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Video Recap of Weekly Search Buzz :: July 3, 2009
3 Jul 2009by barry at rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)
In this week's video recap, we discuss the July Google webmaster report, a lot has happened over the past 30 days. Google may have had a PageRank quirk. Google penalized the porn industry and then reversed it. Google is messing...
via [Search Engine Roundtable]
Google Book Settlement Officially On DOJ Radar
3 Jul 2009via [SearchBrains]
Google AdWords
3 Jul 2009via [SearchBrains]
Search And Community Track At SES San Jose: NACA's Save The Dream Tour
3 Jul 2009via [SearchBrains]
As Google Book Search Gets Better, Here Comes The Anti-Trust Regulators
3 Jul 2009via [SearchBrains]
Google Shrunk Its Search Results Page
3 Jul 2009via [SearchBrains]
Search Ads Less Helpful Than TV, Newspaper
3 Jul 2009via [SearchBrains]
Making The Balboa Boardwalk Safer
3 Jul 2009via [SearchBrains]
Google Added 25% To Chinese Ad Revenue
3 Jul 2009via [SearchBrains]
Gian Fulgoni, Where Have You Been?
3 Jul 2009via [SearchBrains]
Explaining Page Rank
If you haven't seen the piece Matt Cutts did recently on page rank, you should take a look. Matt provides one of the best explanations of page rank I've ever read. After a good look at how to...via [The Search Engine Weblog]
Googling Twitter?
© szlea Everyone (VentureBeat, Mashable, the Blog Herald) seems to think that Google will soon have a search Twitter function.Google is definitely collecting data on the web every second these days so...via [The Search Engine Weblog]
The Philoneist Tells You Who's Behind that Domain, and More...
© chrisdlugosz A new domain you've discovered is offering a variety of Web hosting services and you're wondering who's behind the site and whether its bandwidth will adequately serve your ...via [The Search Engine Weblog]
Creative Commons Images: Coming to a Search Engine Near You...
Flickr has long had a search tool designed to filter images so that you only see the ones with Creative Commons licenses. A few weeks ago Yahoo! added a similar tool. Now Google wants to get in on tha...via [The Search Engine Weblog]
Aneesh Chopra, Chief Technology Officier
VentureBeat had a fascinating article a few days ago on Aneesh Chopra's appointment as Chief Technology Officer. It looked at a simple question that has probably occurred to many of you: What exac...via [The Search Engine Weblog]
One Visitor Wonders
Remember Looking Glass (Brandy, You're a Fine Girl)? How about David Essex (Rock On)? Now for the tough question: Can you remember even one other song by either of them? Probably not. So, is your ...via [The Search Engine Weblog]
NetworkingForPros.com Helps People Find You on the Web
© Aaron Gustafson I've been contributing over the last few months to the content of a vibrant and growing site that points toward the future of the Internet and has profound potential for users in...via [The Search Engine Weblog]
Three Search Engines You May Not Know About
The Personal Branding Blog took a look last week at three search engines they were betting we didn't know about. Wolfram was one of the three. We've looked at it ourselves recently. But the ...via [The Search Engine Weblog]
Google Squared
So with all the hooplah about Wolfram Alpha, what's the most likely response from Google? TechCrunch had a piece a few days ago on something the people at Google are calling Google Squared... The...via [The Search Engine Weblog]
Wolfram Alpha: the Next Big Thing?
Stephen Wolfram is a mathematician and physict extrodanaire. And now he's start a search engine that many people think will be the next big thing (and maybe even a Google-killer). Mashable had a...via [The Search Engine Weblog]
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 3, 2009
3 Jul 2009by barry at rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....
via [Search Engine Roundtable]
Steve Chicken Little Ballmer
3 Jul 2009by Sage Lewis
Microsoft's Steve Ballmer has some pretty extreme views for the business world. I think he might be looking in the mirror too closely when he talks about the business world as a whole.
Check out our small business news site.
via [Search Engine Guide : Small Business Search Marketing]
July 2009 Google Webmaster Report
3 Jul 2009by barry at rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)
We are a few days into July and the WebmasterWorld thread that covers Google changes from month to month has been getting a lot of traction over the past couple weeks. The overall theme is that there is a lot...
via [Search Engine Roundtable]
Google's Recent PageRank "Technical Quirk"?
