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Daily SearchCast, April 26, 2006: Google Gets Spam Checking Tools; Yahoo Launches DVR Service & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Google rolling out new tools for site owners including spam checking tools, Yahoo’s Go TV giving people digital video recording…
Revisiting Search Engine Ad Breaks
Originally, the news of Google’s broad matching change had me thinking that Google was adding more ad positions to their search results pages. I’ve…
Yahoo To Create Better Portals Globally
Informatics Online reports Yahoo is going to make an international push with their Web portal properties. Currently, Yahoo has been focused on building out…
Washington Post Talks About The SEM Community
Leslie Walker from the Washington Post wrote an article named How to Juice Up a Site’s Rank, which is basically an article about the…
Google Promotes First Non-Google Product On Homepage – Firefox
There has been tons of buzz in the blogosphere about Google promoting Firefox on the Google.com homepage. News.com has a quick write up on…
Google Sued In Israel For Search Ad Trademark Dispute
EEFTimes.com reports that Google is being sued in Israel for enabling an advertiser to buy AdWords targeting a trademarked company’s name. Matim Li, the…
Why Yahoo’s FareChase May Disrupt the Travel Industry
A couple of weeks ago, Yahoo took its FareChase travel service out of beta, added a link to the service on its home page…
Google Makes SketchUp Free
Remember last month when Google bought SketchUp and everyone was like why? Well, they bought them to make it free for people to use…
Run Down Of Recent Google Bugs & Glitches
Over the past two days or so, I have reported over at my other blog, four new bugs and glitches over at Google. This…
SideStep Launches Activity Search
SideStep today launched Activity Search Beta which offers comprehensive, real time search for local entertainment in categories such as Museums, Sports, Outdoor & Adventure,…
Yahoo Adds Babel Fish
Yahoo has integrated the classic Alta Vista Babel Fish into Yahoo Search. The service should now be available at https://babelfish.yahoo.com/, if it is not,…
Yahoo’s FareChase: The Stealth Disruptor?
Although FareChase is web giant Yahoo's travel contender, it's nonetheless a relatively small player in the online travel search space. Now that FareChase is…
Search Engine Strategies Toronto – Day Two
I covered three of the five sessions today, Google made one big announcement with an enhanced Google Sitemaps feature. Other than that, please review…
Google Sitemaps Adds Spam Checking, New Webmaster Help Center & Other Features
I just came out of the Meet the Crawlers session, where Google announced new features and a new layout for Google Sitemaps. The Sitemaps…
Is Google Search More Relevant Or Is There A Brand Factor?
The battle of which search engine is the most relevant has been going on for years. Yesterday at SES Toronto’s Searcher Behavior Research Update…
Search Stats Don’t Have to be Boring
There’s no shortage of data related to search marketing, with everything from market share numbers to frequency of search terms analyzed by market research…
Arabic Language Search Engine ETA Q4 2006
News.com reports on plans to building an Arabic language search engine called “Sawafi” by the end of this year. This will be reportedly the…
MSN Live Tests Search Within Site Feature In Search Results Page
Nathan Weinberg points to a blog that has documented Windows Live testing a feature that enables the searcher to search within a site, from…
Yahoo Launched Go TV – DVR Service
I just noticed an update on the Yahoo Next page that introduces Yahoo! Go for TV Beta. The service allows you to “view photos,…
Google Toolbar Now Supports IE 7
When Google released version 4 of the toolbar it did not support Internet Explorer 7. Nathan Weinberg reports that they now support IE 7…