Search Engine News
This section provides a daily dose of regularly updated Search Engine News.Google Patents Hint At Ad Choices
Several patent applications made by Google point toward a product that allows people to drop specific advertisements into their online communications. SEO by the Sea's Bill Slawski has plumbed the patent depths for something new. This time it's a compendium of applications made by Google, where the various technologies add up to a user-managed ad placement product. Slawski's finds ...
8/27/2007 12:55:14 PM
The Promise & Reality Of Mixing The Social Graph With Search Engines
I'm having a bad day. Aside from my desktop crashing, we get another spate of "let's blame SEO" to start my morning off. Robert Scoble uses that theme as a launching pad for a series of videos on how Facebook potentially could be a killer search engine -- regardless of the fact he seems to have no clue that "social graph" or social networking mixing has been tried and abandoned with search. ...
8/27/2007 12:54:08 PM
Google Reality Not Reality
The NYTimes is running an op-ed piece about how using SEO techniques they are dredging up information on people that is out of date, and also inaccurate, or was updated later on, but does not show up as a correction on the persons Google query. This is leading to the idea that Google Reality has been so manipulated by SEO techniques, that real reality, where there was accusation, but then ...
8/27/2007 12:25:14 PM
Jeopardy, Google Announce Contest Winner
It’s been a while since I’ve watched Jeopardy, but it seems like $25,000 was about as much as a person was likely to win in a single show. And now Shirley Seaman has won that amount after participating in “the first-ever Jeopardy! Google Daily Challenge.” Sure, 25 grand isn’t a life-changing sum - only someone who was already on the verge of retirement could quit their job after earning ...
8/27/2007 12:25:04 PM
Segmenting Local Mobile Search
Expectations of mobile search and local mobile search in particular are rising. As mobile ad networks form, mobile M&A activity heats up and the search engines pour greater attention and resources into their mobile offerings one could say we're on the cusp of a new mobile era. Indeed, as much as I'm reluctant to use the term, one could dub the forthcoming mobile Internet "Web 3.0." Of ...
8/27/2007 11:39:08 AM
Google Inks Search Advertising Deal Down Under
Google has partnered with the Australian media conglomerate, News Digital Media (NDM), to add Google AdSense contextual advertising and paid search AdWords advertising to the sites of The Daily Telegraph, The Herald Sun and The Australian. Australian IT reports that the deal is a multi-year agreement which is based upon a custom revenue share plan between [...]
8/27/2007 11:14:00 AM
Google Sky turns computer into virtual telescope, planetarium
PITTSBURGH -- The heavens are only a few mouse clicks away with Google Inc.'s latest free tool. A new feature in Google Earth, the company's satellite imagery-based mapping software, allows users to view the sky from their computers.
8/27/2007 11:07:54 AM
Searchers Trust Google's Rank Above Abstracts In Search Results
University students don't question Google from PC World reports on a recent study named In Google We Trust: Users' Decisions on Rank, Position, and Relevance . The study surveyed 22 Cornell University students on the Google search results. The conclusion of the study showed that these students trusted Google's ranking of the search results at a higher rate, even when the abstracts ...
8/27/2007 10:39:08 AM
Google phone: revolutionary or evolutionary?
Google's acquisitions and patents support the suggestion that there's phone work going on.
8/27/2007 10:22:58 AM
Students Take Google as Gospel
University students may be encouraged to be critical but they don't seem to question Google's ranking system, according to a recent study published in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication.
8/27/2007 9:59:37 AM
Google Strikes Deal With Major Australian Sites
Thanks to a new deal involving News Digital Media (NDM), Google will power the web and site search functions of a number of Australian sites. These sites will also display ads from Google. The formal announcement of this arrangement, posted by Julian Persaud on the Official Google Australia Blog , begins, “Australia has formed partnerships with a lot of great Australian websites, large and ...
