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Mary Woodbridge and Her Dog Climb Mount Everest
Sex is not a necessary ingredient for a winning viral. You can substitute quality or relevance any day. Take mountaineering gear maker Mammut, which…
Jersey Lawmaker: Let’s Squelch What Makes Web Debate Great
First, they play favorites with the smoking ban, now this. My home-state’s lawmakers can be an entertaining bunch, till I remember I pay their…
Google Subpoenaed to Reveal Identity of Person Who Posted at Google Video
According to the MercuryNews.com, Google has been subpoenaed by American Airlines to hand over the identity of the individual who posted a copyrighted training…
February 2006 Search News Recap Posted
The latest edition of my monthly Search Engine Report newsletter is now online, recapping tops stories in search from the past month. You can…
Google to Partner with Wikipedia?
Garett Rogers reports that Google and the Wikipedia may be in some sort of partnership. March 6th, Google registered “googlereference.net/org/info and googlereferencepages.com/net/org/info“, which can…
Al-Qaeda Likes Orkut
Apparently, it’s not just Brazilians who like Orkut. Bloggers Blog points to "Orkut Home to Osama Bin Laden Fan Clubs" from USA Today, which…
Music’s Payola Compared with Web’s Link Buying
Techdirt compares buying links to payola, “the illegal practice of record companies paying money for the broadcast of records on music radio.” Joe at…
Yahoo’s Yang Says It’s More Important To Be In China Than Risk Of Not Participating
News.com reports that Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang said, “It is more important for us to participate, not only for economic reasons, but to be…
Google To Buy Writely, A Browser Based Word Processor?
Om Malik has heard rumors that Google may be buying Writely, a company that can enable you to “write a document in a browser,…
Don’t Overlook SEO for Your Podcasts
Even though podcasts are audio files, there are a number of steps you can take to optimize them so that they’re more easily found,…
Google Explains Invalid Clicks
Google has rarely spoken publicly about click fraud issues surrounding their Google AdWords program, even with the publicity it has received of late and…
The Search Engine Report – Number 112
Search Engine Watch editor Danny Sullivan recaps top search engine stories from February 2006.
Search Engine Optimization for Podcasts
Podcasting is comparatively new, though there are already numerous podcast search engines and it's important to optimize your audio files if you want listeners…
The Search Engine Update – Number 216 – March 9, 2006
Search Engine Watch editor Danny Sullivan's recap of top search engine stories from the second half of February 2006.
Google Click Fraud Settlement Story Updated
Just a quick note that my original post, Google Agrees To $90 Million Settlement In Class Action Lawsuit Over Click Fraud, has been substantially…
Google Analyst Day Recap
We’ve written about notes accidentally leaked out of last week’s Google Analyst Day, but what about what was happily said by Google that day?…
Google AdWords Launches Demographic Site Targeting
Via Andrew Goodman, news that Google AdWords has updated their control panel interface today to provide demographic targeting of content ads. It comes hot…
Daily SearchCast, March 8, 2006: Windows Live Search Launches; A New Relevancy Test; TeraGoogle & Google Social Search Plans & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Microsoft launching a new search engine under the Windows Live brand; a new relevancy study finding Yahoo and Google mostly tied…
SES New York 2006 Coverage Recap
Missed last week’s huge Search Engine Strategies show in New York? Here’s a rundown on ways to read and listen to what happened. Live…
Google Book Search Adds Find it in a Library for Some Books
The Google Blog announced that they added a link to some books named “Find it in a Library”. I have been unable to find…