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Google Talks On Its Approach To Content & Copyright
Our approach to content at the Official Google Blog has Google explaining to the world how it works with content owners and its desire…
John Battelle Talks With Matt Cutts & Nofollow Attribute The Same As Meta Robots Nofollow?
John Battelle has a short interview with Google spam fighter Matt Cutts. The most interesting part I found was news that the W3C has…
Behind the Scenes in the Search Engine Labs
Most of the major search engines have research units and live testing grounds for new products and features. What kinds of projects are they…
Search Headlines & Links: September 26, 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…
The Internet, ‘Family 2.0’ And The 43-Hour Day
Yahoo and OMD issued the findings from the latest round of their ongoing global research project in 16 countries that involves online surveys and…
Google’s Index Bench: Build Your Own Google Search Engine?
Gary Price reported that Google registered a few new interesting domain names including bench-index.com, benchindex.com, index-bench.com and indexbench.com. Since then Garett Rogers speculated that…
First Non English University To Join Google Book Search Project
Reuters reports that The Complutense University of Madrid, a Spanish university, is to join the Google Book Search scan project as the first library…
Some Google Belgium Follow-Ups
Just a quick note that Google’s posted on its official blog about the Google Belgian news issue that I’ve been covering, while William Slawski…
Google Gets Long Distance Phone Call From Space
The world’s first private woman space tourist Anousheh Ansari made a long distance call to the Googleplex to talk with Google co-founder Larry Page.…
Yahoo Fellowships For Repressed Journalists, While Chinese Journalist Might Sue Them
Earlier this month, I dinged Google over hypocrisy for getting behind Banned Books Week given its support of censorship in China. Now, a similar…
Google Aims To Make More Energy Efficient Computers
A NY Times article shows how Google to Push for More Electrical Efficiency in PC. Why? (1) “It’s like putting a 400-horsepower engine in…
DMA Offering Search Marketing Certification Program
The Direct Marketing Association has announced a new certification program in search marketing, which is to launch at its annual conference next month. From…
Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against AOL Over Search Data Release
TechCrunch reports in Suit filed against AOL; seeks to block search history storage that a class action lawsuit has been filed against AOL seeking…
Exploiting the Differences in Search Ad Programs
The major search engines pay-per-click programs all have similarities, but also have their own unique features and nuances. Crafting your campaigns to take maximum…
Search Headlines & Links: September 25, 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…
Microsoft Consolidates Platform, Portfolio In ‘Digital Advertising Solutions’
Microsoft announced the launch of “Digital Advertising Solutions” and a related media campaign to promote it. What is “Digital Advertising Solitions?” It’s an effort…
Google Leads In Dead & Old Pages
In Google Has the Largest Number of Dead and Old Pages, the Google Operating System Blog points to a video and some research from…
Organic & Paid Search Conversion Metrics Similar
ClickZ reports on a WebSideStory study that shows that organic search traffic realized a conversion rate of 3.13 percent while paid search traffic realized…
Google Displaying Really Long Site Descriptions?
Philipp Lenssen spotted a screen capture of Google displaying a really long and extended description within the search results page for a search on…
Real Estate Search Engine Trulia Adds New Depth, Features
As the housing market cools, the real estate vertical is heating up. Today, real estate search engine Trulia launched several new features, a week…