Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web:
Danny, I and the rest of the Search Engine Land crew would like to wish you all a Happy Holidays!
From Search Engine Land:
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Some Of Digg’s Ban Domain List
The 10e20 blog complies a list of the sites they know are banned from Digg.com. There has been a recent wave of Digg bans, and reportedly, once your banned, you cannot get back in. Here is a current list of banned sites as per 10e20’s post. -
A Google Holiday Update Or Data Refresh
Google Data Refresh – Rankings Fluctuations Before Christmas by Ben Pfeiffer at the Search Engine Roundtable notes a very possible Google update is taking place. He references a WebmasterWorld thread that is currently three pages deep. Most in the thread believe -
Google Says They Won’t Ask For Help In China To Compete
In Google sticks to solo plans from the Shanghai Daily, Google said it won’t work with a local partner in China to gain marketshare. Google’s vice president of China operations, Lee Kai-fu said that they “have confidence in our current approach” in China
Search News Headlines From Elsewhere:
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2006
Holiday Season Search Logos, Search Engine Roundtable -
Shammi
Kapoor: The original Yahoo man, BBC NEWS -
SideStep
Inc. Partners With Orange in the UK, Yahoo! Finance -
NYTimes.com
Taps Yahoo’s Gaylord as Marketing VP, MarketingVOX -
Podcast:
Respect For SEO; Germany & France Split On Quaero; Wishing For
Multimedia Matt Cutts & More, Daily SearchCast -
Microsoft
adCenter Showing 40% Higher Conversion Data, Search Engine Roundtable -
Microsoft
fights Gmail in the workplace, APC Magazine -
Ask
has the mojo to double its search market share, Between the Lines -
Google
considering expansion near S.C.’s coast, Mercury News -
The
Ins and Outs of Google Webmaster Central, SEO News Blog -
Gains
and gripes with Google, News.com -
Better
understanding of your site, Google Webmaster Central -
Microsoft
seeks patent covering Web feed readers, News.com -
Stepping
into the Did It/Web Guerrilla/Searchengineland Fray, Out Of My Gord -
Can’t
we all get along?, Frog Blog -
Happy
Holidays from the Inside AdWords crew, AdWords Blog -
Google
exec heaps praise on local office, The Seattle Times -
Publishers
Noticing Yahoo!’s New Compliance Manager At Work, Search Engine
Roundtable -
Twenty
Days on Yahoo’s Panama, ClickZ -
Google
May Add Referrer Data To Web Crawl Error Reports, Search Engine
Roundtable