Listifieds is a very new classifieds site that was put together by two guys with “day jobs” in their spare time. Even though the content is thin, the site is impressive in terms of look and feel.
One of the co-founders said to me in an email that they were just going to offer the site […]
Entries from October 2006
Listifieds : New Local Online Classifieds Site
October 25th, 2006 by Greg Sterling | 4 Comments
Yahoo Supporting NOODP “No Open Directory” Tag
October 25th, 2006 by Loren Baker, Editor | 2 Comments
Tim Mayer has stuck to his word and Yahoo Search has implemented support for a No Open Directory Project (DMOZ) tag.
Priyak Garg posts on the Yahoo Search Blog:
We strive to show the most useful information in search results. We look at multiple sources for titles and abstracts, including page content, anchor text in the links […]
JobsInSearch.com Celebrates 2 Years of Search Marketing Jobs Classifieds
October 25th, 2006 by Loren Baker, Editor | 1 Comment
Since JobsInSearch.com’s launch in October 2004 the site has featured job vacancies with leading Search Engine Marketing and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) firms in both the UK and North America and featured interviews with Industry leaders.
“In the two years we have been operating there has been phenomenal growth in the world […]
Local.com Showcasing New Advertising Program, LocalPromote at ad:tech
October 25th, 2006 by Loren Baker, Editor | No Comments
Local.com contacted SEJ this week to let our readers who will be attending ad:tech know that they will demonstrating new products including LocalPromote™at ad:tech New York.
Local.com describes LocalPromote as
“a cost-effective advertising product designed to make it fast and simple for local businesses without an online presence to create a comprehensive company profile that describes […]
Who Will Acquire Digg.com .. Google?
October 24th, 2006 by Loren Baker, Editor | 1 Comment
Michael Arrington writes on Techcrunch that Digg has recently been in multiple acquisition discussions with a host of potential buyers, including News Corp.’s Fox Interactive.
Fox Interactive of course acquired MySpace and is a huge Google partner… Digg runs Google AdSense advertisements throughout their social news site. Digg could be valued at a minimum of $150 […]
YouTube.com Relaunches Weird Al Yankovic’s Career
October 24th, 2006 by Loren Baker, Editor | 1 Comment
After just reading a story on how local businesses are using MySpace to bring in customers, I also ran across this amazing CNN coverage of how YouTube has breathed a new life into the career of parody loving Polka -man, comic genius and star of the 20 year old hit motion picture UHF, Weird Al […]
MySpace.com Profiles Working for Local Internet Marketing
October 24th, 2006 by Loren Baker, Editor | 9 Comments
The Courier Journal of Kentucky is running a story on the success of local businesses which are promotiing on MySpace.com via setting up MySpace profiles.
Seems that bars, clothing shops, coffee shops and gift stores in the area are focusing highly on establishing popular MySpace profiles and connecting with users in their local areas.
Peter Berkowitz, owner […]
President Bush Likes the Google Maps
October 24th, 2006 by Loren Baker, Editor | 5 Comments
It’s always a hoot to hear presidents recollect their first uses of the technologies which changed the world while they have been in office. I believe I read in an interview that Clinton used email one time while President and George H.W. Bush had his notorious amazement with bar code scanners during his term in […]
Blog Search Engine Powered by Google Custom Search
October 24th, 2006 by Loren Baker, Editor | 6 Comments
In an effort to fully understand the technology and offerings behind Google Custom Search Engine, I have changed Blog Search Engine’s search index over to a Google Co-op powered search index which will only serve blogs contributed by volunteers (and blog owners) who sign up to submit to the Blog Search Engine via Google.
I found […]
Google Custom Search Engine Launches
October 23rd, 2006 by Loren Baker, Editor | 3 Comments
Google is launching its Google Custom Search Engine tomorrow now, which will let users & publishers construct their own specialized Google search indexes made up of specific sites. Publishers and bloggers will be able to use the customizable search engine on their blogs and it will include a revenue sharing structure similar to the current […]
