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[2006-03-31] Danny Sullivan Puts Alan Meckler in His Place
Over the years, we've seen JupiterMedia try to closely integrate JupiterResearch with Search Engine Strategies.
[2006-03-31] Local Search: Is It Really Ready For The Red Carpet?
A rainy Friday afternoon and I'm in the mood for a movie. I can't easily recall any recent movie previews and I am not really sure what's out there.
[2006-03-30] Bloggers Gaming Google Finance
To gain added exposure for their stories, some bloggers have begun taking advantage of the way Google Finance incorporates content as part of a company's information page.
[2006-03-30] Google Patents Bring WiFi Down To Earth
One day, my pie in the sky will be crumbs on a plate. Full-bellied, my GoogleNet wireless connection will intuitively retrieve an ad for Alka-Seltzer; the bubbly concoction plop-plop fizz-fizzes with tiny executive voices admitting in fizzy whispers, "yes, Jason, Google's full of it."
[2006-03-30] Mossberg Favors Ask.com over Google
The WSJ's Walter Mossberg is known for his critical reviews of just about anything technology related.
[2006-03-30] Search YouTube the Ajax Way
At first I didn't know what it was when I saw it on del.icio.us. Qooqle Video turns out to be one really cool way to search YouTube.
[2006-03-29] Windows Live Search Enables Macros
They call it "rolling your own search" and an easy process to create a macro illustrates the process of setting up a lengthy query as a one-click bit of functionality.
[2006-03-29] Matt Cutts On Bigdaddy, RK, And Emmy
The Google engineer who webmasters have learned to love and fear tackled a slew of questions posted to his blog recently. There are only four or five live Matt Cutts sightings in a given year...
[2006-03-29] Ask vs. Google - An Observation of Search Results
I have always considered it a good idea to use multiple search engines when performing a specific search.
[2006-03-29] eponym Debuts Blog Platform, Search
There's a new free blog host in town - eponym.
[2006-03-29] PreFound Offers Ad Revenue To Top Finders
Finders in PreFound.com's system of tagging and sharing online content will receive 100 percent of the ad revenue generated by their user pages on the community-oriented search engine.
[2006-03-29] Google Update - Changes Done, Changes Coming
Matt Cutts, Google's chief search engineer, provided a long Q and A session on his blog Tuesday.
[2006-03-28] Verizon, Google Ink Lucrative Ad Deal
Under the arrangement, sales representatives from Verizon will be able to offer potential advertisers not only print ads, but AdWords campaigns too.
[2006-03-28] Vertical Search For The Farmland
AgWebSearch.com focuses on an area most tech writers only know from seeing cornfields in the X-Files movie "Fight The Future"; it turns out the agriculture vertical needed a dedicated search service.
[2006-03-28] Thinking Beyond PPC Bidding Wars
While bidding war tactics are intriguing to learn about, the costs of engaging in bidding wars are high, and these costs extend beyond the extra money marketers must pay to the search engines to engage in them.
[2006-03-28] Google and Ask Increase Audience Share
It's not really surprising that Google continues to dominate search share in the US.
[2006-03-28] SEO For MSN
This is article one of a four part series on optimizing your website for the "Big Three". Part two will focus on Yahoo!, Part three will focus on Google and part four of this series will explain how to perform SEO on your website to attain high rankings across all three major engines.
[2006-03-28] Yawn, Google Extends Search Share Lead
In today's exciting news, the Sun remains warm to the touch, no one under fourteen should read Scott Adams' "God's Debris," and Google gained six percentage points in the US search market for February.
[2006-03-27] Google's New Look Through Javascript
ZDNet's "Googling Google" blogger Garett Rogers found a Javascript trick that unveils the occasionally glimpsed new look of Google's search results to Firefox users.
[2006-03-27] Fun With Google Finance
Sometimes Google's search engine works a little too well at matching up queries with results, as some posters on Metafilter found.
[2006-03-27] Sprint and InfoSpace Join Forces
According to Reuters, Sprint has joined forces with InfoSpace to offer a $2.99 a month service that combines positioning awareness technology with local search.
[2006-03-27] Watch Your Search Engine Language
Jordan Glogau takes a look at the semantics of search and wonders who came up with all of these misnomers.
