Search Engine Journal

Google buys Measure Map Blog Tracking
News from the Google Blog that Google has acquired Measure Map, a blog tracking tool/ site/ facility that I can only describe as being what you’d get if you cross bred Technorati and Sitemeter.
The service is still in invitation only beta testing so since I’ve never received an invite I […]

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About.com & NBC Team to Blog Winter Olympics
About.com and NBCOlympics.com have announced an agreement that will provide visitors with a unique view of the 2006 Olympic Winter Games from Torino, Italy, February 10 - 26.
Under the cross-promotional agreement, NBCOlympics.com will feature links to About.com content throughout its site. Likewise, About.com will promote NBCOlympics.com to its […]

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Google AdSense Limits Referral Payout to 90 Day Window
I’m not using this program, and probably just as well. Jensense reports that Google have quietly added a new term to all AdSense referrals generated by a publisher, a 90-day time limit on that referral, meaning a referred publisher must earn the $100 within the first 90 […]

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Yahoo Launching Bloglines Style RSS service?
Search Engine Journal reported earlier this week that Yahoo has acquired the assets of RSS service SearchFox, which announced recently that it would be shutting down later in January.
SearchFox provides a very similar style of RSS aggregation/ reading as does Bloglines, and although I didn’t become a regular user of […]

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PBS to Launch MediaShift Blog by Mark Glaser
PBS has announced the launch on Jan 18 of a a new blog called MediaShift, which will explore how new forms of digital media are dramatically changing American society and culture.
In a particularly good signing, and the main reason we are even mentioning this blog at all, the […]

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New Food Blog Network Debuts
Digital Mavens LLC has announced the launch of the Well Fed Network, a blog network dedicated to “all things food and drink related”.
The blogs include ‘Sugar Savvy‘, ‘Paper Palate‘ (www.paperpalate.net), ‘Growers and Grocers‘, and ‘The Spirit World‘.
The new network is also planned new blogs that will include a wine blog, a […]

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MSN Spaces Now At 27 Million Blogs, 7.6 Active Bloggers
Microsoft’s blogging service has grown from an estimaited 18 million blogs in October to 27 million blogs and at least 7.6 million active bloggers, according to Dare Obasanjo from Microsoft in a post discussing server issues.
The service still remains in third position amongst blog providers, with […]

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Newstex Blogs on Demand : Blogs to News Syndication
Newstex today announced its new Blogs On Demand product, which makes available full-text blog content from premier Weblogs for content distributors and enterprise customers. Newstex licenses blog content directly from bloggers and then takes in each carefully selected blog feed in text format and uses its NewsRouter […]

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Feedburner Launches RSS Advertising Network
FeedBurner has launched its RSS advertising network as part of its expansion of subscription services for publishers. The FeedBurner ad network has attracted a number of well known publishers across business and consumer publications, newspapers, marketing and technology sites, and popular bloggers.
Among the initial participants are the online properties of […]

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Video Blog Network Launches
ReelBlogs today announced the launch of the ReelBlogs video blog network. Blogs on the ReelBlogs network will produce short-form video content made specifically for Internet and video podcasting audiences.
“There is a rapidly growing demand for good video content online, but no one is producing it yet,” said Robert Spiro, one of the […]

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