Search Engine Journal

Google Social Calendar
Matt Booth, who took over my job at The Kelsey Group, points to a post at Google Blogoscoped, which has a list of public Google Calendars built on its API. There are a few things that I think are really interesting about Google’s Calendar API. First, it immediately becomes another mashups medium (like […]

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A Billion Dollars Lost In Unspent Google Ad Money
From InsideGoogle:
“BuyGoogle’s got the fascinating tidbits from the Google earnings announcement conference call, including this biggie: Over a billion dollars in ad money that was allocated to Google went unspent. Although the period in which this happened is unclear, it is still a significant item Google will […]

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Yahoo Visual Timeline 1996-2006
Philipp Lessen has put together an interesting visual timeline of Google’s homepage and the expansion of its services at Google Blogoscoped with screen captures of archived Google.com pages in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.
Building upon Philipp’s idea, which is as simple as it is unique, I thought that since Google was dominating […]

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Google AdSense Publisher Payout Dropping?
Google released its outstanding first quarter figures yesterday which reported a 60% jump to $2.25 Billion in revenues. One reason for the increase in Google revenue over the first three months of the year could be attributed in part to an increase in the percentage of Google AdSense spending that Google […]

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Google Rebrands Local into Google Maps
Last October Google merged Google Maps into their local search application and branded the end product Google Local. Like Yahoo Local and Local.com, the Google Local brand association with local search is strong for business marketing, but has little differentiation with the brands and direction of other services.
Google has decided, […]

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Google Q1 Results: $2.25 Billion in Revenues
Google net profit jumped 60% on revenues of $2.25 billion. From the IR release:
Revenues - Google reported revenues of $2.25 billion for the quarter ended March 31, 2006, representing a 79% increase over first quarter 2005 revenues of $1.26 billion, and a 17% increase over fourth quarter 2005 revenues […]

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PaperRank Implemented on Google Scholar
Today Google launched a new feature over at Google Scholar - a system that ranks scholarly papers and information based upon criteria Google believes researchers value.
Today we’re launching a feature of Google Scholar which will make it easier for researchers to keep up with recent research. From quantum computing to copper […]

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Google Base Car Search Appearing in Organic Results
Looks like in addition to Google Real Estate, there are some new Google Autos search boxes popping up in Google’s search results - powered by Google Base. Greg Sterling scooped Google Base powered Google Autos earlier in the month, but those test results were for a limited amount […]

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New Google “Search This Site” Feature Coming
This from Yellow Pipe News via Cybernet; apparently Google is “testing a new search feature within its search results.” More from Yellow Pipe:
“Google is testing a new search feature within its search results. It’s an expandable content that can display more information about a site including an image […]

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Accoona Launches ‘Talking Search Bar’
Say what you will about Accoona, they are a bit different when it comes to launching new products and promotions. Accoona (Matata) has released a talking search toolbar which features text-to-speech technology that enables users to highlight English-language text on the Internet to be read aloud.
Besides being perfect for those who […]

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