[2006-03-27] Try Google's Experimental Layout
Philip Lenssen explains how you can easily test Google's new layout. It's really simple and the hack works like a charm.
[2006-03-26] Search the Tags with Keotag
Keotag is one of those simple "why didn't I think of that" applications.
[2006-03-25] Google Finance or Google Portal?
Is Google Finance evidence of a Google Portal master plan? I think not. Google's strategy is focused on creating pageviews in any way possible to satisfy a huge demand for targeted key word advertising.
[2006-03-24] Google Gets Indexed By S&P
On March 31, Google will become part of the Standard and Poor's 500 index of US-based companies, a move that had been anticipated ever since the company's IPO took place.
[2006-03-24] CoffeeCup Drinks Print Ads On Google's Tab
The search advertising company's attempt at auctioning off space in a number of magazines largely failed to deliver significant returns to Google.
[2006-03-24] Classified Search Engines Not Always Welcomed
ClickZ looks at how newly launched classified aggregator, Vast.com, is annoying a few classified providers by somehow bypassing password protected areas and draining servers.
[2006-03-24] It's All Relevant
A funny thing happened on the way to writing this examination of the Yahoo! trademark policy.
[2006-03-24] Google Suggest Going Wide?
I don't see it in my browser yet, but the USWeb Blog says that Google is rolling out their Google Suggest Ajax functionality across some of their data centers.
[2006-03-24] Google Local, Meet Google Ads
The beta test of placing CPC ads on Google Local maps based on a business search has started showing up online for some users.
[2006-03-23] Google Base Boxes With Search
Google Base gets the latest push with Google adding a search box to certain results where users can easily search within the SERPs they just retrieved.
[2006-03-23] Google Base Seen in General Search Results
Results drawn from Google Base have started to appear in search results drawn for certain keywords.
[2006-03-23] Luxury Travelers Love Online
Just received a whole host of interesting stats from a study by Yahoo Search Marketing.
[2006-03-22] KinderStart And Google Differ On Opinion
Attorney Greg Yu characterized PageRank as "not a mere statement of opinion" due to the nature of how Google's algorithm calculates PageRank.
[2006-03-22] Price Per Click Up 25% Last Year
Marketing Sherpa released a report that showed the average cost-per-click rose 24.8% in 2005, from $1.29 to $1.61 on Google AdWords.
[2006-03-22] Claria Ditching Adware When AdCenter Debuts
News of Claria's move could build on reports of a Microsoft trademark application for a name similar to that of a technology owned by Claria may mean the Microsoft/Claria takeover talks could be taking place in the background.
[2006-03-21] Catching Up: New Google Stuff
Google just (and I mean just launched Google Finance. Finance is barely a search engine, focusing far more on content, namely stock market stats and aggregated information.
[2006-03-21] You are What You’re Googled
We talk about transparency a great deal, especially in relation to blogging, as in being open about who you are and what you do.
[2006-03-21] Google Prompts MBD Speculation
What is MBD? Why is it in Google's robots.txt file? Who reads Google's robots.txt file enough to notice this? Where can you find the answer?
[2006-03-21] Blogger Says There Is No Search Box Policy
Blogger Buzz has posted that the story from late last week, where a BlogSpot user said he was told to remove the MSN Search box from his blog, never happened.
[2006-03-20] Nike And Google Kickoff Joga
A soccer-focused community website based on Google's invite-only Orkut service recently launched in advance of this year's Wolrd Cup.
[2006-03-20] PodZinger Debuts Video Podcast Search
The podcast search engine just added video podcast search to its existing full-text podcast search service online.
[2006-03-20] Yahoo! Your Town In The News
The newest beta from Yahoo News allows its multitude of users to select their cities and see a module of local headlines appear on the main Yahoo News page.
[2006-03-20] KinderStart Lawsuit Googles Up Opinions
As one lawsuit ends, Google finds another one cropping up in the wake of its victory over the Department of Justice; plenty of opinions have followed the news of the new litigation.
[2006-03-20] Community is Google's Achilles Heel
BusinessWeek covers the Google/Nike soccer tie-up in more detail. There's one passage deep in the story that popped off the page...
