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Stanford University Keeps Yahoo’s $1M After Strong Criticism
Mercury News updates us that despite the fact that Stanford University criticized Yahoo for helping China, and Danny pointing out they may accept the…
Google News Mobile In Japan
Reuters reports Google has launched a news portal for the Japanese mobile phone market. The news portal has about 30 news outlets including Asahi…
Doritos & Yahoo’s Consumer Generated Super Bowl Commercial
Yahoo Video along with Doritos launched Crash the Super Bowl, a site where consumers can send them homemade Super Bowl commercials, with a chance…
Watch Some Of The Yahoo TV Commercials
I posted some of the Yahoo TV commercials at Search Engine Roundtable, if you want to check them out, here is a list of…
Search Forums Roundup: Oct. 13, 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: Google To…
Time Warner: YouTube Copyright Negotiations To Be “Kicked Up” To Google
Google faces copyright fight over YouTube from The Guardian cover how chair and CEO of Time Warner Dick Parsons said his company plans to…
SES Chicago 2006 Speaking Openings Posted
I’ve now contacted all my short list speakers for SES Chicago and know what session openings I have left. These are now posted here.…
Selling Information in a Free Web World, Part Two
Today’s SearchDay article, The Ongoing Struggle of Free vs. Fee, Part Two, continues the coverage of the ASIDIC Fall Meeting and what the traditional…
Google And Palm Launch Maps For Smartphones
I’ll resist the “maps in the palm of your hand” jokes here. But Google and Palm announced the launch of Google Maps for Treo…
Search Headlines & Links: October 12, 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…
New Interview on Belgian Press vs. Google News (Microsoft Next?)
Sean Daly, from Groklaw, interviewed Margaret Boribon of Copiepresse on September 28th about their copyright lawsuit against Google, which targets the use of Belgian…
Google’s Blogspot.com Down, Blogger Content Inaccessible
It seems like most of the morning, Google’s Blogspot service that hosts Blogger blogs has been down. For example, I have been trying to…
How To Make Custom Search Engine With Live Search
The Live Search blog posted today tips on how to build a custom search engine that pulls pages back from sites you select. It…
New Tool Measures Your Blog Juice
Text Link Ads has released a new fun tool named Blog Juice Calculator. You basically enter in your site/blog URL, and it tells you…
Google For Educators & Become A “Google Certified Teacher”
Google has launched a special Google For Educators site with designed for teachers and educators. The site consolidates many of Google’s products in one…
University of Wisconsin-Madison Joins Google Book Search Project
University of Wisconsin-Madison is the next university to join Google’s Book Search Project. The University has one of the largest collections of historical documents…
Resources For Finding Statistics For Any Web Site
Rand over at SEOMoz wrote an excellent post detailing all the different resources publicly available to gather statistical data on pretty much any web…
Bug Leaves Advertisers Unable To Change Ads On Yahoo
As I reported at reported at Search Engine Roundtable twice already, Yahoo has left their search advertising customers out to dry. Advertisers and agencies…
Ballmer: YouTube Overvalued & Google Transferring Wealth From Content Owners
The Web According to Ballmer from BusinessWeek has Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer questioning the value of the Google-YouTube deal and oddly warning that Google…
The Ongoing Struggle of Free vs. Fee, Part Two
How can traditional information industry companies survive in the world of free web content? How can they appeal to