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Loomia & podOmatic’s AutoCatcher For Podcasts

Two for the podcasting crowd, a new podcast search engine called Loomia and the AutoCatcher service from podOmatic that keyword-scans for new podcasts each day that you might…

By Danny Sullivan · 22 Sep 2005

SEO

Paid Links Shouldn’t Count? What Exactly Is Paid?

We’ve had a debate on our SEW Forums recently (see Matt Cutts Comments On Reputable Sites & Link Selling) over whether publishers…

By Danny Sullivan · 21 Sep 2005

Industry

Google Wants to Be Your IE7 Default Search Engine

This should make Mr. Gates and Mr. Ballmer happy…NOT! Google Blogoscoped (welcome back Philipp) has posted a screencap that users of IE7…

By Gary Price · 20 Sep 2005

Analytics

Search Drives One In Five Visits To Car Sites

Yahoo!: One In Five Land On Car Sites Via Search from MediaPost looks at a new study from Yahoo finding that one…

By Danny Sullivan · 20 Sep 2005

Social

Feedster CTO Comments on Splogs (Spam Blogs)

Scott Johnson, CTO at Feedster, has written a commentary for Media Post about splogs (spam blogs) and what the industry must do…

By Gary Price · 20 Sep 2005

Industry

Baidu Ordered To Stop Music Downloads

Baidu ordered to halt music downloading service from Reuters covers Chinese search engine Baidu being ordered by a Chinese court to stop…

By Danny Sullivan · 20 Sep 2005

SEO

Can’t Beat The Local Search Aggregators? Join ‘Em!

Join the Local Search Authorities from Justin Sanger at ClickZ looks at something familiar to many who do local searches at major…

By Danny Sullivan · 19 Sep 2005

SEO

Can We Declare Automated Comment & Link Posting To Be Bad?

This week, search engines and blog software vendors are meeting again for a second “summit” on fighting blog spam. That’s tipped me…

By Danny Sullivan · 19 Sep 2005

Industry

Penalized in Google? Here’s What to Do

If you’ve pushed the line with optimization techniques and have been dinged by Google, Matt Cutts offers advice on how to get…

By rumo · 19 Sep 2005

Industry

Five Music Companies Sue Baidu

Baidu sued over music downloads from the Hong, from the Hong Kong Standard, reports that several large music companies are suing Chinese…

By Gary Price · 16 Sep 2005

Industry

Search Forums Roundup: Sep. 16, 2005

Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web:…

By rumo · 16 Sep 2005

Industry

Google Testing Notification Of Banning To Webmasters

Nice scoop over at Threadwatch, coming off a thread at Search Engine Forums! Google Pilot New Webmaster Communications Initiative at Threadwatch covers…

By Danny Sullivan · 15 Sep 2005

PPC

Class Action Suit On Click Fraud STILL To Stay In Arkansas

Google Suit Sent Back to State Court from the Associated Press notes that a class-action lawsuit against Google, Yahoo and other search…

By Danny Sullivan · 15 Sep 2005

SEO

Answer Searching & Answer Search Engines

These search engines specialize in providing answers to questions, rather than just matching web sites.

By Danny Sullivan · 14 Sep 2005

SEO

Travel Search Engines

Search engines that help you locate travel and destination information.

By Danny Sullivan · 14 Sep 2005

SEO

Codase For Seeking Open Source Code

  Codase is a new search engine designed to let you seek open source code. It apparently understand code as code, rather…

By Danny Sullivan · 14 Sep 2005

Industry

Google’s Italian Webmaster Guidelines Need Better Translation

Enrico Altavilla writes to note that Google guidelines for Italian webmasters have taken a turn for the worse. After helping them eliminate…

By Danny Sullivan · 14 Sep 2005

Industry

Geico To Competitors & Affiliates: Don’t Buy Our Name!

Geico Warns Competitors About Search Engine Ads from AdAge covers how Geico is warning competitors not to buy its name on Google…

By Danny Sullivan · 13 Sep 2005

Analytics

Fathom Launches Online Marketing Analytics Tool

Fathom Breaks Into Analytics from ClickZ covers Fathom Online offering a new tool to give advertisers and agencies a “dashboard” to analyze…

By Danny Sullivan · 13 Sep 2005

SEO

WebPosition 4 Released

Long-time rank checking and page analysis tool WebPosition is out now as WebPosition 4. Haven’t seen any reviews yet, from the company…

By Danny Sullivan · 12 Sep 2005

Video

Tara Gives Thumbs Up To Yahoo Images; Yotophoto For Copyright Free Images

Contemplating Yahoo Images and Google Images is a short item from Tara over at ResearchBuzz finding that in a search for [rss…

By Danny Sullivan · 12 Sep 2005

Industry

Ask Jeeves CEO: “We Are Focused on Core Search”

Now that Ask Jeeves is part of aggressive online powerhouse InterActive Corp., what's next for the search engine and its various services?…

By Andrew Goodman · 11 Sep 2005

Industry

New Technique To Count All Pages In Google Index, Sort Of

Further to my previous post on the Google index update/size increase, there appears to be a new way to count all the…

By Danny Sullivan · 09 Sep 2005

Industry

Are you an “Algoholic?”

Do you obsess over your search engine rankings? Do you spend countless hours fiddling with your web pages, tweaking text and experimenting…

By rumo · 07 Sep 2005

Industry

Chasing Search Engine Algorithms: Wisdom or Folly?

Properly optimized web sites can achieve top rankings in web search results. But when search engines change, should you follow suit? Even…

By Patricia Hursh · 07 Sep 2005

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