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1. More Food That I Don't Like To Eat - 2007-06-27 16:02:02-04
   This past Sunday, I was at a pretty fancy wedding. The food overall was solid. But the salad was a bit too much for me... Let's take a look: The plate had droppings of salad dressings. Inside the cucumber (which I would eat) was salmon, topping the salmon were carrots and something I can't recognize. Then on top of that, a few leaves of lettuce. Sticking out of those leaves were two ch...
   
   
   
2. Headlines of Note for June 27, 2007 - 2007-06-27 18:32:40-04
   In addition to today’s Internet Marketing Monitor coverage, we felt these stories were worth pulling out of the multitude of news items for June 27, 2007: Microsoft Announces Next Generation of Windows Live [Read/Write Web] Windows Live version 2 (which is not an official name) will be about integration, says the software giant. [...]
   
   
   
3. Must … Refrain … From Ridiculing … Kevin Rose's … Pownce — ! - 2007-06-27 18:54:28-04
   It looks totally underwhelming ... but, I've yet to get an invite yet. Or ever will. ;)
   
   
   
4. YouTube Pulling 50% More Traffic Than Flattening Competition - 2007-06-27 19:00:40-04
   MySpace is relaunching their video portal tomorrow, presumably as preparation for the NBC/FOX video site, but it may be too late, according to numbers from Hitwise. As the graph above shows, right after the new year YouTube’s traffic surpassed that of all other video sites combined, and a few weeks ago, YouTube reached traffic [...]
   
   
   
5. Facebook Out of Control? - 2007-06-27 19:54:38-04
   Is it just me or is this whole Facebook thing out of control? I thought so. I mean, I tried to ignore it. For seemingly years I had a login that didn't work and I couldn't find a way to fix. I kept hearing about it but knew it aimed mainly at the college crown crowd (which I am not), so I only kind of sort of paid any attention. But then My Facebook Account Got Fixed and people started ask...
   
   
   
6. iPhone Blogging for Dollars - 2007-06-27 20:18:31-04
   Apple's iPhone has been very, very good to the blogosphere. Whether the $500 gadget actually sells out at Apple stores on Friday remains to be seen. But the blogs that have been fanning iPhone Fever since January can already declare...
   
   
   
7. Private Facebook Pages Are Not So Private - 2007-06-28 00:00:00-04
   A security researcher discovers that private Facebook profiles can reveal startlingly personal information.
   
   
   
8. Thoof Now in Public Beta - 2007-06-28 02:29:13-04
   Social news site Thoof, privately launched nearly two weeks ago by invitation only, is now open to anyone. Our launch post is here. Thoof is about personalized news and incorporates elements of Wikis, Digg/del.icio.us voting features. Users submit stories to the service as a link to the news item, along with a title, description and tags. [...]
   
   
   
9. MySpaceTV: MeTooTube is Here - 2007-06-28 03:34:34-04
   As promised, MySpace has just launched its YouTube-inspired video sharing site MySpaceTV. It’s a faithful YouTube clone: videos appear at the top left and the tabs, upload button and related videos all mimic the appearance of the more popular video sharing site. There’s no doubt that the developers were given a link to [...]
   
   
   
10. Mossberg, Ask.com "Goes Much Further" Than Google - 2007-06-28 10:06:41-04
    Ask.com Takes Lead In Designing Display Of Search Results by Walter Mossberg of the Wall Street Journal reviews Ask.com's new 3D look. Mossberg gave Ask.com great reviews, comparing Ask.com's three-pane approach to Google's Universal Search approach. Mossberg said Ask.com "took greater strides" than Google with their user interface. The new Ask.com user interface makes for a "better advanc...
    
    
    
11. Study: Good Brand Can Make Search Seem More Relevant - 2007-06-28 10:42:42-04
    Penn State released a report -- Branding matters -- even when searching -- that claims the brand value of a search engine can make searchers believe results are better or worse than they are. Click to continue reading...
    
    
    
12. How Often Should You Update Your Content? - 2007-06-28 12:16:48-04
    When you maintain a blog or a regularly updated website, is there an optimal amount of time you should wait before updating your articles, or should you post them all at once? In a WebmasterWorld thread, a website publisher is wondering if publishing 5 articles at a time once a week is better than publishing one a day. Ogletree says that either way is fine because there is apparently no evide...
    
