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[2006-01-31] Google Down Ahead Of Earnings Announcement
After-hours trading in shares of the search advertising company declined slightly from the previous close, down $1.02 to $425.80.
[2006-01-31] Google Tools on Your Next Dell Computer
Just three weeks ago, I wagered that we'd see Google Pack pre-installed on Dell computers before the end of the year.
[2006-01-31] FTD: We Forgot About Search
Still think that search marketing is not important? FTD just realized they screwed-up their Christmas marketing efforts by not utilizing search.
[2006-01-31] Google Buying Napster Rumor Shot Down
Lots of people have been downloading the chatter about Google possibly buying the Napster music service, but Google said it's not happening.
[2006-01-31] Caching Google
This website, as a protest, is running a Google Cache. That is, not a cache like Google's cache of other websites, but a cache of Google, page by page. Basically, its a protest against Google's cache. Confused?
[2006-01-31] Easily Add Custom Search To Google Toolbar
Forget waiting for your favorite website to create a Google Toolbar button, Matt Cutts shows you how to make your own.
[2006-01-31] Searching for Emails…
Is search done yet? Quick, find a list of 100 bloggers. Now, quick, tell me what their email addresses are.
[2006-01-31] Yahoo News Tests Trackbacks, Enhancements
Yahoo News is gearing up to implement trackbacks.
[2006-01-31] Google In Denial Over Desktop OS
A few hours after denying it had any intention to acquire the Napster digital music service, Google's PR legions were called upon again, this time to disavow the Goobuntu talk.
[2006-01-31] Search Engines To Congress: Buzz Off
Given the opportunity to serve as targets for Congressional outrage and grandstanding, Google and Microsoft declined the invitation, as did Cisco, while Yahoo has yet to respond.
[2006-01-30] Google Toolbar Adds New Tools
Another beta version of Google's Toolbar arrived on the company's servers, just waiting for download and testing by its user base.
[2006-01-30] Spotlight on Search Interview with Heather Lloyd-Martin of SuccessWorks
A lot of buzz in the SEO community lately has been focused on the value of creating compelling content as if it's a new idea.
[2006-01-30] Google Earth's Flying Car Of Perth
A floating rectangular object near a Perth, Australia parking lot looks a bit like an airborne automobile.
[2006-01-30] Search Engines: Release DOJ Data
After all, as Cory Doctorow et al at BoingBoing point out, if there is no personally identifiable information in the data, there is no reason to keep it from being posted for review.
[2006-01-30] Google Upgrades Toolbar
Google just announced an upgrade to its search toolbar.
[2006-01-30] New Google Toolbar - Version 4
Google is about to release a new version of its toolbar.
[2006-01-30] Searcholicious Stats
At the upcoming SES New York, there's a session called Searchonomics: Serious Fun and Stats. Cool moniker.
[2006-01-29] The Great Wall of Google
Google's decision to filter search results on behalf of the Chinese government was certainly not an easy one.
[2006-01-29] DOJ May One Day Try to Break Up Google
In chapter eight John Battelle's incredible book, The Search, he astutely predicted that Google would increasingly fall under the watchful eye of the US government.
[2006-01-28] Search done? These Two Say 'Hell No'
I have been checking into other search engines that do something better than the big three.
[2006-01-27] Digg Founder Dismisses Yahoo Rumors
If Kevin Ross is to be believed, there is no more chance Yahoo will buy the popular user-generated news site Digg than it will Opera Software for its browser.
[2006-01-27] Gonzales V. Google Date Set
Judge James Ware of the US District Court in San Jose will hear arguments on February 27th from both sides over Google's refusal to comply with federal subpoenas from August 2005.
[2006-01-27] Gates Has Google's Back On Censorship
Like Google and Yahoo, Microsoft has had to adjust its business practices to suit Chinese government information control personnel, not that there's anything wrong with that.
[2006-01-27] China Wars: The Googleplex Strikes Back
After being a media piñata over the course of the week, Google has come back firing at its critics, led by a lengthy post by its senior policy counsel, Andrew McLaughlin.
[2006-01-27] Andrei Broder Taking Questions At Yahoo
Visitors to the Yahoo Search Blog can post questions for Broder, who recently joined the company to serve as a research fellow and vice-president of emerging search technology.
[2006-01-26] House Committee Chairman Upbraids Google
Virginia Republican Tom Davis, chair of the House Government Reform Committee, called out Google for cooperating with China but not the US on its requests.
