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Ask Jeeves Denies Adware Installing Charge & Other Accusations
Earlier I posted about various accusations made against software distributed by Ask Jeeves — that it assisted other programs to install themselves unbeknownst to…
Gmail Web Clips: More On Google’s Feed Aggregator, Plus Feeds From Google News
Checking my Gmail account today, I discovered that I’m apparently now one of the few with access to the new Gmail "web clips" feed…
Search Engine Watch Forums Live Brings SEM Speed Dating To Atlanta
Search Engine Watch Forums is having its first official gathering, Search Engine Watch Forums Live! As editor of the SEW Forums, I’m looking forward…
Your Logs May Show If You’ve Been Naughty
Been up to no good with your SEO? Your logs might give you a clue before your pages disappear! David Naylor’s Things You Don’t…
Back To Basics: Web Analytic Terms & Log File Analysis
What’s the Score? Basic Web Analytic Terminology from Scottie Claiborne at Search Engine Guide is a nice refresher on some basic terms related to…
Consumer Reports Holding Forum On Search Ad Disclosure
Trust or Consequence: How Failure to Disclose Ad Relationships Threatens to Burst the Search Bubble is the name of free one day conference being…
Google To Open Office In China — New Chinese Domains In Use
Google has the go-ahead from China to open its first office there, and new Google China web sites using the .cn domain name are…
Google Ad Ranking System Tweaked
How are ads ranked at Google? Traditionally, it has been the ad’s clickthrough rate (CTR) times its cost per click (CPC). Those with the…
Xtra-Google Puts Many Google Searches On One Page
Spotted via Google Blogoscoped, Xtra-Google offers what Google itself should — an easy way to access Google’s many specialty services and a few it…
Yahoo Service Marks the Terms “Pearl Hunter” and “Cover Art”
I posted a week ago about a couple of new Google trademarks (technically they’re called service marks) and I thought it would be interesting…
Local Search Means Small Business Motherload
In Online ad sellers think local, News.com revisits why search engines are interested in developing local search. It’s a largely untapped vein of small…
CNN Accused Of Blog & Search Spamming To Improve PR
CNN gets accused of blog spam and search engine spamming. CNN on the Spam Attack? from Wired explains how blogger Nick Lewis spotted what…
Ask Jeeves Accused Of Pushing Adware
Anti-spyware writer Ben Edelman pokes at Ask Jeeves in his Does Jeeves Ask for Permission? article up today. He finds that the Ask Jeeves…
SBC SMARTPages and YellowPages.com Announce New Flat-Rate Advertising Packages
According to a Clickz story, SBC’s SMARTPages and YellowPages.com are announcing flat-rate pricing packages hoping to get more local customers advertising online. The program…
Yahoo Plans Customer Service Center in Oregon
News from Oregon that Yahoo is planning to open a customer service center in the Portland suburb of Hillsboro. The story says that the…
New Study Benchmarks Desktop Search Tools
The folks over at Pandia have alerted us to a new benchmark study from the University of Wisconsin’s E-Business Consortium that looks at 12…
Summarizing The Search Engine Meeting
Gary blogged earlier about presentations being online from the annual and venerable Search Engine Meeting. Short of time? Search Engine Meeting Low-Down (Boston) from…
Google Logo-Snubs England (& The US, California, …)
The Register is mildly up in arms that Google failed to do a special logo for England’s national day, St. George’s Day, last month:…
Google Video Adds New Sources
News from the Googleplex today that several new video content sources have been added to Google Video. However, Google Video (beta) still only provides…
Gaming Local Search Reviews: Part 2
Earlier this month, I pointed out an article about local search and the merchant review systems often offered in them. Will we see these…