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The Search Engine Update – Number 229 – September 20, 2006
Search Engine Watch editor Danny Sullivan's recap of top search engine stories from the first half of September 2006.
Search Headlines & Links: September 19, 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…
Video Search Usage for August 2006
Hitwise just released August 2006 market share data for the most popular online video search sites. Not surprisingly, YouTube leads with a 45.46% share…
Yahoo CEO Says Ad Growth Slowing Down; Ask.com To Increase Market Share
The Wall Street Journal reports that Terry Semel, Yahoo’s CEO, has warned that online advertising growth will be slowing in automotive and financial services…
Customizing Your Own Search Engine
Want to build your own search engine that skews toward your favorite sites or topic, but don’t have a few billion to start up…
Yahoo Creating “Brickhouse” Internal Incubator To Keep Talent
GigaOM reports that Yahoo is creating an internal incubator, code named Brickhouse, to give some of Yahoo’s talent a place to work without the…
Local Matters and Mobile People Partner for Mobile Local Search
Directory, directory assistance and local search infrastructure provider Local Matters today announced a deal with European mobile search company Mobile People. According to the…
Why Is Wikipedia Advertising On Google?
Wikipedia Advertising Shows Up on Google from Micro Persuations covers how Wikipedia is apparently advertising content on Google. A search on crowdsourcing in Google…
URL Vs. Navigational Queries Explained: AKA, Why Did URL Searches At Google Change?
Matt Cutts from Google has a great follow up on our reports that Google Modifies Navigational Search Results from about two-plus weeks ago. In…
Google’s Political Action Committee: Google NetPAC
Via Threadwatch, Google will flex political muscles PAC to raise money for causes, candidates; lobbyists on board from the San Francisco Chronicle covers how…
Google & Apple To Do Content, Ad Deals?
Google and Apple in iTV content talks from The Register covers how Google (according to Newsweek) may be providing video clips for Apple’s “iTV,”…
Your Search, Your Way
A new generation of search services goes beyond simple personalization, and lets you customize both your search topics and how results are presented.
Search Headlines & Links: September 18, 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…
Baidu Holds 62% Share In China
LinuxWorld reports that Baidu, the Chinese search engine, has 62.1 percent share based on a China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC) report. That is…
Yahoo To Run Huge Global Advertising Campaign
Reuters reports that Yahoo is going to be running a multimillion-dollar global advertising campaign consisting of television, radio, cinema and online advertising. The campaign…
Belgian Court Orders Google To Remove Content From Google News & Cache
Reuters reports the big news of the day that Google has been ordered by a Belgian court to remove all articles, photographs and graphics…
Highlights from the SEW Blog: Sept. 18, 2006
Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary headlines from around the web.
Search Headlines & Links: September 15, 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…
AOL Offers 5 Gigabytes of Free Online Storage
In the not search-related but still useful category, AOL is now offering 5 gigabytes of free online storage through its Xdrive subsidiary. All you…
See Ads? Now You Don’t! Google AdWords Rotating Out Top Sponsored Links
Google is now displaying or not displaying the top sponsored links (with the blue background) based on searcher behavior. What I mean is that…