[2006-01-26] Brin Defends Google China
While taking a break from the activities at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland, Google co-founder Sergey Brin talked about Google.cn and the growing kerfuffle over Google's acquiescence to China's censorship demands.
[2006-01-26] The Subpoena Thing: Gov't Keyword Research
It's time to say a few words about why the government's request for search query data bothers me. As he so often does, Danny summarizes a controversy nicely.
[2006-01-26] Google Roundup
A few things on Google today that I decided to roundup all in one post:
[2006-01-26] Search Champs Non-NDA Session
I've seen some great stuff at Search Champs, and heard some even better ones (for instance did you know that ________ rumor is completely accurate, and that _________ happened because ________ said ________?)
[2006-01-26] Google: “We Have Sinned Against You”
In a bid not to be outdone by Yahoo, Google is now telling Bloomberg that they screwed up the launch of Google Video.
[2006-01-26] Redefining the Search Scenery
As expected, the roll out of change in the world of search is proving to be highly disruptive.
[2006-01-26] Malkin Takes On Google With Images
Conservative columnist and blogger Michelle Malkin has launched an effort to collect various Photoshopped Google logos and other images that protest Google's acceptance of government censorship in China.
[2006-01-26] Fall Out from Google China
It seems Google is facing some criticism for their relationship with the Chinese government.
[2006-01-25] Search A Job For Your Dog
SimplyHired has teamed with the dog-loving website Dogster to help dog lovers find jobs with companies that permit their workers to bring man's best friend with them to the office each day.
[2006-01-25] Find A Parking Space Online
Big city residents have to deal with a problem those of us in smaller cities don't encounter as often: the dearth of available parking spaces; one website in development will offer San Franciscans a way to find some open spaces online.
[2006-01-25] Search Should Have Learned From CardSystems
When news of a security breach at CardSystems Solutions that potentially exposed some 40 million credit card accounts to outsiders began to circulate the company was vilified by Visa and MasterCard for retaining data they had no right to keep.
[2006-01-25] Yahoo Search Execs Blast CFO Comments
One may feel sorry for Yahoo CFO Susan Decker, whose comments in an interview regarding Yahoo's place in the search world, ie second to Google, have generated a heated response in the Yahoo Search Blog. Maybe Decker's comments in her chat with Bloomberg were taken out of context, as some bloggers have suggested.
[2006-01-25] Yahoo Not Out of the Search Race
So was Susan Decker's quote taken out of context?
[2006-01-25] LowerMyBills.com Wins Suit
This is something all marketers should be aware of. LowerMyBills.com just won $200,000 from NexTag the comparison shopping search engine.
[2006-01-25] Google 'Do No Evil' Except in China
Google is launching new versions of its search and news sites for China. The new versions will be heavily censored in line with Chinese laws and regulations.
[2006-01-25] Okay At Number Two?
Lots of people at Search Champs were discussing Yahoo's CFO, Susan Decker's quote that Yahoo is okay being second to Google.
[2006-01-25] Google Announces Censored Chinese SE
Google announced that it was launching Google.cn, a censored version of Google for people living in China.
[2006-01-25] Yahoo Offers To Buy Digg?
I hate posting rumors, but I won't ignore this one. J. Botter says Yahoo has an offer on the table to buy Digg, the community news service, for $35 million.
[2006-01-25] Google Plays With Search Result Pages
A report has begun to circulate that Google's vaunted minimalist results pages now display graphs on the left side of the page.
[2006-01-25] Suggestions and Stones May Break My Bones…
As integrated search marketers, we rely on the Internet for much of our daily communication and research.
[2006-01-25] Search Champs Grilling MSN Execs
MSN Vice President Christopher Payne is at the front of the room right now and is being grilled by the search champs about what they gave the government and when they gave it.
[2006-01-25] Leahy Calls For DOJ Google Explanation
US Senator Pat Leahy (D-Vt) has sent a written request to US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales for more information about Justice's legal action against Google.
[2006-01-25] Google Forcing Desktop Download?
This must be a glitch at Google. Search for anything with Google and it will not let you navigate beyond the first page of results.
[2006-01-25] Is Google Forcing Us to Eat Its Own Dog Food?
Andy "I'm Not Jennifer" Beal says that Google is preventing users from navigating beyond the first page of results when searching for anything Google using Internet Explorer.
