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NewsTrust: A Social Networking News Review
Loren Baker over at Search Engine Journal (who awarded us first place for Search News Blog of 2006) outlines how NewsTrust plans to use…
Online Spending Tops $100 Billion in 2006
According to an Infoworld report on Y! news, online shopping increased 24 percent over the previous year, with consumers spending $102.1 billion in 2006,…
Investor criticizes news aggregation site
While Michael Arrington, the blogger behind TechCrunch, invested in Daylife, a news aggregation Web site, that hasn’t stopped him from critizing it. Arrington says,…
PayPerPost/Performancing Deal Called Off
The intended acquisition of Performancing’s metrics solution, announced last week, has been called off. Both PayPerPost and Performancing express regret over the unrealized acquisition,…
Search Forums Roundup: Jan. 5, 2006
Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the Web: Who’s Who…
Time.com to launch new design and blog
Richard Stengel, Time magazine’s managing editor, has posted a letter to readers entitled “A Changing Time.” It marks the first time that Time magazine…
Google Buys Into Chinese Video Download Site
So Google seems to like video sites. Despite the fact that YouTube has been ordered to shut down in Brazil, Google has bought into…
MapQuest Enhances Mobile Mapping Products
MapQuest announced a series of mobile mapping and search enhancements today, meant to leverage the company’s leading position in online mapping. The company held…
Google Search Appliance adds new features to customize enterprise search
Earlier today, Google announced some new features for the Google Search Appliance that give enterprise customers the ability to customize search results for their…
Miva Drops Yahoo Adds Google
Miva will replace their search partnership with Yahoo that dates back to 2001 and start a new relationship with Google as of January 27,…
New York: Informal Gathering of Interactive Marketers Next Tuesday
If you’re in the mood for sharing drinks with your fellow search and interactive marketers, and you’ll be in New York next Tuesday, stop…
Has Google mastered shameless self-promotion?
UPDATE: Google drops self-promting tips. See below… Riva Richmond of The Wall Street Journal has posted a column on MoneyWeb entitled “Google steps up…
Google and Yahoo! aren’t keynoting at CES this year
Bambi Francisco of MarketWatch will be roaming around the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) next week — along with an estimated 70,000 daily visitors. While…
Rocky road for Philadelphia Inquirer newsroom staff
Deborah Yao, AP Business Writer, reports that The Philadelphia Inquirer’s newsroom staff will shrink by nearly 20% in two weeks as the newspaper revamps…
MSN’s Live Search News giveth and AOL News taketh away
At some point during the holidays, MSN’s Live Search News started to include press releases in its results. At roughly the same time, AOL…
Google’s Response to “The Sausage Manifesto”
Today’s SearchDay, It’s Time to See What’s In the PPC Sausage, looks into Jeffrey Rohr’s open letter to paid search networks about click fraud.…
It’s Time to See What’s In the PPC Sausage
Optiem's Jeffrey Rohrs has penned a "sausage manifesto," asserting that advertisers' click fraud concerns should be addressed as a customer service and disclosure issue…
Rohrs Addresses Click Fraud Issues With “Sausage Manifesto”
In a “Jerry Maguire moment” during SES Chicago last month, Jeffrey Rohrs, long-time SES moderator on legal and click fraud issues, sat down at…
Google Is Granted Two More Patents
The US Patent Office has issued Google two more patents. One patent, for a similarity search engine – to check duplicate content – was…
China Fines Sohu For Posting US Movies Online
In another victory against media piracy, the Chinese courts fined search engine and portal Sohu for allowing the distribution of American films online. US…