Search Engine Journal

Ask Jeeves Adds Multimedia Smart Answers
Expanding their Smart Answers to multimedia oriented searches, Ask Jeeves has announced a partnership with GoFish to provide Smart Answers content on Ask. Ask Jeeves is reportedly phasing in the multimedia Smart Answers, with the first phase including music, video and podcast content provided by GoFish.
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WebmasterWorld Delisted from Google, MSN.. Yahoo Soon
After banning spiders from crawling its site last week, WebmasterWorld has been delisted from Google and MSN, and is sure enough to be delisted soon from Yahoo. Want to see for yourself? Just perform a site search command at Google you’ll get this response “Your search - site:www.webmasterworld.com - […]

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Windows Live Classifieds Coming Soon
Everyone has been speculating about whether Google Base is Google’s entry into online classifieds. I have argued that it’s about much more than classifieds. But I can tell you with confidence that MSN is soon to enter the online classifieds market. The company has been for working some time on a […]

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Google Testing Google AdWords Click-To-Call
Google has come out with a test of their new Google Pay-Per-Call service dubbed “Google Click-to-Call.” Google is reportedly only testing this service in designated areas of the United States and like Ingenio Pay-Per-Call (which is currently testing its service with Yahoo Local and is running live on AOL and Local.com), […]

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Feedster Top 500 - Search Engine Blogs
The Feedster Top 500 has been updated to reflect the most popular, “interesting and important” blogs for November and as Barry Scwartz points out, there is a nice showing of search engine industry blogs.
Search Engine Journal is ranked at #93 on the Top 500, with 7,079 links directed at […]

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Google Video & CBS Partnering for Google TV?
Brad at the Unofficial Google Blog says that Google is talking with CBS about providing more timely ‘on demand’ content for the Google Video system. CBS has been quite an aggressive netwrok when it somes to distributing its content via Comcast On Demand.
Brad quotes from a Reuters […]

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Google’s Froogle Local Merchant Search
I got a release of sorts from Google this a.m. explaining in more detail the offline/local product data that Froogle will be featuring online. As an example, here’s “digital camera, San Francisco”— just in time for Black Friday/Cyber Monday. Here’s Google’s statement:
Thanks to a new feature in Froogle, Google’s shopping search […]

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AOL and IAC Invest in Web TV Startup Brightcove
Looks like AOL and IAC both want a piece of video search : Brightcove, an Internet television startup that helps programmers syndicate shows across the Web and collect money from it, plans to announce on Tuesday it has attracted new high profile investors including AOL and IAC/InterActiveCorp, […]

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Yahoo Publisher Network Targeting Working?
DigitalPoint forum members discuss the pros and cons of targeting with YPN. The thread creator rationalizes that since YPN only has a total of 150 categories and subcategories and DMOZ has ~590,000, so there is no way to target perfectly with an almost 585,850 difference in categories.
After that thread, let me […]

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Google PageRank Updating
I’ve been noticing Google PageRank bobbing up and down on some of my favorite sites over the past few days, and did not really think much of it, thinking that it was just a repricusion of the Jagger Update.
Now Barry Schwartz points out on Search Engine Roundtable that there are reports of a […]

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