[2006-01-25] Yahoo: Podcast Interest Far from Mainstream
According to the Yahoo! Buzz Index, podcasts haven't yet captured the interest of mainstream consumers.
[2006-01-24] Google Local, News Updated
More pictures means more reasons to enjoy Google Local, while Google News loses a notable part of its name after nearly four years.
[2006-01-24] Ask Jeeves For Pictures Too
A new search engine from Ask Jeeves lets users delve into the world of image search, via a new dedicated picture search technology from the company.
[2006-01-24] Ask Jeeves Launches Own Image Search Engine
Ever since Ask Jeeves announced they were tweaking the image search results offered by their partner Picsearch, we have suspected they were working on their own technology.
[2006-01-24] Google Updates
Two new items from the Google blog:
[2006-01-24] Yahoo Content to be Google's Footstool
Even if you were content to be #2 in the search space, would you actually admit it? Well, that's exactly what Yahoo just did.
[2006-01-24] Cede Search to Google?
Come on Yahoo. Steve Rubel is right. There is so much left to do it isn't even funny and if a company discovers a better way to do search they can take share away from Google (which, yes, does have a monopoly share of the search market).
[2006-01-24] Yahoo Cedes Search to Google and So Do I
This story is sure news to me. Yahoo is going on record saying that it's not their goal to be No. 1 in Internet search.
[2006-01-24] Google Agrees To China Censorship
To maintain its access to the world's fastest growing Internet-using population, the search advertising company agreed to adhere to Chinese regulations on free speech.
[2006-01-24] Now Hang On a Sec...
This week it feels like someone must have cursed our house with a Chinese curse and we've suddenly been thrust into "interesting times." Yikes.
[2006-01-23] Google Updates News, Gmail
The business of Google rolls along, subpoenas and the potential of trade secret exposure to the Feds notwithstanding; two sections and one button made their way into Google News and Gmail, respectively.
[2006-01-23] MSN Search Users Not Buying Explanation
Ken Ross, general manager for MSN search, posted about MSN's cooperation with the Department of Justice subpoenas, but quite a few commenters disagree with the company's stance.
[2006-01-23] Yahoo Research Travels Abroad
Spain and Chile receive the first Yahoo research offices in Europe and South America, as the company attempts to chase down Google in the search market.
[2006-01-23] Google-DOJ Tussle On ABC News
The mainstream media smelled the blood in the water and rushed to cover the now-public battle between the Department of Justice and Google over giving the government access to reams of search data.
[2006-01-23] Google's Top Three Take $1 Salaries
Eric Schmidt, Sergey Brin, and Larry Page repeat their base salaries of $1 for 2006, just as they took in 2005; don't be in too much of a hurry to launch SaveGooglers.com and start a fundraiser, though.
[2006-01-23] More Imagery added to Google Earth
From the official Google weblog word of improvements to the imagery in Google Earth and Google Local...
[2006-01-21] An Interesting Take on Search Engine Positioning
An interesting perception of search engine's and the linking or lack thereof to relevant news and news articles of interest has been offered up in an article on sys-con.com.
[2006-01-20] Money Following News Online
Google News had the news-aggregation space to itself for quite a while, but after MSN deployed its Newsbot and Topix.net launched, other efforts followed, and some have gathered a little venture capital for themselves.
[2006-01-20] No Love For Google Video
Google rolled out Gmail to tremendous applause, Google Earth found a devoted following for its services, but Google Video has received nothing but grief from the online world.
[2006-01-20] Korea's David Faces Goliath Google
BWeek (again) looks at how a small search engine in Korea is positively whooping some Mountain View butt.
[2006-01-20] Sun Shines On Google Rumors
Google has a custom operating system in use internally, but will they have to share it when they outsource their server farms becomes the big question, at least if you believe what Sun Microsystems has to say.
[2006-01-20] No Justice: Google Stock Plunges
The analysts who recently advised clients to sell Google have been proved prescient, as Google's now-public fight with the Department of Justice has led to a sell-off.
[2006-01-20] Search Engine As Web Browser
Nielsen/NetRatings recently reported that 43% of online searchers use their search box like an address bar to navigate the internet.
[2006-01-19] Two Analysts Raise Google Concerns
After a year-plus of nearly continuous share price increases matched by equally lofty financial reports, a couple of stock market analysts think it's time to sell Google investments.
