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Meet Mr. KentuckyFriedCruelty.com
A PETA staffer has legally changed his name to KentuckyFriedCruelty.com (yes, of course there’s a corresponding Web site). The former Chris Garnett decided to…
Highlights from the SEW Blog: Dec 30, 2005
Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary search headlines from around the web.
Google Will Be Default Search Engine on Opera’s Mobile Browsers
Dirson reports that Opera (the browser company) Google will be the default search tool on all of Opera’s mobile browsers including the new Opera…
Google Guys Invest in a Motion Picture Being Made by Friend
Via Philipp at Google Blogoscoped, an article in the San Francisco Chronicle that informs us that the Google Guys (Sergey and Larry) are investing…
Malik Looks at Issues for Google AdSense and Other Ad Programs in 2006
Om Malik has compliled and written an excellent post that discusses what might be some big issues for AdSense and other programs in 2006.…
Holiday Period is a Busy Time at Fast Search and Transfer
A bit of enterprise search news. While many of us have been on a holiday break, the folks at Fast Search and Transfer have…
Google and Yahoo Both Make Top 10 of 2005 ImagePower® Newsmaker Brands Survey
A new survey out today ranking America’s leading brands has both Google and Yahoo in the Top 10. Other Internet players in the Top…
The Big Stories in Search, 2005
Danny wraps up our look back at the year in search in today’s SearchDay article, 2005 in Review: The Top Search Industry Stories of…
YouTube Pops Above Google Video Thanks To SNL Clip
So here’s a mashup for you. I wrote earlier about YouTube and how I didn’t really trust Alexa data to prove the popularity of…
2005 in Review: The Top Search Industry Stories of the Year
Search caught fire last year, with new tools, services and virtually constant activity. Here's a look back at some of the most memorable themes…
Daily SearchCast, Dec. 28, 2005: Google Base Switches To Jump Pages, Some Publishers Ask Google Book Search To Display Pages From Their Books, Top Search Blogs Get Awards, Maps Make Saturday Night Live & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Google Base sending searchers through "jump" pages, Google Book Search NOT being hacked to display books beyond what publishers allow,…
New Entry: Medio Joins Mobile Search Space in U.S.
Earlier this month, the Red Herring story: Medio to Debut Mobile Search, looked at Seattle based Medio, joining other companies in the U.S. mobile…
WebSite-Watcher: A Key Tool for Tracking Web Page Changes
My friend and librarian colleague, Phil Bradley, points to a blog post by Marshall Kirkpatrick that looks at tools and services that alert you…
Patents, Google and Acquistions; What About Search Patents from Other Companies?
Loren over at Search Engine Journal points us to a post on SEO by the Sea by Bill Slawski that does an impressive job…
Full Text of Complaint Filed in Jews for Jesus v. Google Case
Last week, Danny blogged about a copyright infringement lawsuit filed by Jews for Jesus against Google regarding a blog hosted on their Blogspot service.…
Revisiting The “No Banners On Google” Declaration
I wrote previously of Google promising that the terms of its deal with AOL wouldn’t see a flood of banner ads flowing onto its…
New Year To-Do: Change that Boilerplate
A good tip from Steve Outing at Poynter: don’t forget to update your site! Most Web sites have copyright and other boilerplate info hardcoded…
The Best Search Engine Watch Forum Posts of 2005
Continuing our retrospective look at the year in search, today’s SearchDay article features 2005 in Review: The Best Search Engine Watch Forum Posts.
Using Google To Measure Your Sluttiness
A nice find by Nathan at InsideGoogle, Slut-O-Meter lets you find out how promiscuous you are according to Google. It does a search for…
The Googleshank Redemption Reloaded
Remember me writing about the Googleshank Redemption? If not, it was the story of site owner Allan Dick feeling powerless to get help from…