Search Engine Journal

Google Transit Trip Planner Expanding to Toronto’s TTC?
Google may be planning the expansion of Google’s Transit Trip Planner to the Toronto area soon, writes Angine McKraig (found via Slawski).
From Angie : “Google wants the TTC’s station, stop, schedule and route data to create a trip planner. Torontonians would be able to input a start […]

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Ask.com TV Commercials Successful?
If you watch some TV in the US or even outside the US, you may have noticed some apes searching on a search engine named Ask.com. Ask.com has released a blitz of TV commercials in Europe and the US to try to show users the unique flavor of Ask powered search and […]

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Podscope and Podzinger - An Update
I’ve had a pretty productive email exchange with a few folks from both
Podscope and Podzinger (see my previous post about the podcast search engine
tiff), and here’s the story from both sides.
First, from Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of TVEyes, Inc. (the
company behind Podscope) David Ives:
“BBN’s claims for Podzinger can only […]

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Google Plans on Advertising in Google WIFI
Google’s patent filing on advertising funded WIFI is available for reading : Method and system to provide advertisements based on wireless access points. At Threadwatch MSGraph points out that the patent “‘lists different ways for how they might display advertisements to offer free or reduced-rate wifi access.”
Here’s a snippet […]

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ABCSearch Offering $100 in Free Search Advertising
In an effort to build the advertisers in their paid search network, ABCSearch (aff.) is running a limited time campaign where they will match the initial deposit of new advertisers by up to $100. I’ve signed up with ABCSearch for a trial account and am looking for some feedback […]

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Yahoo Publisher Network to Help with International Traffic Problems
There is no mistake today that Yahoo doesn’t want to their publishers to display the YPN ads to those outside of the United States of America. There have been dozens of reports of bans being placed on some publishers for having too much international traffic. For many […]

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Link Popularity : Three Essential Listings Out of the Sandbox
Rob Sullivan at Text Link Brokers posted a story last week about using established sites to build efficient link popularity. In the article Rob recommends three essential places to list your new business oriented site which will dig it out of the long term Google Sandbox […]

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Google Base Sightings in Google Real Estate Results
Over the past 24 hours American & English users of Google have been reporting sightings of a Google Base search box which appears above the main web results when performing specific Google searches.
One example is the search on Google for “homes for sale” in which a lot of […]

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Search Engine T-Shirt Winners & Update
Lee’s post on Blog Optimization reminded me how we’ve been a bit late with the Search Engine T-Shirt winning announcements.

The design process has slowed down a bit, but I’m speaking with our sponsor Spreadshirt right now about them designing and printing the winning shirts. We should have an announcement on […]

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Blog Optimization - Make Your Blog Stand Out
According to Dave Sifry’s last State of the Blogosphere post/report, Technorati is tracking nearly 27 million blogs and there are about 75,000 new blogs launched every day. How can a blog stand out with this kind of competition? Like anything else, there’s no silver bullet answer. One […]

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