Yahoo Directory Blog : The Spark! The folks at the Yahoo Search Directory have had their blog, The Spark, running for about 6 months now, but today I received an email from them about showcasing it on BlogSearchEngine.com and thought that the blog was good enough to share with all of the search engine folks [...]

Yahoo Answers : Ask the Planet in Times Square Yahoo is launching a pretty large promotion for its Yahoo! Answers “Ask the Planet 2006″ campaign today with the unveiling of the world’s biggest brain, a two-story terrarium built on top of the Hard Rock Cafe Marquee in Times Square at 7:30 AM ET. According to [...]

Local.com Serves Up Restaurant.com Dining Ratings & Reviews Local.com has entered into a partnership with Restaurant.com to use Restaurant.com ratings & reviews of over 7,000 restaurants in the Local.com search results. It’s good to see such high profile niche sites and domain names getting together. When Local.com users search for restaurants in their neighborhoods, selected [...]

Link Vault Banned From Google? For all of you SEO link networking folks who are pushing the Google Webmaster Guidelines to the edge, there is some news coming in today that Link Vault, a major linking network, has been plucked from the Google index. Barry Schwartz of SERoundtable says : It appears that a major [...]

Improvement Web is a blog & business listings site for the home improvement industry. If you own, work for, or represent a contracting or home improvement business, I invite you to submit to ImprovementWeb.com today. Companies specializing in the following should submit : flooring, decks, replacement windows, vinyl siding, masonry, gutter cleaning or gutter guards, [...]

ResourceShelf Moves to WordPress From Blogger Gary Price’s ResourceShelf blog has moved platforms from being Blogger powered to Powered by WordPress. Gary & Co. are using a cranberry twist of the WordPress theme Almost Spring from Beccary.com. If the new ResourceShelf format looks familiar, Matt Cutts of Google uses the same free theme designed by [...]

Om Malik Leaving Business 2.0 for GigaOM Valleywag has the scoop that Om Malik is pulling a Scoble and leaving his position at Business 2.0 as Senior Writer and becoming a once a month ‘contributing editor’ as he has received funding to build his ever popular GigaOM blog into a larger business. Here’s a snippet [...]

Google Geo Developer Day Google is hosting its Google Geo Developer Day for major Google Earth API developers, local search gurus, and to announce a new version of Google Earth. Greg Sterling, Frank Taylor and Mike Pegg are at the event and covering the presentations and announcements. From Greg Sterling : According to Google: 30K [...]

“Secret” Google Products Via Google Operating System, Tony Ruscoe has an interesting post on secret Google stuff. More from GOS: “Tony Ruscoe has found many interesting Google services, using an automated tool that fetches URL addresses like https://www.google.com/ accounts/ Login?service= [GoogleService].” “Google LH2, a service that for the moment redirects to http://lh2.google.com/lh/invitationRequired. That means it’s [...]

eBay AdContext Advertising System Launching eBay will be taking a page from both the contextual advertising model which has been perfected by Google and Yahoo as well as a page from the affiliate marketing model to launch eBay AdContext next week. Reuters says that AdContext will allow eBay merchants to advertise their services or goods [...]