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Google’s New Name In China; Corn Song
Philipp Lenssen informs us that Google renamed its Chinese name to which sounds like “Guge,” according to Philipp. I asked my Chinese employee what…
Google Hiring Google Audio Employees
Garett Rogers reports that Google has posted several jobs openings specifically for “Google Audio.” Garett lists the job openings as Customer Support Technician, Senior…
Yahoo’s Farechase Adds Features
Yahoo has announced that its Farechase travel service is “generally available,” with a number of new features including integration with Yahoo web search, a…
New Global Satellite and Aerial Imagery Added to Yahoo! Maps
Yahoo has beefed up its Yahoo Maps beta with several new features, including more comprehensive and detailed coverage than most of its competitors. Yahoo…
New Scholarly Search from Microsoft
Microsoft has launched Windows Live Academic Search, a service designed to help students, researchers and other academics more easily find scholarly information. Microsoft has…
Microsoft Launches Windows Live Academic Search
Microsoft has rolled out Windows Live Academic Search, a targeted search service focused connecting students and researchers with peer-reviewed scholarly information.
RealClear Win Win
RealClearPolitics.com will be serving up its political commentary daily in the opinion section of Yahoo! News. Yahoo! already features links to opinion headlines and…
Daily SearchCast, April 11, 2006: Boring Newspaper Headlines? Not To Search Engines!; SearchKing Gets PageRank Back Four Years Later; Chinese SEMs Upset With Google And Baidu & More!
Today’s search podcast covers hype over a Google hire and algorithm purchase; SearchKing getting its PageRank restored four years later; Chinese SEMs upset with Google…
Webmaster Eyes Paints Google PR On Your Home Page
I reported this morning on a tool at Webmaster Eyes that overlays Google’s PageRank bars on top of your pages. The tool works somewhat…
Whois.sc Changes Name To DomainTools.com
Popular domain name registration name look up, Whois.sc, has changed their name to DomainTools.com, Gary Price reports. The name change was because the company…
Time Warner Cable Can Auction Off TV Ads
Reuters reports that Time Warner Cable currently has the ability to run AdWords like auction based selling for its video-on-demand channels. Time Warner Cable…
More On Google’s Japan Mobile Ads
Last Friday I reported that Google was testing mobile ads in Japan. I just noticed via RSS that Google issued a press release on…
DNS Cache Poisoning & Hijacking Search Results
I reported earlier this morning that some scam artists are using DNS Cache Poisoning to redirect your PPC and organic listings to other pages.…
Matt Cutts Requests Spammers To Document Search Spam Techniques
Matt Cutts of Google posted a funny entry where he notes that he will be on the program committee for AIRWeb, Adversarial Information Retrieval…
Niall Kennedy Joins Microsoft’s Windows Live
Niall Kennedy writes that he will be joining the Microsoft’s Windows Live division next week. While at Microsoft, he will be working on creating…
Research: Top Rankings Becoming More Important
Two new studies reinforce what all search marketers instinctively know: You need to have top rankings to capture the attention and clicks of searchers.…
Searcher Behavior Research Update
Two new studies examining how people search show that internet users are becoming more discriminating, with important implications for search marketers.
YPN Blog
Though the Yahoo! Publisher Network is still in beta, it’s now got a blog. “We wanted a new forum to interact with our publishers…
Yahoo Denies Scandinavia Testing
In a follow-up to last week’s post, Yahoo has said they aren’t testing a new system in Scandinavia. Without giving details about the new…
Cairo Closes Doors
Just wanted to follow up to Danny’s post last month about ShopLocal winning its crawling case against Cairo. Cairo has now closed the site…