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Industry

Yahoo! Organic Rankings Update Confirmed

Yahoo! has been updating its organic search results database since Sunday night and states they will complete the process by the end…

By Chris Boggs · 13 Dec 2006

SEO

Google Employees To Be Able To Auction Options

In a move to possibly retain and gain employees, Google has developed a method for its non-executive workers to auction their vested…

By Frank Watson · 12 Dec 2006

Industry

Why is “news” a stop word in Google News?

If you use Google News to search for the term, Google News, you are told “news” is a very common word and…

By Greg Jarboe · 12 Dec 2006

Industry

MySpace passes Yahoo in page views

Check out the post by Liz Gannes on GigoOM entitled, Report: MySpace Passes Yahoo in Page Views. According to comScore data mentioned…

By Greg Jarboe · 12 Dec 2006

Industry

Wordtracker holds contest to find the next Google Guru

A $6,000 contest from Wordtracker.com aims to give anyone the skills they need to become a Google Guru in just five days…

By Greg Jarboe · 12 Dec 2006

Industry

Google Copies Yahoo’s IE7 Marketing Page

Jeromy Zawodny has found that Google used the existing Yahoo IE7 promo page. Comparative pictures of the two promo pages supports his…

By Frank Watson · 12 Dec 2006

Industry

Search Results Getting Safer

McAfee’s SiteAdvisor monitors the changes in search results and measures the level of what they call “dangerous” sites in all the major…

By Frank Watson · 12 Dec 2006

Industry

US State Dept. Uses Google When CIA Says No

When the CIA denied the US State Department access to “the names of Iranians who could be sanctioned for their involvement in…

By Frank Watson · 11 Dec 2006

Analytics

November Search Trend Data Released by Compete.com

Compete.com, a new search popularity tool bar and measurement service, similar to Alexa, released their data for November 2006, indicating a bounce…

By Elisabeth Osmeloski · 10 Dec 2006

PPC

Search Arbitrage Gets Forbes Attention

Forbes did an article on search arbitrage Friday featuring interviews of Jeremy Shoemaker and Michael Gray. Shoemaker said he had made $2…

By Frank Watson · 10 Dec 2006