Over the past year, I’ve heard more and more worries about duplicate content issues. It’s a serious concern site owners have, though sometimes I fear the worry is out-of-proportion to the reality of people actually getting hit by duplicate content penalties. Others may disagree. If you are worried, Deftly dealing with duplicate content from the […]
Yahoo’s lost a number of executives over the past year to small start-ups. Now count another one, especially close to home for search marketers. Tim Converse, the engineering manager who leads anti-spam efforts at Yahoo, is moving on to a start-up himself. Tim writes on his personal blog:
Today, Kevin Rose announced the release of new Digg features. What most people covered in the release were all the cool additions, but no one really talked about the small changes that have drastically affected submitters. Before I dig into these small changes that affected submitters, here is a quick recap of the new features […]
I love to track Santa courtesy of NORAD, the North American Air Defense Command. I did a post on my personal blog last year, Tracking Santa Through The NORAD Web Site, talking about how I moved from listening to Santa’s location on the radio to monitoring him with my kids on the web. Gary Price […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
I’m seeing tons of references to a Wall Street Journal article saying Google’s earnings might slow, which seems related to Google’s stock also having dropped by nearly $8 so far today. If so, that’s a lot of tumble for ONE analyst firm stating the obvious. I’m pretty sure that Google itself has said that you […]
NASA has posted a press release that covers new details about the Google / NASA partnership announced earlier this year. In short, Google is going to bring in real-time weather information for Earth into Google Earth, plus make Google Moon and Google Mars more detailed with high-resolution 3-D imagery. In addition, they will explore more […]
I went looking for Google’s top terms of 2006 today after seeing that some of them had been leaked to the UK press. Nothing public was up on either the Google press releases page (no surprise, typically hours behind when Google actually releases news) or the main Google Zeitgeist page or the 2006 page. I […]
In a two part post at the AdWords blog, Google has added more detail to their trademark policies. In part one, Google explains how trademark owners can prevent use of their trademarks in AdWords and how they can exclude some advertisers from the trademark policy. In part two, Google explains how advertisers can request to […]
Philipp Lenssen takes a look at how UTube changed their approach on their suit against YouTube. Philipp notes that when you arrive at UTube.com you now see a search box with suggested search terms below the box. When you search or click on the suggested search terms you are taken to ads by SearchFeed. In […]
Steve Bryant reports that the case against Yahoo, brought by JP Enterprises for trademark infringement on the terms lovecity and lovecity.com have been dismissed with prejudice. Back in mid-June, the case was first filed against Yahoo and other companies for bidding on the brand name. Yahoo’s nor JP Enterprises’ attorneys responded to any comments about […]
Brands for the Chattering Masses from the New York Times covers a search engine most people can’t afford, the "buzz" search that Nielsen BuzzMetrics operates, along with those from others. The idea is that these services can scan what’s being posted on the web, in blogs and elsewhere, and generate buzz reports for companies. Personally, […]
Google Operating Systems reports that Google has acquired Endoxon, a company that specializes in internet mapping solutions. Google actually did not acquire the whole company, but rather just half of the business units, including internet, mapping and data processing business units. They were acquired because “Endoxon’s assets and its European network bolster engineering and technical […]
Valleywag noted earlier this month that Yahoo chief communication officer Chris Castro had been quietly dropped from Yahoo’s management page. Her replacement has now been named, Jill Nash, who starts on January 16 of next year. Nash previously was vice president of global communications for Gap. Her predecessor Castro had held the position for nearly […]
Two articles out today highlight Google’s not all powerful in every market. In Russia and some other countries, Google is fighting to gain share. New to Russia, Google Struggles to Find Its Footing from the New York Times shows that Google is number eight in Russia, where Yandex leads the pack, followed by Rambler. The […]
I reported this morning at Search Engine Roundtable that Tim Mayer from Yahoo posted in a WebmasterWorld thread saying support for a “No Yahoo Directory” tag will be coming this January. A No Yahoo Directory tag will enable webmasters to tell Yahoo not to use their Yahoo Directory title in the search results. Yahoo began […]
Decipho officially launched on December 14th after having been available since October. It’s an interesting search engine because it takes the concept of social search another stage further, while at the same time offering very useful personalisation. There are lots of things that you can do with it, but I would recommend registering and then […]
Yoople is a collaborative search engine that I discovered over the weekend. Very simple idea – run your search and Yoople grabs results from Yahoo and displays the first 10 for you on the screen. You can then click and drag a result and place it in a different position in the top 10 if […]
Search engine marketer Mike Blumenthal on his blog, “Understanding Google Maps & Yahoo Local,” has been doing an interesting investigation to try and understand the Google Maps and local search algorithm and what factors influence those rankings. As a basic matter, Google uses different algorithms for general and local search results. I spoke with Mike […]
