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Google Groups Beta 2006 Gets Mixed Reviews

Google announced a new Google Groups Beta with a new design, added features and some shared features from other Google properties. In short, Google Groups has a new…

By Barry Schwartz · 05 Oct 2006

Industry

Eric Schmidt Warns Politicians That Elections Will Forever Change

The Financial Times reports that Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, warned politicians at a Tory party conference in Bournemouth that the outcome…

By Barry Schwartz · 04 Oct 2006

Industry

How Google’s Q&A One Box Results Work

The Google Operating Systems blog has slides from Peter Norvig’s presentation at UC Berkeley on how the Google One Box Q&A results…

By Barry Schwartz · 04 Oct 2006

Industry

Google Base Store Connector

Have an eBay store? How about a Yahoo store or an Amazon store? If yes, and you want into Google Base, you…

By Barry Schwartz · 03 Oct 2006

Mobile

Mobile Phone Search: The Problem & Solutions

An excellent News.com article highlights some of the major problems with mobile search and explores some of the solutions and opportunities available…

By Barry Schwartz · 03 Oct 2006

SEO

Google’s New SearchMash Test Site

Google’s gained a new unbranded site called SearchMash where it plans to test user interface ideas without Google’s brand somehow skewing the…

By Danny Sullivan · 02 Oct 2006

Industry

Amazon’s A9 Becomes, Well, Sort Of Nothing

Amazon’s A9 saw the loss of its driving force Udi Manber to Google earlier this year. Now two years after its launch,…

By Danny Sullivan · 02 Oct 2006

Industry

Copiepresse Upset Ruling On Google Wasn’t Visible Enough

Last week, Google complied with a Belgian court order and posted the ruling against it in a copyright suit on the home…

By Danny Sullivan · 02 Oct 2006

Industry

Google Buys Birthplace Garage

Google has purchased the garage where the company developed after its initial birth at Stanford University. Actually, they’ve purchased the home of…

By Danny Sullivan · 02 Oct 2006

Industry

Search Forums Roundup: Sept. 29, 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:…

By rumo · 29 Sep 2006

Industry

How Google Webmaster Creates Query Stats, Now Weekly Updates

Vanessa Fox announced at the Google Webmaster Central blog that the query stats from within the statistics section of Google Webmaster Central…

By Barry Schwartz · 29 Sep 2006

Industry

Picasa Web Albums: Google Goes Flickr

Threadwatch reports that Google has began “doing online photo storage” at Picasa Web Albums. I quickly tried it out and made a…

By Barry Schwartz · 29 Sep 2006

Industry

Google’s 8th Birthday

Google put up a special birthday logo for themselves today, since today is Google’s 8th birthday. Or is it? In last years…

By Barry Schwartz · 27 Sep 2006

Industry

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…

By Danny Sullivan · 27 Sep 2006

Industry

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…

By Barry Schwartz · 26 Sep 2006

Industry

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…

By Barry Schwartz · 26 Sep 2006

Industry

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,…

By Danny Sullivan · 26 Sep 2006

Industry

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…

By Danny Sullivan · 26 Sep 2006

Industry

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…

By Barry Schwartz · 25 Sep 2006

Video

Pluggd Promises Podcast Concept Searching, But We Still Need Better Basic Keyword Searching

Pluggd to make podcasts chunkier, searchable at TechCrunch covers how podcast search service Pluggd plans to make it possible to search podcasts…

By Danny Sullivan · 25 Sep 2006

Industry

Google Changes Mind, Posts Belgian Ruling

Google has now posted the text of a Belgian ruling finding it violated copyright on the Google Belgium home page. The ruling…

By Danny Sullivan · 25 Sep 2006

Industry

Compare & Contrast: Search Ad Program Strategies

Google, Microsoft and Yahoo's pay-per-click (PPC) programs are similar, but each have unique features that require different campaign tactics to use effectively.…

By Catherine Seda · 24 Sep 2006

Industry

Search Forums Roundup: Sept. 22, 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:…

By rumo · 22 Sep 2006

Industry

Webmasters Complaining About Google? Get A Job Helping Them Know!

A new job opening from Google, Webmaster Trends Analyst. It’s all about helping Google monitor what webmasters are upset or concerned about…

By Danny Sullivan · 21 Sep 2006

Industry

KinderStart Issues An Amended Complaint Against Google

Eric Goldman wrote that KinderStart has issued a 63 page second amended complaint against Google. KinderStart lost their first case against Google…

By Barry Schwartz · 21 Sep 2006

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