SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 6, 2007
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Topic: Valleywag
Did Wojcicki Create AdSense?
Yesterday we wrote Profile Of Susan Wojcicki: Mother Of AdSense. covering a USA Today article article describing Susan Wojcicki as being responsible for creating Google AdSense. Valleywag soon came out with a bold blog post countering USA Today’s article, calling Wojcicki a liar: AdSense was not a prototype that Wojcicki developed. Instead, AdSense was the […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, July 5, 2007
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 29, 2007
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 14, 2007
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Google: Off-The-Record, Unless Eric Schmidt Is Saying It
I had to love the contrast in two items that hit my feed reader today: one where a talk by Google’s chief internet evangelist Vint Cerf was declared off-the-record by Google, upsetting some people, then another where Google CEO Eric Schmidt was at an off-the-record event but said he wanted the event video uploaded as […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 8, 2007
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, June 4, 2007
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 28, 2007
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Technorati Blog Search Relaunches
Technorati has relaunched today, and I’m on a short day, so I can’t dive in to play with it in depth. Below, I’ll recap what some others are saying. add a few off-the-cuff remarks on blog search in general, plus comment on how Technorati continues to be masterful in working its own pages to the […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 22, 2007
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 18, 2007
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Rumor: Google To Buy Feed Analytics Company FeedBurner For $100 Million
Rumour: Google to buy Feedburner from Seth Sethi earlier today reports that Google is rumored to buy FeedBurner, a feed management, analytics and advertising company. Valleywag has said they confirmed the rumors and add that the purchase price is about $100 million.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 17, 2007
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 16, 2007
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 14, 2007
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Wedding Congrats For Sergey & Gary
Last weekend was apparently a big weekend when it came to weddings and search. Both big names in search got hitched — Gary Price and Sergey Brin. No, not to each other (not that there would be anything wrong with that, of course!). ResourceShelf editor and Ask.com search evangelist Gary Price tied the knot near […]
From My Inbox: More Defense Of SEO
I spent about a half-hour today defending SEO privately in an email to someone questioning it. Upon reflection, I thought those responses should go into a public post. After all, the discussion involved Stephen Colbert, the great Jason Calacanis mystery project that will kill SEO as well as those scumbag SEOs themselves. So I’ll end […]
Newspapers Amok! New York Times Spamming Google? LA Times Hijacking Cars.com?
Back in March, Google warned that allowing your internal search results to be listed in Google might be considered spamming. Today, there’s some buzz that one of the top listings for a search for sex on Google turns out to be an internal search results page from the New York Times. In looking at that, […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 8, 2007
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MySpace To Buy Photobucket For $300 Million
Valleywag broke the news that MySpace would be acquiring Photobucket for about $300 million.
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 7, 2007
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 4, 2007
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 2, 2007
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Digg Gives In To User Revolt; Are Those DMCA Takedown Notices Even Valid?
After a grassroots revolt by Digg users, Digg has decided to stop censoring posts about an HD-DVD decryption number used by the industry-backed Advanced Access Content System to protect HD-DVDs. The AACS claims that anyone publishing the number may be violating US laws against circumvention of copy protection. How the story unfolded below, plus more […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 1, 2007
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 30, 2007
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 27, 2007
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 25, 2007
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Marge Simpson “Googles Herself” & Uses Google Maps
YouTube has a clip from the popular TV cartoon The Simpsons showing Marge “googling” herself:
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 24, 2007
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 16, 2007
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 10, 2007
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 9, 2007
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 6, 2007
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 5, 2007
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SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 3, 2007
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Ask Ramps Up The Mystery Ads
First in the UK, Ask rolled out a guerilla marketing campaign aimed at sparking an "information revolution" to choose Ask over Google. Now a different yet still mysterious campaign is underway in the US by Ask. Valleywag reports about billboards on Highway 101 between San Francisco and San Jose saying "The Algorithm Killed Jeeves" [Ask’s […]
Snakes On A Google
We noted the great Google python rampage in headlines yesterday, but the story continues. Since it’s a slow news day, so why not. On April 1, the python pet of a Google employee in New York got loose. No joke. The python was found yesterday, and no one was harmed. Not even the python. Need […]
SearchCap: The Day In Search, April 2, 2007
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