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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…