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Google Says Don’t Worry, AOL Won’t Change Us – But There’s Wiggle Room
Seeking to reassure searchers that Google has not sold out to gain the AOL deal, About the AOL announcement from Google vice president of…
Ending The Year With A Google Sandbox Reexamination
Since everyone else is blogging about our Google Sandbox discussion at the Search Engine Watch Forums, guess I’d better get on it as well.…
Daily SearchCast, Dec. 22, 2005: Traditional Marketer Worries Over Google, Scraper Sites Defined, WebmasterWorld Back In Search Engines, Google Sandbox Redux, Your Own Personal Google Zeitgeist & More!
Today’s search podcast covers traditional marketers worrying about Google encroaching on their territory; what exactly a scraper site is — you’ve seen them but…
Your Own Personal Google Zeitgeist
Setting trends on the Official Google Blog covers a great holiday gift, a way to see your own top searches on Google. Very, very…
Google Not Buying Riya
Just to tidy up loose ends, photo search service Riya quashed recent rumors that it would be bought by Google.
WebmasterWorld Back Among The Spiderable
WebmasterWorld, which banned Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask Jeeves and other search spiders last month, is now allowing them back in and thus returned to…
What’s A Scraper Site
It’s easy to assume that everyone knows what a scraper site is. Everyone doesn’t — or at least, they know what a scraper site…
Highlights from the SEW Blog: Dec 22, 2005
Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary search headlines from around the web.
Mid-December 2005 Search News Recap Posted
If you’re a Search Engine Watch member (thank you!), the latest edition of Search Engine Update newsletter has been posted. It recaps top stories…
Google Worries Traditional Marketers & Google Print Ads To Enter New Phase
A twofer of stories out of MediaPost looking at how Google will be trying new things with its Google Publication Ads program, a program…
RSS Newsletters? Not So Fast…
This morning Steve Rubel points to a new service, Mailfeed.org, that purports to easily convert e-mail newsletters into RSS feeds. Steve, a smart guy…
Power Searching with the Pros
The final installment of my compilation of SearchDay book reviews, A Compilation How-To Search Book Reviews, is online as today’s SearchDay.
A Compilation How-To Search Book Reviews
Want to be a professional searcher, or at least have the skills of a pro? These books show you how.
The Search Engine Update – Number 211 – Dec. 21, 2005
Search Engine Watch editor Danny Sullivan's recap of top search engine stories from the first half of December 2005.
Yahoo’s Mayer and Zawodny Ready to Debut New Webcast/Podcast on Webmaster Radio
Daron Babin, the man in charge of Webmaster Radio (the people who help us bring you our Daily Searchcast), has let us know that…
New Resource Pages About Google’s Content Network Now Available, Includes Optimization Tool
A note on the Inside AdWords blog points to this new page with a bunch of information about the Google Content Network. You’ll find…
Ask Jeeves Adds Translations, Pronunciations & Synonym Lookups
Word from Oakland today that Ask Jeeves has just added page translation, easier synonym lookups and definitions with pronunciations. Details and examples have just…
Google/AOL Deal is a Go: AIM and Google Talk To Become Interoperable, White Labelling of Google Ad Technology, and Expansion of Display Ads on Google Network All Part of “What’s New”
Reuters is reporting that the deal $1 billion deal that has Google buying a 5% stake in AOL is a go after being approved…
Answers.com’s New “Find As You Type” Feature
We see to be talking about UI tests at Google all of the time but how about a test from Answers.com? From what I’ve…
Google Releases 2005 Year-End Google Zeitgeist
The 2005 Year-End Google Zeitgeist with popular search terms and trends was released today. In the past week, we’ve heard from most of the…