3 Jul 2009by barry at rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)
It seems like there are several threads around the SEO forum space that have discussion on a recent PageRank update. Yes, even more recent then the June PageRank update. There is a WebmasterWorld thread, a few DigitalPoint Forum threads and...
via [Search Engine Roundtable]
How Important is DMOZ in Your SEO Process?
3 Jul 2009by barry at rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)
A WebmasterWorld thread asks if DMOZ is still relevant in 2009? DMOZ is a legendary web directory and has a ton of history. But is it still a critical or what it ever a critical part of your overall SEO...
via [Search Engine Roundtable]
New Free SEO Guide By Hobo: July 4th Reading
3 Jul 2009by barry at rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)
Shaun, aka Hobo, has released a 157 page PDF guide on SEO. You can download the book over here. There are many SEO books out there, some free, some at a price. I would list some that I recommend, but...
via [Search Engine Roundtable]
When Google AdSense Is Banned In Your Country
3 Jul 2009by barry at rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)
There are some countries that simply do not like Google or they simply don't get along with Google. If you are in one of those countries and you try to access Google AdSense or possibly other properties, you may see...
via [Search Engine Roundtable]
Friendfeed's Real-time Search
3 Jul 2009by Philipp Lenssen
Now that ex-Google employees start-up Friendfeed has real-time search, you can feed their engine with a keyword like google and embed it elsewhere, like below (I could refine this search by restricting it to results which have X comments only, or have Likes, or which are only from my contacts at Fri... continues
via [Google Blogoscoped]
Daily Search Forum Recap: July 2, 2009
2 Jul 2009by barry at rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)
Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....
via [Search Engine Roundtable]
Appearing Transparent is Profitable, Being Transparent is Not
2 Jul 2009by Aaron Wall
It is far more profitable to appear transparent than it is to actually be transparent.
via [SEO Book.com]
Firefox 3.5 Now Supported by Google AdWords
2 Jul 2009by barry at rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)
On June 30th, Mozilla released Firefox 3.5. On June 30th, we had the first complaints at Google AdWords Help that the Google AdWords interface was not supported in Firefox 3.5. The error message being displayed to AdWords advertisers was: Support...
via [Search Engine Roundtable]
Google Finally Drops Call Tracking Phone Numbers?
2 Jul 2009by barry at rustybrick.com (Barry Schwartz)
We knew Google was going to discontinue the 800# call tracking feature "shortly after May 5, 2009." Well, it seemed to have continued to work, until yesterday. A WebmasterWorld thread reports from one advertiser who religiously used these free 800#s...
via [Search Engine Roundtable]
Gmail With Drag & Drop
2 Jul 2009by Philipp Lenssen
Drag and drop has come to Gmail: you can now drag a message by its left-hand grid, and move it into a label/ folder to the left side. Also, you can now re-arrange labels via drag & drop. [Thanks Cookie Lee and Niranjan!]
via [Google Blogoscoped]
The Year's Half Over. So How Are My Predictions Tracking?
2 Jul 2009I like to do this exercise from time to time - asking how my predictions for the year are holding up given six months have passed since I posted them. Well, let's see, shall we? 1. We'll see an end to the recession, taken literally, by Q4 09. I think...
via [John Battelle's Searchblog]
Bing Starts to Get Real (Time)
2 Jul 2009I've been complaining that nearly no search engines surface real time data (for now, that's Twitter, but Facebook is coming soon enough, and there will be tons more). In fact, I complained to Microsoft about this well before the launch of Bing, and then complained some more when Twitter results...
via [John Battelle's Searchblog]
Google Books, Now Featuring Big Fluffy Clouds
1 Jul 2009by admin
Google Books announced today that it’s added a “Common Terms and Phrases” cloud on the overview page for some of its books. We can’t call it a tag cloud, because these aren’t tags, so I’ll call it a term cloud. For an example let’s look at Songs of the Cattl... continues
via [ResearchBuzz]
Juxtaposition Fun
30 Jun 2009Seen in my feedreader just now. I dunno, it just struck me, Google can't do a helluva lot to help you, Newspaper Industry....
via [John Battelle's Searchblog]
It May Be Free, But It's Sure As Hell Underwritten
30 Jun 2009There's quite a wonderful authorial kerfuffle happening between Chris Anderson, whose recent book "Free" has been the target both of plagiarism charges (from Wikipedia, of all places, oh the wonderful irony, one might think Chris actually planted the whole damn thing...) and Malcolm Gladwell, who ne... continues
via [John Battelle's Searchblog]
Give Bing Some Money Love
30 Jun 2009by Sage Lewis
Search Engine Roundtable gave some interesting advice on upping your budget over at Bing/Adcenter.
