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Newsletter Archive: 2006

SES NY: Thinking About The Future
I was in the 'Search Pundits' session this morning here at Search Engine Strategies in New York. Basically, you had Robert Scoble, Matt Cutts, Jeremy Zawodny, Zia Daniell Wigder and David Vise sitting up front with Danny Sullivan moderating questions from the audience.

Date: 2006-02-28

Google, Censorship, And Search Marketing
>From a search marketing perspective, censorship, or put nicely, "content regulation," is something that we've been living with on Google and the other engines for years.

Date: 2006-02-27

Building The Googtopia Out Of Legos
The beauty of being a young idealist billionaire is that you can set up a little world exactly the way you like it. The exception, perhaps, is that everybody's horning in on your private life-but who isn't fascinated by quirky weirdness of the Googleplex bricklayers? Even sweeter for the dynamic duo, they can afford to be weird-and heroic.

Date: 2006-02-24

Yahoo Answers With Improvements
If you've got questions, the users at Yahoo Answers don't have blank stares; they may have answered your question already, and the Yahoo Answers engineers have made it easier to find that answer with the wonders of Ajax programming.

Date: 2006-02-23

Getting Listed in Google, Yahoo & MSN... and staying there
In 48 hours or less (many times the same business day!), your site will begin to show up in many of the web's most important search engines and content sites including Yahoo, MSN, AltaVista, Excite, InfoSpace, NBCi, C|Net and many others. No other service is able to match this claim.

Date: 2006-02-22

Google Makes Brilliant Choice For Charity
The Well co-founder Larry Brilliant has accepted the position as the executive director of Google's philanthropic endeavor, Google.org. Larry Brilliant brings a combination of medical background and technological savvy to his new job... as Google.org's first executive director.

Date: 2006-02-22a

Time Photos The Good Side Of Google
A photo essay from Time Magazine shows the warm and fuzzy workers' utopia of Google's Mountain View headquarters in all its sun-drenched glory.

Date: 2006-02-21

The Google Friends And Family Plan
Before Google unveils its beta products, they appear to utilize some early beta testers close to home, or more to the point, close to their employees' homes.

Date: 2006-02-20

Google Bites - Print Ads, Base, And AdWords
A quick summary of the latest and greatest in news from Google, which seems to be having issues selling print advertising, filling up Google Base, and fixing AdWords API version 3.

Date: 2006-02-17

Are Google SERPs Entirely Organic?
Google has made another alteration the Google Help Center , this time removing the assurance that Google's results are completely automated.

Date: 2006-02-16

Search Faces Congress Today
The House Subcommittee on Africa, Global Human Rights, and International Operations, and the Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, hosts Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Cisco in Washington, DC.

Date: 2006-02-15

Technorati Throws A Slider
David Sifry provided part two of his State of the Blogosphere report, and announced a couple of new tools for the Technorati blog search engine.

Date: 2006-02-14

SEMPO Wrestles With SEM Industry Issues
SEMPO (The Search Engine Marketing Professional Organization) represents the Search Marketing industry's attempt to develop a unified voice.

Date: 2006-02-13

NBC Promoting Olympics In Google SERPs
A query on Google for "NBC Olympics" returns a video link to a two-minute advertisement for the upcoming Winter Olympics in Torino, and an unobvious change to Google's Sponsored Links boxes on top of search results.

Date: 2006-02-10

Gmail Hints At Managed Domain Service
ZDNet's Garett Rogers believes a piece of JavaScript in Gmail could be an indicator of the popular service's future.

Date: 2006-02-09

Zillow Resides In Home Valuation Search
The buyer and seller-focused site debuted recently and offers valuations and information on over 60 million homes in the US, and delivers a map view of a property queried on the site.

Date: 2006-02-08

Google Talking Up Gmail With Chat
New chat features for Gmail should begin rolling out to its users over the next few weeks, as Google tightens the integration between its Talk and Gmail services.

Date: 2006-02-07

Google Pre-Announces New Dell Notebooks
A user found on Google pricing and model names for new dual-core laptop computers from Dell and excitedly posted them to an online forum, sending Dell officials scrambling to get the unannounced products off the Internet.

Date: 2006-02-02

Newspapers Feel Exploited By Search
Agence-France Presse demanded Google stop including its content in Google News, and a group of 18,000 newspapers could press search engines on the issue of content aggregation too.

Date: 2006-02-01

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