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Viacom To Sign With Joost Over Google’s YouTube

Viacom Charts New Course Online at the Wall Street Journal reports that Viacom announced “broad licensing deal with Joost.” Joost is like YouTube but they specialize in commercial video. The deal allows Joost to include “hundreds of hours of programming from Viacom cable networks such as MTV, Comedy Central and Spike as well as movies […]

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YouTube Video Tag Optimization

Jonathan Mendez’s 7 Ways to Optimize Your YouTube Tags has a more detailed look at optimizing your YouTube videos. Here are some of the tips in summary. Use relevant tags to describe the video Use as many relevant tags as possible Think long tail searches when it comes to tags also Use adjectives Add category […]

Google

Listing Of Lists Of Google Products

Google has tons of products and services, they list some of their products here but there are many more. So I decided to compile a list of resources that list out many of Google products. So here is a listing of lists of Google products (say that ten times fast). Answers.com’s List of Google Products […]

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Google Teaches Programming Class At University Of Washington

Google class debuts at the UW via the SeattlePI reports that Google is holding a class at the University Of Washington to teach a unique style of programming. Google software engineer Chistophe Bisciglia dreamt up the idea to spend 10% of his Google time teaching a class on “creating programming prodigies and revamping the way […]

Ecommerce

Let Google Drive Your Car For You

Google wants to take over car driving at the Inquirer completely takes Larry Page’s quote out of context to write a hilarious article. Larry Page, Google co-founder, said “40,000 people die annually in US car crashes.” Page then “proposed giving computers control over cars” so that there will be fewer accidents. Well, we already have […]

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Understanding Link Reputation

There was an interesting comment made in a private discussion list I’m a member of related to paid links. Someone I have great respect for gave an example of a page that had several links on it, one of which was paid for, the others which were not paid for. Same site, one paid, the […]

Google

Google Docs & Spreadsheets Coming To Apps In Weeks

PC World reports that Google Apps will be adding Google Docs and Spreadsheets to the suite this quarter and possibly within a few weeks. We expected this to come sooner than later after Google decided to roll out fee-based Google Apps. PC World has quotes from lots of organizations that would find Google Apps & […]

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Google Sues Group Of Polish Poets Over Gmail.pl Name

Google sues Polish poets over gmail.pl via the AFP reports that Google is now going after a group of Polish poets for the domain name gmail.pl. Gmail.pl is the domain name for “Grupa Młodych Artystów i Literatów” (GMAiL), but Google claims they poets have no rights to the name. Krawczyk from the Polish poets says […]

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Google Sending Wikipedia A Ton Of Traffic

Google Traffic To Wikipedia up 166% Year over Year by Hitwise’s LeeAnn Prescott gives us some of the data search marketers have been craving for years. We all knew that Wikipedia tends to rule in the Google results but these statistics show us by how much. 70% of Wikipedia’s upstream visits came from search engines […]

Apple

Google Customized Search Engines to Harness The Wisdom of Experts?

Back in October, 2006, Google announced on the Official Google Blog that they were enabling people to create their own custom search engines. If you asked yourself why they were doing this, and how it might provide benefits to individual site owners, searchers as a whole, and Google itself, there are some answers that came […]

Google Ads

Google AdWords Quality Score Has Major Bug

After several emails from readers and spotting Jeremy Mayes post I have learned of a bug with Google’s new AdWords quality score algorithm. Google AdWords Adds Quality Score Column & To Improved Quality Algorithm from Wednesday warned us of the new changes coming but apparently there is a bug that makes good performing ads prices […]

SEO

Searcharazzi: New Column From Search Engine Land

Our latest Search Engine Land column, Searcharazzi, launches today. The first edition is here. Searcharazzi is Search Engine Land’s gab sheet about movers, shakers, rumors and more in the search industry. Searcharazzi is meant to be a fun, good-spirited column full of tidbits to brighten your day and perhaps enlighten your mind about industry moves. […]

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Wikipedia Enters Top Ten Most Visited Sites

Impressive. Scanning the latest top web sites rankings from comScore for January 2007 , Wikipedia sites are highlighted for just entering the top ten most visited. OK, technically — they’re in the top ten for having the most unique visitors. In December 2006, Wikipedia sites were ranked 13th of all US web properties, with 39 […]

SEO

Title Tags, An SEO’s Most Trusted Friend

Title tags remain one of the easiest and most important on-page SEO factors you can use to gain traffic. Jill Whalen provides a helpful review of how to write your title tags with All About Title Tags at Search Engine Guide. She goes over her feelings on if company names belong in the title tag, […]

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Pause Individual Ads or Keywords In AdWords But Are There Bugs?

Google announced that you can now pause individual ads or keywords in your AdWords accounts. Brad Geddes has screen captures showing how to do this visually. But Jeremy Mayes reports that some paused campaigns were not completely paused and advertisers were getting billed for clicks and impressions. Maybe the launch of the new AdWords feature […]

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Contact Google Via Legal Action: Texas School Left No Options?

