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Another CGM Contest Spews Forth
This one I actually like. In fact, it’s the first CGM contest I’ve seen in a long while that seems to have a halfway…
Conference Coverage: SES Latino 2006
The first ever Search Engine Strategies Latino will be taking place this Monday and Tuesday in Miami, Florida. Danny will be moderating some sessions…
Google Health Scrapbook: Google’s Health Portal
Via PaidContent and VC Ratings, Google is working on a health portal named the Google Health Scrapbook. From what I understand there will be…
Nonprofits Fume over Congressional E-mail Barrier
Advocacy groups are up-in-arms over a new e-mail obstacle congressional offices have enabled. They’re calling it “Logic Puzzle;” essentially, as detailed last month in…
Yup, It’s Official. Google Checkout Verboten on eBay
If small merchants can’t use Google Checkout on eBay, will they still adopt the fledgling service (which is partially designed to reward AdWords spending)?…
Google Checkout Could Increase Costs For The Shopping Comparison Engines
Google Checkout adoption will translate to higher costs for the shopping comparison engines. Some of the costs will be passed onto merchants, and Im…
W3C Selling PageRank Or Thanking Supporters?
Nathan Weinberg linked to a post by Emad Fanous who notes that the W3C is selling PageRank 9 and PR7 links. You can buy…
Google’s Q&A Database Different From Web Search Database
This morning I posted at SER that Google was displaying results for a particular site in the Q&A section of the Google SERPs but…
Search Forums Roundup: July 7, 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: Google Checkout:…
AOL Podcast Search Beta Live
TVEyes’ podcast search engine Podscope.com has been launched as a service on AOL Search in beta. You can access the AOL Podcast Beta Search…
Business.com Adds Nofollow To Many Links
Threadwatch reports that Business.com has added the nofollow attribute, a method of telling search engines not to count particular links as a “vote,” to…
Lawsuits Over The Google Party Jet; Arguments Over Bed Sizes On Board
New details out now about the Google Jet we’ve written about before, the used 767 that Google cofounders Larry Page and Sergey Brin have…
Dr. Stephen Hawking Turns To Yahoo Answers For How Humans Will Survive; Bono Posts Too
Wow. Dr. Stephen Hawking, yes, the real Stephen Hawking, has turned to Yahoo Answers for help. How can the human race survive the next…
Search Engine Forums Spotlight – Jul 6, 2006
Links to the week's topics from search engine forums across the web: Google Checkout: Exaggerated Claims? - Spam is an Arms Race - So…
Smarter.com Updates Site
Smarter.com made 4 major changes to its website. The company introduced a new design, new ranking methodology, clustering beta, and limited crawling. While Smarter…
Search Headlines & Links: July 6, 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 6, 2006: $800 Million In Click Fraud Or Not?; Does Google Need An Ombudsman?; Google Jockeying In The Classroom & More! (Corrected MP3 File)
Today’s search podcast covers a report of $800 million lost to click fraud last year — or was it?; should Google and other search…
The Congdon Affair
Some personal media brands build slowly and steadily, both in terms of audience and ad revenue, and eventually, after years of toil, wake up…
Search Engine Optimization in an Hour a Day
If you’re just getting started with search marketing, it can be tough to know where to start or which sources of information to trust.…
Google In Another Dictionary: Merriam-Webster
The LA Times reports that the term ‘Google’ has been added to the Merriam-Webster, the dictionary I grew up on. The other day we…