Search Engine Journal

Google Base Adding Payments and Selling Options
Google Base has taken that one expected step which is leading them closer to adding a classified buyer to seller marketplace at Google which may have the intention of rivaling eBay and Craigslist for the local classified market. “We hope this feature will make it even easier for […]

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Google Video Categories and MC Hammer Blogs
Philipp Lessen of Google Blogoscped has a post on Google Video classifying video clips into categories. No word if this is done by human, during the upload process, or some biometrics laugh track algorithm, but it looks like a much easier way to search through clusters of content at […]

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Search Engine Strategies New York 2006 Blog Coverage
Reading Barry Schwartz’s coverage of Search Engine Strategies conferences has become a yearly tradition for those of us who cannot make it each season to New York, Chicago, Miami, or San Jose. Barry set the tone for Search Conference coverage and next week expect the same quality coverage […]

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Jeeves Rides Off Into The Sunset
The official Ask Jeeves blog has been informing us for quite a long time now of their impending decision to kick the Butler to the curb find a more marketable mascot, and now they’ve got a hilarious video made by the multi-talented JD Ryznar that asks us all the question, […]

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Google Finance Launching? Google.com/Finance
Over the past three or four hours Search Engine Journal has noticed some interesting referrals from Google.com/finance.
HINT#1 : Referrals from Google.com/finance
After visitng the referring URL, I saw that the live Google 404 “The requested URL /finance was not found on this server.” Error which usually leads to a hint that Google […]

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Yahoo Search Marketing to Ban Trademark Keyword Ads
In an answer to some of the legal battles and issues concerning competitive bidding on Trademarked Terms, Yahoo Search Marketing is banning bids on Trademarks come March 1st. Yahoo has issued the following email to some of their advertisers.
“On March 1, 2006, Yahoo! Search Marketing will modify its […]

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Yahoo Search Marketing Search Light Award Winner
The Yahoo! Search Marketing ‘Search Light’ Awards event in New York yesterday, which featured special presentations from Honda, Miller, Chase, and GM, focused on creative uses of Internet search in the media mix. The more than 100 attendees cast votes for the winner of Yahoo!’s first ever ‘Search Light […]

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Google Page Creator Can’t Handle Capacity
In what is becoming a trend with Google Beta product launches (thinking Google Analytics and Accelerator), Google Page Creator, which was launched yesterday, has had to stop issuing new accounts due to heavy demand. Google prompts the user to enter an email address to be added to the Page Creator […]

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Yahoo Adds Wikipedia Links
Yahoo recently announced that Yahoo Search will be including additional links for each Wikipedia entry. Now when a search comes back with a Wikipedia entry, you’ll see links to to the main sections of the Wikipedia entry also.
As you can see, the Wikipedia result now has a link to Coffee bean types […]

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Hanging Out With Google Japan
As many of the readers of Search Engine Journal may know, I am currently living outside of Tokyo, Japan and have been working on connecting with Japanese search engines and bloggers. Last year at a CNet Search Technology conference I had the chance of meeting with representatives of Yahoo Japan, Technorati […]

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