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Daily SearchCast, Jan. 12, 2006: Google Analytics Reopens Slowly; Humor: Google Trademarking “Beta”; What Domain Data Does Google Know On Your Site; Searching For Acroynms & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Google Analytics beginning to let new people in; fun with the idea of Google getting a trademark on the word…
Search Marketers Will Soon Be Able to Buy Search Ads on Just AOL Properties
A MediaPost article takes a look a closer look at the advertising portion of the recent Google/AOL deal. It includes comments from Mike Kelly,…
MSN & SuperPages.com In Local Ads Agreement
SuperPages.com local advertisers now appear in MSN local search results. Type in a query, such as deli, New York or dentist, Dallas and superpages…
Google Offers New Versions of Google Mini Search Appliance, Fast Search and NY Times Company Announce Deal
Two enterprise search notes today. One from Google and the other from Fast Search and Transfer. First, Elinor Mills reports that Google is offering…
BusinessWeek Article Offers Look at Net Censorship in China
The BusinessWeek article: The Great Firewall of China, by Ben Elgin and Bruce Einhorn offers analysis of the current state of Internet censorship in…
Microsoft Research India Demos Interactive, Multilingual Map Prototype
Although the primary focus of our blog is search, there is no doubt that interest from the search community in geographic info continues to…
More on Google Local App for the Blackberry, Expect Google Talk for Blackberry by Spring
A Threadwatch post: Google – Evil Blackberries, points to a Reuters article that offers a bit more detail about the just released version Google…
Google Zeitgeist Receives Makeover, New Weekly Edition
A member of the SEW Forums points out that the Google Zeitgeist home page has a new look and features a new weekly edition.…
Yahoo VP In Charge of Yahoo Developer Network Leaves Company for Startup
Om Malik reports that Toni Schneider, the VP in charge of the Yahoo Developer Network and, according to Malik, also helped with the Konfabultor…
TailRank: A Social News Recommendation and Filtering System Gets a New Look
Scoble points out that Tailrank a service that, “finds the best content from thousands of blogs” (think digg or Memeorandum) that provides a “custom…
Google’s Patent Application for Click-to-Call Advertising Published
A newly published patent application (first filed on June 30, 2004) shows that Google is looking to patent a method to provide click-to-call advertising…
Page CES Keynote With Williams Segment Now On Google Video
A Google spokesperson told us that there were copyright issues with including the “Robin Williams portion” of Larry Page’s keynote at CES last week…
Google Tests New Local Ads On Maps
Google Tests Local Ads on Maps at ClickZ covers David Galbraith spotting that Google now appears to be inserting paid ads into maps on…
Google Personalized Goes Mobile
Today, your Google personalized home page has gone mobile. The new service reformats your personalized page for your phone or mobile device. The service…
Search Marketing’s About People and Principles, Not Just Algorithms, Part 2
More coverage of Danny Sullivan's keynote address at Chicago's Search Engine Strategies conference, continued from yesterday's Search Marketing's About People and Principles, Not Just…
Daily SearchCast, Jan. 11, 2006: SEMPO Stats On Search Marketing Industry; Google Thinking About Selling Books; Search Patents; Google Earth For The Mac, Ben Franklin’s Search Engine & More!
Today’s search podcast covers new stats about the search marketing industry from SEMPO, Google considering selling books, more search patent applications, Dogpile does TV…
Google Sitemaps Now Available in Four More Languages
It’s quite the international day at the Googleplex. First, new languages and interfaces for Google Scholar and now a post from Vanessa Fox on…
The New New Customer Service
Such is customer service in the new digital age of transparency that Random House is offering refunds on “A Million Little Pieces” to people…
Google Begins to Reopen Registrations for Google Analytics
Google Blogoscoped has an item about the latest with Google Analytics. The company is now saying that some people who previously submitted their email…
Quaero, the European Developed Multimedia Engine, Gets Press Attention
An AP story as well one in Pandia discuss, Quaero, a multimedia engine in development, that’s being billed as “Europe’s answer to Google.” Quaero…