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Yahoo And CBS To Bring “60 Minutes” Interactive Content To Web; Yahoo Japan to Buy NewsWatch
ClickZ reports that Yahoo and CBS are working together to bring the show, 60 Minutes to Yahoo’s Internet users. The deal involved Yahoo setting…
Melody and her Webcam
Paging all online word-of-mouth fetishists: YouTube user bowiechick (actual name: Melody) has been videoblogging about David Bowie and her Logitech webcam on YouTube. Seventeen…
Daily SearchCast, March 23, 2006: Google Tries On Social Tagging; LookSmart To Close Zeal Directory; Google’s New Seasonal Search Query Data & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Google getting its feet wet with social tagging; Google News ousts a press release provider after a prank; LookSmart’s Zeal Directory…
Some New Video Search & Sharing Sites
Searchforvideo is a relatively new web-wide video search site you might want to check out, while Guba and VideoEgg are two other video sites…
Study: Searchers Still Prefer to Buy Offline
A new Google-sponsored study from comScore Networks found that 25% of product-related searches resulted in purchases, with 63% occurring in brick and mortar retailers,…
Google’s 2006 Q1 Earnings Conference Call Scheduled On April 20th
Google has posted the schedule for the 2006 first-quarter earnings conference call. The conference call is to take place on April 20, 2006 at…
AdSense Launches “AdSense Help” Google Group
The Inside AdSense blog announces the launch of a new Google Group started by AdSense named AdSense Help. The group is currently up to…
Supplemental Index Issues “Gone”; Welcome Big Daddy Index
Over the past month or so, Google has been having some issues with its ” Big Daddy” infrastructure. The main issue reported to Google…
Yandex, Popular Russian Search Engine, To IPO
Nick Wilsdon notes that Yandex is set to IPO shortly. Yandex is Russia’s most popular search engines with 62% market share. The Moscow Times…
Daily SearchCast, March 22, 2006: Google Finance Launches; Google Sued Over Rankings; Google Doesn’t Have To Give Up Search Queries; Amazon’s Abortion Vs. Adoption Issue & More!
Today’s search podcast covers the launch of Google Finance; Google partnering with Nike to produce a soccer social network; Google sued over someone’s lost rankings;…
Highlights from the SEW Blog: Mar. 23, 2006
Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary search headlines from around the web.
SEMPO Board Elects 2006 Officers
ClickZ reports that SEMPO’s new board of directors has elected the 2006 SEMPO officers. The new chairperson is Gordon Hotchkiss from Enquiro, Dana Todd…
LookSmart’s Zeal Directory To Close
Once a potential rival to the Open Directory, LookSmart had decided to close its volunteer-driven Zeal directory at the end of this month. LookSmart…
Google Doesn’t Have To Hand Over Search Logs To Justice Department
Catching up on some important news from last week, the judge in the case of the US Department Of Justice versus Google has ruled…
Pepsi: Combine Media and Brand Relevance
Pepsi gets that they’re not in control. Anotonio Lucio, SVP insights and innovation, is talking CGM right now at the Conference on Marketing. He…
Social Bookmarking Made Easy By Socializer
I reported on a tool named Socializer, an automated social bookmarking service that you can easily add to your content. This service easily allows…
A Deeper Look At Personalized News Search Engines
Mark Glaser at MediaShift wrote a great review named Your Guide to Personalized News Sites. He reviews the history of personalized news sites, and…
Ask.com Adds “The Advanced Plan” For Larger Advertisers
I was reviewing the Ask Sponsored Listings page and noticed a new service named “The Advanced Plan” listed on the home page. I have…
Google Jumps Into Social Tagging With New Google Reader Feature
Philipp Lenssen notes that the Google Reader Blog has announced that you can now share the content you read with your friends, family, colleagues…
Google Enhances Keyword Tool; Adds Global Trend Graphs
Google AdWords announced that they have added “global trends” to the Keyword Tool. Global trends shows the search volume of a particular keyword phrase,…