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Disney Getting into Search Again?
Remember Go.com and the ease of securing a top ranking for your site within the search engine results just by gaming the old Go.com GoGuides...
Eurekster Secures $5.5 Million in Funding
Eurekster, Inc., which wasone of the first community based social search engines, has secured $5.5 million in a Series B financing. The funding, from Technology...
Viacom Sues Google for $1 Billion in Copyright Violations
Viacom, the parent company of MTV, is suing Google for $1 Billion in damages brought about via alleged copyright violations as Viacom claims that its...
Marketing Your Site on Yahoo Answers
Yahoo Answers is the knowledge sharing Q&A based social network with over 90 million users worldwide with around 18 million users in the United States....
Google & Dish Network in Video Advertising Deal?
VentureBeat is reporting that Google is taking the first rumored moves in its obvious next step to bring Google Video Ads to the masses by...
Build Quality Links Using MeetUp.com
The other week I joined MeetUp.com, the online event, local and “meeting up” social networking site, in an effort to meet other bloggers, search marketers,...
Microsoft adCenter’s Content Ads Expanding
Microsoft adCenter is currently launching their ‘pilot’ offering of Microsoft Content Ads which is their contextual advertising solution that displays relevant ads to the content...
Last week in China – What Do Chinese Youngster Do Online
As always some news about what Google and Baidu are up to in China but also some interesting results from a user panel with young...
Link Building : Measuring Directory Value
I’m always looking for tips on link building and am a fan of using directory links as part of the overall link building mix; usually...
Google CEO Schmidt on YouTube, Viacom and Media Companies
Bloomberg is running an article which quotes Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s stance on media companies and their reluctance to upload content on YouTube, despite its...
MySpace Entering Social News Market
Today Terry Heaton posted about how inside sources have tipped him off about MySpace making a social news play, fortifying them as more of an...
Google Crawls 404 Error Pages Forever, Time to Spice Them Up!
Barry points to a Webmaster World thread which asks how long does Google send their crawlers to a page which begins serving a 404 error...
Google Local Business Center Enhancements
As I was driving all over “God’s creation” today, from meeting to meeting, there were a number of interesting developments and announcements. The first concerned...
SEO Clinic : Now Every Two Weeks
SEO Clinic, the free SEO recommendation and review service where Search Engine Journal editors and special guest SEO experts help sites better their rankings, usability...
MyYahoo Goes 2.0 : Preview & Snapshots
Read/WriteWeb has the scoop on the new MyYahoo personalized homepage which has gone ‘Web 2.0’ and includes a hovering Ajax powered RSS reader! Beta test...
CitySquares : Local Search on the Neighborhood Level
Never a dull moment in local these days as I learn of new sites almost daily. I spoke this morning with Ben Saren, CEO of...
Yahoo Answers Adds Social Networking
Yahoo Answers, the question & answer social media exchange, has become a success for Yahoo, bringing the phenomena of social knowledge sharing to over 90...
Friendster & Google Partner for Global Expansion, Advertising & Search
Friendster chose Google as its exclusive advertising and search provider today after not resigning with Yahoo, their previous search & ad provider. Friendster, which was...
Is the Google Phone Real?
Here’s a detailed post (widely picked up) by Simeon Simeonov about Google developing a mobile phone. Here’s the reported strategy: Apparently, Google is planning to...
SEO Clinic : TechSmith Screen Capture & Recording Software
Last week Search Engine Journal announced the launch of SEO Clinic, a free service where businesses, individuals and organizations can submit their web sites for...
Alexa Bias Exposed by Top Google Engineers
Alexa, the web site popularity and ranking measurement metric, has been widely accepted by the web publisher and online advertising world as a way to...
Local.com Now Distributing SuperPages.com Ads
Local.com and Idearc Media Corp. today announced a distribution agreement that allows Idearc to place its Superpages.com advertisers’ content on Local.com. Superpages.com’s advertisers will receive...
Netscape Adds My.Netscape Personalized Homepage
Netscape is synonymous in my mind with missed opportunity. After AOL bought the company it totally neglected it and IE ate all its remaining market...
Google’s 30 US Subsidiaries & Google’s International Companies
Google published its Annual Report which includes the list of Google’s Subsidiaries, both based in the United States and Internationally. Most non-Google companies are acquisitions,...
USAToday.com Adds Social Media Features
USAToday has added social media features which transform the site from less of a McNews page into a sticky community site which takes a page...
New Smaller SEO Conferences & Workshops
Search Engine Strategies, in all of its success and growth, is an amazing conference circuit attracting many from the worlds of SEO, search marketing, media...
Adam Lasnik of Google on Paid Links & NoFollow
Andy Beal had the priviledge of a sit down chat with Google’s Adam Lasnik at the Australian Search Summit early this morning. Beal and Lasnik...
5 1/2 Ways To Take Advantage of YouTube Politics
YouTube is creating a Political Section for the presidential candidates. There are lots of creative ways to use YouTube to reach people. Here are 5...
The Why, How and Who of Marketing in StumbleUpon
I recently interviewed StumbleUpon’s CEO Garrett Camp and wrote StumbleUpon Defined vs. Digg, Google, MySpace and More to define SU for curious marketers. I’ve extended...
How To Get Links from Bloggers
Getting your story or content on Digg, StumbleUpon, or Fark can attract a lot of traffic and links to your site, but if you want...