Search Engine Journal

Google Recruiting for OpenOffice.org
Google is on a mission to improve OpenOffice.org and show its affinity for open source projects. Google wants to trim the memory requirements of OpenOffice.org and its huge 80 MB download size in what may be a first step in the GoogleOffice project.
Google is now looking to hire some engineers to […]

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Google AdSense Responds to Smart Pricing Talk
JenSense stirred up quite a controversy surrounding Google AdSense and AdSense Smart Pricing with the report of a Google rep spilling the beans to a publisher on how one rotten site can spoil the publsiher’s AdSense earnings.
From JenSense : “While AdSense was attempting to get a publisher back […]

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Apple iTunes Hits One Million Video Sales
Strike up another win for Apple’s iTunes as the entertainment download store as issued a statement that over one million videos have been purchased & downloaded from iTunes over the past 19.5 days. n October 12, 2005 iTunes began offering video content for download and playing on the Applie […]

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Country Specific Searches and Paid Search Ads
A very interesting featured thread at Search Engine Watch forums named Google places “Dummy Bidders” in Regional Search artificially raise required bids discusses a topic, I believe is very important. The poster says that when he does a search in Google and specifically requests that Google only show results […]

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Sprint’s Wireless Music Store for Cell Phones
Sprint today joined iTunes & Cingular in the mobile music download market as they launched their wireless music store for Sprint customers to download music and play songs on their mobile phone players. Sprint Nextel Corp’s wireless music download store will be charging customer’s $2.50 for two different formatted […]

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Yahoo Music Raising Download Prices
After entering the music download market in a Rhapsody type fashion by undercutting the iTunes competition, Yahoo is now raising the price of its one year unlimited music downloading service - Yahoo Music Unlimited. Starting tomorrow, Yahoo will be jacking up the price of its service from $60 a year to […]

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Google Print Resumes Tomorrow
Despite lawsuits from both authors and publishers alike over questionable copyright violation tactics, Google will be googling full speed ahead start tomorrow with the Google Print project. Google Print hopes to digitize the world’s book collection and offer the index online.
Google Print has run into some roadblocks with copyright law and the […]

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Google and IBM Partner for Search
IBM and Google are now working together in a strange bedfellows sort of way with their new agreement in which Google will be providing desktop search for the IBM OmniFind corporate search system. The whole idea behind the venture is to have a system which will make things easier when […]

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Google the Agency, Google the Network
Here’s a fairly comprehensive piece from the NY Times’ Saul Hansell, reviewing Google’s model, history and speculating about its future: Google the one-stop shop for all forms of advertising (TV, print, online, etc.). Traditional ad agencies don’t generally like and don’t get Google in my limited observation. But it’s Sunday […]

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SEO Bytes : Tracking SEO Forum Threads
WebmasterWorld, DigitalPoint, Site Point, SEO Chat, Search Engine Watch, Cre8aSite, High Rankings.. etc. The amount of search engine oriented forums on the web is staggering and trying to keep up with them can be as tiring as, well, trying to keep an eye on all of the search engine […]

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