is to host their annual stockholders meeting on May 11, 2006 at 2PM (PST). There will be a live webcast of…
Google Worried About Microsoft’s Browser Advantage? What Advantage?
Google is pushing to have Microsoft's IE7 browser allow users to choose a search provider rather than having MSN be automatically set…
Microsoft Launches Windows Live Shopping Beta
Microsoft announced Friday that they have launched Windows Live Shopping in beta, it only works on Internet Explorer for Windows. It runs…
Yahoo “Unaware” Of Chinese Dissident Case
Friday we reported that Yahoo was cited for helping to jail a Chinese dissident. Today I noticed that Forbes reports Yahoo’s Mary…
Google Testing New User Interface For Web Categories?
Last week we explored Google’s Web categories deeper but now it looks like the user interface for those Web categories may be…
Microsoft’s IE 7 Serve Unfair Advantage Over Google & Yahoo?
Everyone is pointing to a NY Times article that claims Google is complaining to the Justice Department and the European Commission about…
Yahoo Tests Yahoo Buzz Box Within Search Results Page
I reported this morning that Yahoo has been testing adding the Yahoo Buzz box within the search result pages. Conduct a search…
Google Suggest For Google News
Google announced that they have added the Google Suggest feature to Google News. To try Google Suggest for Google News out, visit…
Alexa & A9 Drop Google for Windows Live Search
Garrett French reports that both Alexa Amazon’s A9 have switched from being powered by Google Search to Microsoft’s Windows Live Search. When…
Highlights from the SEW Blog: May 1, 2006
Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary search headlines from around the web.
Former Yahoo Exec Toni Schneider On Life At Automattic
Yahoo’s had a number of executives depart to start-ups and smaller companies recently. Toni Schneider was one of them, leaving last January.…
Daily SearchCast, April 28, 2006: Is China Blocking Technorati Blog Search?; Yahoo Gets New Local Paid Listings; Changing Your AdWords Time Zone & More!
Today’s search podcast reports of China blocking searches on Technorati; Yahoo’s new flat-rate local listings for businesses; AdWords getting a one-time report…
Microsoft Shares Fall Due To MSN Search Performance & Spend
TheStreet.com reports that Microsoft’s share fell as much as 13% today due to Microsoft’s search engine, MSN Search. Microsoft was not prepared…
Search Forums Roundup: Apr. 28, 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:…
Yahoo Local Adds Featured Listings
The Yahoo Search blog just announced a new Yahoo Local advertising solution named Local Featured Listings. This advertising solution enables advertisers to…
Textile Shop In Turkey Names Itself “Google”
Someone looks like they named a store in Istanbul, Turkey “Google.” An anonymous reader sent me a link to this picture of…
Technorati Blocked In China
Technorati has reportedly been blocked from users in China. China controls which Web sites are accessible to the Chinese population, Technorati is…
Daily SearchCast, April 27, 2006: Mainstream Media And SEO; Does Google’s Brand Factor Make It Seem More Relevant; New Microsoft Certified Spam Tools & More!
Today’s search podcast covers the Washington Post looking at search engine optimization; Google’s results rated as less relevant if the Google logo…
Are You A Click-O-Phobic?
This morning I wrote about ad click-o-phobia, a new condition setting in with publishers. Basically, publishers that have contextual ads (AdSense, YPN,…
Google Translates English To & From Arabic
Philipp Lenssen reports that Google one-upped Yahoo’s Babel Fish by adding English to Arabic & Arabic to English to the Google Translate…
Change Your Time Zone Once & Only Once At AdWords
Last night Google announced at the AdWords blog that you will be able to change your time zone on the account level.…
Google Finally Hires Two New Chefs
MercuryNews.com reports that Google has hired two new executive chefs, Scott Giambastiani of San Mateo’s high-end Viognier restaurant and Steve Petusevsky, a…
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