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Yahoo Turns Down Google’s Request For Information On Book Search
The NY Times reports that Yahoo has recently rejected Google’s subpoena for help with the Google Book Search project legal woes. Reportedly, Yahoo turned…
Microsoft On How To Let MSNBot In, Keep Bad Bots Out
The Live Search Blog described how you can verify if the MSNBot you see crawling your site, is truly the MSNBot from Microsoft or…
Goodbye Search Engine Watch & Best Wishes!
Today is my last day with Search Engine Watch, with me heading to my new digs at Search Engine Land tomorrow. I wanted to…
Making Search Accessible to Visually Impaired Users
Until recently, the needs of visually impaired users wasn't a top priority for search engines. That's changed, but there are still issues that need…
Optimizing Search for the Visually Impaired
Those of us with good eyesight often don’t give much thought to the challenges visually impaired users face in reading, much less searching for,…
The Search Engine Report – Number 120
Search Engine Watch editor-in-chief Danny Sullivan recaps top search engine stories from November 2006.
The Search Engine Update – Number 234 – Nov. 30, 2006
Search Engine Watch editor-in-chief Danny Sullivan's recap of top search engine stories from the second half of November 2006.
Search Headlines & Links: Nov. 29, 2006
Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged separately: From…
IAC To Launch AskCity; Local Info Services Site
Reuters reports that IAC and Ask.com are launching a new local information services site named AskCity on December 4th. The site will combine IAC’s…
Name That Search Marketer Game
David Wallace at SearchRank.com has a game; SEO/SEM Trivia – How Well Do You Know It’s Stars? Basically, he took pictures of well-known SEMs…
Alexa Ain’t So Bad, Says Site Search Comparison
Alexa has come under plenty of fire recently as not being accurate (old hands have known better for years), as more and more people…
A Superbowl Marriage Proposal?
Joe Morin thinks he’s got the next Million Dollar Home page mixed with romance going. To wit: someone named JP (to stay secret from…
Goodbye Google Answers
Wow. Google is shutting down its Google Answers service. The company has announced that new questions won’t be accepted after the New Year, though…
Search Marketing 2006: Facts & Figures
If you're looking for hard data about the world of search engine marketing, arguably the best single source of metrics is MarketingSherpa's annual
Google Audio Ads Sign-Up Page Live
Google Audio Ads now appears to be opening to sign-ups, sort of. Googlaxy.com sent me a heads-up about three new URLS that are (somewhat)…
Search Headlines & Links: Nov. 28, 2006
Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged separately: From…
Advertiser Details On Google Audio Ads
Donna Bogatin over at Digital Micro-Markets has posted what look to be PowerPoint slides designed to explain how Google Audio Ads will work for…
Google Quality Raters Leaving Traces When They Visit Sites
This morning I reported at SER that Google’s EWOQ Search Referral String are being found in webmasters web analytics tools. For example, some people…
Linkbombing Against Anti-Martin Luther King Jr Site
In case you missed it, there’s a new link bombing campaign underway to try and reduce the rankings of an anti-Martin Luther King Jr.…
Live’s Erik Selberg On Microsoft’s Tough Search Challenge
Talk about the echo chamber coming full circle. The stats on Microsoft’s search share decline that I posted last week were commented on by…