Search Engine Journal

CNET Goes Local Search & Shopping
CNET is dipping one of its tentacles into the Local Searchophere and the Local Shoposhere (couldn’t help myself) with some tech & gadgets oriented local shopping comparions services. Kelsey Group’s Greg Sterling, the Maharishi of Local Search, points to this CNET release.
CNET announced local shopping functionality that lets consumers find […]

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Google & Riya Face Recognition Photo Search
Google is apparently on the acquisition trail again and has its sights set on Riya, an online photo community similar to Flickr which has the technology to recognize human faces and automatically tag their photos with names. According to Amit Agarwal of Digital Inspiration, Riya’s ” service, which makes […]

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Google Base : Porn Haven
It was only a matter of time before this happened. The porn website industry has found a new target to spread their innovative search marketing know-how beyond image search redirects; Google Base.
QuickSilverScreen.com notes (link not working) “The new Google Base service ,which was designed to allow people to easily tag […]

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Google Base Fixes Security Bug
Google Base has reported that they have fixed a security issue with the functionality of this new service. This security flaw allowed attackers to steal sensitive information from users of the new content-hosting service. Google fixed the flaw within hours of its discovery though has failed to impress the security experts.
This […]

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Local Search Engines : Digging Deeper
In addition to the data jointly put out by Pew and comScore about the rise of search are data on local search and IYP usage. According to comScore, Yahoo! Local was not far behind AOL in terms of the number of uniques. This is a big deal, showing how far […]

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WebmasterWorld Bans Search Engine Bots from Crawling
Danny reports that WebmasterWorld Bans Spiders From Crawling where he points to a thread Brett started which he named lets try this for a month or three…
Brett explains that the bots, mostly from unauthorized sources are taking a toll on the server. He explains; “We have pushed the limits […]

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Search Engines Gain in Daily Usage
Search continues to show big gains among US users. comScore data comparing September 2004 to September 2005 showed that the average daily use of search engines was up from 49.3 million users to 60.7 million. Separately, the Pew Internet & American Life Project said that in its most recent survey, […]

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Google AdWords Opens Up Content Bidding
A while ago in SEM2.0 Andrew Goodman mentioned that Google was enabling separate content bids. JenSense just posted on the topic from the publisher perspective.
Google was intentionally slow to roll this feature out and makes the feature a bit hard to access, because they would prefer to automate the process […]

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Yahoo and Google Go Venture Capital
Business is funny sometimes. Massive amounts of capital, planning and commitment can be marshaled, administered and suddenly put to use backing a project or initiative that even surprises close contacts. A funny thing happened in London yesterday. John Battelle, author of “The Search”, blogger extraordinaire, founder of Federated Media Publishing, […]

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Google Analytics Pauses Account Sign Ups
Due to the publisher demand of the free Google Analytics tool and Google’s lack of beta testing or limited accounts, Google has put a temporary halt on Google Analytics sign-ups, asking publishers to join a waiting list. Posted on the Google Analytics sign up page : “Google Analytics has experienced […]

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