[2006-01-19] White House Seeks Google Records
A scenario long feared by privacy advocates over Google's voluminous storage of millions of pieces of information on user searches arose as Department of Justice lawyers asked a federal court to compel Google's cooperation with their requests.
[2006-01-19] Searchers Use Engines As An Address Bar
The habit of going to a search engine has become so ingrained a behavior for Internet users that many input names like eBay or Yahoo into a search box instead of the address bar of the browser.
[2006-01-19] Google Grabbed 46 Percent Of Search
The November 2005 figures from Nielsen//NetRatings on search share didn't change a bit from the month prior, as nearly 70 percent of searches passed through Google or Yahoo.
[2006-01-19] Unified Theory of Google
If someone were to ask you to name the core business of General Motors, chances are you would naturally respond, "automobile manufacturing".
[2006-01-19] Stanford: SEMs Are Getting Screwed
Search engine marketers that don't know what they're doing are getting ripped off in keyword auctions, according to a new study released from Stanford Graduate School of Business. The researchers claim pay-per-click engines like Google and Yahoo! have modified an older bidding model to maximize profits.
[2006-01-19] Google Fights for Your Privacy
According to the Mercury News, the Department of Justice has filed papers to try and force Google to comply with a subpoena issued last year which includes a request for 1 million random Web addresses and records of all Google searches from any one-week period.
[2006-01-19] Google Forecasts $6.5 Billion In '06 Ads
In a story discussing Google's forays into other methods of getting ads to users, Google's top sales executive sees $6.5 billion in advertising revenue for the search advertising company in 2006.
[2006-01-19] Google Alone In Battle Against Bush
The story about Department of Justice attorneys filing suit in federal court for access to Google's databases exploded across the Internet, and it appears they out of the big four search engines resisted prior requests for that information.
[2006-01-18] When Google's Gadget Didn't Self-Destruct
Ron Garret at Xooglers, the ex-Google employee blog, gave up an interesting insider story about the Google Search Appliance from his perspective as a Google customer while at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
[2006-01-18] Blogger Calls For Pre-emptive Strike On BS
BS is an abbreviation for BellSouth, whose chief technical officer Bill Smith told the media his firm has taken the call for multi-tiered Internet connectivity to the big Internet players; Jeff Pulver suggests the online powers-that-be hit BellSouth first, but it won't happen for one simple reason: money.
[2006-01-18] Yahoo Spanked By Investors Over Ads
Those weren't warm overtures coming from Wall Street when Yahoo announced gaudy earnings that didn't beat investor analysts, and the biggest problem may come from lagging behind in relevance for contextual advertising.
[2006-01-18] Yahoo Down, Hysterics Up
After a second straight quarter of not pleasing Wall Street analysts despite overall increases in their financials, the ominous specter of the 2000 dot-com crash has begun to loom.
[2006-01-18] FyberSearch Adds Keyword Statistics Tool
News from Nathan Enns.
[2006-01-18] MSN Adds More Instant Answers
MSN Search's Weblog announces the addition of 1 million new facts you can now get "Instant Answers" to.
[2006-01-18] A9 Now Has People Snoop, Er, Search
Amazon's A9.com search engine now lets you be a giant gossipy snoop. Zoom Information Inc., a search engine engineered to collect information on people and offer automatic summaries about them is now the default source of people information on A9.com.
[2006-01-18] MSN Search Adds 1 Million Instant Answers
The MSN Search blog reports that they've added about a million new instant answers, those fact boxes that appear atop search results, giving you quick access to good facts about whatever you're searching for.
[2006-01-18] Is Every New Search Engine Just a Feature?
Glancing over press for a new social search engine, prefound.com, I'm struck by a few (hopefully of the "pre-found" variety, as my grandaddy used to pronounce "profound") thoughts.
[2006-01-18] One Million Facts On MSN Search
The MSN Search team did something more remarkable than plug in about a million more facts into the Instant Answers feature set: they updated their blog!
[2006-01-18] Google To BellSouth: Nuts!
The search advertising company is not talking to telecom companies about paying them extra for bandwidth, and has no intention of paying for tiering their traffic.
[2006-01-18] Forbes on Vertical Search Engines
Forbes takes a look at the growing trend of vertical search engines. Oodle, Jobster, and LookSmart are among the many featured in the story.