[2006-03-20] No MSN Search on Google's BlogSpot
Nathan reports Google is not allowing a blogger to include an MSN Search box on a blog hosted at Blogspot.com.
[2006-03-20] Podzinger "Searches" Video Podcasts
Podzinger today said they are now able to search both audio and video podcasts.
[2006-03-20] gada.be is favorite tool for watching event coverage
Shannon Clark of the meshforum conference just wrote me and reminded me about gada.be.
[2006-03-18] Judge Stiffarms DoJ In Google Case
What began as a quest for virtually unfettered access to Google's database of search information by the Department of Justice has ended with a judge's decision that the DoJ receive 50,000 URLs retrieved with Google's search engine, and zero queries.
[2006-03-18] KinderStart Sues Google Over PageRank
KinderStart filed suit yesterday in U.S. District Court in San Jose alleging that Google improperly "blacklisted" its website.
[2006-03-18] Google Avoids Surrendering Search Requests
AP has details of what information Google must hand over to the Bush administration, and it appears to be good news.
[2006-03-18] KinderStart.com Loses PageRank So Sues Google
KinderStart.com should take the money they're going to waste on suing Google and spend it on AdWords instead.
[2006-03-18] Rant on Class Action Suit Against Google
The class action noise about Google and the company who's rankings have dropped is a pure waste in my opinion.
[2006-03-18] Yahoo Better Than Google For Kids’ Schoolwork?
An 11-year old's social studies presentation has sparked a discussion at the Digital Point search engine forums, when the girl found that Google just wasn't good enough to help her school research.
[2006-03-17] Zawodny Wants Delicious Yahoos
Yahoo blogger Jeremy Zawodny has put out the call on Yahoo's Search Blog for talented people to fill openings for three types of job roles supporting Delicious and other Yahoo social media services; as with most things though, all is not as it seems.
[2006-03-17] Google, AOL Need More Time To Consummate
The billion-dollar investment Google will make with AOL has proved complex enough to require Google to move the anticipated completion date for the deal to the second quarter of '06.
[2006-03-17] Alibaba Makes $750 Millions Vanish
The owner of Yahoo China spent three-fourths of the $1 billion it received from Yahoo last summer on research & development and other projects.
[2006-03-17] Could the New Google Spider be Causing Issues with Websites?
Around the time Google announced "Big Daddy," there was a new Googlebot roaming the web. Since then I've heard stories from clients of websites and servers going down and previously unindexed content getting indexed.
[2006-03-17] AdWords Starter Hints At Local Focus
The AdWords team has created a simplified version of the advertising service called AdWords Starter Edition aimed at its newest users who wish to create a single campaign easily; this may be part of Google's focus on the growing local search market.
[2006-03-17] Now Google Says The FCC Doesn't Suck
Andrew McLaughlin, senior policy counsel with everyone's favorite search advertising company, claims he was horribly misquoted by a Light Reading reporter who gave lots of writers a great headline.
[2006-03-17] BlogSpot Says No To MSN Search?
A BlogSpot blogger claims that he received an email from Google saying that the MSN Search box he had placed on his blog violated Blogger's Terms Of Service.
[2006-03-16] How the Other Half Search
MarketingVOX has details of a new report from the Luxury Institute which outlines how the rich use the web.
[2006-03-16] Search Marketing News Blog
When Online Marketing Blog was started in 2003, it was mostly a re-blog.
[2006-03-16] Google Maps IP Search
Here's a neat Google Maps mashup: GeoTool lets you enter an IP address and get the location of it in Google Maps.
[2006-03-16] Tool Shows Censorship in Google China Results
Brent Franson points to CenSEARCHip, a tool created by the University of Indiana School of Informatics, which compares search results for Google and Yahoo in different countries.
[2006-03-16] Defining Paid Search Networks
Reading any of the major search engines' explanations of their paid search networks and where they will display ads is at minimum misleading.
[2006-03-16] Google Mows Down Snodgrass In Court
A federal judge in Philadelphia tossed out copyright infringement lawsuit filed against Google, where the plaintiff claimed the search engine's archive of his Usenet posts constituted republication.
