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Daily SearchCast, Feb. 24, 2006: Yahoo Says No To Comparison Ads; Google Finance Coming?; Google Widgets For The Mac; Survey On Search Privacy; Jeeves Has A Video Farewell & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Yahoo ending the ability for companies to bid on trademarks of their competitors to do comparison ads; signs that a Google…
Google Base Soon To Allow Buying & Selling Through Google’s Own Payment System
Google Base is soon to allow merchants to sell through Google’s own payment system, as well as allowing buyers to use the Google Accounts…
“Strange Bedfellows” Draw A Bead on AOL
Brace yourself, AOL. This is getting really interesting, and really, really weird. Close on the heels of MoveOn.org’s petition earlier this week, The Electronic…
Next Week’s SES NY 2006 Highlights
In a few hours, I’m shutting down the computer, finishing packing, then grabbing a flight to New York tomorrow for our upcoming Search Engine…
MSN adCenter To Increase Traffic For Advertisers
Good news for adCenter publishers was announced by MSN today. Starting Monday, advertisers will see a 70% increase on ad impressions being served on…
Google Video Adds US National Archives Historic Films to Google Video
The Google Blog announced that Google Video has digitized and are hosting a collection 103 historic films from the US National Archives. Three samples…
Search Forums Roundup: Feb. 24, 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: Google Releases…
Google to Host Second Annual Analyst Day
Google announced today that it will be hosting an Analyst Day for the second time. This event will take place on Thursday, March 2,…
Google Finance Coming Soon?
Loren Baker at Search Engine Journal reports evidence of a possible Google Finance coming soon to Google. Search Engine Journal noticed several referrals from…
Google Video Adds Video Categories
Philipp Lenssen reports that Google added Google Video Categories. Visit https://video.google.com/ and look at the top of the page, you will notice these categories.…
More Search Patent Applications and Blog Search Research Paper
Gary Price has two new posts that make for some good weekend reading. The first is named New Academic Paper Offers a Review of…
Google Mac Widgets for Blogger, Gmail and Search History
Yesterday the Google Blog informed us that three new Google Widgets for the Apple Macintosh’s OS X Tiger have been released. Widgets on a…
Yahoo Adds Quick Links to Wikipedia Search Results
Yahoo announced that they now include Yahoo Quick Links for Wikipedia results. What that means is that when you do a search at Yahoo…
Ask Releases “Jeeves Leaves” Video Farewell
J.D. Ryznar was contracted by Ask.com to produce a farewell video for Jeeves’s retirement. The video can be viewed here and you can read…
The Search Engine Update – Number 215 – Feb. 24, 2006
Search Engine Watch editor Danny Sullivan's recap of top search engine stories from the first half of February 2006.
Daily SearchCast, Feb. 23, 2006: Google Time Warps To 1999 With Home Page Building Service; Stats On Search Growth; Yahoo Answers Gets New Features & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Google catching up with the portals and offering home page building services; Google gets a blog analytics service; search is growing,…
Yahoo To Ban Bidding On Competitor Trademarks To Stop Comparison Advertising
Yahoo No Longer Allow Bidding On Trademarked Terms on our SEW Forums has news that Yahoo will no longer be allowing companies to purchase…
Google Stops Page Creator Enrollment
Gary Price reports that Google has temporarily stopped “people from registering to use” Google Page Creator, which was released this morning. If you go…
Baker of Search Engine Journal Visits Google Japan
Loren Baker of Search Engine Journal posted pictures and comments about him Hanging Out With Google Japan. Loren lives just outside of Tokyo and…
Forced Buzz
Tranparency in viral campaigns is necessary, but posting step-by-step instructions on your Web site might turn transparent into bold print. KFC said there’s a…