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‘Local Shopping’ Competition Intensifying
Several years ago I was in a room with Chuck Davis, then CEO of BizRate (Shopzilla), and pitched him the idea of including local,…
Search Headlines & Links: September 6, 2006
Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged separately: From…
August 2006 Search News Recap Posted
The latest edition of my monthly Search Engine Report newsletter is now online, recapping top stories in search from the past month. You can…
Google Launches Mobile Ads On Google Mobile
ClickZ reports that Google is now testing ads on Google Mobile. The ads are being tested in U.S., U.K. and in Germany and are…
Top SEM Firm Mistakes
Andy Beal wrote a blog post he named The Top 10 Business Mistakes Search Marketing Firms Make. The first mistake SEM firms make, according…
Correction: Microsoft Adds Behavioral Targeting Feature
MediaPost reports that Microsoft has added behavioral targeting features to the adCenter product. Microsoft has broken down Internet surfers into 18 audience segments including;…
Classifieds A Big Gainer In Local Landscape
comScore is reporting that the classifieds category is gaining very fast with 47 percent annual traffic growth. Classifieds sites, as defined by comScore, collectively…
Google Now Searching 200 Years of News
News search services like those offered by Yahoo, Topix.net and Google are great for contemporary events, but none keep stories around for more than…
Google Debuts 200 Year News Archive Search
News and history junkies take heart: Google's new News Archive Search lets you search back over twenty decades worth of historical content, including scads…
The Search Engine Report – Number 117
Search Engine Watch editor-in-chief Danny Sullivan recaps top search engine stories from August 2006.
The Search Engine Update – Number 228 – September 6, 2006
Search Engine Watch editor Danny Sullivan's recap of top search engine stories from the second half of August 2006.
Search Headlines & Links: September 5, 2006
Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged separately: From…
Google Updates Terminology Of Last Visit Date In Cache Results
Vanessa Fox posted an update at the Google Webmaster Central Blog on what the date and time displayed on the Google Cache page really…
New Look YellowPages.ca Comes Out Of Beta
Canada’s Yellow Pages Group took its new search-driven yellow pages redesign out of beta over the weekend. Here’s what we wrote when the new…
Netscape Search Inserts Netscape News Above Web Results
What’s this? Netscape Search has changed? So says Netscape’s Jason Calacanis. What’s new? From what Jason says and I can see, the big difference…
Google’s Click To Call In UK
I reported yesterday that Google seems to have launched Click To Call in the UK. A search on jet2 should bring back an ad…
Google Opens Tesseract OCR Software
The Google Code Blog announced that Google has “re-released” the Tesseract OCR software to the open source community. OCR, optical character recognition, is the…
Highlights from the SEW Blog: Sept. 5, 2006
Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary headlines from around the web.
Still Time To Pitch For SES Multimedia & Mobile Edition 2006
I’ve extended the time to pitch for a few sessions at the SES Multimedia & Mobile Edition 2006 show this October in Los Angeles.…
Speakers Wanted For SES Multimedia & Mobile Edition 2006
I’ve still got openings on a few panels for our SES Multimedia & Mobile Edition 2006 show this October in Los Angeles. In particular,…