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Google Apps for Your Domain Live
Google announced the official launch of Google Apps for Your Domain. Everyone is talking about how this is an enterprise solution because it allows…
Winning Big With a Small Search Marketing Budget
Big companies with huge budgets certainly make it more difficult for smaller search marketers to compete, but ingenuity and creativity can still provide a…
New Search Patent Filings: August 27, 2006 – Google’s Recommendations, IBM’s Speedier Pagerank, Napster’s Search
Google looks at search history and user behavior to rerank results and offer ecommerce recommendations, provides a way to rewrite navigation on web pages…
Search Headlines & Links: August 25, 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’s Webmaster Central Adds A Blog
The folks who are responsible for Webmaster Central, the old Google Sitemaps, announced at the Google Blog that they have a blog specifically for…
Google Has Too Much Money, Possibly Classified As Investment Fund
Bloomberg reports and the Wall Street Journal reports that Google has asked the SEC for an exception to a rule that would classify them…
Google, Yahoo, & MSN Update Search Results
It appears that all the major search engines have been reported to be updating their indexes in some way. Google is updating back links…
Windows Live Video Beta Now Available
Techcrunch reports that now available at https://beta.search.live.com/video/. We reported in mid March that the service was rumored to be released in April, but now…
Tim Converse OF Yahoo Talks About Aggregation Spam
Tim Converse, the web spam fighter at Yahoo Search, wrote a very interesting blog entry explaining aggregation spam. In short, aggregation spam is a…
New 411 User Survey Points To Mobile Local Search Demand
Many Internet companies, especially some of the much-hyped Web 2.0 startups, are busy building tools and applications for which no mainstream consumer demand actually…
Search Headlines & Links: August 24, 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…
Yahoo Search Integrates Flickr Images In Search Shortcuts
The Yahoo Search Blog announced that they have integrated Flickr images into their search results. So a search on funny photos or travel photography…
Dutch Farmers Site Loses Court Case Against Google
Reuters reports that the Dutch farmer dating site has lost their court case in Amsterdam. The judge ruled that the keywords “farm” and “date”…
Google Joins Coalitions To Fight Child Pornography
The Google blog announced that Google has joined two coalitions to help protect children online. These coalitions combat child pornography and child exploitation on…
Yahoo’s Panama Release Coming Sooner Then Expected?
Yahoo Search Marketing advertisers have been receiving emails from Yahoo urging them to update their profile information because their “account will soon be completely…
Google Maps Inline With Search Results
Philipp Lenssen spotted someone who captured Google inserting a plus sign in the search results, when you click on that plus sign, it opens…
Ask.com Hires Former PayPal CTO, Chuck Geiger
Yesterday, Ask.com hired Chuck Geiger, former CTO of PayPal, as executive vice president of technology and engineering. Mr. Geiger has 17 years of experience…
Slower Posting Through Monday
I’m away on a long weekend break from now through Monday, and Barry’s taking some more time on Friday and Monday, as well. So…
Mobile Search for TV Listings
TV Guide and mobile local search content provider 4Info have teamed up to permit cellphone users to access TV Guide’s listings content via SMS…
B2B Case Studies: Good to the last drop
How are business-to-business companies tapping into the B2B audience via search? For those who stayed to see the last session on the last day…