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Comcast Playing Hardball with Google?
The Wall Street Journal reports (behind pay wall), based on “people familiar with the matter,” that cable operator Comcast is talking to…
Google Provides Webmasters with More Linking Data
Google has enhanced the reporting capabilities in its Webmaster Tools to show full phrases being used in anchor text, instead of just…
Q&A With Ask.com’s Gary Price
Gary Price, Ask.com's director of online information resources, talks about his role in reaching out to the research and librarian communities.
Has Video Search Arrived?
It’s sad but true — we can measure the maturity of any market by the ways it gets manipulated. By that measure,…
Google Audio Ads Expands Beta
Google is expanding its beta test of audio ads, which began in December with a limited number of advertisers. The Audio Ads…
Adam Lasnik comments on Spam Complaints and Dupe Content
There is a good post by Adam Lasnik on the processing of spam complaints. Adam also talks a bit about duplicate content…
Topix.net buys .com domain, worries about Google rankings
Kevin Delaney of The Wall Street Journal Online reports that Topix.net, the news search site owned by Gannett, McClatchy and Tribune, has…
Viacom Sues YouTube, Google for $1 Billion
It had to happen sooner or later. Someone is suing Google via YouTube for $1 billion for massive copyright infringement. Viacom filed…
How Long Does it Take a New Site to Rank in the Search Engines?
Here is the first of a series of case studies I plan to publish here in SEW. Our first volunteer is Follow…
Google Testing Search Numbers in Keyword Tool
Adam Parikh found Google providing search numbers for keywords in their Adwords Keyword Tool and posted the screen shot at his blog…