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Google Reaches 60% Search Market Share
Bill Tancer posted over at his Hitwise blog data that shows Google has broke the 60% market share as of 7/29/06. Google has 60.2%…
Use Frequency Of Google Products Survey
Philipp Lenssen is conducting an online survey asking you How Often Do You Use These Google Products? The products range from Google Web Search…
Reminder: AdWords Claim in Click Fraud Settlement Due Tomorrow
The approved click fraud settlement requires that you submit your claim at https://www.clicksettlement.com/ before the end of the day tomorrow, August 4th, 2006. So…
Lycos Revamps Email Offering
Lycos mail has been revamped. Storage has been increased to 3 gigabytes (up from 5 megabytes) and file attachments of any size are now…
Learning Search Marketing via Multimedia
When you're learning the ins-and-outs of search marketing, it can be helpful to have an expert walk you through the various tasks you need…
Industry Groups, Search Engines To Develop Click Fraud Guidelines
Google, Yahoo and others team up against click fraud from News.com covers The Interactive Advertising Bureau and the Media Rating Council partnering with Ask,…
Google Negotiating With University Of California On Book Search
UC May Join Google’s Library Project from the Los Angeles Times covers news that Google may enter into an agreement with the University of…
Google-AP Deal Not Pay-Per-Click & Some Further Details
As it happens, I was at Google yesterday when the story came out about the financial agreement between Google and the Associated Press over…
Search Headlines & Links: August 2, 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…
Search Marketers Often Don’t Track All Referring Conversions
ClickZ reports on a 360i and SearchIgnite study that shows that search marketers do not look at all “assists,” instead they primarily look at…
What Is ‘Photosynth’? Microsofts’s 3D Photo Mapping Tool
The first official project/product from Microsoft’s Live Labs is called “Photosynth.” What is it? It’s hard to describe succinctly. It appears to be kind…
Start Google Videos At A Specific Point In Time
The Google Video blog announced a new feature that allows you to start your Google videos at a specific point in time. This comes…
USA Today Gets A Hold Of Danny Sullivan
Want to take a look at the past, present and future of our admired founder and editor-in-chief of Search Engine Watch, Danny Sullivan? Well,…
More Matt Google SEO Videos: Google Terminology & More
Matt Cutts from Google released two more videos, as part of his SEO questions on video collection. These two new videos are: – Does…
Ask.com & Bloglines Proposes Blog Search Exclusion Tag
TechCrunch reports that Ask.com & Bloglines has released a new tag that can be added to your feeds named access:restriction. The tag will tell…
Ask.com Releases ISBN Number Smart Answers
Gary Price notes that Ask.com has added support for ISBN number searches. For example, conduct a search on 091096551X, which is the book Gary…
July 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…
MSN Search Hires Media Analytics Executive
ClickZ reports that Microsoft has hired Harrison Magun away from Avenue A/Razorfish Search to be the new director of media analytics. Harrison Magun direct…
Daily SearchCast, August 1, 2006: Search & Top Global Brands, NASDQ Error Drops Google Price By Over $300 Temporarily; Google’s Matt Cutts Does Video Answers & More!
Today’s search podcast covers top search brands and how they do in the BusinessWeek top 100 global brands; a NASDAQ area sends Google’s stock…
Google Signs Deal With XM Radios To Distribute Ads In Satellite Radio Spots
Reuters reports that Google is in an ad deal with XM Radio. The deal was reached today, which will allow Google’s “advertisers to automatically…