Search Engine Journal

20,000 Sony PSP Videos Available from GUBA Search
GUBA, a multimedia search service of Usenet videos, has added the availability of Sony PSP-enabled playback of GUBAs indexed Usenet video content. Now, Guba is offering more than 20,000 videos which are selected from the worlds oldest and largest bulletin board service. GUBA subscribers (via paid subscription) now […]

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Google Tunes Music Store to Follow Google Video?
Is Google rolling out its answer to Apple iTunes in the shadows of Google Video Store? Some wall street analysts think so and have declared Google stock to outperform based upon their assumptions. Forbes.com reports :
“We believe that Google is in the midst of creating its own iTunes […]

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FirstGov Relaunches with Vivisimo and MSN Powered Search
FirstGov.gov has relaunched using Vivísimo’s (the clustering search technology) Velocity web search platform. The redesigned portal, which went live today, leverages Vivísimo Velocity’s search, federated-search and clustering capabilities, combined with expanded search results from Microsoft MSN Search. This turnkey, hosted search solution serves as the technology backbone for […]

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Google China Censorship Controversy Roundup
Google choosing to censor the search results of its Google China search engine has led to a lot of industry flack and protest against a search engine which was viewed as the ‘people’s hero’ only last week for standing up to government aggression. When Google agreed to comply to Chinese law […]

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Giving Away Free or Discount SEO
Lee Odden at TopRank gives some excellent advice to SEO practicioners who find themselves on the other end of the phone with tight business owners or marketing executives looking for huge discounts or short term test buys. Lee feels that caving into pressure and giving away discounts in order […]

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Google Cache Ruled Legal Fair Use
A Nevada district court has ruled in favor of Google, declaring that the Google Cache is legal and in Fair Use. Google Cache is Google’s way of storing web content in its search engine memory, with stored versions of web sites which show up in Google web search results.
Google’s argument, […]

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Google Releases Desktop AdWords Editor
I first spotted this a couple days ago at Gary Price’s SEW Blog entry named Google Quietly Beta Testing Desktop AdWords Editor.
AdWords Editor is Google’s free, downloadable account management application for your computer. Now you can download your AdWords account to your computer, make your changes, then upload your revised campaigns.
You […]

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Microsoft’s Live Labs
It appears that everyone is the world of search is opening new labs. Google has been announcing new research labs here and there for the past several months; Yahoo! earlier this week announced research labs in Spain and Chile. And last night Microsoft announced that it was creating a new research group “Live […]

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Google Censors IE Users From Surfing Beyond Page 1 Results?
Andy Beal posted on his Marketing Pilgrim today that Google was forcing downloads of Google Desktop upon its Internet Explorer users today :
“This must be a glitch at Google. Search for anything with Google and it will not let you navigate beyond the first page […]

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Yahoo Buying Digg?
There are some big names in the Web 2.0 and blogging world saying that Yahoo is close to buying Digg for somewheres around $35 Million (or atleast has the ‘offer on the table’). Kevin Burton writes on Feed Blog :
I haven’t yet heard from anyone working for Yahoo that this is 100% […]

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