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Web Analytics Gets Trade Group
Trying to understand activity at your web site? Know what converts, what search engines send you traffic, links that are valuable? Mining this information…
Your Phone Number On Google & Other Search Engines
Yes, Google has (as others do) a phone number search service, as we’ve written before. Still, it can be a shock to some people…
Tiscali SEO Service Accused Of Spamming
Doorway pages are fine, says Tiscali South Africa, about a new search engine optimization service that the internet access provider and Google partner is…
Picsearch Powers MSN’s Image Search Database
“Official” word today that Picsearch is powering the image search database at MSN. Again, this is just an official announcement. Picsearch has been working…
Gmail Sending Direct Invites
Like some others, I was surprised to get an email notice from Google last week telling me I could have a Gmail account. I’ve…
Pay-Per-Call: A New Avenue for Search Marketers
Local search in the U.S. is hot, but nearly 14 million companies—most of them small-to-medium sized businesses—are missing the local search marketing revolution because…
New SEMPO Board To Be Announced Soon
I’d mentioned earlier that SEMPO’s elections for new board members had finished. So when will the winners be announced? SEMPO tells me the plan…
Getting Quality Links
Looking for ways to get quality links? Jennifer Laycock has a nice rundown on ideas to try, such as providing articles to other sites,…
SMA-UK Gets Formal, Calls For Elections; SMA-NA & SEMPO To Meet Next Month
SMA-UK is moving ahead with becoming a formal organization, complete with an elected board. The group for UK search marketers began organizing last October,…
New Releases of Web Information Managers
Paula Hane has written an excellent overview of two new releases in the web information management space. In her article: Two New Web Information…
Seared Ahi Tuna, Bloglines, and Ask Jeeves
The San Francisco Business Times has a bit more about the Bloglines/Ask Jeeves deal in the article: Bloglines: Ask Jeeves exec gets his news…
Pandia Gives Google, Others Top Search Honors
Previously, Gary mentioned Search Engine Watch was honored with two awards in the Pandia Search Engine Awards 2004. Here’s a rundown on all the…
Yahoo! Japan Will Launch Music Download Service
Several sources including Kyodo News and AFP are reporting that Yahoo Japan is planning to launch an music distrubution service called Yahoo! Music Download.…
Search Engine Watch Wins Pandia Awards
The Pandia Search Engine Awards for 2004 have just been announced and the entire Search Engine Watch team would like to thank Pandia for…
Having Google as Your Last Name
Some Sunday fun. I was using my favorite telephone directory search tool called Argali today and for the fun of it searched to see…
Cool Databases to Use: What’s a RedLightGreen?
No, it’s not a typo and I’m not going to be talking about stoplights. When blogging the Google Scholar news I realized that since…
Google Adds “Small Pilot Project” to Google Scholar
I just noticed a couple of new items listed on Google Scholar pages. + You’ll now see a link labeled “Preferences” on all Google…
Ask Jeeves UK Gets Hello Celebrity Content
First, a brief article on the Revolution web site discusses a new deal that will allow Ask Jeeves UK to use content from Hello!…
Google Files Senior Executive Bonus Plan Info with SEC
Those of you who keep close track on the business side of Google might be interested in a “current report” (aka 8-K) the company…
Head of France’s National Library Not Happy With Google Library Project
Google book plan sparks French war of words from Reuters notes that the head of France’s national library (Bibliothèque nationale de France) is concerned…