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Search Headlines & Links: Nov. 22, 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…
Thanksgiving Programming Note
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving in the United States, and Happy Thanksgiving to all celebrating! Barry and I will be off the blog because of the…
Mid-November 2006 Search News Recap Posted
If you’re a Search Engine Watch member, the latest edition of Search Engine Update newsletter has been posted. It recaps top stories in search…
SEM Certification & Training Courses
The move toward offering certification and training in search marketing is accelerating. Here’s a rundown on some new courses and developments I’ve heard of…
Google Finance’s Untrusted Links & Spotting Nofollow
For several months, I’ve been using the Search Status plug-in for Firefox to highlight links that are flagged with the nofollow attribute, a way…
Search Popularity Stats, Sliced & Diced
Catch up time on search engine popularity stats. comScore and NetRatings put out October 2006 figures this week, plus Hitwise released those earlier this…
Baidu Wins Copyright Case Against Music Companies
Melanie Colburn writes that Music Labels Lose Copyright Suit Against Baidu, which started back when Five Music Companies Sue Baidu in September of 2005.…
Link Exchanges Are Spam Links According To Microsoft
The other day I reported that Microsoft Banning Sites from Live.com For Link Exchanges, where I uncovered an email sent to a Webmaster. The…
Google Says AdWords Not Basing Keyword Prices On Conversion Metrics
I reported this morning at SERoundtable that AdWordsAdvisor Denies Google Uses Conversion Tracking & Analytics To Determine Minimum Bids. Yes, Google has come out…
Social Search Manipulation: Case Study
Niall Kennedy has one of the most thorough write-ups on why search spam exists with his article “The Spam Farms of the Social Web.”…
Google As News Archivist
Until recently, it was difficult to find news archives on the web more than 30 days old. That's changed in a big way with…
The Search Engine Update – Number 233 – Nov. 22, 2006
Search Engine Watch editor-in-chief Danny Sullivan's recap of top search engine stories from the first half of November 2006.
Search Headlines & Links: Nov. 21, 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…
Tracking All The Official Google Blogs
It can seem like Google adds a new official blog every week, which is a pain if you want to keep up with the…
Web Increasingly Used For Local Service Business Searches
Local online marketing firm WebVisible conducted an online survey this past August regarding Internet usage to find a local service business. The survey used…
New Sitemaps For Google News
Is your site included in Google News? Is your site in English? If so, you just got new support from Google Sitemaps. You can…
Google Breaks $500 Per Share
For fun, my MSN Direct watch is set to show the stock prices of all the major search engines. It only works in the…
Steve Berkowitz Of Microsoft (Windows Live) News.com Interview
News.com has an extensive interview with Microsoft’s Steve Berkowitz, who formerly worked at Ask.com. He goes over the current market, Microsoft’s advantages and challenges,…
Answers.com Integrates Yahoo Answers Into Content
Answers.com announced that they have integrated Yahoo Answers directly into their content. So if you do a search at Answers.com, you should see at…
Google Beats Microsoft, Yahoo As College Grad Choice
Online Recruitment reports on a CollegeGrad.com poll showing Google is the most desired place for technology students to work for. The poll asked 1,600…