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Highlights from the SEW Blog: Mar. 20, 2006
Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary search headlines from around the web.
Reports from Search Engine Strategies China: Day One
Marc Hil Macalua is currently reporting live at the Search Engine Roundtable on the SES China 2006 conference. You will be able to find…
Esther on Goodmail
Tech investor Esther Dyson weighs in on the AOL/Goodmail debate with an editorial in the New York Times (registration req.) today. Venerable blogger Dave…
Clusty Adds Search Feature To Help Cluster Results For End User
Clusty, a search engine that is focused on clustering results, has added a new feature according to ResourceShelf that makes viewing clustered results easier.…
Alibaba.com Uses $750M of the $1B (USD) Yahoo Paid
Alibaba.com, which acquired Yahoo China, used $750 million of the $1 billion dollars Yahoo injected into Alibaba.com as part of the acquisition. This has…
Judge Requires Google to Give Gmail Emails to Courts
News.com reports that a judge in San Francisco is requiring Google to hand over all the emails of a specific gmail user, even the…
MSN Search Link Operators Explored
Rand Fishkin explores the MSN Search link operator. With this advanced search command, you can find out who links to Matt Cutts, SEO Book,…
Google And AOL Still Talking; Deal Deadline Extended
Reuters reports that Google and AOL are still in discussions about Google buying 5% of Time Warner Company. They have extended the deal deadline…
Google Hires Lobbying Firm
Google has hired PodestaMattoon, a lobbying firm that has the son of U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill, Joshua Hastert, as a member of…
Google Wins Copyright Court Case
News.com reports that Google has won the copyright infringement case issued against them by writer, Gordon Roy Parker. Parker posted a chapter of his…
Google Looking for AdWords Seminar Leaders
Many US-based Google Advertising Professionals have received invitations to apply to become AdWords Seminar Leaders, paying positions leading one-day seminars throughout the US. Those…
Google Files Annual Report
Google has just filed their annual report for fiscal year ended December 31, 2005. The report can be viewed here, you can find a…
Growth in Ad Spending Led by Internet in 2005
Advertising on the Internet increased by 23.3 percent in 2005, compared to the previous year. The data are from preliminary figures released by Nielsen…
Ask Appoints Senior Vice President And Chief Scientist
Ask.com has appointed Tao Yang as the new senior vice president and chief scientist of Ask.com. Yang’s role will be to build out Ask.com’s…
Google And Yahoo To Sell Branded PCs?
Via Garrett French, a Silicon Valley Watcher article that says Google and Yahoo are in talks with Wyse Technology to build out low-priced PC.…
‘Crash the Trailer’ on Road to Canonization
Last year didn’t have a breakaway viral in the way 2004 did with Subservient Chicken, but New Line’s “Crash the Trailer” edit yourself into…
Using Search Engines For Test Taking
The School Library Journal has an article named “Cheating via Google?” The article explores the use of search engines in the classroom and during…
Google Voted Best Internet Brand In The UK
BBC News reports that Google was voted, in the UK, the best Internet brand. The study was conducted by YouGov, which found Google to…
Google News Prank Confirmed; News Source Removed From News Index
Nathan Weinberg reports that I Newswire, a free press release distribution service has been removed from the Google News index after releasing a false…
Yahoo Displayed Google URL With “Terrorists”
Philipp Lenssen reports that if you do a search at Yahoo UK/Ireland for google, the fifth result displays the URL “www.google.ca/#terrorists”. I personally do…