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Google Local UK Gets Mobile Site; Google Scholar Lets Any Library Add Links
Google Local UK has gained a new mobile site and the Google Scholar program now allows any library to establish direct links to content.…
Click Fraud: A Legal Look
Click fraud is a growing concern among search engine marketers, but who ultimately is to blame? Perhaps more importantly, what's being done to address…
A Few More Web-Based Recommendation Tools
Last week Chris wrote a SearchDay article: Searching for a Mother’s Day Gift, about Yahoo’s new Shopping Gift Finder service that uses personalization technology…
Feedster Publishes RSS Tutorial For Safari Users
Here’s one for the Mac folks out there. If you’re using the Safari browser that’s part of the Apple Tiger release you might want…
Korea: Students Hop Aboard the Google Bus
Google wants a bigger piece of the Korean search market. So, in an effort to get more Koreans using Google, they’re travelling to several…
Flap Over Political Ads Underscores Problems With Google Delay In Reviewing Ads
More calls that Google might be to slow in reviewing ads to ensure they meet its guidelines are covered in this Media Post story,…
European Expansion & More In The Works At Ask Jeeves
Here are a few passages from a new Reuters article that takes a look at Ask Jeeves and their plans for growth as part…
Display Ads Can Generate More Searches
Pam Parker’s article, Display Ads Drive Searches in Yahoo! Case Study, reports on a new case study released by Yahoo that shows the “influence”…
So You’ve Attracted Searchers – Now What?
All too often it seems that search marketers have a sole objective of getting top-ten rankings in search results. While that’s a noble goal,…
New: Visualize Yahoo Results with Grokker
One information visualization tool that’s received plenty of attention over the past few years is Groxis from Grokker. Today, the NY Times reports that…
Converting Searchers to Buyers
Attracting people to your Web site through optimized content or sponsored links is just the first step in an effective search marketing campaign.
Special Holiday Logos for Mother’s Day; Google Artist Profiled
A couple of notes from the search engine holiday logo front today. Google.com and Google.ca have special holiday logos online today to celebrate Mother’s…
Google Says DNS Issues Caused Outage
It looks like someone or some group is not happy with a well-known search engine located in Mountain View, California. Earlier this afternoon, Google…
Blogger Debuts Moblog Service
Word from Google this afternoon that you can now moblog (mobile blog) with Blogger. Simply send your post(s) or pic(s) from your mobile device…
Syndic8 Gets Outed for Spamming
Remember the WordPress spamming search engines story (some might use stronger terms) from a few weeks ago? Via Google Blogoscoped we read that RSS…
SEO Inc Tries To Silence Google Blogoscoped Over Rankings
Last month, SEO Inc apparently fell out of the top rankings for the term “search engine optimization” at Google. I felt it was a…
Early Results from Search Engine Relevancy Challenge
Early results from Barry Schwartz’s Search Engine Relevancy Challenge have just been posted. About 3,200 results have been rated so far and it’s just…
Google’s VP of Engineering Plans to “Pull Back”
Late last year Danny blogged about Google’s vice president of corporate marketing, Google, Cindy McCaffrey, leaving the company. Today, John blogs that Google’s VP…
Google Web Accelerator Raises Worries
The new Google Web Accelerator released earlier this week is raising concerns about data privacy and webmaster issues. Much Controversy Over Google’s Accelerator from…
Reuters Reports on the Google News Patent Story
This time around, Reuters takes a look at the Google News patent story that’s been making the rounds over the past week. I find…