Yahoo Answers Adds New Features
Yahoo Answers has been live and running for 2 months now and has added several features to the popular information exchange service which may serve to become a strong foundation of Social Media and the future of search. Yumio Saneyoshi and the Yahoo Answers team have a run down on the […]
Entries from February 2006
Yahoo Answers Adds New Features
February 23rd, 2006 by Loren Baker, Editor | 2 Comments
Google Page Creator & Hosting Service
February 23rd, 2006 by Loren Baker, Editor | 2 Comments
Google Page Creator & Hosting Service
Google Labs has introduced the Google Page Creator, a free tool which lets almost anyone build a web page, even if that person has little or no HTML experience. Excuse the comparison, but Google Page Creator seems like a modern Google version of the old Geocities idea - with what […]
Shelf Life of Blogger Photos on Google
February 22nd, 2006 by Loren Baker, Editor | 3 Comments
Shelf Life of Blogger Photos on Google
Google has a trend of not deleting content which is uploaded to their databases via Blogger, GMail, Caching or even photo uploads. So before you go uploading pics that you’ll later regret (like during a job interview in 15 years or when applying for security clearance), ValleyWag has a […]
Image Search Engines in Trouble?
February 22nd, 2006 by Barry Schwartz, Rusty Brick, Inc. and SERoundtable | 1 Comment
Image Search Engines in Trouble?
Over at the SEW Blog I wrote about a recent ruling where Perfect 10 Photo Site Wins Injunction Against Google Image Search. I wrote;
Perfect 10, an adult photo site, has proven to the court that Google’s image search thumbnail copies are a violation of U.S. copyright law. This past Friday, U.S. […]
Google Names Dr. Brilliant Head of Philanthropy
February 22nd, 2006 by Loren Baker, Editor | 3 Comments
Google Names Dr. Brilliant Head of Philanthropy
If you have a name like Larry Brilliant, you better accomplish something remarkable in your life. Well, Dr. Brilliant has made a career of living up to the expectations laid upon him by his ancestors and now Google has named the Doctor as head its Google.org philanthropic arm.
Wall Street […]
Cool Site of the Day Offering Limited Free Submissions
February 22nd, 2006 by Loren Baker, Editor | 4 Comments
Cool Site of the Day Offering Limited Free Submissions
Just got a ‘blast from the past’ email from the original Cool Site Of The Day saying that they are accepting free submissions again, with a catch. They must have been charging for a bit, but if you’re looking to get a quality link and boost in […]
Review of MSN adCenter 3.0 Demo
February 22nd, 2006 by Loren Baker, Editor | 1 Comment
Preview of MSN adCenter 3.0 Demo
Barry points to a review of MSN adCenter 3.0 by Jack Spirko at Masterlink’s Dallas Search Engine Marketing Blog. The following is an excerpt of what was demo’d by the MSN adCenter team.
Here is some of what we learned strait from the MSN folks about the new adCenter.
1. […]
Partial Ruling on Google Image Search & Copyright Infringement
February 22nd, 2006 by Loren Baker, Editor | No Comments
Partial Ruling on Google Image Search & Copyright Infringement
Google and other search engines just got slammed by the mallet of U.S. District Court Judge Howard Matz who issued a partial ruling that Google Image Search infringes on the copyrights of Perfect 10 by displaying thumbshots of stolen Perfect 10 images in its search results.
Google didn’t […]
Google & Earthlink Team Up on WiFi
February 22nd, 2006 by Loren Baker, Editor | No Comments
Google & Earthlink Team Up on WiFi
In an effort to bring WiFi wireless Internet to the entire city of San Francisco, Google has teamed with Earthlink and the two have submitted a proposal together. The Ciywide WiFi proposal is based on a two tier structure according to Om Malik, “a combination of free and pay […]
Google Definitions SEO : Glossary & Patent
February 22nd, 2006 by Loren Baker, Editor | No Comments
Google Definitions SEO : Glossary & Patent
A post at Threadwatch raised my attention the other day about Optimizing for Google Definitions. In the post, Graywolf introduced that when phasing a search query as a question on Google, Google now delivers the first ‘organic listing’ as a definition. Definition rankings above advertisements, News or Froogle results […]
