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AdWords Adds Category Site Selection Feature
The Inside AdWords blog announced that you can now tell them what category of sites you want your ads to be displayed on. For…
Find Great Podcasts
Podcasts are a very good way of keeping up to date with what is going on, they’re entertaining, you can play them in the…
Google Maps Added As OneBox Result
Rob over in our Search Engine Watch forums thread Google Maps + Reviews In Main Search Results and Philipp Lenssen reports that Google seems…
Google Hiring Television Engineers & Wireless Software Engineer
Search Engine Watch Forums moderator evilgreenmonkey (brand new moderator) has informed me that Google posted two new interesting jobs for the London office for…
Report: Click Fraud Rises in Q2 & High-Priced Keywords Click Fraud Rate At 20.2%
The Click Fraud Index issued an updated report on the state of click fraud. In the second quarter click fraud rose four points to…
Yahoo Officially Launches New Home Page Design
Yahoo has officially launched the new design they have been beta testing since mid-February. If you go to www.yahoo.com you will get the new…
Feedburner Buys Blogbeat
In a move that has implications for corporate bloggers, blog publishers and blog advertisers, RSS feed management company FeedBurner will today announce the purchase…
Mobile-Local Search Now In 3D
Point and search mobile technology vendor GeoVector, which partnered with mapping company Mapion to bring a pointing-based mobile local search offering to Japan, is…
Hawaiian Airlines Cries Search Engine Foul Over Use Of “Hawaiian” On Competitor Web Site
Hawaiian Airlines is alleging that new rival Go because Go made use of the word “Hawaiian” too often and thus might be influencing search…
Highlights from the SEW Blog: July 17, 2006
Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary search headlines from around the web.
Lunch with Pheedo
I had lunch today with Bill Flitter, founder and VP marketing of RSS ad network Pheedo.com. Walking up to the restaurant, I knew he’d…
Google Sends Aspirin After AdWords Changes Causes Headache
Earlier this week, Al Scillitani posted at Marketing Pilgrim about how all the recent Google AdWords changes were giving him a headache. Today, he…
Yahoo Tests Redirecting Some Searches To Site Explorer & Yahoo Search Update
Yahoo is testing out redirecting some of those who conduct a link command or site command search at search.yahoo.com to the Yahoo Site Explorer…
Search Headlines & Links: July 14, 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: Google:…
Daily SearchCast, July 14, 2006: Judge Decides Google Can Rank Pages As It Pleases; Google Lets You Just Say No To ODP Descriptions; Microsoft An Enterprise Search Player? & More!
Today’s search podcast covers KinderStart’s loss in a lawsuit over search rankings; Google allowing webmasters to prevent Open Directory descriptions from being used for…
Search Forums Roundup: July 14, 2006
Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web: Open Letter…
A Lengthy “Sneak Peek”
Now, I’ve heard of giving viewers an online taste of offline content, but a 24-minute-long preview? Yup, that’s what the “A Scanner Darkly” (Keanu…
Google: No, We Don’t Let Click Fraud Happen
We posted earlier about Google CEO Eric Schmidt quoted as saying click fraud was "self correcting" with an economic solution of "let it happen."…
Microsoft: “Enterprise Search Is Our Business” (It’s Not) & Google Can’t Have It (They Don’t)
Microsoft to Google: Hands off enterprise search from News.com and a similar report from The Register both cite Microsoft Chief Operating Office Kevin Turner…
Caffeine and Tin Foil At Windows Live Search
What do Microsoft Interns, birthdays, caffeine and tin foil have to do with each other? Well, nothing. But at Microsoft, they have tin foiled…