Search Engine Journal

Microsoft Tells Google To Keep Off Corporate Search
Microsoft Chief Operating Officer Kevin Turner did not pull any punches when discussing Google’s entry into the corporate search & enterprise space in Boston this week.
“Those people are not going to be allowed to take food off our plate, because that is what they are intending to do…. […]

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Social Search Engines Having the Answers?
The LA Times is featuring an Associated Press article which addresses the question of social search & social media and whether the human powered suggestion and citation model will grow to become more useful than, or a cherished and fact checking partner to more ‘traditional’ bot & link based search […]

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David Hasselhoff Hits Google Video
David “The Hoff” Hasselhoff is not letting middle age or a cut up arm bring him down. With the new found fame back in the US with the top rated “America’s Got Talent” on NBC, The Hoff is harnessing as much cheese as he can find with this new video which […]

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YouTube Growth is Almost Shocking
According to this Reuters article that appeared Sunday, video site YouTube is now serving 100 million (yes, that’s right) videos daily:
YouTube, the leader in Internet video search, said on Sunday viewers have are now watching more than 100 million videos per day on its site, marking the surge in demand for […]

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Linking and Off-page SEO Most Important to Search Engines
Fortune Interactive has released the results of a study which was performed by its SEMLogic Technology to determine which metrics were most crucial to the web pages organically ranked on the first page of search results for the competitive key phrase “laptop” on Google, Yahoo and MSN. […]

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Yahoo’s New Design is Live at Yahoo.com
Yahoo has rolled out the new design of its Yahoo Home Page today with an International redesign synched to bring the new Yahoo.com to a global audience within the ‘coming weeks.’ I had the chance to preview the new Yahoo.com back in May, as did thousands of Beta testers, […]

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Yahoo Finance Gets Makeover
Here’s the new look. Here’s a quick overview from Elinor Mills at CNET and more detail on the specific changes and upgrades from Eric Auchard at Reuters.
PaidContent says a quick check of message boards indicated an initial negative response. Among several new features that have been previously reported, the two most […]

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Hackers Targeting Google AdSense Code?
Barry Schwartz points to a thread at DigitalPoint where a site publisher and Google AdSense member reports that his site was cracked and the Google AdSense Publisher ID changed.
The publisher realized something was wrong when he logged into his AdSense account to see zero impressions and no revenue for the […]

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Yahoo Search Index & Google PageRank Updates
The past 24 hours have been quite busy as far as search engine updates are concerned, with Google updating PageRank and Yahoo making some changes to its search engine index.
Yesterday evening webmasters began picking up some changes in Google PageRank with the little green bar on their Google Toolbars […]

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Google Documentary on GUBA
Peter Da Vanzo points to a documentary on Google, Google : Behind The Screen, which is available for downloading or viewing from GUBA (WB and Sony partner GUBA).
The first minute or so of the documentary is a nice high paced collage of Mountain View and Silicon Valley clips, which is excellent preparation […]

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