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Baidu To Be Default Engine On All HP Computers Ship To China
Philipp Lenssen reports that Baidu, the popular Chinese search engine, will be the default search engine on all new HP’s shipped to China after…
French Court Preventing Greenpeace France From Displaying Crop Data On Google Maps
BoingBoing spotted an interesting case where a French court ordered Greenpeace France to remove a site using the Google Maps tool to display “locations…
Yahoo Partners With British Telecom For Yahoo Local UK
Revolution Magazine reports that Yahoo has partnered with British Telecom to share Yellow Pages data. Yahoo will add 120,000 businesses who advertise in The…
Microsoft Hires Over Ten Thousand Employees In Past Year
The Seattle Pi reports that Microsoft has broke their own hiring records, by hiring 10,081 new employees worldwide over the past fiscal year. The…
Yahoo Launches Visual Link Map Tool Named Webzari
The Yahoo Search Blog announced a new tool developed by the Yahoo Korea team named Webzari. Webzari is a tool that visually maps the…
What Drives Searchers to Buy Cars?
The automotive industry is the largest player in the search world, in both natural search engine optimization and in the paid search arena. Until…
New Research Shows How Search Drives Auto Buyers
A new study from Yahoo and comScore offers some interesting insights into searcher behavior in the huge automotive segment, with lessons for search marketers…
Study Reveals Changing Web
A report of a new study over on WebSiteOptimization.com has some interesting research showing how users ineract with web sites, revealing an “F-shaped” eyetracking…
Search Headlines & Links: July 26, 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…
Daily SearchCast, July 26, 2006: Google Use Of Landing Pages For Ad Rank Raises Issues; Google Now Reporting Invalid Clicks? Google Parachute (Beta) & More!
Today’s search podcast covers issues with Google making more use of landing pages to rank ads; Google now reporting invalid clicks to advertisers; online…
New US Child Protection Law Might Make Webmasters Second Guess What They Write
Via Threadwatch, Congress spanks naughty sex sites from News.com covers how the US is likely to gain a new law making it illegal to…
FAA Safety Instructions For The Google Jet
InsideGoogle spotted a funny write up from the Seattle Times called Google founders eager to take users for a ride. I’ll quote the piece…
Google Toolbar Look-Alike Installing Malicious Programs
Search Engine Journal reports on a SurfControl release that fake Google Toolbars are being downloaded unknowingly and causing those computers to be contaminated with…
Online Ad Spend 9% Of All Ad Spend By 2011
ClickZ reports on a JupiterResearch report that online advertising spend is projected to snag up nine percent of the total advertising pie by 2011.…
Powerful Search + Social Bookmarking = Diigo
Social bookmarking and search services have been exploding in popularity recently, but I’ve yet to find one that combined ease of use and flexibility…
Google AdWords Now Reporting Invalid Click Rates
Google is now offering AdWords advertisers the ability to see how many invalid clicks that Google catches before they are billed. "Estimating invalid clicks"…
Diigo Offers “Social Annotation” Tool
Combining bookmarks with sharing, tagging, annotation and very powerful search tools, Diigo is an appealing, evolutionary step forward in how we find, consume and…
AOL Redesigns Local CityGuides
Thanks to Gary Price for pointing out that AOL has launched a beta redesign of its popular CityGuides. Here’s the current version of the…
Search Headlines & Links: July 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…
Daily SearchCast, July 25, 2006: Report Says Google’s Click Fraud Practices “Reasonable;” Few Opposed Proposed Google Click Fraud Settlement; Tracking Packages Via Search; Getting Real-Time Traffic Info & More!
Today’s search podcast covers an independent report finding Google’s click fraud practices to be “reasonable,” few object to Google’s proposed click fraud settlement; Google’s…