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Google Earth Has The Straight Dope The first rule of transporting illegal goods is: You do not do anything to get yourself pulled over by the police. Dean Brown, of Racine, Wisc., didn't follow this rule, nor the rule about carrying traceable devices, which is why Google Earth played a significant role in his drug bust.
Google Makes a Comeback Lots of discussion (but not really serious discussion) swirled around Google's apparent peak in the search market, as the company's share of searches dropped slightly in August. As predicted by some, Google has made a comeback in September.
EBay Ad Offers Sale of Croc Hunter's Remains People understand what's tasteless. Search algorithms and contextual ad technology do not. Well, maybe not people, either. Just as one is horrified that an eBay AdWords ad offers a sale on the Crocodile Hunter's body, one finds that if eBayers actually had access to the corpse, they might. Would they?
Humans ChaCha Into Search Dance It's so crazy it just might work: a live person, like your own personal attach to guide you through the maze and answer questions you don't know how to ask a computer. That's the idea behind ChaCha, a search engine founded from pure geek credibility, and hooks searchers up with paid "guides" to help them find what they're looking for.
A Spooky Google Zeitgeist It looks like Halloween has come early, judging from the scary list of top gaining search queries. Google's weekly Zeitgeist report is filled with natural disasters, tragedy, horror movies, and pop culture.
Google Beats FarmDate The Dutch dating site for farmers, FarmDate, which took Google to court suing over AdWords links to adult sites appearing next to their organic search results, walked out of an Amsterdam courtroom disappointed.
Dutch Site Sues Google For Inappropriate Search Ads The proprietors of Dutch dating site Farm Date, an online meeting place for, you know, lonely farmers, is suing Google because the company refuses to remove sex ads that appear next to search results that lead to the site.
Google Guy Reveals Secret Identity Comic book legend Stan Lee (Spider-Man, X-Men, the Hulk) is the first to tell you that a super hero never reveals his or her secret identity. Matt Cutts, you're so busted. Turn in your GG emblem and your Justice League secret decoder ring.
Fox Signs Efficient SEM Company Two days after the announcement that Google would supply the search technology and advertising across MySpace channels, search engine marketing company Efficient Frontier announced that its own deal with Fox Interactive Media (FIM).
SES: Wooing The Social Networks At the Social Search track at SES San Jose, Doug Caverly lends an eager ear to panelists discussing how community-built websites, like Wikipedia, Digg.com, and Del.icio.us, can be utilized for search engine marketing.
Couch Potatoes Turn To Google If you want a good indicator of what the searching populace will be searching for from week to week, just watch TV. It would be nice to think people had their own minds, but as the behaviorist will tell you, people are sheep. Google's weekly Zeitgeist reveals the flock can be lured not just by sexy girls, but even by elitist sports.
Are the Search Kings Now Immortal? If one were thinking of debuting a full-web US-based search engine today, they'd better have an astounding product. The top five placeholders in the search industry seem not only impenetrable, but growing in search share. Nielsen//Netrating's report for June is more of the same.
Search Roundup: Google Skips While Others Trip It's hard out here for a portal. Yahoo! and MSN keep ramping up their offerings in order to take back some of that search share they keep losing to Google. How's it working for them? Yahoo! stock tanks, MSN loses its Google assassin team all while el Goog finds success in quirkiness. This is a roundup of what's going on in the search world.
The Google Guys' Mile High Club Tiff Why not end the week on a high note? The Wall Street Journal's Kevin Delaney, in a few sentences in the middle of an article about the Google Party Plane lawsuit, dropped the funniest CEO quote in recorded history. At the same time, he reminds us of how hard it is to be a billionaire.
Top Searches Whos That How Much And Who Cares This week's buzzy search report, courtesy of Google Zeitgeist, is a little more diverse than last week's male-dominated society review.
Google Calls For Gadgets & Dating Advice Somebody needs to talk to Google about what's sexy. Google Desktop Developer T-shirts are not aphrodisiacs, not even in the right environment. There, I said it. Not sexy. Not at all. But if you want to impress the geek posse, winning Google's Desktop Gadget Designer contest is a good start.
Why Didn't Google Buy MySpace? All that follows is based on hearsay, but there are times in Web court when that's all you've got. Rupert Murdoch says Google passed on an opportunity to purchase MySpace.com for half the price News Corp. paid. Some call it a blunder; Murdoch calls it arrogance. But MySpace may have tipped Google's Evil Meter.
School Finds Out It's Not Google's Fault A snafu between Google and a North Carolina school brought with it some valuable lessons: spiders can't type passwords; Google crawls so deep only reporters can find it; you should double check your security; and everyone likes a judge with a funny name.
