Search Engine Strategies Local in Denver I like to shake people up these days by saying that “most of what’s actually going on online is about local.” People often greet that remark as though I’m under the influence of some mind-altering substance. But it’s true: Jobs, Cars, Real Estate, travel-related research, events and entertainment, offline [...]

Google CEO Schmidt Joins Apple Board of Directors No, it’s not a Google-Apple partnership (Gapple?), but Google CEO Dr. Eric Schmidt has joined the Apple board of directors with a company he says is “one of the companies in the world that I most admire.” Schmidt has been Google’s CEO since July 2001 and became [...]

Today the Latimes.com launched its RSS (Really Simple Syndication) subscription service, Los Angeles Times NewsPoint, which can be used by latimes.com readers to customize personal news feeds and additional online content for automatic delivery to their desktops.Los Angeles Times NewsPoint was created jointly with Consenda, a Swiss-American media software developer specializing in online content delivery. [...]

Jim Hedger Joins Jayde Online I’m ecstatic to announce that Jim Hedger, a good friend of mine and contributor to the Search Engine Journal, has now joined the Jayde Online team in the position of Senior Editor for SiteProNews.com and SEO-News.com (which are delivered to over 600,000 email subscribers). I’ve always considered Jim a poetic [...]

Newgie : News Reader & Organizer Looking for an alternative to organize and read news on a daily basis beyond Google and Yahoo News? The people behind Newgie, dubbed News for Grown Ups, have shot us over an email on their service which seems to be a blog reader influenced site for ‘traditional’ web news. [...]

YouTube Video & Usage Facts There’s an interesting article in the WSJ (sub req’d) on YouTube, with some data and metrics, by Lee Gomes today: I did a scrape of YouTube a month ago and found there were 5.1 million videos. By Sunday, the end of another scrape, that number had grown by about 20% [...]

Google & eBay Partner for ‘Click to Call’ The WSJ (sub req’d) and NY Times (reg. req’d) are reporting this morning on a deal in which Google will distribute ads on eBay’s pages outside the US. eBay has a similar deal with Yahoo! domestically. This is something of a surprise given that eBay aggressively courted [...]

Google Apps : Prelude to Google Office In what is a precursor for a ‘Google Office’ type total business suite offering which further enhances the competitive playing field with Microsoft, Google Inc. has launched the Google Apps for Your Domain product, a set of Google hosted communication applications for businesses and organizations; “In addition to [...]

Yahoo News Drops Blog Search In what almost marks the one year anniversary of Yahoo adding blog search to its Yahoo News search results, Yahoo has mysteriously taken its blog search area out of the news game. Besides the deletion of blog search results from Yahoo News (not to be confused with blogs indexed in [...]

Yahoo Search Index Update Like Google’s backlink update, Yahoo also updated its search technology today with a Yahoo Search Index Update. The announcement was made on the Yahoo Search Blog, which also includes an invitation to join in the Yahoo Site Explorer Forum. As usual, you’ll see some changes in ranking along with what is [...]