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Search Forums Roundup: Jan. 27, 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: Nevada Federal…
Judge Sets Hearing Date in Google Subpoena Case
Declan McCullagh’s: Court date set for Google lawsuit, says that U.S. District Judge James Ware has announced that a hearing regarding the subpoena asking…
Lack of Search Marketing During Christmas Season Hurt FTD’s Bottom Line, Head of Marketing Replaced
For your, “the importance of search marketing folder.” An article from DMNews: FTD: Online Search Misstep Cost Sales, points out that FTD (the flower…
Predictions and More Speculation on a Google Music Service
Elinor Mills has a brief post reporting that Bear Stearns analyst Robert Peck is predicting that Google will offer a digital music download service…
More IM Search: Search Air Fare Info, Flight Status and More with Kayakbot
More search via instant messenging to report on. This time travel search aggregator Kayak is announcing the release of Kayakbot for AOL Instant Messenger…
Google Engineering Director Says Google UI Is as Much Science as it is Art
Mickey Alam Khan’s story on DMNews.com: Google Expects to Keep Home Page Simple, reports on a keynote address by Jen Fitzpatrick, an engineering director…
TV Commercial “Googles” Pontiac
Here’s yet another example of “Google the verb” in action, this time in a telelvion commercial. It also illustrates why “Google the brand” is…
Yahoo’s Senior VP of Engineering to Become Chief Product Officer
Over on Gigaom, Om Malik reports that Yahoo will name Ash Patel, the senior VP of engineering as their new chief product officer (CPO).…
Coming: MSN Spaces Upgrade, With PPC Ads
Post updated with new information. Rumors are flying that Microsoft will soon unveil a big revamp of MSN Spaces, and the changes include letting…
Brin Speaks On China & Looking At What’s Filtered
Since the news broke late Tuesday that Google China would be censored, lots of press and blog attention has been published. Here’s a brief…
Rich Media Advertising Coming to Google AdSense
Google AdSense has begun contacting publishers about participating in a new beta test which would see publishers running rich media advertising instead of the…
IAB – The “Unknown Authority”
We know — stuff happens. But should the Interactive Advertising Bureau really greet their Web site visitors with “Unable to identify if www.iab.net is…
Scoble: Search Champs Talk to MSN VP about Data Turned Over to Feds
Scoble reports from MSN Search Champs about a session where the those in attendance “grilled” MSN Vice President Christopher Payne about what search data…
Google Repairs Glitch That Kept Some IE Users On The First Page Of Results
Yesterday, Andy Beal first reported on Marketing Pilgrim (btw, kudos on the title of your blog Andy) with more from RustyBrick on SER, that…
Daily SearchCast, Jan. 26, 2006: Cached Pages Not Copyright Violations; Web Page Elements Dissected By Google; Google Video Gets New Look; SEO Slapdown Game & More!
Today’s search podcast covers a legal ruling that cached pages don’t violate copyright, stats on web page authoring from Google, Google Video fixes design mistakes,…
Microsoft Mix 06 Looks At Mashups, Web 2.0
Microsoft’s Mix 06 event in March doesn’t have much on search now other than letting Amazon pitch its Alexa Web Search Platform, but perhaps…
askSam Now Offering Searchable Databases (Free) Containing U.S. Copyright Law, The DMCA, and Every State of the Union Address Back to 1790
On what is a growing number of occasions we’ve beeb highlighting the good and very useful work that Phil Schnyder and his team at…
Watch SEOs Battle Live & New SEO Humor Site
Matt Cutts highlighted this funny site, SEO Generations, where you can pit various people in the SEO world against each other to say who…
Ask Jeeves’ New Image Search vs. the Competition
Image search is offered by all of the major search engines, and people tend to think it’s a fairly generic service, with little difference…
Google & Search Engine Cached Pages Legal, If They Offer Opt-Out
Via Boing Boing and News.com, interesting news that a case saying the Google cache violates copyright has been ruled in Google’s favor. Since Google…