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Former Yahoo Exec Toni Schneider On Life At Automattic
Yahoo’s had a number of executives depart to start-ups and smaller companies recently. Toni Schneider was one of them, leaving last January. Swapping job…
Daily SearchCast, April 28, 2006: Is China Blocking Technorati Blog Search?; Yahoo Gets New Local Paid Listings; Changing Your AdWords Time Zone & More!
Today’s search podcast reports of China blocking searches on Technorati; Yahoo’s new flat-rate local listings for businesses; AdWords getting a one-time report time zone…
Microsoft Shares Fall Due To MSN Search Performance & Spend
TheStreet.com reports that Microsoft’s share fell as much as 13% today due to Microsoft’s search engine, MSN Search. Microsoft was not prepared for “the…
Search Forums Roundup: Apr. 28, 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: Ask.com Chief…
Yahoo Local Adds Featured Listings
The Yahoo Search blog just announced a new Yahoo Local advertising solution named Local Featured Listings. This advertising solution enables advertisers to place their…
Your Network Added To del.icio.us – Yahoo My Web Like Features
del.icio.us announced a new feature they call “your network.” You network lets you keep track of your friends most recent bookmarks. You can view…
Textile Shop In Turkey Names Itself “Google”
Someone looks like they named a store in Istanbul, Turkey “Google.” An anonymous reader sent me a link to this picture of a textile…
Technorati Blocked In China
Technorati has reportedly been blocked from users in China. China controls which Web sites are accessible to the Chinese population, Technorati is not one…
Daily SearchCast, April 27, 2006: Mainstream Media And SEO; Does Google’s Brand Factor Make It Seem More Relevant; New Microsoft Certified Spam Tools & More!
Today’s search podcast covers the Washington Post looking at search engine optimization; Google’s results rated as less relevant if the Google logo is removed;…
Are You A Click-O-Phobic?
This morning I wrote about ad click-o-phobia, a new condition setting in with publishers. Basically, publishers that have contextual ads (AdSense, YPN, etc) on…
Google Translates English To & From Arabic
Philipp Lenssen reports that Google one-upped Yahoo’s Babel Fish by adding English to Arabic & Arabic to English to the Google Translate service. Babel…
Change Your Time Zone Once & Only Once At AdWords
Last night Google announced at the AdWords blog that you will be able to change your time zone on the account level. This is…
Google Finally Hires Two New Chefs
MercuryNews.com reports that Google has hired two new executive chefs, Scott Giambastiani of San Mateo’s high-end Viognier restaurant and Steve Petusevsky, a former national…
Local Traffic Estimation Tool Released By TrueLocal
TrueLocal, a local search engine, announced the release of a local traffic estimator tool. The tool enables TrueLocal advertisers to enter in a zip…
Yahoo Cited In Chinese Dissident Verdict Case
CNN reports that Yahoo has actually been cited for helping to jail a Chinese dissident. We reported the rumors that Yahoo has given data…
Google Second Most Desired Place For MBA Students To Work For
ZDnet reports on a 2006 Universum Survey MBA Edition, that shows Google has jumped from 129th place in 2005 to 2nd place this year…
FireFox Flicks Winners Announced
It killed us that we’re so busy at Ad:Tech, we couldn’t get over to the announcements of the Firefox Flicks video contest winners at…
AOL’s Financial Blog Network
AOL’s Weblogs Inc. has launched its first blog network, BloggingStocks.com, since it joined the company. The network consists of eight separate blogs — which…
All About the Game
With E3 about one week away, the industry is abuzz with teasers of goings on during the show. It is a trade-only event, heavy…
Google AdWords Broad Match To Act Differently For Commercial, Non-Commercial Terms
Depending on broad match or phrase match to get listed on Google? A new tweak to Google AdWords means that in some cases, that…