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Daily SearchCast, March 28, 2006: Google Tests New Graphical Local Ads; Do Aerial Maps Violate Our Privacy?; Speed Date To Meet An SEO Firm & Google Deletes Its Own Official Blog & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Google testing out new graphical ads in its local services; whether online mapping services offering aerial views should let you block…
Reserve-A-Pizza.com
Papa John‘s has come up with what might be the next best thing to having a hot pepperoni slice slide out of your CD…
Mid-March 2006 Search News Recap Posted
If you’re a Search Engine Watch member, the latest edition of Search Engine Update newsletter has been posted. It recaps top stories in search…
The Problem with Earth Day: No Meal
Last year I covered an interesting effort by Organic Valley Farms to align itself with Earth Day (and give the holiday a plug as…
Infospace Launches Local Search Beta; Local.com Gets Pay-Per-Call
Infospace has released a new Infospace Local Search site that’s in beta. You’ll find it here, with a rundown from Gary Price on features…
Speed Dating Meets The SEO Business World With Speed Pitches
Chris Ridings of SearchGuild.com and Denise Russell (aka Gurtie) have launched SpeedPitches.com, a service that enables SEOs and prospective SEO clients to be pitched…
Yahoo & Microsoft To Build Storage Centers In Grant County, Washington
MoneySense.ca reports that Yahoo and Microsoft have plans to build huge data centers in Grant County, Washington. Tim Snead, city administrator, said in regards…
Google Lands Deal With Verizon SuperPages.com
ClickZ reports that Google has landed a dead with Verizon SuperPages.com to provide some backfill sponsored results for SuperPages.com. Google will be using its…
AdsBlackList Offers AdSense Filter URL List
Nathan Weinberg reports on a service named AdsBlackList.com. The service provides a list of predefined MFAs (Made for AdSense sites) that generate low quality…
Google To Host Roundtable For Top Music Industry Executives
PaidContent.org reports that Google is hosting a get-together of the top 20 executives from the music industry this Thursday. The roundtable event is invite…
Searching BG, Before Google, And The Need To Search Better
Just when you think stupid articles that assume we couldn’t search BG — Before Google — have come to an end, the New York…
Barry Diller Talks About Ask
Last month at the New York Search Engine Strategies conference, Danny Sullivan sat down and had a keynote chat with Barry Diller, chairman of…
Google Recipes! Google Careers! Google Confusion! The UI Madness Continues
Item 3 on my 25 Things I Hate About Google list was “Stop confusing people. Pick a user interface and go with it!” The…
Official Google Blog Deleted, Blogger Registers googleblog.blogspot.com
Back in April 2004, Google launched their blog at googleblog.blogspot.com. But somehow, in the past few hours, that blog has been completely deleted from…
Danny Sullivan Asks Barry Diller
What's up with the company formerly known as Ask Jeeves? Danny Sullivan spoke with head-honcho Barry Diller at Search Engine Strategies earlier this month…
The Search Engine Update – Number 217 – March 28, 2006
Search Engine Watch editor Danny Sullivan's recap of top search engine stories from the second half of March 2006.
The Latest Click Fraud Roundup
Google might be about to settle a click fraud case, but the issue remains very much in the minds of the major media. A…
Free Pot
The subject line in my inbox was pretty compelling. An offer like “Free Pot,” after all, is hard to pass up… if you’re into…
PointRoll, ePrize Join Forces
PointRoll and ePrize will intertwine their services under an unusual formal vendor partnership. A joint offering will combine PointRoll’s rich media and interaction design…
NBC Demonstrates Passion for IE
So NBC has just announced Passions Vendetta, a narrative unfolding over 24 clickable 2-minute online videos that will appear over 12 weeks. Maybelline and…