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Daily SearchCast, June 8, 2006: Yahoo Answers Grows And Grows; Google Sued Over Ad It Refuses To Run; Google Urges Users To Rally For Net Neutrality & More!
Today’s search podcast covers the growth of Yahoo Answers; alternative ways to be listed in Google and Yahoo; Google sued over ads it doesn’t…
New Search Patents: June 8, 2006 – Stanford updates Pagerank Patent
The patent for pagerank has been updated, Hewlett-Packard introduces advanced searching options for searchers, IBM patents a query translation server to help search engines…
Yahoo Answers Coming After Wikipedia’s Crown?
Look Out Wikipedia, Here Comes Yahoo Answers! from me in SearchDay today looks at new stats that fuel the notion that Yahoo Answers is…
Survey: Agency Perspective on Online Video Advertising
Hollis Thomases, who many of you know as one of our Agency Media Strategies columnists, is running a survey on ad agency perspective on…
Yahoo Photos Upgraded, Beta Available
TechCrunch has a good writeup on the new Yahoo Photos beta. To access the beta go to https://photos.yahoo.com/ and after you sign in, you…
New Link Building Guide
Andy Hagans linked to a new link building guide by Jim Westergren. The guide goes over how to build links in 2006. For example…
Unique Content VS. Plagiarism In The Eyes Of An Algorithm
Chris Boggs over at the Search Engine Roundtable wrote an item named Which Came First: the Content or the Plagiarism? which discusses the challenge…
The Top 100 Companies Searched Most On Hoover’s Web site
Hoover’s released the Hoover’s 100, the top 100 companies searched most on at the Hoover’s web site. The top ten are; Wal-Mart, Apple, Proctor…
Alternative Ways Into Google & Yahoo
Search Engine Guide has an article named Alternative Ways to Get Into Google and About.com has an article named 8 Ways to Submit Your…
Google Browser Sync For Firefox
Google announced a new Firefox plugin named Google Browser Sync. The Firefox extension allows you to “synchronizes your browser settings including bookmarks, history,…
Lawsuit Over Killed Anti-China Ad On Google
Google Sued for Allegedly Refusing Anti-China Ad at Wired News covers a lawsuit filed against Google after it refused to carry ads from activist…
Google Calls On Users To Lobby For Net Neutrality
Google cofounder Sergey Brin might not have been able to lobby all the US senators he wanted earlier this week to stop a bill…
US, UK Searchers & The World Cup
The World Cup opens tomorrow. For my fellow Americans, many of whom may have no idea that the US is in it, you might…
IceRocket Sale To Think Is Off (Update: Discussions Still Going)
That deal for Think Partnership to purchase blog search engine IceRocket? Andy Beal notes that it’s off. Postscript: Think has second thoughts about IceRocket…
Look Out Wikipedia, Here Comes Yahoo Answers!
New stats add fuel to the idea that Yahoo Answers is perhaps becoming a social interacting phenomenon like YouTube or MySpace. A look at…
Web Video Comes to TiVo: Ad Opportunities
I just spoke with TiVo’s SVP of Programming, Tara Maitra, about the company’s new TiVoCast broadband-to-TV offering and what sorts of ad opportunities will…
Search Headlines & Links: June 7, 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…
May 2006 Search News Recap Posted
The latest edition of my monthly Search Engine Report newsletter is now online, recapping top stories in search from the past month. You can…
Daily SearchCast, June 7, 2006: Google Rethinking Chinese Censorship? Rock, Paper, Scissors, US Senator, Google Guy; What People Search For At The CIA Web Site & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Google reconsidering Chinese censorship; who’s more powerful, a US senator or a Google Guy?; making your site search more successful;…
Family-Friendly In-Game Ads
Can cutting-edge advertising and Christian values coexist? They do in a new deal between Left Behind Games, which creates PC games based on the…