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Don Dodge Chats with Memeorandum Founder, Gabe Rivera
Via Scobleizer, a very interesting interview by Don Dodge (ex AltaVista now at MS) with the founder of Memeorandum, Gabe Rivera. From the Interview:…
Google Has Right to Log the Text of Messages Sent Using their Send to SMS Feature
Nathan over at InsideGoogle mentions a post by Devin Reams who points to a portion of the Google Firefox Send to Phone FAQ: FAQ…
Coordinating Those SES Parties
Way, way back in the early days of Search Engine Strategies, there was a big networking cocktail reception at the end of the first…
Google and Fiat Partner to Offer Google Earth Game
How about creating a Google Earth game that’s also a marketing tool? Sounds like a smart idea to me and it’s precisely what Fiat…
Daily SearchCast, Feb. 3, 2006: Hunting For DOJ Search Data Plans; TrueLocals Face Off; A9 Usage; Tech Buzz Game Through Search; Google Dating Gossip & More!
Today’s search podcast covers trying to get more information about the US Department Of Justice’s plans for search data; the two TrueLocals collide; looking at…
Search Forums Roundup: Feb. 3, 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: Buying Links…
So This Is Super Bowl Advertising!
I’ve never watched a Super Bowl and I never will watch a Super Bowl. There may not be a lot of certainties in life,…
A9’s Low Popularity & Slower Growth
NetRatings sent out some Amazon stats in advance of their earnings report. Interesting to me was a breakout on A9. It shows growth from…
How The US Department of Justice May Analyze Search Data & Freedom Of Information Act Request For Disclosure
So what did the Department Of Justice ask for exactly from AOL, MSN, and Yahoo? What did they get, exactly? What negotiations went on?…
New Gossip Rag On Google Execs Dating
New gossip rag ValleyWag discloses that Google cofounder Larry Page and Google vice president of search products Marissa Mayer apparently used to date, backed…
Google Subpoena Update: Judge Delays Hearing for Two Weeks
Declan McCullagh writes that the court hearing orginally scheduled for February 27th to determine if Google will have to turn over search records to…
Mossberg Positive About Rollyo and PubSub, Rollyo Adds New Firefox Search Bar Feature
The Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg has positive comments about two services, PubSub and Rollyo, two services that we’ve posted about several times. Rollyo…
Everything’s Contextual
Was scanning through my Google Gmail spam folder the other day and noted… not contextual ads… but contextual spam recipes. They appear in the…
Daily SearchCast, Feb. 2, 2006: US Congress Gets Statements, Not Search Reps On China; Google Bigdaddy Search Infrastructure Rolling Out & More!
Today’s search podcast covers search engines skipping a US Congress briefing on China censorship issues (but they’ll make the hearing later this month); Dell leaves…
Miller’s Animal Auditions
Not sure if it’s the lingering effects of lunch or the lazy ramblings of these CGI-cloaked working actors, but watching Miller’s animal audition videos…
Yahoo News Not Competing With Content Owners; Personalization, Better Recommendations May Come
Greg Linden points to the Budde Outlines Yahoo News Future article at MediaPost, where Yahoo News general manager Neil Budde reassures content owners that…
TrueLocal Australia Users Crash Into TrueLocal North America
Jake Baillie from TrueLocal (see our review from December here) mentioned to me earlier this week that down in Australia, a new Rupert Murdoch/News…
Q&A On Google Sitemaps
Google Sitemaps Team Interview has lots and lots of questions being answered from Google about how Google Sitemaps operates, so check it out if…
BMW Germany Dinged For Doorway Spam
How about a little old skool search spam? OK, Philipp over at Google Blogoscoped points out in BMW’s Doorway Pages that the automaker is…
Gracenote: The Music Info Database You’ve Used But Possibly Know Little About
The International Herald Tribune article: The End User: Sounding new notes, offers a brief but interesting profile of a music information database that you’ve…