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Google Releases Google Talk for Blackberry
Nathan Weinberg reports that Google Talk is now officially supported on Blackberry devices. The 18 page PDF user guide goes through all the features…
Google Mars Launches
Google launched Google Mars this morning and has posted it at Google Labs. Garett Rogers emailed me last night, when he first discovered Google…
Highlights from the SEW Blog: Mar. 13, 2006
Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary search headlines from around the web.
iOffer Pokes Fun at eBay
eBay is a tough one to compete with, but an easy target. While P2P commerce site iOffer might not follow an auction model, it…
Daily SearchCast, March 10, 2006: Google Buys Writely Browser Word Processor; The Richest People In Search; Search Engines Are Bad For Your Wedding Gift Registry & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Google buying the Writely browser-based word processor, Orkut’s woes continue; Google to help power Firefox anti-phishing tools; is someone drafting your…
Google to Keynote SES China
We are excited to announce that Mr. Johnny Chou, President of Sales and Business Development for Greater China, Google China, will be our other…
Search Forums Roundup: Mar. 10, 2006
Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web: Microsoft’s Windows…
Brazil Asks Google To Help Orkut To Stop Organizing Organized Crime
Poor old Orkut, Google’s social networking service. First it’s knocked for only being popular in Brazil. Then it’s knocked for being a haven Al-Qaeda…
Richest People in Search
Gary Price reports on a Forbes richest people list for 2006. Gary pulled out those on the list that run the major search engines.…
Google Enables Related Content JavaScript Block
Garett Rogers reports that Google has enabled Webmaster to place JavaScript on their pages to show a “related” content box by Google. You can…
WOM Wednesdays
The Word of Mouth Marketing Association (WOMMA) plans to hold a weekly teleconference series to educate marketers on topics like blogs, ethics and viral…
Natalie Portman Raps Again
NBC has evidently not lost all reason. After taking its 40 lashes for sending take-down letters to YouTube over two SNL rap sketches that…
Google to Protect Firefox with Phishing Shield?
News.com reports that Google may be providing the technology to protect Firefox against phishing scams. Google has released Firefox Extensions For Anti-Phishing in the…
Google Partners With BenQ& Google Removing Ads from Mobile Content?
PaidContent links to a story at Mob Happy describing how Google Mobile has removed the ads on his site. The before and after shot…
Will Local Search Engines Replace National Search Engines for Local Search?
ClickZ reports “about half the panelists believe local search engines will replace national search engines like Yahoo, Google and MSN when it comes to…
‘Drafting’ and ‘Hijacking’ in Paid Search
A ClickZ article named Paid Search Spawns ‘Drafting’ and ‘Hijacking’ Strategies discusses the differences of ‘drafting’ and ‘hikacking’ tactics and its legal/ethical consequences. The…
Didn’t Get That Wedding Gift? Blame The Search Engines!
Search engines are appearing to be indexing gift registries and ranking them well enough to be found by unsuspecting online consumers. This causes the…
Daily SearchCast, March 9, 2006: Google To Settle Click Fraud Case For $90 Million; Google AdSense Gains Demographic Targeting; Look Who’s Organizing In Orkut & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Google agreeing to setting a class action case over click fraud for $90 million; Orkut’s strange bedfellows; American Airlines goes after…
Google Buys Writely
As rumored, Google bought Writely. As John Battelle so, uh, rightly points out, Mountain View is head-to-head with Redmond, from demographic site targeting for…
BSkyB Behind Viral Simpsons Video
UK satellite broadcaster BSkyB is behind a fantastic viral video that recreates, with real live actors, the Simpsons introductory montage, according to a Reuters…