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April Fool’s Day 2006 & Search
I don’t do any work over the weekends, so I’m playing some catch-up on Saturday’s April Fool’s Madness in the search world. What have we got? Google Romance…
Three New Microsoft Search Patent Applications
Gary Price reports on three new Microsoft patent applications that were published yesterday. One on spam, the others on advertising. The first…
Google Talk Adds Buddy Avatars
Angelo Embuldeniya found a new version of Google Talk that allows you to add buddy avatars to your profile. You can either…
More On Google Health & Bosworth’s Involvement
Philipp Lenssen writes of an “anonymous” source that tells him Google has a project named “Google Health.” Google Health supposedly building out…
MSN Local Adds Send To Mobile Phone Feature
Russell Beattie reports that MSN Local has added “Send To Mobile” feature from your business listing. For example, go to my listing…
Search Forums Roundup: Mar. 31, 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:…
How To Add Your Local Business Ad In Google AdWords
I just posted about Google’s New Local Business Ads, but this entry is going to take you step by step on how…
Google’s New Local Business Ads
Google has launched, as expected, Local Business Ads. The official overview page from Google can be found here. ClickZ has their write…
Dulance Dies, While StreetPrices Has Cool Product Tree View
Brian Smith at ComparisonEngines.com reports that the newish Dulance shopping search engine seems to be gone. I certainly can’t reach it at…
Optimize Your Blog For Google Finance
Danny mentioned in his write-up on Google Finance that it shows both Google News results and Google Blog Search results on the…
Ask.com Gets Good Mossberg Review in WSJ
Gary Price points to a write up by tech guru Walter Mossberg in the Wall Street Journal, where he says “Ask holds…
Google TV Coming Soon?
Today, there have been a couple of people bringing up the topic of Google hiring TV engineers. They both point to an…
China Search Market Usage To Expect Decline In Growth
Shak informed me about this article that shows the growth of China’s search engine market is expected to slow down over the…
Protecting Your Online Intellectual Property
The law is still in its formative stages when it comes to the web, search engines and other online technologies. What do…
Justice Department Subpoenas Data From 34 Others Companies
Google, Yahoo, MSN and AOL are not the only ones subpoenaed to give over their data to the government. InformationWeek reports 34…
Keyword Trademark Infringement Case To Go To Court
Elinor Mills at News.com reports that a case where a competitor purchases a trademarked name in its PPC campaign is going to…
The Google Portal
Last week’s launch of Google Finance revived the entire “Is Google A Portal” question. I previously wrote in my article on how…
Trademark Protection, Copyright and Search Engines
What do you do when someone is playing fast and loose with your intellectual property online? A panel of legal experts offer…
Google To Issue 5.3 Million Additional Shares
Google has just filled with the SEC a supplement to Prospectus dated March 29, 2006, which shows that they are offering 5,300,000…
Google Reaches Definitive Agreement To Buy 5% Stake In AOL
Reuters reports that Google has finally reached an agreement with AOL to buy a 5% stake in the company. You can view…
Measuring the Quality of Blog Advertising Campaigns
A new study from Receptional suggests that Google’s PageRank and the cost of an advertising campaign are particularly bad indicators of the…
Google AdSense Launched German Language Support Blog
The Google AdSense blog informed us of the launch of the Inside AdSense German blog. I hear that German is an incredibly…
Yahoo Japan To Buy Japan Net Bank To Better Enable Online Commerce
Yahoo Japan reportedly is going to close a deal with Japan Net Bank, owned by Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, as early as…
Yahoo Search Index Update & Increased Slurp Activity Expected
The Yahoo blog announced yesterday that there was a new index update this past weekend. You may notice changes in the search…
Matt Cutts Offers Q & A On Recent Google Questions
Matt Cutts posted a blog entry yesterday answering some of the questions he have received over and over again in regards to…
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