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SEMPO & Fair Isaac Team Up To Study Click Fraud
ClickZ reports that SEMPO and Fair Isaac have teamed up to study PPC click fraud. Fair Isaac is the organization that developed FICO scores…
Yahoo Sued For Trademark Infringement Using Google AdWords
DenverPost.com reports that Yahoo was sued by lovecity.com for bidding on the lovecity.com trademark in Google AdWords. Reportedly, Yahoo placed bids on “www.lovecity” and…
Google Buys Headquarters For $319 Million
Last night I was notified of a SEC Filing showing Google has entered into an agreement to purchase their headquarters (The GooglePlex) for $319…
Netscape Aims To Be Digg 2.0, Slashdot 3.0 With Community News Model
I was never a big Slashdot fan, given that I found the conversations about search often had comments from people who didn’t know what…
SEO for All the News That’s Fit to Search
The New York Times has one of the most popular news web sites, but until this year that was largely because of the strength…
New Yahoo Publisher Network Changes Focus on New Publishers
Yahoo Publisher Network released a new version of the control panel today which focuses on helping a new user get the most out of…
Getting The New York Times More Search Engine Friendly
Online newspapers have often ignored search engines, or viewed them with mistrust, relying on the power of their brands to drive traffic. That attitude…
Volvo On the Online Hunt With New Contest
In partnership with Disney’s upcoming “Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest,” Volvo Cars is unveiling an online treasure hunt for an actual real…
Google’s Complete Plays Of Shakespeare Less Than Compleat
The Google blog ‘Inside Google Book Search’ announced in No holds bard that it is now possible to explore Shakespeare with Google – The…
Yahoo, MapQuest Bring Where 2.0 Back to Earth
Excuse the pun, of sorts. Many of the speakers and panelists over the past couple of days at Where 2.0 demonstrated a range of…
Digital Branding is on Acid
Ornament and psychedelia are major themes in contemporary digital animation. The following are all relatively new creations, two of them from apparel brands. (Descriptions…
Search Headlines & Links: June 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: From…
Daily SearchCast, June 14, 2006: MySpace To Auction Search Traffic; Google Picasa Gets Photo Sharing; NY State Says Shame On Google Video; Is That Google Earth In My Coffee Table? & More!
Today’s search podcast covers MySpace planning to auction its search traffic; Google’s Picasa getting web albums; New York State raps Google over its video…
ShopWiki Launches Search By Color
ShopWiki this morning launched its ‘Search by Color’ feature which lets consumers quickly and easily filter search results by color. From the press release:…
A New Local Search Marketing Guide
I’ve often been amazed that there isn’t a more organized effort by search engines and others targeting small business advertisers to “educate” them about…
Searcher Behavior Update
Search marketing has evolved from relatively simple optimization of web pages into a more sophisticated process involving a number of variables. Apart from tactical…
Google Not Obeying NoIndex Meta Tag?
I reported at the Search Engine Roundtable that Google.com Displaying Pages in Index with NoIndex Meta Tags. The details come from a WebmasterWorld thread…
Forecasted Online Ad Spend Is Corrected Upwards
Search is winning the hearts and minds of marketing managers across the US, (and this is good news for search worldwide). Brand managers that…
Japan To Build Own Search Engine With 30 Japanese Companies & Government Help
The Mainichi Daily show that Japan is going to be building out their own search engine after conducting a focus group on the idea.…
A Look At Google’s Oregon Operation & Yahoo Leaves Pasadena
Niall Kennedy summarizes a NY Times article about Google’s Oregon center and Yahoo and Microsoft’s exploration in areas like that. The Google Oregon center…