[2006-01-17] Google Plays AdWords On The Radio
The search advertising company purchased dMarc Broadcasting, a digital solutions provider for the radio industry, for $102 million cash and potentially as much as $1.136 billion over the next three years.
[2006-01-17] Search Marketers Welcome Shorter Yahoo! Ads
ClickZ polls a number of search engine marketers and asks them for feedback on Yahoo's decision to start truncating its sponsored search text ads after the first 70 characters.
[2006-01-17] Google Adwords Coming to a Radio Near You
Hot off the press! Google has acquired dMarc technology for $102 million in cash and plans to integrate into the Google AdWords platform, creating a new radio ad distribution channel for Google advertisers.
[2006-01-17] Interview with Aaron Wall
One of the most visible SEO pundits on the web is unquestionably, Aaron Wall.
[2006-01-17] Google May Push IM Interoperability
With Google enabling open federation for its Talk product, will other instant messaging providers open their services for users to chat with people outside of their walled gardens?
[2006-01-16] Yahoo May Run “The Runner”
An ABC show championed by ex-ABC president and Yahoo Media Group head Lloyd Braun could get a second life as an online concept.
[2006-01-16] Your Share Of The Google Buck: 78.5 Cents
Those AdSense ads appearing on blogs and sites all over the Internet pay pretty generously to those publishers, but we anticipate hearing more from Google on this figure.
[2006-01-16] Wink's Michael Tanne On the Future of Tagging
One of the most successful concepts of 2005 was most certainly "tagging".
[2006-01-16] The Quaero Oxymoron
If you've been following the story of the Franco-German Quaero project - a planned European multimedia search engine, the answer to Google and brainchild of the French government - you'll know that European politics have contributed to the mire it's been in for some months.
[2006-01-16] Yahoo Puts Sponsored Links In Movies
Paid listings that appear in certain Yahoo Directory categories get highlighted as sponsored links, related to the specific category details as they do in search results.
[2006-01-16] Quaero: French Search Or N.C. Firm?
The much-discussed Quaero project, in development with French tech giant Thomson, adds Bertelsmann AG as the German project lead and partner in the venture; apparently neither of them bothered to do a whois lookup on the name first.
[2006-01-16] Search Engine Satire
Saturday Night Live takes a pop at the new Quearo search engine under development in Europe. Via Price...
[2006-01-16] Details of Arrington’s Edgeio Released
According to this piece on MercuryNews.com, Edgeio is…
[2006-01-15] Be Careful What You Wish For
Some have had trouble understanding why I might try to defend Jakob Nielsen's recent critique of search engine overmonetization.
[2006-01-13] Google A Speculation, Not An Investment
Google was as good as gold in 2005, but any cracks that appear in the Googleplex facade could send hedge funds fleeing for safer pastures and pressure shares of GOOG downward.
[2006-01-13] Quaero Frightened Off The Web
French technology firm Thomson has withdrawn the Quaero project website after a barrage of interest from people followed French President Chriac's portrayal of Quaero as a Google challenger.
[2006-01-13] MSN Launching Answer to Google Labs
According to MediaPost, MSN has launched its own research and development group.
[2006-01-13] Yahoo Catching Google
The Globe and Mail looks at how smart acquisitions are helping Yahoo stay competitive with Google.
[2006-01-13] Up Against the Jordan Bulls of Search
I don't think there's anything inherently virtuous in rooting for the underdog (unless that underdog is journeyman Paul Shirley) but I loathed the Jordan-era Chicago Bulls.
[2006-01-12] Yahoo Exec Puts Career On Automattic
Toni Schneider, lately the man behind Yahoo's Developer Network, will leave the cozy confines of Sunnyvale for the dual joys of heading a startup and partnering in a venture capital firm.
[2006-01-12] SEO Tips In a Sea of Change
Waves of change have cascaded over the search marketing sector in the past year prompting changes in the methods, business and practice of search engine optimization.
[2006-01-12] Google Takes "Overseas" Market from Yahoo
Fortune Magazine reports Google has overtaken Yahoo in Europe and other "overseas" markets, according to an advisor's note to Bear Stearns clients.
[2006-01-12] Search and Play Popular Songs for Free
Now this site is a really interesting experiment, yet it opens a huge can of worms for the music industry.
[2006-01-12] Previewseek: New Web Search Engine Impresses
In reviewing some recent visitor stats to my blog, I was curious about quite a few inbound links from a search engine I didn't recognize - Previewseek.
