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Looking At Google’s In-House Ad “Poets”
Spotted via Search Engine Lowdown, Search-Related Ads Rely on Poetry of Words, Numbers from the LA Times (free reg. required) looks at Google’s in-house…
Stanford Daily Removes Paid Links
In April, I wrote about how Stanford University’s student newspaper and many other student papers were selling offtopic links to advertisers almost certainly trying…
Google Press Releases Now Available Via Feed
Spotted via Steve Rubel, Google is now issuing press release notifications via a feed. Non-feed releases are here; feed is here. Steve noted Microsoft…
Meet The Google Engineers Event Next Month
Google is having a special "Meet The Google Engineers" event in New Orleans next month, free to anyone interested. It’s being held in conjunction…
Yahoo Mindset Demo Allows “Intent Driven” Search Refinement
Michel points out that the Yahoo Research Lab has quietly released a new demo called Mindset. The Mindset Search Demo applies a new twist…
Digital Envoy Suit Against Google Can Go Ahead & Full-Text Of Ruling
According to this News.com report Digital Envoy’s lawsuit claiming that Google breached its contract with the company, can move forward after being denied a…
GoLexa, Link Harvester & Recap Of Other New SEM Tools
The past few weeks have been pretty busy in terms of new search marketing tools appearing. I’ve now posted a recap of these for…
SafeSearch Doesn’t Work On Google Print & Can Full Book Preview Prevention Be Hacked?
I was running a few searches this morning with the new Google Print interface and noticed that Google’s SafeSearch (in strict mode) doesn’t appear…
Google Cache Feature Down?
Trying to get a cached copy of a page on Google? I’m not having a problem but others are. Cache Server Down for 10…
Search Forums Roundup: May 27, 2005
Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web: Association of…
Like The Blog? How About A Write-In Vote?
OK, I’ve seen four or five other search blogs ask for people to vote for them — or write-in vote for them — for…
Types Of Links To Lead Search Engines To Your Site
Threads of the Web – Linking for Success from Scottie Claiborne at Search Engine Guide is a nice overview to the types of links…
Last Week, Google Had A Strategy. This Week, It Doesn’t
Last week, Google was emphatic right on its own blog that they weren’t "just a bunch of mad scientists running around doing whatever we…
Recap Of New SEM Tools
The past few weeks have been pretty busy in terms of new search marketing tools appearing. In this article, a recap of some things…
New Interface Available: Search Only Material in the Google Print Database
We figured that this was going to happen. Google has just released a Google Print “only” interface at https://print.google.com. Although an advanced interface is…
Information Week Publishes Interview With Eric Schmidt
Information Week has just published a three page Q&A interview with Google CEO, Eric Schmidt. The article focuses on Google’s involvement in enterprise search…
Booting Copyright Infringers From Search Listings
Pursuing Copyright Infringers from Scottie Claiborne over at Search Engine Guide has a nice rundown on what to do if you find pages infringing…
Search Marketing Trade Publication Coming
Spotted by Search Engine Guide, news that search marketing is looking to get its first print magazine. It will be from SYS-CON media and…
BitTorrent Search Opens; Ask Jeeves Ads There Actually From Google
The BitTorrent search engine that Wired reported on Monday is now live on the BitTorrent home page and at search.bittorent.com. When I ran a…
Google Regains Its Hijacked Listing; This Was A Big Deal, Folks!
Two days after it appeared, Google has finally managed to get its hijacked listing restored for queries on adsense and google adsense. Two days!…