8/27/2007 9:55:05 AM
Facebook Killing Google? Um, No
Some buzz centered on Robert Scoble's contention that properties like Facebook and human-edited search engine Mahalo add up to a Google-free future misses out on an important factor. Facebook Killing Google? Um, No When you spend a lot of time working around the tech industry, it's easy to get caught up in the belief that a truly innovative or useful product will ...
8/27/2007 9:24:54 AM
Yahoo adds free text messaging to email
Online search engine launches new version of Yahoo Mail which gives users three options for communicating - e-mail, online instant messaging and text-messaging to phones.
8/27/2007 8:44:50 AM
Reign of Bread and Whip. The New Google Aristrocrathy II
This is part two of the article: ”Reign of Bread and Whip. The New Google Aristrocrathy“. Now here is a misconception that I would like to correct. People that buy links do this to gain ranking for a term that is relevant for that page. Even links on sites about Linux that say “buy Viagra”, point [...]
8/27/2007 4:14:10 AM
Reign of Bread and Whip. The New Google Aristrocrathy I
One of the most interesting SES SJ panels last week was definitely the panel “Are Paid Links Evil” with Matt Cutts (Google), Michael Gray (Graywolf), Todd Malicott (Stuntduble), Todd Friesen (Oilman), Greg Boser (Web Guirilla) and Andy Baio (Upcoming.com). The panel started with a funny, but off-topic video by Matt Cutt’s and made it clear to [...]
8/27/2007 4:14:00 AM
Rumours are mounting that Google will launch a cellular handset to rival Apple's iPhone. The Web search giant hasn't ...
Google, the phone company? It's not as far-fetched as it might sound. The Web advertising machine is developing advanced software for mobile phones to help it profit from an expected boom in cellphone advertising, according to a report published earlier this month in The Wall Street Journal . "The company? is conducting much of the development work at a facility in Boston [where it] is working on ...
8/27/2007 3:47:43 AM
Head of Google's Ann Arbor office works to boost state's economy
Amid the lava lamps, bright balloons, exercise balls, massage chairs and free snacks, Grady Burnett somehow manages to get work done. On the fifth floor of a downtown office in Ann Arbor, Burnett heads one of the most important new offices for Google Inc., the Internet search giant.
8/27/2007 3:10:57 AM
Alza's exit could mean another office space buy for Google
Google is at it again. Maybe.
8/27/2007 1:14:19 AM
Yahoo Mail adds SMS, drops beta tag
Blog: Now you can send text messages to mobile phones from Yahoo Mail and send IMs to people using Windows Live Messenger.
8/27/2007 12:28:06 AM
Yahoo Mail lets e-mailers text-message to phones
Yahoo Inc said on Sunday it was giving its e-mail users more ways to reach friends and online contacts by allowing them to trade messages with mobile phone users.
8/26/2007 11:39:47 PM
Yahoo rolls out enhanced e-mail service
US Internet titan Yahoo on Monday is introducing an upgraded free e-mail service with enhancements that include letting people send text messages from computers to mobile telephones.
8/26/2007 11:38:06 PM
New Yahoo feature lets you send text messages from computer to cell phone
SAN FRANCISCO | Yahoo Inc. will introduce new features today for its popular Web-based e-mail program. The changes will include software that allows computer users to type text messages on a keyboard and send them directly to someone’s cell phone.
8/26/2007 11:37:06 PM
Yahoo gives e-mail texting capability
Yahoo Mail is making it easier to go back and forth between e-mail, instant messaging and text messaging including letting people send text messages to cellphones directly from their e-mail.
8/26/2007 11:25:15 PM
Yahoo adding features to email
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Yahoo Inc. will introduce new features Monday for its Web-based email program, including software that allows computer users to type text messages on a keyboard and send them directly to a cell phone, according to media reports.
8/26/2007 11:00:00 PM
Yahoo Mail Connects Email to Mobile Phones
Yahoo is finally releasing its web Mail program out of beta stage, at the same time integrating some new features, the most notable of which being the email to mobile phone messaging facility. With the new feature, Yahoo mail users who enter valid contact numbers in their contacts’ profiles can opt to send text messages or [...]
8/26/2007 10:59:00 PM
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