Google Reveals Guys Like Sports and Girls Is it sexist to think an interest in soccer, golf, naked teachers, racing, wrestling, porn, poker, and basketball indicates a decidedly male slant? Nah, if I said lipstick, brassieres, the volleyball scene from Top Gun, Dirty Dancing, pumps, and Precious Moments figurines, you'd assume feminine, right? Google's weekly Zeitgeist report makes me think the boys were out in force.
Google Gets Spam Punk'd When a blog called Monetize published "The Step-by-Step Guide to Getting Billions of Pages Indexed by Google" pointing to an SEOer's black hat trick of returning 5.5 billion spammy results in under three weeks, the SEM world did a giant collective spit take.
Chinese SEO: Elbow Grease or Palm Grease? According to a forum thread on Search Engine Watch, "organic" listings on major Chinese search engines can be bought.
Some Don't Gbuy That It Ain't PayPal The details on Google's so-called Gbuy, rumored to be released on June 28, are still sketchy at best. Many have assumed the payment service to be a rival to eBay's PayPal, an assumption Google CEO Eric Schmidt isn't exactly on kilter but some think he's blowin' smoke.
Yahoo! China Blocks Users Looking Up Dirty Words Yahoo! went higher on the Reporters Without Borders' S-list this week after the freedom of the press organization conducted a review to discover which search engine censored the most content in China. Yahoo.cn scored the worst in Beijing kowtowing of any of the major search engines operating within the communist borders.
MySpace To Search Industry: Come and Get It Though MySpace.com found itself in the top six last month in terms of search share, News Corp. isn't a bit shy to say it ain't about search, it's about green. 85 million captive members give it the leverage to tell Google, Yahoo! and MSN to pony up if they want in. After all, its milkshake brings all the boys to the yard.
eBay Thinks Google Mojo Is Stinky What John Battelle says is obvious isn't obvious to everyone. But its nice when he sheds some light for the unsuspecting. Google and eBay's relationship up to recently has been quite symbiotic, but as the online auctioneer is increasingly threatened by Google's "cross-mojonation," the "obvious" choice was to take Google head-on.
Google Forgetful About Memorial Day Google has been known to commemorate darn near anything by changing its logo on holidays, famous birthdays, and designated awareness days. But when Memorial Day rolled around this year, many noticed a definite lack of commemoration - again.
RSS Feeds Considered Duplicate Content? I am currently developing about 10 websites for one company. The idea is to have one main site and 8-9 smaller sites dedicated to single products.
Dorkus Maximus Sues Google Over Porn A New York politician's effort to sue Google for being the "world's largest facilitator and distributor of child pornography" may have earned him more scorn than points. Nassau County legislator Jeffrey Toback, champion of toy gun bans, slapped the search giant with a lawsuit last week.
Searching In Any Language Look past the "babe" in Babelplex and think Tower of Babel instead of pin-up girl. It'll save you the disappointment ...
Yahoo! Debuts Featured Local Listings Yahoo! Local has added a useful new feature for the mom and pop shops designed to increase foot traffic and generate phone calls. Yahoo! Local Featured Listings most notable addition is the local phone number below the search result for instant gratification.
Searching For Understanding Unique to history, people have built machines that understand people. Search companies, however, ...
Fear And Loathing In Googlemania There's not a whole lot of earth-shattering news in the world of search today, but there are several small tremors: Google sticks it to IE, but wimps out in China; and Googleholics come to grips with their addiction.
Google Discovers Sex Is Popular One out of every five searches on Google Mobile are searches for porn. This revelation will be presented in Montreal tomorrow by Google researchers at the CHI 2006 Conference. Sure wish I'd known about this earlier. Oh wait, I did.
Yahoo! Updates Search Index Yahoo! announced just before the weekend an update to its search index, something the company says will be happening more frequently.
Google Decides No Goodmail In a surprise announcement last week, Google confirmed that Gmail would not be following AOL's lead to implement an email certification system like Goodmail's CertifiedEmail.
A Google By Any Other Name A debate is raging over Google's presence in China. But it's not what you think. Chinese Googlites have started an online petition in opposition of Google's new Chinese moniker "Gu Ge," a protest that, for certain, has gone to the dogs.
Google Loses A Bill, Brings Back Old Favorites In the wake of an exciting week for Google (think earnings), the company also made some quiet announcements.
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 ...
Google Returns to China as As Google expands its reach into China, the search engine whose name was powerful enough to become a verb ...
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.
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