Get Your Blog on Google Finance
Now that Google Finance has launched and includes blogs as sources of stock market influenced information, just how can one get their blog into the Google Finance listings?
Seth Finkelstein spills the beans on his Infothought Blog:
The algorithm used by Google to rank blog posts for Google Finance doesn’t have […]
Entries from March 2006
Get Your Blog on Google Finance
March 30th, 2006 by Loren Baker, Editor | 2 Comments
Google Shares Peak After AOL Announcement, Fall in After Hours Trading
March 29th, 2006 by Loren Baker, Editor | No Comments
Google Shares Peak After AOL Announcement, Fall in After Hours Trading
Google shares took a roller coaster ride today as American optimism in the search engine advertising & information company peaked with finalized deals with AOL and Verizon.
Shares of Google GOOG reached $399 on Wednesday and then dropped in after hours trading by $14 after […]
Link Building via Press Releases For SEO Rankings
March 29th, 2006 by Barry Schwartz, Rusty Brick, Inc. and SERoundtable | 2 Comments
Link Building via Press Releases For SEO Rankings
Press Release optimization for search engine purposes has been a growing segment of the SEO industry. One of the first companies to catch the wave is SEO PR, by Greg Jarboe. They have a service that will take your press release, optimize it to rank well in the […]
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Bans Google & iPods
March 28th, 2006 by Loren Baker, Editor | 3 Comments
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer Bans Google & iPods
In a recent Fortune interview with Steve Ballmer, the newer kinder Microsoft CEO is not only ready to take on the videogaming, search, music download and mobile markets - but he’s also laying down the law in his own house. Steve says that his kids are not allowed […]
Yahoo Search Update with More Slurp Crawler Activity
March 28th, 2006 by Loren Baker, Editor | No Comments
Yahoo Search Update with More Slurp Crawler Activity
Priyank Garg has posted on the Yahoo Search Blog that the Yahoo Search Index will be updating this weekend. Garg says the the update should result in ranking changes along with the ’shuffling’ (does this mean ‘booting’?) of pages which are included in the current Yahoo Search Index.
This […]
Lycos VOIP : Video, Movies and MP3 Under the Hood
March 28th, 2006 by Loren Baker, Editor | No Comments
Lycos VOIP : Video, Movies and MP3 Under the Hood
Who needs just search when you have content, networking and now VOIP? Not Lycos (sure they have search, but they used to be one of the cutting edge search engines on the market back when Page & Brin were at Stanford playing with their math algorithms). […]
Google Blog Accidentally Deleted By Google
March 28th, 2006 by Barry Schwartz, Rusty Brick, Inc. and SERoundtable | 4 Comments
Google Blog Accidentally Deleted By Google
Jennifer Slegg over at the Search Engine Watch blog reports that the Official Google Blog Deleted. In short, yes, Google had accidently deleted their own blog. They have confirmed the mistake;
We’ve determined the cause of tonight’s outage. The blog was mistakenly deleted by us (d’oh!) which allowed the blog address […]
Verizon Selling Google AdWords - Ma Bell & Local Search
March 28th, 2006 by Loren Baker, Editor | No Comments
Verizon Selling Google AdWords - Ma Bell & Local Search
Verizon SuperPages will begin taking full advantage of their reach to thousands upon thousands of small businesses under a recent agreement with Google where Verizon has become a Google AdWords reseller. The announcement was made at The Kelsey Group’s Drilling Down on Local Conference in San […]
Sprint to offer local information search
March 27th, 2006 by WendyBoswell | No Comments
Sprint to offer local information search
This from eWeek:
“Sprint Nextel Corp. said it plans on Monday to kick off a local directory cellphone service with information such as driving directions and movie times as it aims to boost revenue by having customers use their phones for more than just talking.
….the service from the No. 3 […]
Local.com to Add Judy’s Book Local Reviews & Blog Content
March 27th, 2006 by Loren Baker, Editor | 2 Comments
Local.com to Add Judy’s Book Local Reviews & Blog Content
Judy’s Book and Local.com are now working together to add Judy’s Book local reviews and local blogging capabilities to Local.com’s fast-growing local search service.
Add Judy’s Book to the high profile and strong partnerships Local.com has made over the past two quarters which include Looksmart & Furl, […]








