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Search Headlines & Links: July 11, 2006
Below, a recap of stories posted yesterday to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged separately: From…
Daily SearchCast Programming Note
The Daily SearchCast didn’t happen on Tuesday, July 11 due to me being away in Miami for the SES Latino conference. It also won’t…
Google Pages & Yahoo Geocities Phishing Attacks
We learn from VNUnet.com that there are phishing scams on Google Pages and we also learn from Slashdot that Yahoo’s Geocities has a similar…
Martin Child, VP Of Sales & Marketing Leaves Yahoo Search Marketing
Brand Republic reports that Yahoo Search Marketing’s vice-president of sales and marketing, Martin Child is leaving to work at Webloyalty. Child has been with…
MySpace More Popular Than Google Or Yahoo
Bill Tancer over at his HitWise blog has data that claims MySpace Moves Into #1 Position for all Internet Sites. This is incredibly important,…
TNT Creates Broadband Channel to Promote On-Air Series
TNT just announced it will create an online broadband “channel” to promote its new series “Nightmares & Dreamscapes” From the Stories of Stephen King.”…
ShopLocal Taps Topix for Geotargeted Ads
This isn’t search, but it is local. ShopLocal has partnered with news aggregator Topix.net to offer dynamic banner ads that are targeted by ZIP.…
Highlights from the SEW Blog: July 12, 2006
Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary search headlines from around the web.
New Search Patent Applications: July 11, 2006 – Google Patent Filings by the Dozen
Twelve Google patent applications where published this past week, including seven that focus upon geographical information and local search. (1) How good a match…
SuperPages Upgrades Maps With Microsoft
I never saw a press release. But today I discovered that SuperPages, which had dynamic mapping almost before anyone else in local (though it…
Gabbing, Gossip & Goings On in the SEW Forums…
In what should become a regular feature here on the SEW blog, here are some highlights from current discussions on the forums: You may…
Search Engine Strategies Latino, Miami, Florida – Day Two
The conference has officially ended, it was a really great event. Huge congrats to Nacho for running this. I am writing this quickly, because…
Google Maps Adds Click To Zoom
Loren Baker at Search Engine Journal points out that Google Maps has added another way to zoom: double clicking. Of course you can still…
Google Jet Plane Security Threat? And Testing A Sofa In Mountain View
Josh Gerstein at the New York sun has an update on the suit over Google Jet disclosure. Basically, Google’s founders argue that the information…
MySpace Beats E-mail
Wow. This just in from Hitwise: “MySpace.com is the number one ranked website in the U.S. based on market share of visits. The MySpace…
A Podcasting Paradigm
Last time I learned a new language, there wasn’t an Internet. Now that I’ve started Japanese, I’m finding a wealth of online resources. One…
Windows Live Adds Search/Personalized Toggle & 34 New Markets
Gary Price points to two Windows Live blog posts including, search/personalized toggle and now in 34 new markets. The first describes how you can…
Google To Set Up Offices In Michigan
The NY Times reports (also try Reuters) that Google will house up to 1,000 employees in a new facility in Michigan. The office is…
Weird Results Counts On Google
I’ve written before about Google giving strange results counts and why maybe it’s time for them to go. Yesterday, I came across the oddest…
Google Drive Revealed?
Yesterday, Cocaman posted a screen capture of what was named Platypus or GDrive. From the looks of the screen capture it seems like an…