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Getting Ready For The Holidays
Search & the Holiday Season from Kevin Ryan at iMedia Connection has him looking at tips to help you get ready for the holiday shopping period, in terms…
Codase For Seeking Open Source Code
Codase is a new search engine designed to let you seek open source code. It apparently understand code as code, rather…
Pokemon Meets Advertising Week?
Fond of advertising spokes-characters and slogans? Collect all 52! That’s the idea behind a digital trading cards game cooked up by Yahoo!…
Community-Built Wikipedia’s Strengths & Weaknesses
Everybody helps write Wikipedia from the Richmond Times Dispatch is a nice overview on how Wikipedia is assembled by a community, a…
Looking At Google Bombs, But Not Very Well
Spotted via Phil Bradley, Deconstructing Google bombs from First Monday tries to analyze two link bombs to determine how much they are…
WebPosition 4 Released
Long-time rank checking and page analysis tool WebPosition is out now as WebPosition 4. Haven’t seen any reviews yet, from the company…
How To Get “Unsafe” Results At Google & Yahoo
Google UnSafeSearch and Yahoo UnSafeSearch are ways billed to find content that both search engines DO NOT consider safe for family-friendly viewing.…
Redirection Resources
Trying to understand more about redirection as it applies to seach marketing? Todd over at Stuntdubl lists a few resources you may…
Spyware Changing Google Results
Program hijacks Google searches, gives fake results from the Washington Post talks about yet another program that replaces Google search results. There’s…
On Search, Students, and Libraries
As a librarian I was happy to read Jim Hedger’s post, Hey Yahoo, Google and MSN – School Kids Use Search Engines…
Yahoo War — Pit Two Terms Against Each Other To See Who Wins By Count
We’ve written many, many times before that search result counts can mean little in terms of actual popularity. With that caveat in…
New SEM/SEO Quiz To Test Your Knowledge
I had a lot of fun taking an SEO quiz that SEOmoz hosted back in May. Now there’s a new one. Intro…
Yahoo!: Syndicating Ads to the Desktop
Many who keep a close watch on the numerous and convoluted syndication deals that riddle the search marketing landscape will know Yahoo!…
WashingtonPost.com Gives Bloggers Link-Love
WashingtonPost.com has teamed up with Technorati to add links alongside news stories on the WashingtonPost.com site to blogs that link to that…
The Ad Network’s Ad Network
I don’t fully understand the technology behind Right Media, a remnant inventory ad network and publisher-side ad optimization firm founded by former…
Answers.com Unveils Toolkit for Educators
Late last week Answers.com launched their “Teacher Toolkit.” It’s an innovative way for Answers.com to alert one community of users to tools…
Worms Smoked Out of Holes
Now hear this, spammers: The FBI teamed with Turkish and Moroccan authorities and nabbed the bad guys behind authoring and distributing the…
Internet and Interactive at WPP
Trudging through WPP Group’s impressive results released today I caught this little tidbit in a discusson if the holding company’s media business:…
O’Reilly In Debate Over Link Selling
I wrote back in April about how the sale of off-topic links to advertisers looking for search ranking boosts had become well…
Your Job vs. The Algorithm
Our inimitable columnist Sean Carton found what may be the best-ever example of Web marketing gone horribly, horribly wrong. He shared it…
We’re Live!
The blog’s up at last! A little background on why we finally decided to blog is here. Thanks very much for taking…
More Testing Of Middle Of The Page Query Refinement At Google
The Googleplex is playing with its search results again. Out is the "Dissatisfied" query refinement we wrote about earlier this month. In…
Copernic Still Wants Their Mamma.com
Clickz is reporting that the deal that has Mamma.com acquiring desktop/enterprise search provider, Copernic.com, is back on. Mamma.com’s plans to acquire Copernic…
Using Brackets To Illustrate Queries
How to write queries from Google software engineer Matt Cutts is a nice look at how Googlers internally represent queries, so that…
Answers.com and Opera Announce Partnership
According to a News.com story and this news release, access to the Answers.com database will be built into the Opera web browser…
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