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[2006-04-27] SideStep Slips Into Attractions
The travel metasearch website expanded its categories to include local attractions, activities, and ticket search so visitors can book those along with other travel arrangements.
[2006-04-24] Matt Cutts Teaches Us To Crawl
The Google engineer followed up his WebmasterWorld PubCon Boston discussion of Google's Bigdaddy infrastructure update and "crawl cache" with a lengthier look at the topic.
[2006-04-21] Google Already Testing Orion Technology?
PC Magazine reports Google is testing expanded entries in their search results.
[2006-04-21] PubCon Boston 2006
PubCon Boston 2006 is in the books now. As such, I though I would put together a quick overview/recap of some of the more memorable points and quotes I found particularly interesting.
[2006-04-20] Search Engine SmackDown!
While the prospect of the seeing the Super Session panel members dressed for Friday Nights on UPN may be a frightening prospect, seeing them at WebmasterWorld's PubCon Boston and hearing their advice on search provided a better experience for WebProNews editor Mike McDonald.
[2006-04-20] Yahoo Ambling Along With Paid Search
The company confirmed its intent to roll out new technology to improve the relevance of its paid search advertising at a deliberate pace.
[2006-04-20] SEMLogic Means No More Search Engine Secrets
WebProNews looks at Fortune Interactive's SEMLogic technology and our newly launched SEMasphere and gives it a thumbs-up. From the article...
[2006-04-20] Google Search History Bookmarks Have Bookmarklet
Are you one of the few who religiously use Google Search History's bookmark feature, marking up sites you find and hoping Google adds more del.icio.us-type features in the future?
[2006-04-19] Yahoo Scales Heights On Earnings Report
A strong quarter for Yahoo returned revenue of $1.08 billion driven by the company's strength in brand-name advertising, which offset softer returns on the paid search side of the business.
[2006-04-19] YPN Party - Boston Pubcon
Yahoo threw an invite party at "Saint" in Boston last night and it proved to be a good time.
[2006-04-19] John Battelle Chats to Ask's Jim Lanzone
I can describe Ask's Jim Lanzone with just two phrases:
[2006-04-19] New Search Directory Umdum
I've got to fly to another Pubcon session, but wanted to quickly post on Loren Baker's (Search Engine Journal) new web directory project, Umdum.com.
[2006-04-19] Ask Interviewed
I just read John B's interview with Jim Lazone from Ask about relevance, google relationship and askmail.
[2006-04-18] Building Links At PubCon
WebProNews' Mike McDonald overcomes his arachnophobia long enough to send along some notes from WebmasterWorld's PubCon Boston from the Link Building Clinic.
[2006-04-18] Yahoo Names New Search Marketing Chief
InternetRetailer has news that Qi Lu has been promoted to senior vice president of engineering for search and search marketing for Yahoo Inc.
[2006-04-18] Shocker: Google Still Leads The Others
(Yawn.) In March, Google was again (yaawwwn, excuse me) the leader in all things search, according to comScore Networks, with competitors nowhere near matching the number of search queries or percentage of market. In fact, Yahoo and MSN slipped a bit.
[2006-04-17] Not all Brand Searches End at Official Site
ClickZ breaks-down new data from Hitwise that suggest, on average, only 85% of brand-name search quearies result in the search landing on the official web site.
[2006-04-16] Podcasting and SEO
About a month ago, Grant Crowell of Grantastic Designs posted an article at Search Engine Watch on SEO for podcasts, which pointed out how straightforward it would be.
[2006-04-14] Microsoft Researching Search By Camera Phone
The Web Search and Mining group with Microsoft Research Asia thinks the best way to search for information on something you see is by taking a picture of it.
[2006-04-13] Google Calendar Wants To Date You
Months of waiting and leaked screenshots have finally led to the official launch, in beta, of the Google Calendar product. Google Calendar has occupied the minds of Googlites everywhere, dutifully blogging away whenever a whiff of GCal rumors wafted into the blogosphere.
[2006-04-13] Farechase Reloaded At Yahoo
The programmers behind Yahoo's Farechase travel metasearch have included everything but the kitchen sink with the recent relaunch of the flight and hotel website.
[2006-04-13] Think About This: IceRocket Is Being Sold
Think Partnership will acquire the blog search engine IceRocket from Mark Cuban and IceRocket CEO Blake Rhodes.
[2006-04-13] Can Google Beat AT&T?
Imagining Google's next move has the same dreamy qualities of buying a lottery ticket - a mountain of cash pulls the heavens closer and the term "extravagance" loses its meaning. In short, it's fun to imagine the possibilities, even if a dream, of what Google can achieve.
[2006-04-13] Think Partnership to Acquire IceRocket.com
Think Partnership (parent company of my old employer) has today announced a letter of intent to acquire IceRocket.com, a search engine specializing in indexing blog content.
[2006-04-13] Google Local Grows New Head
Google snatched up a newspaper/online classifieds veteran right from the jaws of major newspaper companies to head up Google Local. Formerly of Classified Ventures' Homescape.com, Sam Sebastian is described as a new avenue to print advertising for Google.
[2006-04-13] Google Leaves China, Returns As “Gu Ge"
As Google expands its reach into China, the search engine whose name was powerful enough to become a verb in the English language has officially changed its name Gu Ge (pronounced goo guh), based on Chinese characters.
[2006-04-12] Search Is Academic To Windows Live
Microsoft announced the beta release of its Windows Live Academic Search service in seven countries, and focused the search service on conducting research across a spectrum of academic journals.
