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Froogle Offers Local Shopping Feature
Google’s Froogle shopping search engine added a new feature to let people find products and services for sale in bricks-and-mortar stores near locations they designate. For example, if…
Google/Riya Acquisition Update
On Thursday, we posted about a rumor that Riya, an image search company that utilizes face/image recognition technology was about to be…
WebmasterWorld Bans Spiders From Crawling
Wow. Brett Tabke drops the nuclear bomb of banning all spiders from WebmasterWorld. He explains here that heavy rogue spidering is the…
Google Rolls Back Commissions In Europe, Forward With Them In China
I wrote earlier about how Google was phasing out commissions in Europe — well, reducing them and giving them another name at…
Google’s Portable Data Centers & Alternative Internet Speculation
Google-Mart from PBS’s Robert X. Cringely covers Google apparently having developed incredibly compact data centers that can fit into a shipping container,…
Google Separates Bids For Search & Contextual Ads
Separate bidding on content network introduced by AdWords from Jen over at JenSense looks at how Google is now allowing advertisers to…
Google Temporarily Halts New Users from Registering for Analytics Service
Over on the ZDNet.com Blogs, Garrett Rogers reports in the article: Google Analytics stops at 234,725 accounts, that Google is temporarily limiting…
Google Adds Onsite Advertiser Sign-Up to AdSense
In an extension of the site-targeted advertising programs Google rolled out for AdSense advertisers earlier this year, publishers can now sign up…
Coverage of of CNET Japan Search Conference
The CNET Japan Fall Innovation Conference is currently underway and Loren Baker at Search Engine Journal is doing his very best to…
Google Opens Offices in Mexico and Brazil
Brad Hill from the theunofficialgoogleweblog posts that Google has recently opened offices in Mexico City and Sao Paulo, Brazil. In July, we…
Daily SearchCast, Nov. 17, 2005: Hot Site Stats From Google Sitemaps, Matt Cutts Talks At PubCon, AdWords Tested At Bottom Of Page, Google Print Becomes Google Book Search & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Google giving new stats to webmasters on queries driving them traffic and indexing alerts, Google webmaster relations guru…
Gmail Never Hacked, Google Says
While Red Herring reports that Gmail was vulnerable to hacking, Google says Gmail was never hacked and that Gmail users were never…
Google Print Debate at NY Public Library
This should be interesting: The NYPL and WIRED Magazine present a discussion about the competing interests and issues raised by the Google…
The Google-Riya Rumor and Image/Face Recognition Searching
Ready for some material for your “Google is Going to Acquire” rumor list? Om Malik (a very trustworthy source) places the rumor…
Yahoo Search Marketing Searches for a Content Specialist
I spend some time each week reviewing job openings at Yahoo, Google, and other search companies. Sometimes, these listings can provide clues…
UK: Send Maps to Mobile Phones With Multimap and Other Send to Phone Tools
Netimperative reports that online mapping service Multimap has added a “map to mobile” feature that allows the searcher to send the url…
Alibaba’s Chief Vows to Beat Google in China
In a conversation with reporters, Jack Ma, the CEO of China’s Alibaba (the same people who now runs Yahoo China) has, “vowed…
Search Engine Ad Reps: Friend or Foe?
Search engines employ advertising representatives to help search marketers, but sometimes relations between ad reps and search marketers can be difficult or…
Access Local Gas Prices via SMS with Synfonic
When we chat about SMS-based (text messaging) search we usually include the big players including Google, Yahoo, MSN (their real-time traffic alerts…
Google Sitemaps Expands To Give Query & Indexing Stats!
Google’s just added some new and long desired tools as part of its Sitemaps system. You can now get query stats and…
France Majority Party Campaigns with AdWords
Over the weekend, running a search on Google France for the words “violence,” “riots,” “suburbs,” “burned cars” or even “scum” pulled up…
Poking At Google Base
Well, Google Base is here. I think the most telling thing about Google Base for me will not be today, tomorrow, or…
Google Adds Two New Features to SMS (Text Messaging) Service
Google has added two new features to their SMS (text messaging) service that are available by sending a text message to: 46645…
Daily SearchCast, Nov. 15, 2005: Yahoo’s Shoposphere, Yahoo’s Hollywood Types Vs. The Techs, Yahoo To Offer Podcast Hoting, New Book On Google, Google Analytics Offered For Free & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Yahoo shopping gaining community tips and recommendations through a new “shoposphere,” Yahoo’s Hollywood ambitions struggling with its tech…
Google Tweaks Robots.txt File
For those of you who track such things, Google made a tweak to its Robots.txt file in the past day or so.…
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