Check out our small business news site.
via [Search Engine Guide : Small Business Search Marketing]
New Google study on speed in search results
30 Jun 2009by glinden at gmail.com (Greg Linden)
Googler Jake Brutlag recently published a short study, "Speed Matters for Google Web Search" (PDF), which looked at how important it is to deliver and render search result pages quickly.
Specifically, Jake added very small delays (100-400ms) to the time to serve and render Google search results. He ... continues
via [Geeking with Greg]
Wolfram|Alpha, Creeping into My Workday
30 Jun 2009by admin
Even after all the hype, Wolfram|Alpha (http://www.wolframalpha.com/) didn’t do all that much for me. Yeah, I liked it, thought it was neat, and had used it a little bit as a reference engine, but it just hadn’t turned me into a rampaging evangelist. Then I found I was using it a lo... continues
via [ResearchBuzz]
Squaring Up With Google
30 Jun 2009by admin
It’s amazing to see all the search engine development that’s been taking place in the last couple of months. It’s like 1999 all over again, in a good way. Google Labs is humming with all kinds of neat stuff. When Google Squared came out earlier this month, I was pretty excited, but... continues
via [ResearchBuzz]
Sparking Viral Spread - Make it Easy For Them
29 Jun 2009by Jennifer Laycock With more and more people signing on to social sites like Twitter and Facebook, companies are working overtime to figure out how to make the companies, products and offerings go viral. While I've written quite a few article about the theories behind preparing a campaign that... continues
via [Search Engine Guide : Small Business Search Marketing]
A Changed Google Results Layout, Perhaps Experimental
29 Jun 2009by Philipp Lenssen
I'm currently seeing a slightly changed layout for Google results. The Google logo has gotten smaller, and there's more padding to the left. In Firefox, the file holding the logo for the new layout is called nav_logo6.png (when I open the old layout in Chrome, it's nav_logo4.png). This redesign c... continues
via [Google Blogoscoped]
How To Claim Your Google Maps Listing
29 Jun 2009by Miriam Ellis A few day ago, a business owner told me about a rather complex problem with his Google Maps business listing and asked me what to do about it. My explanation was pretty long, starting with the need to claim his listing and ending with a warning that fixing errors in Google Maps ... continues
via [Search Engine Guide : Small Business Search Marketing]
Bing & Careerbuilder.com deliver Applicant Explorer
29 Jun 2009by Bing
Back at MIX09 in March, we talked about our work with Careerbuilder.com, and today we are pleased to report that at the annual Society for Human Resource Management Conference, Careerbuilder.com announced the availability of Applicant Explorer, a new application built on the Bing API that helps recr... continues
via [Search Blog]
Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz on personalization
29 Jun 2009by glinden at gmail.com (Greg Linden)
Interesting tidbit on personalization in a Q&A with Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz:Yahoo! is the place where millions of people come every day to see what is happening with the people and the things that matter most to them.
That could mean what's happening in the world -- like breaking news, sports scores, s... continues
via [Geeking with Greg]
And a NYT Profile of Aardvark..
29 Jun 2009..which I've been talking about for some time...from the piece: Having humans, not software, supply the advice is important. Max Ventilla, who formerly was at Google and is now Aardvark’s chief executive, said, “Often the most useful answers don’t answer the original question. Example: ‘You ... continues
via [John Battelle's Searchblog]
Profile of Google Lobbyist...
29 Jun 2009...in the NYT today. Google has begun this public-relations offensive because it is in the midst of a treacherous rite of passage for powerful technology companies — regulators are intensely scrutinizing its every move, as they once did with AT&T, I.B.M., Intel and Microsoft. Some analysts say... continues
via [John Battelle's Searchblog]
Searching for profits more than answers
29 Jun 2009by Mike Moran
Image by kbock70 via Flickr Everyone is staring hard at Bing, Microsoft's new search engine, and I mostly like what I see, with one exception. I've written before about the search engine conflict of interest between highlighting their own properties and providing the truly best a... continuesvia [Search Engine Guide : Small Business Search Marketing]
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