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Da Vinci Code Promotion Puts Ad On Personalized Google Home Page
Is it true? Has the Google home page gotten its first ad? Steve Rubel points at a new Da Vinci Code promotion that puts…
Euro Conference On IR Recapped
What? You didn’t make the European Conference on Information Retrieval in London this week? Don’t fret. Xan Porter did and has a rundown here,…
Google Shareholder Dreams Of A One Share, One Equal Vote World
Google shareholder wants two-tiered stock structure dismantled from the San Jose Mercury News covers how a pension funding holding a tiny amount of Google…
Baidu & Intel Partner On Search Apps
Last month, Google was reported as switching from Intel to AMD chips for its servers. Today, Intel China and Google’s big China rival Baidu…
Google Local Gets New Head
Via Technorati, Google Local to Be Lead by Classified Ventures Exec from The Local Online notes that Sam Sebastian is now apparently head of…
Traffic-Power Case Against SEO Book Dismissed
A bit of catch-up, Aaron Wall of SEO Book notes that the case against him filed by Traffic-Power.com was tossed out of court on…
Small Businesses Getting Local
Local Search Advertising Pays Off For Small Marketers from BusinessWeek taking a short look at how small businesses are looking more to search engines…
Typo Domain Spotting Tool & Domain Registration Stats
I’ve got some domain name related items I’m throwing into this post: a new typo-domain spotting tool from Microsoft, new stats on the difficulty…
Finally, a Date with Google Calendar
We’ve mentioned rumors of a Google Calendar more than once here on the blog, and can finally put the rumors to rest. Google Calendar…
Google Calendar Makes an Impressive Debut
Google has released its long-rumored calendar service, offering an appealing set of features that makes it easy to keep track of your own schedule…
Daily SearchCast, April 12, 2006: Yahoo Maps Get Satellite Views; Microsoft’s New Academic Search; Google’s New Chinese Name & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Yahoo Maps getting satellite views, Microsoft getting academic search; Google charging for commercial API use; Google defending its China move and…
Starwood “Lobbying” Loyalists
Starwood Hotels and Resorts has launched a lifestyle-oriented blog at TheLobby.com, the WSJ reports (subscription). The effort, put together by NYC agency Electric Artists,…
Google Buys Dulance; To Open Russian Research Center
Sergei Burkov, Founder & CEO of Dulance will run Google’s development center in Russia. This was first reported by TechWorld yesterday and brought to…
Google’s Chinese Censorship “Absolutely The Right Move,” Says CEO Schmidt
Wow. Google’s apparently not feeling bad about censoring for China anymore. When it happened, there was all that hand-wringing about balancing a compromised mission…
Power to the Peeps!
A few years ago, a friend of mine designed a necklace that featured a Marshmallow Peeps snugly nestled in a small coffin. The cease-and-desist…
Google Adds Pricing Model To Google AdWords API: Opens Commercial Use
Word comes from the Google API blog that Google has changed the AdWords API Beta Program. They will be specifically modifying the quota allocation…
Google’s Search & AdWords API Engineer Leaves Google
Angelo Embuldeniya reports that Nelson Minar has decided to leave Google. Nelson Minar was responsible for working on the Google search and AdWords APIs.…
Simply Google Places Most Of Google Services In One Place
So Google has dozens and dozens of services and search features out there. Heck, I forget how to locate some of these services when…
Some SEO Resources For Flash Sites
Flash and multimedia content has always presented SEOs a challenge when it comes to ranking that content and those pages in search engines. Garrett…
Google Expand & Collapse Results With Embedded Images, Content & Search Site?
Michael Nguyen spotted a post by Dave Winer that shows Google testing this weird expand and collapse Google search user interface. Basically, a search…