Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web:
From Search Engine Land:
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New Stats On Google’s Products Show Video & Blog Increasing While Froogle & Directory DecreasingThe Compete.com Blog released new data showing us the trends of Google’s various properties. Grouped in the “super performers” are Google Video, Google Blog Search, Google Scholar (up and down) and Google Desktop. In the standard performers included Google Maps, Google Toolbar, Google Book Search, Google Web Search, Google Image… -
Bloglines Creator Mark Fletcher Resurfaces At StartuppingMark Fletcher, creator of Bloglines and other startup ventures, has just launched Startupping, a “community resource created for Internet entrepreneurs by Internet entrepreneurs.” Fletcher left Ask.com last summer, after scaling Bloglines to handle the increased traffic the service attracted after he sold Bloglines to Ask in February 2005. Although the… -
Three Proven Steps For Getting On Digg’s Homepage There are tons of tricks that people use to get stories on the homepage of Digg. Unfortunately, in their eagerness to get the visibility offered by Digg, most people are ignoring basic submission guidelines. Rather than concentrating on gaming Digg, if you submit stories using some common sense, your… -
Text Messaging: Where The Volume And The Dollars Are TodayIn case you hadn’t noticed mobile marketing is generating lots of buzz these days. And with buzz usually comes revenue forecasts. Indeed, various research firms are throwing out numbers for mobile advertising, music and video that make online advertising look like a fly on the butt of an elephant by… -
Building Your Blog CommunityJoe Whyte has an excellent write up at the Search Marketing Standard blog on how to build up a blog community. He gives the classic ten point list, for his part one of a series in this column. Here is a quick summary of the ten point list: Network with… -
Viacom To Sign With Joost Over Google’s YouTubeViacom Charts New Course Online at the Wall Street Journal reports that Viacom announced “broad licensing deal with Joost.” Joost is a like YouTube but they specialize in commercial video. The deal allows Joost to include “hundreds of hours of programming from Viacom cable networks such as MTV, Comedy Central… -
YouTube Video Tag Optimization Jonathan Mendez’s 7 Ways to Optimize Your YouTube Tags has a more detailed look at optimizing your YouTube videos. Here are some of the tips in summary. Use relevant tags to describe the video Use as many relevant tags as possible Think long tail searches when it comes to… -
Listing Of Lists Of Google ProductsGoogle has tons of products and services, they list some of their products here but there are many more. So I decided to compile a list of resources that list out many of Google products. So here is a listing of lists of Google products (say that ten times fast)…. -
Google Teaches Class At University Of WashingtonGoogle class debuts at the UW via the SeattlePI reports that Google is holding a class at the University Of Washington to teach a unique style of programming. Google software engineer, Chistophe Bisciglia, dreamt up the idea, to spend 10% of his Google time, teaching a class on “creating programming… -
Let Google Drive Your Car For YouGoogle wants to take over car driving at the Inquirer completely takes Larry Page’s quote out of context to write a hilarious article. Larry Page, Google co-founder, said “40,000 people die annually in US car crashes.” Page then “proposed giving computers control over cars” so that there will be fewer…
Search News Headlines From Elsewhere
Business Moves:
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Ask.com
Renews AdCenter License with LookSmart, Press Release -
A
winning business plan for ‘Second Life’, News.com -
Sproose
Selects blinkx to Power Video Search, Sproose -
Answers.com
Releases Free AnswerTips, Answers Corporation -
Info.com
partners with Become.com for Best of the Web Product Research and Comparison
Shopping, Press Release -
Business.com
to Provide WSJ PPC Advertising, Search Engine Watch Blog -
DaveN
is back with Seodays, DaveN -
Call
For Resumes, Oilman
Paid Search:
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Google
Allows AdSense Publishers to Click Play Button on Video Ads, Search
Engine Roundtable -
Unexpected
Minimum Bid Increases, Inside AdWords -
Quality
Score Transparency: Cool, Traffick -
Enhance
your site with Google search results, Inside AdSense -
How
To Win Sales & Influence Spiders RELEASED, Catherine “Cat” Seda -
Google
Israel launches Hebrew AdSense, Globes
SEO:
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AJAX
& Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Search Engine Roundtable -
24
On-site SEO Checkups For Clueless Developers / Marketers, SEOmoz -
What
Separates Search Marketing Novices from Experts, SEOmoz -
Matt
Cutts Keynote Speech Video at SES London 2007, SEO Tutorials -
SEO
Tools & Tactics, TopRank SEO Blog -
How
Does The Yahoo! Directory Rank Sites?, Search Engine Roundtable -
If
People Hate Your Writing Google Hates Your Site, SEO Book.com -
Google
Allows Misrepresented Result Snippets, Google Blogoscoped -
Analyzing
your site with free tools, The SEO Scoop -
Consumer
Source Interactive Owns Atlanta, Home Rental Blog
Social Stuff:
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Nine
suggestions for a better YouTube, Google Watch -
Flickr
outage reveals site’s scale, News.com -
Link
Building via Hosting Blog Carnivals, Search Engine Journal -
How
to Game Digg Via Email & Instant Messenger, Search Engine Journal -
Two
New Tech Reports From Microsoft Research: Making a Blogroll “Smarter” &
Social Metadata and Email, Say Hello to SNARF, ResourceShelf -
Placing
Your Brand Above Others, SEO Book.com -
MSN
Experimenting With Most Digg Like Service Yet, Techcrunch -
Inspect-our-Gadget
– Yahoo! Search Gadget for Vista, Yahoo! Search blog -
MyFeedz.com,
A Personalized Feed Reader, Officially Released on Adobe Labs Site,
ResourceShelf
Other Stuff:
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Phishing
Scam Uses Google Maps, PC World -
Google
co-founder: Science needs entrepreneurs, CNN.com -
Trulia
API now open to the world!, Trulia Blog -
New
Version of Hakia Released, ResourceShelf -
Google-ized
— An Interview with Adam Engel, Dissident Voice -
Galleries:
Googleplex East: Inside Google’s New York City Headquarters,
InformationWeek -
Google’s
PageRank Developed “Completely Randomly”, Marketing Pilgrim -
Google
in talks with govt, to block sensitive site images, DNA -
Google
and the “green web”, Big Mouth Media -
Tips
on using feeds and information on subscriber counts in Reader, Official
Google Webmaster Central Blog -
Google’s
Mail Services Go Public in Korea, The Korea Times -
Google
aided pirating Web site, affidavit claims, Stater Online