[2006-01-12] Roll Your Own Firefox Search Engine
Dave Pell was nice enough to give me a heads up on Rollyo's new simplified means to create customized Firefox Search Engines.
[2006-01-12] Baidu Bests Google With China's Wealthy
Rumors of Google's world domination will have to wait a while, as the search engine in which Google has a minority stake holds greater search market share in China than its famed stakeholder.
[2006-01-12] Yahoo! Acquires Unnamed Company
Ah, satire. If you ever wonder whether you company is getting a reputation, just wait for the blogosphere to make fun of you.
[2006-01-11] And Then There Were 3 Google Chefs
Steve Petusevsky's quest to score one of two executive chef jobs at Google's Mountain View headquarters continues, as he revealed he is one of three finalists.
[2006-01-11] French Flail Away At Google Again
The latest news out of the center of global culture and doggie-do in the streets claimed the in-development Quaero search engine aims to challenge Google for search superiority.
[2006-01-11] Goodbye, SearchFox
Unfortunate for me, one of my favorite Web 2.0 applications - SearchFox RSS - is going away. I received an email from Esteban Kozak, which read:
[2006-01-11] Mamma Up On InfoSpace Interest
Takeover talk began swirling about metasearch engine Mamma.com, with InfoSpace rumored as the potential bling-bearing suitor for Mamma's heart.
[2006-01-10] Google Surges In Search
The gap between the top two search engines widened in November 2005, as US searchers Googled it for nearly four out of every ten searches they conducted.
[2006-01-10] AOL Ends Truveo Startup Status
The video search engine Truveo didn't spend very much time as a stand-alone company, as AOL came calling with a briefcase full of money and left with the business in hand.
[2006-01-10] Google's Video Store Sends Shockwaves Through Multiple Industries
With Google's planned launching of an online video service akin to iTunes or Napster in the music industry, several industries will feel the shockwaves.
[2006-01-10] "Phantom's" First, But What About In Search?
After Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Phantom of the Opera" became the longest running show on Broadway, I wanted to see where it ranked in search.
[2006-01-10] Author of World's First Book on Search Marketing
So, you think you know who's "first generation" SEO? Think again!
[2006-01-10] Alito Junkies Can Get A Search Fix
You can't be too rich, too thin, or have too much access to the opinions of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, now available in a searchable format.
[2006-01-10] Did AOL Fool Google With Truveo Deal?
By purchasing video search startup Truveo, AOL may have given its pal at Google a little kick in the ribs after making off with $1 billion of their investment.
[2006-01-10] Cool Virtual Earth mashup
Chris Pendleton pointed this one out to me.
[2006-01-09] Google Video Player Leaves The Pack
After an obsessively covered keynote address by Google co-founder Larry Page, Google unveiled its one-stop software offering, Google Pack; shortly thereafter, one piece of software vanished from the download page.
[2006-01-09] Google Gets 95 Percent Of SEM Business
Search engine marketers spent $5.75 billion on advertising in 2005, with Google and Yahoo collecting the biggest hauls of that cash. The Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization (SEMPO) will release its latest survey on US and Canadian SEM...
[2006-01-09] Ben Would Be Proud
Search Engine Watch notes that Clusty has launched a new specialized search engine to mark Ben Franklin's 300th Bithday on January 17th.
[2006-01-09] Search May Leech, But It Still Profits
Usability guru Jakob Nielsen calls search engines "leeches" and ponders how much of the value of online content has been plundered by the likes of Google and Yahoo; he misses a basic concept about search engines and SEM, and the traffic they deliver.
[2006-01-09] Extra, Extra, Google Ads In The Papers
The Chicago Sun-Times emerged as the latest place to find Google print advertising, after it began its print experiments with a couple of tech magazines in 2005.
[2006-01-09] Omgili a Search Engine for Forums
Nathan points to Omgili a search engine for web-based discussion forums.
[2006-01-09] Search Spend Jumps 44% in 2005
New SEMPO study, via MarketingVOX, shows a 44% jump in search engine marketing spend with $5.75 billion spent in 2005.
[2006-01-09] Can we all agree...
...that Search Engine Marketing (SEM) is the umbrella term for both Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and Paid Search (or PPC)?
[2006-01-09] Yahoo Acquires Webjay Playlist Sharing Site
Yahoo! has acquired the Webjay playlist sharing site.