[2006-03-16] Rogers: Google Should Track Your Eyeballs
ZDNet Google blogger Garett Rogers has suggested an upgrade to Google Analytics, where Google tracks your eye movements by following your mouse around the screen.
[2006-03-15] SES NYC Interviews
Chris Pirillo and Jake hit up Search Engine Strategies New York and did a number of interviews which you can hear at his SES 2006 Archive page.
[2006-03-15] Google Desktop Leaves Beta
The latest version of Google Desktop Search (the one with the evil "your data on Google's servers" feature, paranoid ass) has left beta.
[2006-03-15] NY Politicians Bought With AdWords
To better get the message out about the performance of members of the New York State Legislature, a political policy institute purchased ads through Google AdWords to publicize the grades the institute feels those politicians merit.
[2006-03-14] Memeorandum Expands To Cover Gossip
Readers of Memeorandum's political and technical blog news aggregators now have a third option for their viewing pleasure - the gleeful gossip grabber WeSmirch.com.
[2006-03-14] Oodle Gets a Vast Competitor
Great news for Oodle, they're getting a competitor in the form of new classified search engine, Vast.com.
[2006-03-14] Doodle Your Search Query
DMNews has word of a new search engine that utilizes pattern recognition. With 3D-Seek, simply use the blank "canvass" interface to draw the product you are looking for.
[2006-03-14] Google Acquires SketchUp 3D Software
Google continues is roll-up of cool technologies with news that it has acquired @Last Software, makers of SketchUp.
[2006-03-14] PR in the Age of Consumer Control
Google. The effusive praise this deceptively low-key search engine elicits is maddening. I used to mock Google. Now I seemingly won't go to the john without it.
[2006-03-14] Yahoo Cheat Sheet
Turns out Yahoo has its own cheat sheet, listing 32 input boxes giving you direct ways to use Yahoo Search features you may not know about.
[2006-03-14] Memetrackers Go Horizontal and Vertical
Memeorandum, which to date has focused on tech and politics, is wisely starting to branch out horizontally with new vertical sites.
[2006-03-14] Americans Tell DOJ to Keep Hands Off Search Data
A new study by the Center for Survey Research at the University of Connecticut suiggest 65% of Americans oppose government monitoring of search behavior with 50% saying search engines should not turn over any information to the government.
[2006-03-14] Google Draws A Check For SketchUp
The maker of 3D creation package SketchUp, @Last Software of Boulder, CO, have been acquired for an undisclosed sum by Google.
[2006-03-14] Doug Cutting is a Yahoo!
I kinda suspected this day might come:
[2006-03-13] Google Goes To Mars
While Google has not reported completion of their fabled 'space elevator', they have made it easier to explore the Red Planet through a specially crafted version of Google Maps.
[2006-03-13] Google Selling Book Access Online
Publishers who are members of Google's Partner Program in the US and the UK can sign on to sell online-only access to material available through Google Book Search.
[2006-03-13] DOJ, Google Battle In Court Tuesday
The Department of Justice has asked the presiding judge in Gonzales v. Google to impose a 21-day deadline for Google to hand over the search records DOJ requested in August 2005.
[2006-03-13] Google Adds Demographic Targeting to its Contextual Ad Network
Many marketers will likely find Google's new demographic features interesting and useful. The big question is: when will Google add such capabilities to Search campaigns?
[2006-03-13] For Search Engines, the Largest Community Wins
The BBC looks at how the search engine war has moved to a new battlefield.
[2006-03-13] Assertivenet is Gigablast Spider (Gigabot)
The purpose of this article is to provide evidence and information to counteract the suggestion that Assertivenet is potentially used for malicious purposes.
[2006-03-13] Interview with Dan Thies of SEO Research Labs
When you think of keyword research services, the name that often comes to mind these days is Dan Thies.
[2006-03-10] MSN Search Goes Mad In March
Another sports-driven arrangement between Microsoft and Fox Sports will deliver men's basketball tournament information to users of MSN Search with the site's Instant Answer technology.
[2006-03-10] Hitting The Accoona SuperTarget
A search engine developed by Accoona Corp. uses various artificial intelligence techniques to offer enhanced search results.