This is a funny one. InfoWorld reports a network infrastructure manager for a school district in Texas who manages 9,000 employees and 64,000 students recently changed the IP block they use to a new IP block. Since that change, anyone using Google within that IP block would be sent to Google Canada. Google Canada does […]

SEO

Yahoo’s Sung Nak-Yang, Yahoo Korea CEO, To Resign

Yahoo Korea CEO to Resign at the Korean Times reports Sung Nak-yang, Yahoo Korea’s CEO, will be resigning from the company. Sung says he is leaving Yahoo on his own will, because he and Yahoo USA disagreed on several undisclosed items. Sund did say “sales have grown by more than 25 percent per year, and […]

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Aaron Stanton Earns Meeting With Google?

A reader (shor) pointed me to a site at https://cangooglehearme.com/, that tells the story of a guy named Aaron who wanted to meet with Google. Aaron had a business proposal, but his attempts to contact Google via phone or email did not work. So he decided to fly to Google, sit outside Google for several […]

SEO

Yahoo’s Jerry Yang Donates $75 Million To Stanford University

Yahoo co-founder gives millions to university via Reuters reports that Jerry Yang, the co-founder of Yahoo, has donated $75 million to Stanford University. Yang did attend Stanford University for his bachelor’s and master’s degrees but never completed his doctorate in electrical engineering. Stanford says they will “spend most of the money on a new environmental […]

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Google Buys Adscape For $23 Million

Red Herring reports Google has bought Adscape Media for $23 million. As suspected, Google wants to begin venturing into placing ads within video games and the like. So when will we see Google ads while playing Madden on your PS3? No one knows for sure, as both sides declined to give any comments at the […]

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The User Experience Interviews Recap: Search Strategies Compared

For the past three weeks we’ve let members of usability teams from Google, Yahoo and Microsoft talk about a user experiences on their respective sites. Today, I’d like to point out what was interesting in each of these three interviews. In talking to each of them, I couldn’t help but notice the pervasiveness of the […]

Local

Local Ad Options At Yahoo’s New Panama

Part two of Yahoo Local Advertising Options, Post-Panama at ClickZ has some excellent tips on local search marketing since the Panama release. Some of the tips include search ad recommendations, local listing advice, migration advice to Panama’s new geotargeted solution, and more. Patricia Hursh, the author of the article, explains there is a lot of […]

PPC

Details On Yahoo’s Advertiser & Publisher Group Leaked

Michael Arrington of TechCrunch has posted an email sent by Yahoo’s CFO, Susan Decker, that she emailed all Yahoo employees yesterday on the topic of the new Advertiser & Publisher Group. In the email she explains how the group will be organized into “demand channels, supply channels and marketing products.” In short, the demand channels […]

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Sergey Brin’s Story

Mark Malseed’s The Story of Sergey Brin is a long look at the Google cofounder. I’ve not had a chance to review the article in depth, but I believe it takes Sergey’s Jewish heritage as a key angle.

Ecommerce

Baidu 4th Quarter Profits Quintupled

Reuters reports that Baidu’s fourth quarter profits “soared 400 percent.” Baidu’s fourth quarter net income increased to “122.8 million yuan (US$15.7 million), or 3.54 yuan (45 cents) per diluted share, compared with the year-earlier quarter’s 24.5 million yuan, or 0.71 yuan per diluted share.” But they expect revenue to “decelerate sharply” in the first quarter […]

SEO

Yahoo Launches Suggestion Boards – Digg Community Upset

Yesterday Yahoo announced the launch of their new “suggestion boards.” Yahoo says that these new boards enable “you can browse suggestions from other site visitors or post your own. Digg-style voting means we can quickly discover what’s most important to users.” In fact, these have been live for a while, I specifically noticed the SiteExplorer […]

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Google Officially Opens Gmail To World

Google finally makes it official. Gmail is open to all. An announcement on the Official Google Blog confirms what everyone already discovered last week, that Gmail restrictions have been dropped. You still can invite friends and family to use Gmail, like you did before. However, invitations are no longer necessary to open an account.

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Google Earth Adds KML Search Feature

The Google Maps API Blog announced that Google Earth has added a feature built into the Google Earth application to enable you to search for Keyhole Markup Language (KML) files. KMLs allow developers add elements such as geographic structures and overlays; here are some samples. By searching in Google Earth, you can locate these KLMs […]

SEO

VSearch: Embedded Voice Mobile Local Search

Voice technology provider VoiceSignal and directory services company INFONXX are launching an “embedded” voice-driven local search product for mobile phones called “VSearch.” Available starting in March, the two companies described the service in their announcement this morning:

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Google Scores Higher On Forbes Tests

Google Boosts Its GPA at Forbes rates each of Google’s products and then gives Google an overall GPA (grade point average). Overall, Google did better than last year, gaining a B- rather than a C+. Here is a look at how each product was graded.

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