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Google Blogoscoped Interviews Matt Cutts
Yesterday, I posted a summary of a PubCon session that featured a live chat between Brett Tabke and Google’s answer man, and just about…
Google Print is Renamed Google Book Search
It’s all in a name, especially when that name confuses people. In a post on the Official Google Blog, Jen Grant, a Product Marketing…
Alibaba’s Chief Vows to Beat Google in China
In a conversation with reporters, Jack Ma, the CEO of China’s Alibaba (the same people who now runs Yahoo China) has, “vowed to defeat…
Summaries from WebmasterWorld PubCon 10
The WebmasterWorld PubCon 10 Conference (congrats Brett!) just concluded in Las Vegas and as I mentioned yesterday, Barry Schwartz (aka RustyBrick) was in attendence…
More Bloggers Switch
Apple’s market share has risen a percentage point this year, from 3.3 to 4.3 percent of the PC market share. The rise is attributed…
Search Marketers vs. Search Engine Ad Reps
Although search engine ad reps are supposed to offer help to both advertisers and search marketers, they’re also incentivized to persuade advertisers to work…
Search Engine Ad Reps: Friend or Foe?
Search engines employ advertising representatives to help search marketers, but sometimes relations between ad reps and search marketers can be difficult or even downright…
Access Local Gas Prices via SMS with Synfonic
When we chat about SMS-based (text messaging) search we usually include the big players including Google, Yahoo, MSN (their real-time traffic alerts are very…
Eurekster Launches Community-Powered Search “Swickis”
Eurekster, known for its personalized social search efforts, has introduced a new service aimed at personal and small business web site owners that allows…
London Kids Doodle For Google As Part Of New Office Opening
The News.com article, Schoolgirl wins Doodle 4 Google competition, reports the story of the just completed Doodle 4 Google “doodling” or drawing contest (you…
Daily SearchCast, Nov. 16, 2005: Google Base Goes Live; Yahoo’s Community Spirit; MSN Desktop Search Comes To Offices & More!
Today’s search podcast covers the new Google Base service that allows anyone to submit any type of content to Google, Yahoo’s collision with Flickr…
Matt Cutts Has a Cup of Coffee at PubCon Conference
Like he does at many of the Search Engine Strategies conferences, RustyBrick (Barry Schwartz) is blogging from the WebmasterWorld PubCon currently underway in Las…
Another Google UI Test? AdWords Appearing at the Bottom of Search Results
Mr. Seo Book (aka Aaron Wall) reports on another possible Google UI test. This one involves Google showing AdWords results at at the top,…
Google Sitemaps Expands To Give Query & Indexing Stats!
Google’s just added some new and long desired tools as part of its Sitemaps system. You can now get query stats and see top…
A Painful New Ad Unit
AdBrite is offering a page takeover unit called “Intermission” that it hopes “makes more money for publishers, and gives more exposure to advertisers.” Can’t…
Midweek Blog Potables
Audience fragmentation is a myth. Vin Crosbie tears it up. “Write your name in all your clothes.” Everything Organic needs to know about viral…
Vertical Search for B2B
VerticalSearch.com has launched as a business-to-business search service covering health, transportation, agriculture, construction, telecommunications and other industries, drawing results from from over one hundred…
How to Submit Your Content to Google
Just noticed this new page that lays out five ways to submit content to Google: + Add your URL to Google’s index + Google…
France Majority Party Campaigns with AdWords
Over the weekend, running a search on Google France for the words “violence,” “riots,” “suburbs,” “burned cars” or even “scum” pulled up Sponsored Links…
Speeches, Lectures, and More Added to BlinkxTV Database
For several months I’ve suggested to all of the video and audio search players to make an attempt to crawl and provide a centralized…