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Hawaiian Airlines Cries Search Engine Foul Over Use Of “Hawaiian” On Competitor Web Site
Hawaiian Airlines is alleging that new rival Go because Go made use of the word “Hawaiian” too often and thus might be…
Google Adds Supports For NOODP Tag To Opt Out Of ODP Titles
Singing for joy! Google has now added support for the NOODP tag that MSN initiated on May 22nd of this year. Yes,…
Counting Links At The Search Engines
Rand has an excellent post on how to get your hands dirty by manually checking your links at the various search engines.…
Click Packages Draw Local Advertisers Into Search
The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) reports on the “bundle of clicks” search distribution packages that all the major yellow pages publishers…
Google Ombudsman? Search Ombudsman? Great Idea — Bring Them On!
Back in 2004, Gary Stein suggested that Yahoo hire an ombudsman, a sort of impartial referee to handle disputes involving advertising programs.…
Report: Advertisers Lost $800 Million To Click Fraud Last Year
The San Francisco Chronicle reports on a click fraud study that claims 14.6 percent of all clicks and $800 million worth of…
Google’s Non Search Products A Flop
BusinessWeek reports that when Google launches a new non-search product, the competition “shivers,” Google has yet to lead in market share for…
Massive Heads East
Massive is heading east, way east. The in-game advertising network has joined forces with online entertainment and game tech company Webzen to…
MSN Talks Spam Defenses; Takes Weekends Off From Indexing
This morning I uncovered two threads at WebmasterWorld that provide information on MSN from spam defense to when search indexes get updated.…
France’s Géoportail Mapping Site: La Demande C’est Fantastique!
The French answer to Google Earth, the indirectly government funded Geoportail, launched Friday and was immediately overwhelmed with visits from eager French…