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Search and Read Full Text Books Online via ebrary
Since book search is all the rage these days I want to spend a few minutes talking in-depth about a service I’ve mentioned in…
Yahoo To Have Podcast Creation & Hosting Service
Via Scripting News, Podcasts Help Drive Demand for High-Volume Hosting has Yahoo saying it wants to go beyond podcast search with a service to…
Google Exploring Book Rental Plan
Via News.com, Google Checks Out Interest In Online Book ‘Rental’ Plan at the Wall Street Journal covers Google having approached at least one publisher…
Omnicom Buys Resolution Media
Omnicom Buys Its First SEM Agency from ClickZ covers ad and marketing conglomerate Omnicom Group purchasing Chicago-based Resolution Media.
Andrew Sullivan Goes to Time.com
Another mainstream moment for blogs. Center-left political blogger Andrew Sullivan moves over to Time.com. They’ll be selling his ads and handling all site operations…
HotNacho On The WordPress Spam Saga
WordPress Spam Scam Explained is an undated article giving the Hot Nacho side of the Wordpress spam saga from owner Chad Jones. It might…
Yahoo Nov. 2005 Update Part 2 Underway
Yahoo advises that it’s making another index update this month. Unlike the first one, more changes are likely. See the Yahoo post for instructions…
Google Renames Urchin Google Analytics, Makes It Free
Google has renamed its Urchin web analytics unit to be — yep — Google Analytics (as Gary predicted), in a move that follows with…
Highlights from the SEW Blog: Nov 14, 2005
Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary search headlines from around the web.
Google Registers A Few New Domain Names
The folks in Mountain View have registered a few new domains in the past couple of days. + GoogleMagazines.com also registered in the .net,…
MSN ‘s Live.com and Start.com Offer “Feed” Only Search Tab
It looks like MSN continues to slowly release its feed search tool. In August, Danny and others posted about two “undocumented”* pieces of MSN…
eBay Unveils Service With New and Historical Info About Popular Search Terms
Search engine marketers might be interested to learn about a new service from eBay that launched yesterday. It allows subscribers (three different payment plans…
Your Life, Your Database: MyLifeBits Developer Gordon Bell Profiled in New Article
Total Recall, an article in the November issue of IEEE’s Spectrum magazine offers a five page profile of Gordon Bell and his MyLifeBits project…
Bloglines Expands “Universal Inbox” Initiative with Job Listings
Two job search aggregators, Indeed.com and SimplyHired have always offered keyword-based RSS and e-mail alerts to notify users of new job postings. However, users…
Learning About and Understanding Web Spam
Here’s some great reading, viewing and material for your reference shelf. With web spam continuing to be a very hot topic, I wanted to…
MSN Begins Beta Testing New Homepage
MSN officials have posted that they’re now testing a beta version(s) (IE only for now, Firefox support “coming soon”) of the MSN homepage. Of…
Daily SearchCast, Nov. 11, 2005: Good Reciprocal Linking, Trusted Links, Hats Of SEO Going Gray?, Canonical Funness, ExpertRank Inside At Ask Jeeves, Love & Murder Spill Into Search & More!
Today’s search podcast covers reciprocal linking and not getting into trouble, ways search engines might seek trusted links, whether white and black hats in…
MSN’s AdCenter: More than Just Keyword Advertising
Ina Fried’s News.com excellent overview article: Microsoft’s ad pitch underpins Net moves, offers a look at Redmond’s foray into selling search advertising (and beyond)…
Google Looking for Spanish Language Quality Raters
Do you speak and read Spanish have “experience” in Spain and other Spanish speaking countries? If so, than Google has just published a position…
Google Personalized Search Now Includes News Results
Yesterday, Google rolled out an improved version of personalized search results, saying that news results would be included “soon.” That didn’t take long—today, a…