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Google.org For Google Foundation’s Philanthropic Activities
Nathan Weinberg at InsideGoogle spots that a new Google.org site is up. At the moment, it has nothing much other than a promise of…
Ask A Question and Get an Answer at Wondir
Sometimes it’s much easier to get the answer you need from another person than to spend time searching for it. A service called Wondir,…
Google Ransom Notes To Block Automated Queries, Submissions
Aaron Wall reports in Google Taking Action Against Automated SEO Software that new "ransom note" style codes are being used by Google to block…
Google Search Appliance Now Being Sold in Japan
Google’s enterprise search technology (aka Google Search Appliance) is now available in Japan via a reseller according to an IDG News Service article. The…
Google Addressing 302 Redirection Hijacking Issues
Google Tackles the 302 Redirect Issue at Search Engine Roundtable highlights comments from GoogleGuy in this WebmasterWorld thread that Google is making changes to…
SEO Criminals
I mentioned the Search Champs are meeting again up at Microsoft. Spotted via Threadwatch, one champ Mary Hodder takes a swing at the SEM…
Dissecting Yahoo Search Redirection Codes
Last year, I did a breakdown for Search Engine Watch members of what all those parameters mean that are embedded within a Yahoo redirection…
Not Quite A Fair Shopping Comparison Test
Jason Dowell in Comparing Search Engine Results – My Experiment at Search Engine Guide decides to pit shopping search engines against each other. He…
Google My Search History Personalizes the Web
Say goodbye to bookmarks: Google has rolled out a seriously cool search history feature that automatically keeps track of all of your web searches…
Multimap: Wireless Web Access to Maps for More than 50 Countries
Danny blogged today about the launch of Google Local, Maps and Mobile for the UK. In his post he mentions 192.com, an online directory…
Yahoo Profits Double; Beats Estimates
Hot off the wire are Yahoo’s Q1 2005 numbers. + Q1 Net Income–$204.6 million, or 14 cents a share vs. net income of $101.2…
A New Dynamic Search Term Suggestion Tool from Snap
Searchblog clues us into a new dynamic query suggestion tool from Snap.com. It might look and feel like Google Suggest but the difference is…
Looking At Yahoo’s Latin America Move
Yahoo! Buys TeRespondo.com to gain market share in Latin America from Nacho Hernandez at Search Engine Roundtable revisits Yahoo’s TeRespondo purchase last week to…
Search Cost Per Lead Cheap Compared To Other Ads
Gold Mine Found in Web Searches from Reuters has some nice stats at the end comparing search to other forms of advertising, from a…
Behind The Scenes Of Microsoft Takes On Google
Search and Destroy from Fortune (paid subscription required) has some nice details on the war between Google and Microsoft, with a nice lead-off on…
Google Is Responsive On Click Fraud — How About Some Balance, Says Goodman
The Search Advertising Story and the Quest for Balance from Andrew Goodman at Traffick has his take that on click fraud issues, Google’s actually…
Podscope Beta Now Available, Keyword Search Podcasts
Podscope, the new web engine that allows you to keyword search each and every word spoken in a podcast is now live in beta…
Images from Five More Cities Added To A9’s Visual Yellow Pages
When Amazon.com’s A9 launched their visual yellow page service about four months ago they offered images from about 10 cities and metro areas. News…
Searching For Gas Prices
High Gas Prices Fuel Search Engine Usage from Jennifer Laycock at Search Engine Guide talks about two gas price search engines (GasBuddy.com & GasPriceWatch.com)…
Past 10 Years Of Online Advertising History Available.
The Decade in Online Advertising 1994-2004 is a new 21 page PDF report from DoubleClick that offers a ton of data about online ad…