Donate to Charity Via Google : GDonate Google Clone and Hunger Site buddy GDonate looks like Google, tastes like Google and smells like Google; but its a gateway to an AdSense Web Search box which serves AdWords search ads that apparently benefit charities. From the GDonate.com FAQ page: The charities are members of the Google [...]

Yahoo’s Eric Miraglia Presenting at AJAXWorld Eric Miraglia of Yahoo will be showing off the technology powering such new innovative Yahoo services such as the new Yahoo Photos and Yahoo Mail Beta which have taken on more of a desktop and all inclusive community aspect with the integration of AJAX. Eric’s session at AJAXWorld Conference [...]

iPointer Mobile ‘Point and Search’ Technology Shortly after I started writing about “point and search” technology from GeoVector, I was contacted by Jerry King the COO of Intelligent Spatial Technologies. His company has similar visual point and search product for mobile devices called iPointer. After about three weeks, I’m finally getting around to writing about [...]

Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask.com & LookSmart Team to Fight Click Fraud The top search engines are teaming up with the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and the Media Rating Council in what may become a major effort to combat click fraud. Following a landmark click fraud class action suit against Google, search engines Google, Yahoo, MSN/Live.com, [...]

Testing VoIP & Google WiFi GigaOM continues the excellent coverage of their GoogleFi Mountain View testing with a trip to the Hotspot to test Skype and other VoIP services using Google WiFi. Katie Fehrenbacher and crew headed over to Mountain View with handhelds, laptops and gizmos to check out how well they work in the [...]

Tripmates – The MySpace of Travel? The world of niche social networking has expanded in the travel sector beyond Yahoo Trip Planner and into a new independent site, Tripmates.com. Tripmates, which I consider the MySpace of Travel and the Tripmates Team calls ‘Yahoo travel meets MySpace – or MyTripSpace, if you will!’,seems like it will [...]

How Often Do You Use Google Products? Philipp at Google Blogoscoped has put together a nice survey / questionnaire on the frequency of usage of Google products. Please take part in this survey – how often do you use the following Google products? After submitting, you’ll see what everyone submitted (note that this isn’t the [...]

USA Today Article on Danny Sullivan with Special Guest Rand Fishkin Excellent build-up to Search Engine Strategies San Jose as USA Today looks deep into the mysterious life of Search Engine Watch’s Danny Sullivan. Danny, the Elvis of Search Engine Industry Journalism, has found the secret of balance in his everyday life between living in [...]

No SEO Without SEM, And Vice Versa Today’s MediaPost (reg. req’d) reports on new data from SEM firm 360i, which essentially points out the complex conversion path and symbiotic relationship between paid and unpaid links. This study is a complement to one released in May by the firm that showed the value of branded and [...]

Google Serving Advertising Via XM Satellite Radio The future of Google’s Radio Advertising network, dMarc, has come with Google reaching an agreement with XM Satellite Radio. XM will introduce commercial advertising inventory on XM’s non-music channels to Google’s extensive advertising base through Google’s dMarc media network. Google advertisers will now have a simple, automated way [...]