[2006-03-10] Goodbye Jeeves, Hello Watson
I'd never heard of Watson, but the search tool is using Ask's retirement of Jeeves in a clever viral marketing effort.
[2006-03-10] Yahoo Displaying New Look To Users
The portal has made some changes to its look and feel available to more visitors, but only if they arrive using the Internet Explorer browser.
[2006-03-10] Don't Do Evil Embraces Sun Devils
Google has established an office on the Tempe campus of Arizona State University, the latest in its development of operations in Arizona.
[2006-03-10] jux2 Desktop Search Widget
It looks like the meta search engine jux2 has added a desktop search widget so you can do a combined search on Google, Yahoo and MSN without going to your browser.
[2006-03-09] Google Saved Dilbert
Scott Adams, creator of the popular Dilbert comic strip, found himself with a strange speaking problem that baffled doctors but not Google.
[2006-03-09] AdWords Addresses Click Fraud Questions
Google's Shuman Ghosemajumder, Business Product Manager for Trust & Safety, provided answers for some common questions about click fraud after Google disclosed it was nearing a settlement in a lawsuit filed against it over the problem.
[2006-03-09] Interview with a Search Spammer
Chris Pirillo gets the goods on search engine spam with an interview of an anonymous "search spammer" at the New York Search Engine Strategies conference. The voice is decidedly European, possibly German - yes, it's German.
[2006-03-09] Local Search Ads: $1 Billion In 2006
The paltry $420 million spent in 2005 on local search advertising was the calm before the nine-digit storm begins this year.
[2006-03-09] Google Writes A Check To Writely
Jen Mazzon today confirmed on the Google Blog rumors of Google acquiring the online word processing service Writely.com.
[2006-03-09] American Airlines Wants Google to Reveal User Info
According to The Mercury News, American Airlines wants Google to reveal the identity of the person who uploaded a copyrighted video to Google Video.
[2006-03-09] American Airlines Flies Subpoena To Google
An excerpt of a copyrighted training video that showed up on Google Video has led American to demand the identity of the uploader via a subpoena.
[2006-03-08] Windows Live Shows ETech A Pair
Microsoft upped the ante in the quest for more users with a couple of updates to Windows Live that offer new search capabilities and toolbar functionality.
[2006-03-08] Ask Challenges The Online Mapping Crowd
Ask.com launched its revamped Maps product at SES 2006 NY last week to the warm approval of users, and called out its competition on imagery quality.
[2006-03-08] Google Disclosures And Fallout
The search advertising company accidentally provided financial guidance to analysts before excising it from the presentation that was made available online.
[2006-03-08] Windows Live Search to Replace MSN Search
Microsoft's Live.com is getting major upgrades (very slow right now) via Scobelizer and more details including RSS feed search over at Read/Write Web.
[2006-03-08] Oodle Embeds With Lycos, Backpage
The two charter members of Oodle's Partner Network will use APIs to connect to Oodle's index of classified advertising and display those search engine results.
[2006-03-08] Google Calendar Screenshots
Michael Arrington has scored some leaked screenshots of Google's Calendar, long rumored and in development as "CL2″.
[2006-03-08] Microsoft Opens Window On Live Search
The debut of Windows Live Search delivered a couple of new features, more of its advertising service, and possibly better relevance for its organic and paid search results.
[2006-03-08] Google Click Fraud Settlement: $90 Million
A class-action lawsuit filed by Lane's Gifts and Collectibles in Arkansas against Google could end soon if the presiding judge approves a proposed settlement.
[2006-03-08] Ask Searches On The Continental Plan
Searchers in France, Italy, and the Netherlands can choose to try beta versions of the Ask.com search engine in those countries.
[2006-03-08] Microsoft Replaces MSN with Windows Live
Microsoft is replacing MSN Search with a new search interface, Windows Live.
[2006-03-07] Google Drive Steers Theories
A section of text in a Google PowerPoint presentation described the concept of storing 100 percent of a user's data; what started as a one-off observation made by a blogger rocketed all the way to a lengthy mention in the Wall Street Journal.
[2006-03-07] Google Cerf-ing For British Engineers
Google evangelist Vint Cerf, father of the Internet, will canvas several universities in the UK to help recruit graduates to work for his company's new research and development center in London.
