Search Engine Journal

Net Neutrality and Meg Whitman of eBay
Just in the last five minutes, I’ve received a letter addressed personally to ME from the CEO of eBay, Meg Whitman! W00t! Well, not really personally..it’s to my eBay ID and I guess it went out to like a million other people..but let’s look at it anyway, shall we?
“As […]

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Reasons Why You Should Try Gada.Be
Chris Pirillo has written a lengthy manifesto presentation on why searchers should try Gada.be. He has divided it into Enthusiast, Mobile, Developer, Business, Casual, Researcher, Jobseeker, and Shopper; and given pertinent, compelling arguments for using Gada.be for each category:
“(for the Internet Enthusiast)There’s no quick way to find the feeds for […]

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Google Green Travel
Google has put together a rather nice looking map-based eco-friendly travel site. Most of the straight searches default to Google Maps/Local. But if you click on the featured cities on the left, you’ll see a very nice presentation of content on a map (including video [although it wasn’t working for me]). See, video […]

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AllYouCanUpload from CNET - Free Photo Upload Site
According to TechCrunch, CNet is becoming “disruptive” (we always knew that, didn’t we) with their release of AllYouCanUpload, a totally free, fast, and easy photo hosting service. More from TechCrunch:
“AllYouCanUpload is a site that makes uploading photos as easy as it can possibly get. They’ve removed all […]

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Amnesty International Calls For End to Internet Censorship
From ZDnet:
” Amnesty International marked its 45th anniversary on Sunday by launching a global campaign to stamp out state censorship of the Internet.
The human rights pressure group called on Web users to sign a pledge calling on governments to stop censoring sites and urging technology corporations not to […]

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Google Checkout - Answer to Yahoo Paypal?
On the same day that Yahoo & eBay announced their PayPal and Yahoo Search Marketing oriented partnership, Google registered the domain GoogleCheckout.com, according to ZDNet’s Garett Rogers. Like any other Google domain registrations which make it to the top of the search engine blogs on a slow Memorial Day […]

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SEO & Search Engine SPAM Identifiers
Sure, it’s tempting to put together a keyword seeded site, URL, and folder system to try to rank highly in some of the search engines which are now, or have a history of ranking such sites in their top results. But as a long term search and site identity marketing […]

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Google & Dell: Pimp My Desktop
The word “pimp” has come to mean elaborately adorn or customize, as in “pimp my ride” or the more funny yet obscure “pimp my burger” campaign from Burger King. An earlier meaning was a kind of agent for prostitution — the iconic 1970s pimp with the white fur coat, platform […]

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Role of Search in the Buying Cycle
Yahoo! has done a bunch of pioneering work and research on how search and paid search influence consumer purchase behavior. I have for months intended to write more about this (and will I promise :) ). Now SEM firm 360i has done some extensive and interesting work on tracking […]

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Technorati Tags Dominate Yahoo Search Results
Rand Fishkin looks at how Technorati’s tag system has led to their pages dominating Yahoo Search results for such highly popular and well paying terms (for the Technorati search targeted text advertisements) such as photography, design, security and mp3. Ok, before you start registering your spam blogs and adding every […]

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