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Daily SearchCast, August 22, 2006: AOL Firings Over Search Privacy Issue; Evaluating Search Engine Rating Figures; Saving Addresses For Mapping Sites & More!
Today’s search podcast covers AOL firing execs over the search privacy issue; how to evaluate search engine popularity figures; Google gets your MTV into…
NearbyNow Brings New ‘Inventory’ To Local Search
The “holy grail” of online shopping is local inventory information. Paradoxical as it may sound I say that because the overwhelming majority of transactions…
Search Medica – The GPs Search Engine
Search Medica is a search engine that has been specifically designed for GPs (General Practitioners or Doctors) to use. Pulse, a UK weekly news…
NetRatings: Tiny Google Decline, But Not The First Time & Yahoo Growth
Yesterday I looked at the latest figures out of comScore that showed Google seeing its first drop in search share for nearly a year.…
What is Google These Days?
Google is a search engine, but it’s also one of the world’s largest advertising companies. And many analysts are now calling it a media…
Google’s Audio Player
Philipp notes as does Ionut Alex that with the release of voicemail on Google Talk, you can now use that feature to play audio…
Google AdSense Begins Running MTV & Viacom Video Ads for Select Publishers
After recently announcing a partnership between Google & Viacom, their new video ads have begun displaying for a small group of specially chosen publishers.…
Saving Addresses At Google & Yahoo Maps
Matt McGee posted an entry on a fairly new feature at Google Maps, that allows you to save locations for later use. He notes…
How Much Is Link Baiting Services Or Projects Worth?
Honestly, the purpose of this post is selfish, I want someone to come up with the value of a link baiting effort. I am…
How XSS HTML Injection Might Let Others Put Links On Your Sites
SEOMoz has some excellent examples of government sites that are susceptible to cross site (XSS) html injection, something that can also happen to any…
LibreDigital Warehouse Competes With Google Book Search
Steve Bryant reports that “publishers fight back against Google,” with their own book search service. The new service is named LibreDigital Warehouse and was…
Aug. 22, 2006 Search News Forecast: Mostly Sunny!
Techmeme seems calm, my feeds are calm, I feel calm — plus people are already heading off on that final summer vacation. So after…
Nielsen NetRatings Search Engine Ratings
The latest Nielsen NetRatings statistics for search engines and portals, with a look at reasons for gains and losses.
Google CEO Maps Missions, Stays on Message
Put Google CEO Eric Schmidt on stage with SEW's Danny Sullivan and you get an entertaining and enlightening glimpse into the soul of the…
Search Headlines & Links: August 21, 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…
AOL Fires CTO & Two Employees After Search Records Slip Up
The Wall Street Journal just reported that AOL has fired the Chief Technology Officer, Maureen Govern, and two other employees after releasing search records…
ClickTracks Acquired By J.L. Halsey
The ClickTracks web analytics service has big news today, that it has been acquired by marketing technology firm J.L. Halsey. J.L. Halsey also owns…
comScore Figures Show First Google Decline For Nearly A Year, But What To Believe?
The latest search engine share figures from comScore are now out, and Google’s nearly year-long continued rises have came to a halt in July…
Subdomains Trademark Violations?
ClickZ has a write up named Can Subdomains Violate a Trademark? In there report, they show how the Jews for Jesus sued the people…
Google Base Adds Click & Impression Metrics For Merchants
The Google Base Blog announced that Google Base has been tracking clicks and impressions since early June. They are now displaying that data to…