[2006-03-07] Search Relevance is Dead!
I've been saying for a long time that the race for "relevance" among search engines is over.
[2006-03-07] Oodle Partners with Lycos and Backpage
We've gotten a sneak peak at a new press release coming out later today from classified search engine Oodle.
[2006-03-06] MSN Not Beating Google In Six Months
After stirring up the search engine world with comments that MSN Search will be more relevant than Google in six months, Microsoft Europe president Neil Holloway backpedaled from his remarks.
[2006-03-06] T-Shirt Link Bait
The Search Engine Journal "Search Engine T-Shirt Contest" will be announcing winners soon.
[2006-03-06] Why We Don’t Get A Live Google Display
Xooglers' Doug Edwards explains why the famous scrolling display of Google queries, located in the Googleplex lobby, isn't made available for public use.
[2006-03-06] Google SERPs Anger UK Footballer
Arsenal and England international left back Ashley Cole is displeased in a legal sense over Google's alternative suggestion in search results for his name.
[2006-03-03] CBS Content Playing On Blinkx
Don't call the lawyers, though; CBS has approved this deal with Blinkx.tv, which makes localized content like news, weather, and entertainment available from CBS TV websites to the Blinkx search engine.
[2006-03-02] Google Breaks Free From Intel With AMD
New servers purchased by Google will contain Opteron processors from AMD instead of models from Intel, an analyst firm said.
[2006-03-02] Google Search Records Leaving China
By moving Google.cn search records out of China, the company hopes to protect users their from government mischief.
[2006-03-02] Microsoft May Use UIMA To Top Google
A Microsoft Europe executive has provided some bulletin board material for Google, in claiming Microsoft will exceed Google in the search market in six months, based on being better able to retrieve specific information rather than just URLs.
[2006-03-02] Microsoft Wants To Own Relerank
A trademark filing by an attorney on behalf of Microsoft for ownership of the term "relerank," a combination of relevancy and rank.
[2006-03-02] Now Testing Gmail for Domains
I just received my beta test acceptance to Google Gmail for domains.
[2006-03-02] Google Links
Google Sitemaps announces new features including average top position, top mobile search queries and more download options.
[2006-03-02] Google Coos To Analysts, Market Hearts Flutter
Executives from the Googleplex whispered sweetly into the ears of industry analysts and convinced them growth opportunities do indeed exist for the search advertising company.
[2006-03-01] Google Says Choose Your Mobile News
The latest service from Google on the mobile phone front lets users hit Google News from the Google.com page and browse the headlines.
[2006-03-01] BOTW Does Blog Search
Yesterday at the New York Search Engine Strategies conference I ran into Brian Prince, CEO of Best of the Web (BOTW.org), who clearly have plenty of fans as evident from all the black, long sleeve t-shirts worn by conference attendees. In fact, they ran out the first day of the conference and had to get more.
[2006-03-01] DoubleClick DART Search Party
There were several after-conference events last night at SES NYC. Marchex held a bash and there was a small, invite only thing for MSN AdCenter as well.
[2006-03-01] SES NY: The Click-Happy Searcher
Research is showing that the bulk of Internet users make snap judgments about websites and what links to click. Surfing is instinctual, not calculated. In fact the only ones doing any calculations are marketing researchers who say that a website has an astonishing 50 milliseconds to make an impression, and if no impression is made, the mouse trigger finger gets itchy and starts clicking at will.
[2006-03-01] SES NY: Meet The Blog And Feed Search Engines
Tuesday was a very busy day for me, with the expo floor, a pretty major interview (more on that as it develops) and lots of busy work for me.
[2006-03-01] SES: Pimp My Site
Today, I sat in on the "Pimp My Site" session, which kicked off with a bunch of trumpeteers coming in with the speakers, playing "The Saints Go Marching" while spreading confetti over the audience.
[2006-03-01] Yahoo Claims Former Employees Stole Secrets
AP reports Yahoo is suing seven former exployees, alleging that they stole trade secrets when they left to start MForma Group Inc.
[2006-03-01] SES NYC 2006 Wrap-Up
While I was only at the SES conference for a day, I enjoyed my time there.
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