Live Blogging From The Google Discover Music Launch Event
Oct 28, 2009 at 7:00pm ET by Danny Sullivan
The expected Google Music Search is real, and our Google Music Search 2.0 Launches With Musical "OneBox" story provides the play-by-play of how it works. Be sure to read that! From me, the color commentary out of today's launch event at Capitol Records in Hollywood. I'll be live blogging the news.
We're expecting some musical stars, including guests from OneRepublic, Dead By Sunrise, Linkin Park and Mos Def. I'll do my best to keep up, given my lack of popular musical culture makes me the butt of jokes to those who know me well. Have mercy, OK?
And it's 4:04pm, with loud music playin [...]
Filed in: Features: General, Google: Music
DMOZ: A Solid Directory Or The Great Pumpkin Of Search?
Oct 27, 2009 at 8:36am ET by Debra Mastaler
Love it or hate it, the Open Directory Project (ODP or "DMOZ") always seems to creep into the conversation when we're discussing links and/or SEO. Check any forum, social news or answer site and you'll see a wide variety of opinions on the 11 year old directory and how it's managed.
When talking about the DMOZ two camps typically emerge, those who support the directory and its mission (editors) and those who support getting into the directory (SEOs). While the two sides tend to clash, I've found the "directory trust" SEOs seek is the same trust DMOZ editors feel they need to protect. The de [...]
Filed in: Features: General, Link Week, Top News
Live Blog: Qi Lu Speaking At Web 2.0
Oct 21, 2009 at 3:08pm ET by Matt McGee
Microsoft's Qi Lu announced two new partnerships today at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco. Here's a transcript of his chat with Tim O'Reilly.
Qi Lu
I was at Yahoo for 10 years, and I always told Jerry, after 10 years I'm going to try something new. I went to Microsoft because I wanted to have an impact.
Search is about computationally understanding user intent. Understanding their interests and needs. That's "absolutely" our long-term goal - to "build a mind-reader." Once you understand user intent, you can figure out different solutions. There are many queries where images are be [...]
Filed in: Facebook, Features: General, Microsoft: Bing, Twitter
Twitter Not Giving Access To Private Tweets
Oct 20, 2009 at 3:44pm ET by Danny Sullivan
Is Twitter allowing search engines access to protected tweets or not? Not, Twitter tells me, though the company probably needs to do a bit more to prevent this type of confusion in the future.
The LA Times reported yesterday about a "Twitter hole" that it believed allowed Google special access to protected tweets, tweets made from Twitter accounts where owners have deliberately chosen not to have their tweets be made public.
Not so, said TechCrunch. The so-called protected tweets that the LA Times was finding in Google looked to be those made from before particular account holder [...]
Filed in: Features: General, Legal: Crawling & Indexing, Legal: Privacy, Top News, Twitter
How To Use Google’s Sidewiki For Maximum SEM Benefit
Oct 14, 2009 at 6:03pm ET by Kevin Gibbons
Google's Sidewiki is here and it's not hard to see that it could be big, that it could change the way we use the internet. However, it has some frankly scary implications for website proprietors. People can visit your pages and leave messages, whether you want them to or not.
Dell Homepage with Google SideWiki - Image credit: Flickr
I think the best description I've seen to date was on Econsultancy, describing it as "a way to graffitti websites."
How can we web marketers respond? Have we lost control of our own websites and those of our clients? There have already been several inst [...]
Filed in: Features: General, Google: Sidewiki, How To: SEM
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