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Yahoo Asking Users To Rate Usefulness Of Search Results
SEOdisco has screen captures of Yahoo asking him to rate how useful he finds the first two organic results for his search query. He…
How Much Should SEOs Earn
Rand at SEOMoz has another excellent post named SEO Salaries – How Much Should You Make. He details what he believes SEOs of all…
Gmail Tests Open In Google Spreadsheets Link
Philipp Lenssen reports that Google is testing a link to open your Microsoft Excel documents within Google’s Spreadsheets application. I tried sending myself an…
Ask.com Creates Flash Demo To Explain Why Ask.com “Is Better”
Ask.com released a new flash demonstration that goes through all the features of the search engine. The purpose of the demo is to illustrate…
See And Find With Quintura
Quintura is the latest in the line of visual search engines such as Kartoo, Mooter and WebBrain. Quintura basically takes your search term, runs…
Search Forums Roundup: Nov. 3, 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: Deal or…
Search Headlines & Links: November 2, 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…
Yahoo Slurp Adds Wildcard Support For Robots.txt
The Yahoo Search Blog announced that Yahoo’s web crawler, aka Yahoo Slurp, now supports wildcards in the robots.txt file. The two parameters that Yahoo…
GPS, Geotagging, Images and Maps
The NY Times has a long and relatively interesting article on geotagging images and mapping. It primarily discusses Flickr and, to a lesser degree,…
Gmail Mobile Client Released
Google just announced the release of a mobile client to manage your gmail account on your mobile device. The new benefits include; 5X faster,…
ClickRiver New Pay Per Click Program from Amazon
Ever wanted to put your ads right on the product page of your competitor’s product at Amazon.com, or wanted your product advertised with something…
Google Effect Of Domain Name Change Of Ownership
This morning I wrote Does Change of Domain Name Ownership Hurt Rankings? a question that has been bugging Danny and myself since I wrote…
In UK, Google To Surpass Channel 4’s Ad Dollars
The Independent reports that Google UK is expected to earn “£900m from the UK ad market in 2006.” When compared to Channel 4’s “£800m…
Google To Partner With Clear Channel Communications?
Business Week’s Steve Rosenbush thinks it is a good idea for Google to partner with Clear Channel Communications. The article explains that Google has…
Ask.com Launches Elections Smart Answers
Ask.com launched some new smart answers for the upcoming elections. You can do a search on elections 2006 to see “General Elections are Tuesday,…
Yahoo Launches Yahoo Food
What is for breakfast this morning? Well, you can now go to Yahoo Food and find out. Yahoo launched food.yahoo.com that contains “recipes, advice…
Google Says Belgium Did Not Send $43.2M Fine
Elinor Mills reports that Google has denied a report last week that it was fined $43 million for not removing all Belgian publishers’ content…
Highlights from the SEW Blog: Nov. 2, 2006
Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary headlines from around the web.
The Interestingness of Social Networks
Interestingness is a great name for a ranking algorithm. It’s what Yahoo’s photo-based social network Flickr uses to show which images the community finds…