[2006-04-12] Google Offers New Chinese Brand Name
The USA Today has details of Google's launch of a Chinese-language brand name - "Gu Ge," or "Valley Song," - which is designed to give China's users the warm and fuzzies.
[2006-04-11] First Page of Search Engine is Still the Best Place
Now that I'm not working for an arch-rival, I feel more inclined to link to iProspect's studies.
[2006-04-11] Local Search Gains Traction
Business Week has an article that focuses on the growth of local paid search ads.
[2006-04-11] The Google Rainy Day Fund
Almost as many suggestions exist on how Google could spend its $10 billion cash pile as there are dollars in that cash pile. CNNMoney asked of Google, "What kind of downpour do you expect?" A Google spokesperson offered a lengthy insight into the search advertising company's plans…
[2006-04-11] Google Will Save Us All
Wow, I just finished reading Gabriel Stricker's love-fest Google article and couldn't help think that maybe he and Google should "get a room".
[2006-04-10] Google Goes Extract Hunting With Orion
A student from Israel developed an advanced search algorithm, and his work landed him a job with Google and a windfall for the University of New South Wales.
[2006-04-10] Yahoo Posts Publisher Network Blog
Yahoo has followed up last fall's launch of its Publisher Network with a new blog focused on helping users of its self-serve platform.
[2006-04-10] The Search Engines are Killing Creativity
An interesting NYT article on how Google (and others) are forcing newspapers to change their approach to writing news headlines.
[2006-04-10] Google Aquires Rights to Text Search Algorithm
Google has hired Israeli-born Ori Allon, an Australian student who has developed a text-search algorithm called Orion, according to News.com.au.
[2006-04-10] Windows Live Product Search Coming
LiveSide reports that Windows Live Product Search is in development. Much like Froogle, WLPS would have price comparisons, and add Windows Live staples like detail sliders to hide/show metadata.
[2006-04-10] Screenshots Of Google Calendar / CL2
A reader passed along these screenshots of Google Calendar (code-named CL2). I'm not going to speak towards their authenticity, just pass ‘em along to you guys.
[2006-04-07] Firefox Gets Personal With Google Toolbar
New features made available with version 2 of the Google Toolbar for Firefox provide users with the ability to easily integrate newly discovered feeds into the Google Personalized Homepage or other feed readers.
[2006-04-07] MSN Search Took The Morning Off
For nearly four hours, Microsoft's MSN search returned a "service unavailable" message to visitors arriving at search.msn.com yesterday.
[2006-04-07] Is Google No.1 Forever?
Google is without a doubt the world's number one search engine. According to the research firm Neilsen/NetRatings, Google's share of the global search market in February 2006 was 48.5%, more than double the 22.5% share its nearest rival Yahoo saw.
[2006-04-07] Search Marketing Standard Magazine
Boris Mordkovich hass introduced Search Marketing Standard, a quarterly magazine covering the search marketing industry, expected to ship its first issue this summer.
[2006-04-06] Free Subscription to Search Marketing Standard
You've got until April 30th to take advantage of a free subscription to the newly launching Search Marketing Standard magazine.
[2006-04-06] Google Cache Banned By Alexa For TOS Violation
Yeah, this is silly, but someone at Digg noticed that Alexa has blocked a Google IP for violating the Terms of Service. Googlebot getting a little too frisky with Alexa's data ports?
[2006-04-05] Yahoo Search Partners With Offermatica and Optimost
According to MediaPost, Yahoo will start recommending the services of both Offermatica and Optimost - both companies offer conversion optimization, A/B testing and multi-variable testing.
[2006-04-05] Google Real Estate? Google Autos? Not?
Steve Rubel, in two seperate posts, links to new types of searches Google is serving, from auto searches to real estate searches.
[2006-04-05] The Fools of April, May, June, and October, and…
By now, most of the online community has likely grown wise to the deliciously witty April fools joke, Google Romance.
[2006-04-04] Yahoo Implicated In Spyware Click Fraud
Advertisers who expect their Overture ad campaigns to run with certain Yahoo Searches may be surprised to find their ads running in syndicated spyware applications that render each impression as an ad click the advertiser must pay.
[2006-04-04] Pixsy.com Scours RSS Feeds for Images
I'm not sure if publishers are going to like Pixsy.com or not, but the new image search engine hopes to index millions of thumbnail images collected from RSS feeds, according to CNET.
[2006-04-04] Danny Comments on My Ego (Search)
Danny Sullivan comments on my ego search. He's the world's search authority (runs the most popular Search Engine Web site and conference series).
[2006-04-04] Google Real Estate Launches
Shimon Sandler has discovered Google's new Real Estate beta.
[2006-04-03] Lowdown with Brett Tabke of WebmasterWorld
Recently I had the opportunity get the scoop from WebmasterWorld and Pubcon Search Engine Marketing conference owner, Brett Tabke.
[2006-04-03] Search for Search
More and more, our clients are telling us about the great deal their hosting company has (or their CMS company, or an outside vendor) on search engine optimization (SEO).
[2006-04-03] Click Fraud Scams Revealed
SEOmoz questioned the "click-fruaders" and asked them to share some of the techniques used to get paid by Google and the other search engines.
[2006-04-02] Walt likes Ask.com (My Ego Search Disagrees)
Walt Mossberg likes Ask.com, says John Battelle.
[2006-04-02] E! Searches for Shooting Stars on YouTube
Last week we talked about media and marketers partnering with YouTube, rather than fighting it. E! Entertainment Television understands this and they are putting their money where their mouth is.
[2006-04-01] Google Offers Dating With Google Romance
Google has today announced Google Romance, an online dating search service that utilizes Soulmate Search technology.
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