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Searching for Beer in Chicago : Local Search Gets Bent
Searching for Beer in Chicago : Local Search Gets Bent Talk about niche vertical search, the Chicago.com local vertical search engine is getting even more...
Google Supplemental Results & Big Daddy
Google Supplemental Results & Big Daddy As I was running through my daily web chores today I noticed something peculiar on Big Daddy server: http://64.233.167.104....
Microsoft Live’s Search & Browser Experience
Microsoft Live’s Search & Browser Experience Microsoft is busy rolling out a flurry of search-related upgrades. A dizzying array of tools and features are coming...
Online Reputation Monitoring of Positive and Negative Buzz
Online Reputation Monitoring of Positive and Negative Buzz Search has grown beyond the industrial commercial web and is now well integrated with personal publishing, blogs,...
Screenshots of Google Calendar CL2 from TechCrunch
Screenshots of Google Calendar CL2 from TechCrunch TechCrunch has screenshots of Google Calendar, aka. CL2, which is an AJAX application. Michael Arrington said that the...
LinkWizard: Spam Targeting WordPress Blogs
LinkWizard: Spam Targeting WordPress Blogs Spam is one of those topics that gets returned to time and again. Well, I was just updating my Simple...
Google AdWords Email : Rejoin the Google Content Network
Google AdWords Email : Rejoin the Google Content Network I do not run many Google Adwords accounts (for myself), but in the ones that I...
MSN backtracks on timetable for beating Google in search
MSN backtracks on timetable for beating Google in search MSN has had to do some pretty fast backpedaling due to statements from European MSN head...
Standford Daily Pulls Doorway Page
Standford Daily Pulls Doorway Page Yesterday, news spread of the Stanford Daily’s repeated decision to host doorway pages. But if you check the doorway pages...
Paid search spending forecasted to hit $10 billion by 2009
Paid search spending forecasted to hit $10 billion by 2009 This study from MarketWire; a new study from eMarketer reports that “paid search advertising spending,...
New AT&T and ‘Net Neutrality’
New AT&T and ‘Net Neutrality’ Some have speculated that AT&T in its new, hypothetical post-acquisition position as the nation’s dominant broadband provider might be tempted...
MSN adCenter’s Firefox, IE 7 & Safari Problems
MSN adCenter’s Firefox, IE 7 & Safari Problems MSN adCenter opened itself up yesterday for three hours of new BETA user signups and the marketing...
ShopLocal & the ‘Offline’ Future of Online Shopping
ShopLocal & the ‘Offline’ Future of Online Shopping I have seen the future of online shopping and it’s ShopLocal. Okay, so maybe that statement is...
Craigslist Censorship & Free Speech Online
Craigslist Censorship & Free Speech Online There is yet another debate raging over whether the Internet should truly allow unfettered free speech.This debate is over...
Yahoo Answers Adds User to User Mail & IM, Other Features
Yahoo Answers Adds User to User Mail & IM, Other Features Yahoo Answers added a large amount of features and upgrades to their service on...
AT&T Buying BellSouth for $65 Billion
AT&T Buying BellSouth for $65 Billion According to a story in yesterday’s New York Times AT&T (formerly SBC) is near a deal to acquire BellSouth:...
Performing an AdSense Background Check
Performing an AdSense Background Check Jen Slegg has a nice write up at JenSense about testing to see if a site has been banned by...
MSN adCenter Accepting New Advertisers Today
MSN adCenter Accepting New Advertisers Today Search engine marketers are rejoicing as the third major offering in paid search advertising is opening its doors today...
Ask.com Drops the Baggage, Can They Compete with Google, Yahoo and MSN?
Ask.com Drops the Baggage, Can They Compete with Google, Yahoo and MSN? Back when MSN announced its long-awaited new search technology to the world a...
Oscars Highlights on Yahoo Video, Oscar Dates on Craigslist
Oscars Highlights on Yahoo Video, Oscar Dates on Craigslist It’s Oscar weekend and Yahoo Video Search has geared up numerous Academy Award videos. Yahoo will...
Viva Yahoo? Yahoo is Elvis, Yahoo is Everywhere
Viva Yahoo? Yahoo is Elvis, Yahoo is Everywhere Yahoo’s Jeremy Zawodny had a post on his blog this morning called Viva Yahoo! which quotes Topix.net’s...
Washingtonpost.com Gets del.icio.us (Yahoo) Tagging
Washingtonpost.com Gets del.icio.us (Yahoo) Tagging Washingtonpost.com is now working with Yahoo’s del.icio.us to offer tagging capabilities on all articles on the Washingtonpost.com site. The del.icio.us...
Ingenio’s Ether – Pay Per Professional Advice
Ingenio’s Ether – Pay Per Professional Advice A couple of sites are reporting on the beta launch of Ingenio’s Ether. It’s essentially a billing and...
Manipulating Alexa Traffic Rankings
Manipulating Alexa Traffic Rankings With the launch of Alexadex “share trading” and more and more sites using Alexa rankings as a way to judge their...
Yahoo Lowers Its Expectations
Yahoo Lowers Its Expectations From eWeek in probably one of the most unfortunately-titled stories I’ve come across lately – “Yahoo Lowers Expectations for Original Content.”...
Flash Tricks for Improved Search Engine Rankings
Flash Tricks for Improved Search Engine Rankings Normal wisdom says that if you use Flash in a web site it will hurt your search engine...
AOL Search Oscar Picks : Brokeback Mountain and Joaquin Phoenix
AOL Search Oscar Picks : Brokeback Mountain and Joaquin Phoenix AOL Search is making its Academy Awards predictions based upon which Oscar nominated films and...
Local Search Performance and Google Click to Call
Local Search Performance and Google Click to Call I moderated two panels on local at SES yesterday morning. Both were very interesting and took slightly...
Family Watchdog Sex Offender Search
Family Watchdog is run by the National Coalition of Victims in Action. It uses a local map search to display sex offenders in specific areas.
Search Engine T-Shirt Contest Judging Underway
Search Engine T-Shirt Contest Judging Underway Now that SES NY is done and overwith, the search engine community will be returning to their hometowns and...