[2006-01-07] Google Pack - A User Data Bonanza
I noticed this morning a link on Google's home page to Google Pack, a collection of "essentials to make your PC just work."
[2006-01-06] Yahoo, Google Going Mobile
Both Internet players have new products ready to roll for mobile devices, with Google making another mobile-centric deal while Yahoo debuts its Go service.
[2006-01-06] Google and Intel Join Forces
From the press release...
[2006-01-06] More Google Pack Details and Screenshot
Here's a link to the "About Google Pack" page. Looks like you at least get something extra with Google Pack.
[2006-01-06] Clinton To Redmond And Other Tech Rumors
In an industry where speculation, guesswork, and leaked information form the bulk of the stories generated in the news, this week in technology pretty much took the biscuit.
[2006-01-06] Yahoo Local Dials YellowPages Deal
YellowPages.com listings have a new place for online display: the immense number of pages contained in Yahoo's local site.
[2006-01-06] Google Pack Goes Live
A new Google subdomain replete with the software packages comprising Google Pack went online today and offers Windows PC users nearly everything they need to make their computers very useful.
[2006-01-06] Google Delivers at CES
Yahoo may have had Ellen and Tom Cruise, but Google trumped that with a cameo appearance from funny-man Robin Williams.
[2006-01-06] Jux2 Adds MSN Results and Toolbar
I just noticed today that the meta engine Jux2 has added several new features.
[2006-01-05] IBM, Not Google, Scares Microsoft
As the Consumer Electronic Show begins, Bill Gates disclosed Microsoft's real threat in the world of technology, and it isn't a bunch of Googlers dithering over the morning smoothie selections in Mountain View.
[2006-01-05] State of Search Marketing 2006
Happy New Year everyone! After a two-week slowdown, the North American business world is gearing up to its general terminal velocity.
[2006-01-05] Year Opens with Google Speculation
It all starts with a rumour. Someone said something to someone else and that someone told another person and before you can say, "cheese-doodle", a wrong-story rumour grows out of control as speculation spreads it far and wide.
[2006-01-05] Yahoo Speculation
The year opened with two major items regarding Yahoo. The first involves Microsoft, the second, MTV.
[2006-01-05] MSN Speculation
Microsoft wants to continue to be the biggest thing ever and to do that; it needs to remain the operating system of choice in a rapidly changing world.
[2006-01-05] Google Software Bundle and Pay Per Video Coming
Next up on the "guess what Google will announce at CES this week" carousel, we have reports that they will announce pay-per-view video downloads and a "Google Pack" of bundled software.
[2006-01-05] Dogpile Begs For Treats; Tops Its Own List
On its tenth birthday, Dogpile.com checked its answering machine. The robotic voice returned the dirge of social acknowledgement, "no new messages." So Dogpile.com decided to pat itself on the back as one of the best combinations in recent history and jotted down some others.
[2006-01-04] LA Times Stirs Yahoo Rumors
The same article that led to Google and Wal-Mart denying a Google PC distribution deal was in the works has also given a boost to options trading on Yahoo after claiming Yahoo dismissed a Microsoft takeover bid of $80 billion as too low.
[2006-01-04] Some Truth To Google PC Rumor?
A December article from the New York Times suggested Google showed a passing interest in a $200 computer. IP Democracy's Cynthia Brumfield referenced a report from the Times, which cited Google's discussions...
[2006-01-04] Paid Search to Grow 41% in 2006
ClickZ summarizes a new Piper Jaffray report that predicts paid search will grow 41 percent in 2006 and generate more than $14 billion globally.
[2006-01-03] Findory Marks 2nd Anniversary
The news aggregator with a heavy personalization edge has been around for two years, seeing significant growth in traffic and viewed hits each quarter.
[2006-01-03] Google Box May See CPM Ads
The Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas may feature an entrant in the new gadget arena with a big G on the side of the box; we're guessing CPM ads will be a feature in the Google Box too.
[2006-01-03] Google Share Target Soars To $600
The sky may be the limit for many, but for Google it looks even higher, as analyst firm Piper Jaffray ups its prediction to $600 per share of GOOG.
[2006-01-03] Google Should Spice Up Chef Search
Several months of querying for a pair of new executive chefs for the Googleplex has yielded an odd outcome to date: zero results returned.
[2006-01-02] Google Passes 2005 In Blog Style
The official Google blog has been the search advertising company's way of discussing its business moves and other actions over the course of the previous year.
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