Search Engine Journal

Even after the Yahoo acquisition of MyBlogLog there are still some connections between the company and Amazon.com.
Has anyone else noticed that when MyBlogLog loads they serve pixels from AmazonAWS.com?
That is the domain and server from Amazon Web Services and MyBlogLog is hosting its faceroll images and user picture galleries on Amazon’s servers.

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Microsoft is pumping out a global $500 million Vista advertising campaign which is expected to serve 6.6 billion impressions in the first few months.
Marketing stunts and sponsorships will include a human billboard with 16 dancers, party in Times Square, LeBron James in the TV ads, and CEO Steve Ballmer will greet customers at Best Buy […]

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Google Earth and the Discovery Channel have worked together to bring “sunrise on demand.”
The two have introduced a new layer on Google Earth which lets users view sunrises in certain areas around the globe.
More from Google & Discovery Networks on the Google Blog:
Now there’s a Google Earth layer that brings the sun’s ascent […]

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Gary Price ran across a Yahoo7 (Yahoo Australia) service which text messages Yahoo Bookmarks to the mobile phone.
From Yahoo7:
A Yahoo! mobile bookmark (or WAP bookmark) is a “favourite” or a bookmark that resides in your mobile phone’s browser. You can use a mobile bookmark to quickly and conveniently access the Yahoo! mobile site on your […]

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Remember Booble.com, the porn search engine which took advantage of the Google layout, logo and name association when it first launched?
Well according to Booble.com, they submitted a commercial to CBS for a Super Bowl ad buy and were denied.
So, if you’re dying for publicity, which was probably the only reason for trying to buy […]

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I’m a big fan of Search Engine Strategies Conferences on Search Engine Marketing and try to attend and cover all of them that I can.
Besides the seminars and forums on search marketing, and the late night parties, I always find it quite rewarding to walk around the exhibition halls and speak to some of […]

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Just came across Citizendium today which is taking advantage of the problems of spam and altered reality at Wikipedia by positioning itself as being more accurate & accountable.
The project, started by [Larry Sanger] a founder of Wikipedia, aims to improve on that model by adding “gentle expert oversight” and requiring contributors to use their real […]

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Who knows what’s going to happen to the Tribune Company (as it tries to sell itself). But for the time being it has taken a good step (about time) in starting to leverage Topix.net’s numerous strengths. As you may remember, Tribune, Gannett and KnightRidder (now McClatchy) bought a 75% stake in Topix in March of […]

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Scott Horne has been checking out the links within Google Video and discovered that on the Google Video homepage, all of the links are NOFOLLOW except for those to the content and sites of its advertising partners.
Google Video homepage has decided to nofollow all its links, with the exception of the ones to its advertising […]

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On the eve of YouTube making its major announcement that it will begin sharing revenue with its video uploading community, News Corp.; the parent company of MySpace.com and Fox Interactive, has invested in ROO Group.
ROO currently powers online global video content distribution and content syndication across many of News Corp’s premier properties including The Times […]

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