The future for Orange could soon be Google in your pocket from The Observer talks about Google and mobile phone operator Orange apparently discussing the creation of a Google branded phone. I can’t feel there might be a bit of hype here leaking from the Orange side. Google has a very tight partnership with Orange […]
Time Magazine has declared You — that’s you, me, everyone — to be this year’s Person Of The Year. And You in a big way means YouTube, the video sharing site getting a long profile about how it has grown, with some interesting bits on how it now seeks to maintain its “underground image” as […]
DMOZ had 9 lives. Used up yet? from one of the Open Directory’s founders Rich Skrenta covers how some of the ODP’s data has apparently been lost due to a main server crash, with backups not having been done. There’s apparently some attempt at recovery, but as Rich points out, does anyone at AOL really […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Yahoo has renewed their partnership with Naver, Korea’s largest portal. Yahoo will continue to be, in a multi-year contract, the exclusive provider of sponsored search listings for search queries on the Naver portal and through Naver’s toolbar application. This news comes days after Daum dropped Yahoo for Google, Daum is Korea’s second largest portal. Below […]
Google has been listening, I guess, to advertisers recent complaints over the new AdWords Quality Score and Landing Page update. The Google AdWords blog informed us that Google has added several pages of content to the help section better documenting the changes. Those pages include, and I quote:
The Yahoo Publisher Network blog announced a new feature to allow publishers to block ads from showing up on the domain or sub-domain level. The feature is called “Ad Blocking” with a large text box, where you enter in domains or sub-domains of sites you would like to block. You can enter in a total […]
Vanessa Fox at the Google Webmaster Central Blog posted tips on using images on your site. In short, she explains that: (1) Don’t put the bulk of your visible text in images, use real text (2) Use alt tags to describe the images (3) Do not keyword stuff the alt tags (4) Alt tags are […]
The folks at SEOMoz have done it again, this time they designed this unique comic reel of what took place at SES Chicago a couple weeks ago. They did an excellent job capturing much of the action at the conference. I love this spin, great work guys. See the full comic strip by Rebecca. I […]
The Live Search Blog posted the top searches for 2006 list. Here are the overall top 10, for the categorized top tens, check out their post. Top Overall Searches at Live Search in 2006: Ronaldinho Shakira Paris Hilton Britney Spears Harry Potter Eminem Pamela Anderson Hilary Duff Rebelde Angelina Jolie
LYCOS sent me the top searches data from their database in 2006. Here it is: The LYCOS 50 Top 10 Search Terms for 2006 are: Poker MySpace RuneScape Pamela Anderson Paris Hilton Pokemon WWE Golf Spyware Britney Spears
A new organization has been launched specifically for Internet marketers named Internet Marketers of New York. The organization had its first meet last week, and I heard it was a huge success (sorry I didn’t make it, I totally forgot). Greg Niland (aka GoodROI) dreamed up this organization, with a few other founding members. I […]
The Google Blog announced that Google Apps For Your Domain has added the ability to register a domain name, if you do not have one yet. What I find interesting, as I explained here, is that we know Google is a domain registrar for about two years now, but yet they are using GoDaddy and […]
Eurekster have quietly rolled out some interesting improvements on their swicki system. Swickis are search engines created by individuals and used by groups which learn from their users and deliver more focused and targeted results. There are currently over 40,000 swickis in operation on websites and weblogs, with over 13,000 unique publishers, delivering 21,000,000 searches […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
The Google blog announced that Picasa, Google’s photo sharing application, now enables you to search photos. You can search your own or your friends’ public albums captions, album titles, and album descriptions. Picasa also added the ability to print your pictures with Shutterfly or PhotoWorks and a feature to enable you to upload your videos […]
SpaceRef.com reports that Google and NASA are to make an announcement tomorrow. The details of the announcement are not clear, but I would speculate that NASA has provided Google with more detailed imagery and data points so that Google can improve Google Earth. There is currently Google Earth, Google Moon, and Google Mars. What do […]
Just a quick reminder that the first webinar from our sister site Search Marketing Now happens next week. It’s called How to Find the Right Search Marketing Partner, led by Chris Sherman and happening on Tuesday, December 19 at 1pm Eastern time. The webcast is free to attend. You’ll find more information and registration info […]
AT&T is launching an ad-supported directory assistance (DA) service through the phone number 1-800- YellowPages (1-800-935-5697). Right now it’s available in three markets: Bakersfield, CA.; Oklahoma City, OK; and Columbus, Ohio. Described as a “controlled trial,” it’s not clear yet if the service will roll out nationally. However, I would assume so eventually.
MarketWatch reports that Microsoft and Baidu struck a deal where Baidu will be powering the paid search ads at Microsoft’s MSN, Live.com and other China based services. Again, Baidu is to power Microsoft’s ads in China, not the other way around. Baidu has the official press release. From the top of that:
The NY Sun reports that William Thompson Jr., the current comptroller of New York City, has been pressuring Google and Yahoo over operating ethically and legally overseas. Thompson “filed shareholder resolutions calling on the two search engines to create practices for dealing with censorship issues in communist countries like China, North Korea, and Cuba, as […]