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MySpace In Partnership Talks With Google & Microsoft
The Financial Times reports that MySpace, the huge social networking site, is in talks with Google and Microsoft over partnership opportunities to better monetize…
Windows Live Local Maps UK With Aerial Imagery
Loren Baker spotted a LiveSide post noting that Windows Live Local has added UK aerial imagery coverage. LiveSide explains that they are still lacking…
Search Headlines & Links: May 22, 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…
Google Base Live in UK & Germany
Philipp notes that Google Base is now live in the UK and Germany. The UK version is at https://www.google.co.uk/base/ and the German version is…
AdSense Video Ads Out of Rich Media Beta Test
AdWords advertisers will be able to display video ads across the AdSense content network. The video ads, in a click-to-play video format so not…
Show Me More Pictures Like This One…
Image search can be frustrating, because search engines can’t “see” pictures in the same way that they can “read” text—indeed, image search involves a…
Searching for Images by Similarity
Searching for pictures needn't take a thousand words. An experimental search engine helps you find images based on colors, textures or characteristics similar to…
Another New Video News Distribution Play
It looks like online news video footage has another distribution outlet in ClipSyndicate, a firm reported on by The New York Times today. According…
CNET Ups its Podcast Count
CNET has a number of regular podcasts on its new CNET Podcast Central site. The whole course of shows is sponsored by Earthlink, with…
Google Continues To Gain Market Share While Others Lose
comScore released their latest stats on the “Share of Online Searches by Engine”. Google gained April 2005 to April 2006 6.6 percentage points, claiming…
MSN Allows Webmasters To Opt Out Of ODP Titles
Huge props to MSN Search for enabling Webmasters to tell MSN not to display a site’s ODP directory title in the MSN Search results.…
Tool Estimates How Much Selling Your Links Is Worth
The folks at Text Link Ads announced via the Link Building Blog a tool that calculated the value of links on your page. This…
Duct Tape Podcast: All Duct Tape, All the Time
And you thought you knew duct tape. Henkel Consumer Adhesives is relaunching “Tape Talk,” a podcast dedicated to all things duct tape. Six times…
Google Sends Settlement Notices In Click Fraud Class Action Case
Google has now sent out notices to advertisers advising them of their rights in the proposed settlement in a class action case over click…
Searcher Behavior: An SEOs Perspective
Shari Thurow has a new ClickZ article live named Analyzing Search Behavior for SEO, which looks at searcher behavior from the SEO’s perspective. She…
New Click Fraud Bot Exploiting 34,000 PCs & Hundreds Of Advertisers
Help Net Security reports that PandaLabs discovered a bot named Clickbot.A, which infected 34,000 computers. The Clickbot.A automatically clicks on search ads, costing advertises…
Google Finds Bug With Site Search Command
Vanessa Fox from Google Engineering posted at the Inside Google Sitemaps blog, that Google found a bug with the site search command. The post…
Google Adds /Music To Robots.txt File: Google Music Coming Soon?
Garett Rogers discovers that Google just changed their robots.txt file to include Disallow: /music. That suggests that Google is ready to launch a music…
Highlights from the SEW Blog: May 22, 2006
Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary search headlines from around the web. If you're not familiar with…
Yahoo Publisher Network Launches Direct Deposit & Tax Withholding
Yahoo! Publisher Network has just launched a few new features for publishers, including the much longed for direct deposit. They have also included an…