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Phil Bradley Our New Searching Correspondent; Jennifer Slegg Picks Up Paid Search Coverage
Search Engine Watch has always had two main audiences: search marketers and searchers. We want marketers to understand how to reach an audience through…
Google Rankings Depend On Data Center, Geographic Location & Personalization
Aaron Wall has a nice write up on the different ways one searcher can see one set up results, compared to a different search…
Duplicate Content Detection Tool
I reported this morning about a new tool that checks your site to see how much duplicate content like content you have throughout your…
del.icio.us Adds Most Popular Links On Home Page
del.icio.us announced that they have made the del.icio.us popular page more visible by adding the content of the page, in the form of a…
MSN Talking Acquisition With Wireless Ad Provider
ThreadWatch links to a Wall Street Journal report that shows MSN is in talks to buy a wireless ad provider, Third Screen Media. If…
Ask.com Has Sweet Europe Maps With Aerials
Search Engine Journal reports that Ask.com has some pretty impressive Europe maps, with aerial imagery. Loren Baker links to three examples including Charles De…
Google Updates Webmaster Quality Guidelines To Include Affiliates
Google added some lines to the What are Google’s quality guidelines? At the top, there is one slight change to the wording, nothing material.…
Google Works With Brazil To Shut Down Orkut Communities
The Associated Press reports that Google has finally agreed to pull the plug on some communities within Orkut, Google’s social networking software. Google has…
“Add To My Yahoo” Feature Removed From Yahoo SERPs
I reported at the Search Engine Roundtable that Yahoo seems to have removed the “Add To My Yahoo” button from the search results. In…
U.K. Search Marketing Environment Thriving
The total market for search marketing in the U.K. grew at a blistering 100% rate in 2005, and further double-digit gains are expected for…
New Google AdWords Dayparting & Ad Scheduling Coming
At Search Engine Watch Live in Seattle last week, Lexa Pope from the Google AdWords team discussed their new ad scheduling features that will…
Search Headlines & Links: May 24, 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, May 24, 2006: Windows Live Local Gets UK Images & Easier Map Sharing; Is That Site In Your Search Results Safe?; A Spam Detection Tool; A Search Marketing Magazine Arrives & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Windows Live Local getting new UK images and easier ability to share mapped points, Microsoft’s many shopping moves, a new…
Mid-May 2006 Search News Recap Posted
If you’re a Search Engine Watch member (thank you!), the latest edition of Search Engine Update newsletter has been posted. It recaps top stories…
SMG Play Is Now Play (A Unit of Denuo)
As an aside to the below Xbox/Cadillac item, the news release had a little tidbit I didn’t catch when it happened; namely that SMG…
New AdWords Layout Being Tested?
I reported at the Search Engine Roundtable this morning that people are noticing a new layout for the AdWords ads on the Google search…
Larry Page Video Interview
Channel 4 interviewed Larry Page and the video is available by clicking here. He discusses that artificial intelligence will play an important role in…
Ask.com Shows Off More Smart Answers
Gary Price, Director of Online Information Resources at Ask.com, writes at the Ask.com Blog about some of the stock related smart answers. Gary details…
Yahoo’s Annual Meeting Of Stockholders Tomorrow At 1PM (EST)
Yahoo is hosting the Annual Meeting Of Stockholders tomorrow at 1pm (EST). You can enroll for the meeting by clicking here and providing your…
Search Engines Using Search Ads To Promote Themselves
In the past week or so, I have been reporting on the different ways search engines use search ads to promote their own search…