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Daily SearchCast, Feb. 9, 2006: Gary Price Departs SEW; Google Desktop Wherever You Go; Google Accepting Bids For Print Ads; Yahoo Considering Search Rewards & More!

Today’s search podcast covers Gary Price leaving Search Engine Watch for a new job with Ask Jeeves; Google Desktop making your computer searchable wherever you are; Google’s publication ads…

By Danny Sullivan · 09 Feb 2006

Industry

Google Testing Software Distribution With Dell, Plus Details On IE7 Search Battle

We covered last month that Google was providing personal home pages for Dell. Dell testing preinstalled Google software package from Reuters now…

By Danny Sullivan · 08 Feb 2006

Industry

Super Bowl Search Marketing Scorecard

While much attention was focused on the television ads aired during the super bowl, the real winners were those firms who combined…

By Chris Sherman · 08 Feb 2006

SEO

The Wayback Machine Announces Larger Archive

We’ve noticed that the publicly announced total size of permanently archived web pages found in The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine has increased…

By Gary Price · 07 Feb 2006

SEO

Google Sitemaps Stats On Most Common Words In Your Anchor Text & Site Content

Along with the cool new robots.txt checker, Google Sitemaps has also released stats showing the most common words used on pages within…

By Danny Sullivan · 06 Feb 2006

SEO

The chrisisthebest rohtuaswentahyarg & gurtieisthebest rohtuaswentahyarg SEO Contests

I know, I know. I swore off writing about SEO contests. But the chrisisthebest rohtuaswentahyarg SEO contest is different, as it involves…

By Danny Sullivan · 06 Feb 2006

Industry

Rupert Murdoch on Web Search, No Assault on Google or Yahoo in the Works

A brief article on News.com.au titled: News Corp won’t take on Google, reports that Mr. Murdoch and crew does not plan to…

By Gary Price · 06 Feb 2006

Video

So This Is Super Bowl Advertising!

I’ve never watched a Super Bowl and I never will watch a Super Bowl. There may not be a lot of certainties…

By rumo · 03 Feb 2006

Industry

How The US Department of Justice May Analyze Search Data & Freedom Of Information Act Request For Disclosure

So what did the Department Of Justice ask for exactly from AOL, MSN, and Yahoo? What did they get, exactly? What negotiations…

By Danny Sullivan · 03 Feb 2006

Industry

Oops, Specs for Dell Computers Found in Google Cache

The News.com story: How to evade Google search, reports that once again a company, in this case Dell, has learned the hard…

By Gary Price · 02 Feb 2006

Industry

Searching for the Future

Think you're pretty good at sussing out the future? Try matching wits with Yahoo Research's fantasy prediction game that lets you bet…

By Chris Sherman · 02 Feb 2006

Industry

Daily SearchCast, Feb. 1, 2006: Google’s Profitable Earnings Still Disappoint; Hey, You Got Google Ads Into My Newspaper (And TV, Radio…); Google Wants Your PSP; Yahoo Offering SuperBowl Ads & More!

Today’s search podcast covers Google’s fourth quarter earnings disappointing analysts who wanted bigger earnings; Google looking at traditional ad venues to grow revenues;…

By Danny Sullivan · 01 Feb 2006

Video

Amazon.com Considering Video Download Service to Compete With Google Video Store and Others

Both Variety and Red Herring report that Google Video Store, iTunes, and other video download services might have some new competition coming…

By Gary Price · 29 Jan 2006

Video

New Search Service from TVEyes Offers Free Keyword Search Of Some Web-Based TV News Content & Lots More Video Search

A new free service from multimedia search engine TVEyes allows a searcher to keyword search each and every word spoken during tv…

By Gary Price · 28 Jan 2006

Industry

Judy’s Book Gets “Social Search” Trademark; Yahoo Apparently Says Jump In A Lake

Judy’s Book would like the world to know they know have a trademark on the phrase “social search.” Never start a land…

By Danny Sullivan · 27 Jan 2006

Industry

Yahoo’s Senior VP of Engineering to Become Chief Product Officer

Over on Gigaom, Om Malik reports that Yahoo will name Ash Patel, the senior VP of engineering as their new chief product…

By Gary Price · 26 Jan 2006

Industry

Scoble: Search Champs Talk to MSN VP about Data Turned Over to Feds

Scoble reports from MSN Search Champs about a session where the those in attendance “grilled” MSN Vice President Christopher Payne about what…

By Gary Price · 26 Jan 2006

Industry

Watch SEOs Battle Live & New SEO Humor Site

Matt Cutts highlighted this funny site, SEO Generations, where you can pit various people in the SEO world against each other to…

By Danny Sullivan · 26 Jan 2006

Industry

Searching For a Better Image

Ask Jeeves has launched a brand-new image search service, using some innovative techniques to identify high-quality pictures on the web. How does…

By Chris Sherman · 26 Jan 2006

Industry

U.S. Senator Patrick Leahy Asks Attorney General for More Info On Web Search Subpeonas

News.com reports that Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont has sent a letter to U.S. Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, asking for more information…

By Gary Price · 25 Jan 2006

Industry

Daily SearchCast, Jan. 25, 2006: Google Agrees To China Censorship; Searcher Views On Privacy; Yahoo Doesn’t Want To Be #2; New AdWords Software Editor Being Tested; Ask Gets Own Image Search & More!

Today’s search podcast covers Google agreeing to Chinese censorship demands; a poll about searcher views on the privacy of searches; Yahoo says it’s…

By Danny Sullivan · 25 Jan 2006

Video

Video: What Flavor Download Would You Like Today?

Impressive how quickly many sites, blogs and portals are adapting to mobile video. From Google Video (but not Yahoo!) down to personal…

By rumo · 25 Jan 2006

Industry

Oh Yeah, Yahoo? Google Says (Maybe) We’ll Make Our Ads Larger

Yahoo just shorted its ads to be like Google, so naturally Google will make its ads bigger to be like Yahoo was!…

By Danny Sullivan · 24 Jan 2006

Industry

When Carl Talked to Barry: Sources Say Time Warner Investor Carl Icahn Has Had Conversations with IAC/InterActive (Ask Jeeves) CEO Barry Diller

According to this Fortune.com story: Time Warner: Is Icahn looking to deal with Diller?, that legenday investor Carl Icahn (controls about 3.1%…

By Gary Price · 24 Jan 2006

Industry

Marketing in the Search Tail: Is the Pain Worth the Gain?

Popular search terms tend to dominate the headlines, but there are literally millions of unique searches conducted every day, and savvy search…

By Patricia Hursh · 24 Jan 2006

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