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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…

By rumo · 31 Dec 2005

Industry

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.

By Chris Sherman · 30 Dec 2005

Mobile

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…

By Gary Price · 29 Dec 2005

Industry

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…

By Gary Price · 29 Dec 2005

PPC

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.…

By Gary Price · 29 Dec 2005

Industry

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…

By Gary Price · 29 Dec 2005

Industry

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…

By Gary Price · 29 Dec 2005

Industry

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…

By rumo · 29 Dec 2005

Video

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…

By Danny Sullivan · 29 Dec 2005

Industry

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…

By Danny Sullivan · 29 Dec 2005

Industry

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,…

By Danny Sullivan · 28 Dec 2005

Mobile

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…

By Gary Price · 28 Dec 2005

SEO

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…

By Gary Price · 28 Dec 2005

Industry

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…

By Gary Price · 28 Dec 2005

Industry

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.…

By Gary Price · 28 Dec 2005

Industry

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…

By Danny Sullivan · 28 Dec 2005

SEO

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…

By rumo · 28 Dec 2005

Industry

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.

By rumo · 28 Dec 2005

Industry

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…

By Danny Sullivan · 28 Dec 2005

SEO

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…

By Danny Sullivan · 28 Dec 2005