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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 tests. Below, more about the site…
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…
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:…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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:…
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…
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…
Bush Bio Changes For Miserable Failure Query Due To White House Change
Since 2004, a search on Google and Yahoo for “miserable failure” has almost always ranked the the official George W. Bush biography…
Google’s Belgium Fight: Show Me The Money, Not The Opt-Out, Say Publishers
I’ve had a long talk with the group that so far has successfully sued Google in Belgium over indexing, a talk that…
Again, The Need For Search Ad Revenue To Stand Alone
Has the search bubble popped, given Yahoo’s warning yesterday about declining ad revenue? That warning generated a stock plunge that has hit…
Google Webmaster Central’s Vanessa Fox & Amanda Camp Interviewed
Seattle 24×7 has an excellent conversation with Vanessa Fox and Amanda Camp of Google on Google Webmaster Central and working at Google.…
Microsoft To Enter Chinese Market With China Telecom
People’s Daily Online reports in Microsoft opens search market with China Teleco that Microsoft is starting push their way into the Chinese…
Yahoo Teams Up With Gore’s Current TV
The news is buzzing about the Current TV and Yahoo partnership. Current TV, founded by Al Gore, and Yahoo announced the launch…
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…
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