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Still Seeing “Blue Pins” on Some Google Maps; Google Now Testing Paid Links in Google Earth
Although some sites are reporting that the Google Maps “blue pin test” is no longer visible, I’m seeing the blue pins on some Google Maps results pages as…
Google Names New Managing Director in UK; European Job Recruitment Drive Begins
According to this Netimperative article Google has just named Mark Howe as the new managing director of their UK operations. Howe has…
TV Transcripts and Still Images No Longer Part of Google Video
Both Danny and I, independently of one and another noticed that the searchable transcripts (and still images) from television shows (via tv…
Satisfy Your Web Ego with egoSurf
If you’re into satisfying your ego by web surfing, Phil Bradley points to egoSurf, a site whose motto is, “know your place.”…
Search Spend Was Up Last Quarter
New online spending stats from a Deutsche Bank survey of 60 media executives found that last quarter (Oct-Dec. 2005), 65 percent said…
Logos On Rooftops Probably Not Aimed At Google Maps
Boing Boing points to Advertising with Google Maps, which suggest that merchants like Target and others are tapping into satellite views on…
See How Evil Google Is On Your Google Personalized Home Page
Gary wrote earlier of a site that lets you rate whether Google is evil or not, based on news items each day.…
Results from MSN Search Added to Jux2 Tool Metasearch and Results Comparison Tool
About a month ago I posted about the return of metasearch, search engine overlap and results comparison tool Jux2, after it was…
Google Base & The v7ndotcom elursrebmem SEO Contest
Damn — just when I thought I could ignore the latest SEO contest, it does something interesting. First, Greg Rockstar Boser notes…
New York Times On AdSense Earnings & Revenue share
New York Times published a piece on AdSense today, featuring Shawn Hogan of Digital Point discussing his AdSense earnings (roughly $10k per…
Tools that Optimize Web Content for Mobile Web: Google Joins Skweezer and IYHY
Since lots of web content has not been optimized for the mobile web, thanks to Nathan Weinberg* at InsideGoogle for the news…
Google Testing New Refinement/Clustering Links — Sign Of Google Base In Web Search?
Maybe it’s new — maybe not, but another Google query refinement test is out in the wild, as covered in our SEW…
Search Forums Roundup: Jan. 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:…
Ad or Promo? Google Pitching CSI, NBA Video On Google Home Page
A reader of John’s Searchblog points out that Google is now advertising or promoting (you decide) fee-based videos (CSI and the NBA)…
Daily SearchCast, Jan. 12, 2006: Google Analytics Reopens Slowly; Humor: Google Trademarking “Beta”; What Domain Data Does Google Know On Your Site; Searching For Acroynms & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Google Analytics beginning to let new people in; fun with the idea of Google getting a trademark on…
BusinessWeek Article Offers Look at Net Censorship in China
The BusinessWeek article: The Great Firewall of China, by Ben Elgin and Bruce Einhorn offers analysis of the current state of Internet…
Google’s Patent Application for Click-to-Call Advertising Published
A newly published patent application (first filed on June 30, 2004) shows that Google is looking to patent a method to provide…
Page CES Keynote With Williams Segment Now On Google Video
A Google spokesperson told us that there were copyright issues with including the “Robin Williams portion” of Larry Page’s keynote at CES…
Google Personalized Goes Mobile
Today, your Google personalized home page has gone mobile. The new service reformats your personalized page for your phone or mobile device.…
Search Marketing’s About People and Principles, Not Just Algorithms, Part 2
More coverage of Danny Sullivan's keynote address at Chicago's Search Engine Strategies conference, continued from yesterday's Search Marketing's About People and Principles,…
Daily SearchCast, Jan. 11, 2006: SEMPO Stats On Search Marketing Industry; Google Thinking About Selling Books; Search Patents; Google Earth For The Mac, Ben Franklin’s Search Engine & More!
Today’s search podcast covers new stats about the search marketing industry from SEMPO, Google considering selling books, more search patent applications, Dogpile…
Quaero, the European Developed Multimedia Engine, Gets Press Attention
An AP story as well one in Pandia discuss, Quaero, a multimedia engine in development, that’s being billed as “Europe’s answer to…
Google Trademarking The Word Beta
No, not really. But one of our SEW Forum threads points over to In Search Of Stuff, where 2006 isos Search Predictions…
Webcast and Transcript of Larry Page’s CES Keynote Address Now Available
Just up on the Google Press Center page is a link to the webcast and a text transcript of Larry Page’s keynote…
New Article Looks at Google, the Domain Registrar
Via Jim Boykins blog, a guest article by domain name expert Nick Wilsdon that looks at what Google knows about domain names.…
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