    
    
13. NewCo Names Jason Kilar CEO - 2007-06-28 12:25:26-04
    NewCo, the coming joint video venture between News Corp and NBC Universal, is keeping itself in the news, though it has yet to put out a product. The company said today in an emailed press release it will be led by Jason Kilar, an executive at Amazon.com until last year, when he left to do [...]
    
    
    
14. After Banning Entire Site, Brazilian Court Sides With YouTube; Tells Model To Pay Up - 2007-06-28 14:43:10-04
    Remember when a judge in Brazil banned the entire YouTube over a video of a famous Brazilian model having sex on the beach? Eventually, following quite an uproar, the judge rescinded the ban, but the case went on. Boing Boing is now reporting that the judge hasn't just sided with YouTube, but is ordering the model to pay Google and other video hosting companies as compensation for the lawsui...
    
    
    
15. Industry Moves: NBCU-NWS JV Gets CEO—Former Amazon Exec Jason Kilar - 2007-06-28 16:59:29-04
    This just in ... NewCo finally has a CEO. Former Amazon exec Jason Kilar starts work July 9. Kilar was at Amazon for nearly a decade, writing the business plan (or says the release) for Amazon's entry in to video and DVD sales. He served as VP/GM of that unit, VP/GM of Amazon's North American media businesses, and as SVP-worldwide application software. In that last post, he reported to Jeff Bez...
    
    
    
16. Daily Search Engine Roundtable Link Finds: June 28, 2007 - 2007-06-28 17:20:48-04
    This is the June 28th issue of a daily post that will contain links to commentary of the posts over at the Search Engine Roundtable. All links I find throughout the day that ad some commentary to the posts written...
    
    
    
17. Do French Canadians Search Different? - 2007-06-28 17:41:45-04
    

    I'm not French Canadian; I'm English-Montreal Canadian. Born and raised in a city with a large French Canadian population, Montreal's culture feels more European than it is similar to any other Canadian or American city. I would go to school in the morning and kiss my friends on both cheeks. We'd go for coffee every day after school. A social and laid back environment was the norm. Working from 9am to 5pm literally meant that people went home at 5pm.

    After reading this article about French Canadian search behavior, several questions popped into my mind.

    First of all, no matter what culture you come from–and no matter what language you speak–if you're going to get relevant results from search engine, you've got to use words that describe your motivations and intent. So, I wouldn't expect that French Canadians would use more or less words in a search engine when performing a search.

    Still, 85% of respondents described that they were satisfied with the primary search results. Knowing the French Canadian culture, I know that people would be much more relaxed about their expectations. Therefore, no matter what the search results were, they would likely be satisfied. Maybe not ecstatic, but satisfied. It's just very laid back and there's little reason to disagree or be unsatisfied. It's sometimes entertaining to go for dinner with Americans in Montreal because the service seems horrible. You wait for a long time for a table and then you get little to no attention from your waiter!

    My hunch is that French Canadians are experiencing the same problems online that most of us are experiencing. I'd even go out on a limb and make the assumption that they might even have a worse experience due to the fact that there are limited French websites that can provide them with the answers to their questions, whereas we have a much larger pool of English websites that the search engine spiders are crawling through to find the most relevant results for our search.

    What are your thoughts?

    French Canadians, Relevance, research, Search Engine Marketing, search engines

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18. When "entirely new" means "old" and "exciting changes" are not... - 2007-06-28 18:56:29-04
    I came across An entirely new way to stay organized on the Google Docs & Spreadsheets Blog the other day and clicked thru with great interest and high hopes. Fueling my interest, the first sentence made me more convinced there was something to get worked up about: Today we introduced some exciting changes to Google Docs & Spreadsheets. As a technology guy, I'm often interested in things whic...
    
    
    
19. MySpace TV to focus on professional video content - 2007-06-28 23:40:44-04
    
    
    
    
20. Google Customizes Map Directions - 2007-06-28 23:44:24-04
    Not long ago Google introduced an "avoid highways" checkbox on Maps that provides alternative routing. Now Google has gone much further in that direction (so to speak), allowing users to drag icons on the map to create customized routing. With each change directions update automatically. Here's the Google Lat Long Blog discussion and here's an entertaining video that explains the range of new f...