In perhaps his first public speech since talking the helm at Yahoo, CEO Jerry Yang will deliver the opening keynote at the upcoming RightMedia Open in Half Moon Bay, CA October 22 – 24. Yang will speak on the morning of October 23. And John Battelle will moderate what will be the other newsworthy session […]
I just posted a bunch of videos to YouTube yesterday of skating down the boardwalk in Newport Beach. Maybe one day they’ll show up in Google Earth. That’s because Google Earth is now showing video clips that have been geotagged to particular areas, according to Google’s LatLong Blog. To find them, click Featured Content in […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
A US district court judge has ruled that it is unconstitutional for the US government to send secret letters demanding search records from search engines. A provision of the Patriot Act has allowed for such letters to be sent to search engines, ISPs and others by the Federal Bureau Of Investigation — and made it […]
Google announced several new features for Google Book Search. They include: A new “My library” section that allows you to add books and annotations to your personal “library.” Of course, Google allows you to search your library as well You can share your library by adding labels, writing reviews, rating books, and available RSS feeds […]
Google is getting a bit more like Facebook by enabling a Facebook-style news feed within its Orkut social networking site, while the king of the walled gardens Facebook acknowledges in actions (rather than words) that it really can’t go it alone without search engines like Google, as it prepares to let crawlers into its public […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Google News To Newsmakers: Send Us Your Comments from me earlier covers the new system that Google unveiled today allowing for comments on news stories. I’ve now had a chance to talk briefly with Google News business product manager Josh Cohen about the system, to better understand its goals and potential future. Below, some answers […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Digg has dropped Google as its ad provider in exchange for for a three-year exclusive ad deal with Microsoft. Microsoft will be providing the display and contextual advertising on Digg’s popular social news site, with traffic estimated at over 17 million unique monthly visitors. The switch over will take place in early August and will […]
First Google, then Ask.com and now Microsoft have jumped onto the privacy protection train. Late yesterday, Microsoft announced that it was going to follow Google’s lead and anonymize search log data after 18 months. In addition, it has partnered with Ask to call for an industry effort to develop privacy principles. There’s a tinge of […]
When Search Engine Land launched last December, I talked about liking the name in part because it sounded like "a community, where people can meet, talk, discuss and network." I promised to upgrade the site to help a community thrive. It took much longer than the original "month or so" I envisioned to make this […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Via John Battelle, Bumbling Bigg City burglars got $12K from the Colorado Springs Gazette covers how two burglars turned to Google to crack a safe.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.
Back in 2002, I called Google the "Marcia Brady" of search. Fans of the Brady Bunch know that Marcia was one of six children, and middle daughter Jan felt Marcia got all the attention. "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia," she’d often complain, just as today, it often seems to be "Google, Google, Google" that’s all you hear […]
Jason Calacanis has announced Mahalo Greenhouse, a way for users to get paid for writing their own search results for the Mahalo people-powered search engine. The Greenhouse FAQ gives more details on the program, where if accepted, you can earn $10 to $15 per submission.
In response to an EU letter over data retention, Google has announced that it will now anonymize server log data after 18 months, rather than the previous maximum time it had announced of 24 months. It is also reconsidering how long its cookies last. It’s nice to see Google make such a fast, responsive move, […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
alt=”Searcharazzi – A Column From Search Engine Land” align=”left” hspace=”5″ vspace=”3″ width=”100″ height=”100″> My, we were a feisty bunch last week. Now that it is all out of our system, let’s look to a bit more benign gossip from the rumor mill For the football fans out there, here’s some water cooler conversation for the […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Search Engine Journal compares Google’s recently introduced “Hot Trends” database with the Yahoo Buzz Index. (Barry Schwartz wrote extensively about Hot Trends previously.) These tools, while fun and interesting, are also potentially important as business intelligence and data mining tools and increasingly useful to track the efficacy of offline marketing. Whatever their problems and challenges […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Danny recently reported Google that Google gained a new, unofficial tag line. Now Yahoo has come out pushing a new mission statement: To connect people to their passions, communities, and the world’s knowledge. The statement is for Yahoo’s new Yahoo Network Division. Jeff Weiner, the EVP who leads the division, explains in detail what this […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
John Battelle has posted a screen capture from a presentation given by Gary Flake of Microsoft showing a new approach to search ads. The search ads on the Live.com search results have a little icon next to them, when you mouse over those icons, up comes a larger image or flash or interactive based ad. […]
PaidContent has a nice roundup of Microsoft’s eighth annual Strategic Account Summit. In the Strategic Account Summit, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said that he plans on spending the last remaining months of his Microsoft tenure focusing on “search, buyers and sellers.” Gates will be working full-time at Microsoft through mid-2008. He said online and advertising […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
How about this? Any time some major media company may be on the block, let’s make it a requirement that all media stories automatically insert a comment from some made up financial analyst suggesting that Google is thinking of buying the company too. Maybe I’ve just had it. I mean, last week I read Google […]
Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web:
Yesterday’s Economics of Social Media (EconSM) conference in LA, the first event from the team at PaidContent, was an impressive debut, both in terms of attendance and the range and “quality” of speakers on the stage. I’m not going to attempt to summarize all the individual sessions; rather, I have some general observations and interesting […]