Search Engine Journal

Wikipedia Hot Property in Blogosphere
According to BlogPulse.com, consumer references and blog links to Wikipedia have increased steadily in recent months, fueled by increased blog traffic and a need for real-time updates about breaking news events. Blog references to Wikipedia have tripled since Hurricane Katrina hit the U.S. Gulf Coast in late August.
More than twice […]

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Ask Jeeves Launches Blog Search in Japan
Ask Jeeves has released a blog search engine into the Japanese market. The service, currently in beta, includes the ability to subscribe to feeds in Bloglines, and currently has over 4 million Japanese blogs in its index.
In May of 2005 Japan Today reports that number of blogs in Japan […]

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Yahoo Spain Sues Blogging Network Over Content
Yahoo! Spain has threatened legal action against growing Spanish blog network Weblogs SL over a post on their software blog Genbeta that provided information on how to download videos from Yahoo! Launch. Oddly though, the information in the post actually related to a third party post on the subject […]

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60% of Google’s Blogger Blogs Spam Blogs
A test from Google Blogscoped indicates that 60% of all blogs hosted on Google’s Blogger blogspot.com domain are spam blogs. The test of 50 random blogs found 30 of them to be rubbish. A later test by the site of a further 100 blogs on blogspot.com indicated a spam […]

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Microsoft Renaming of RSS to Web Feeds is Market Friendly
In case you’ve missed it there is a storm in a tea cup brewing in the blogosphere over the decision by Microsoft to use the term “web feed” in place of RSS in the new version of Internet Explorer (IE7, currently in beta) and in Windows […]

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Delaware Supreme Court to Hear Blog Lawsuit (Blawgsuit?)
A lawsuit seeking to identify anonymous posters to a blog is to be heard by the Delaware Supreme Court. The case, filed by Smyrna Town, Delaware Councilman Patrick J. Cahill and his wife Julia, alleges that four anonymous posters to a community issues blog “defamed” the councilman and […]

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Blogger Blogs To Be Banned From Blog Search Engines Says Cuban
Ice Rocket owner and self styled “Blog Maverick” Mark Cuban has warned bloggers using Googles free Blogger service under the Blogspot domain that the day that all blogspot.com blogs are excluded from Ice Rocket and other search engines is drawing closer due to the use […]

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Yahoo to Invest in Blogs
Yahoo is likely to build and buy tools that help its users create, publish and search blogs, according to Susquehanna Financial Group’s Marianne Wolk . In a Reuters report, Wolk also said she also expects the company to expand into social networking software, which lets users share and organize content.
“We believe […]

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