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1. Yahoo & Bebo Partner for Search & Sponsored Listings - 2007-06-22 18:35:00-04
   Yahoo Search is now powering the search results within the Bebo social network. According to Pete Cashmore at Mashable, Bebo users can now use Yahoo Search Technology to search through Bebo profiles, music and the Internet. It appears that Yahoo Search Marketing is also appearing in Bebo results. Is this a sign that Yahoo will be [...]
   
2. How to find Wikipedia Links - 2007-06-23 06:33:18-04
   Although all external Wikipedia links are using the nofollow attribute since January of this year, are links from the encyclopedia still important, because of other reasons than ranking in search engines. Next to generating human traffic from people who read Wikipedia articles does it also reinforces the authority of a site for the subject of the [...]
   
3. Last week in China - Chinese Eye Tracking Research and more - 2007-06-25 00:06:52-04
   A recent eye tracking research from Enquiro looked into Chinese user behavior regarding search results in Baidu and Google. Gord Hotchkiss wrote about this on Search Engine Land. According to this interesting study there are considerable differences between how users interact with the results. (The research has also looked at the difference between user interaction [...]
   
4. Yahoo Merges Search Marketing & Display Advertising Sales Divisions - 2007-06-25 13:49:38-04
   Yahoo has taken the step to combine both its search marketing & display advertising groups under one unified advertising sales division which will be headed by David Karnstedt, who is the current head of the Yahoo Search sales force. Via the merging of the two sales arms, advertisers will now be able to purchase and hopefully [...]
   
5. Wordpress Plugin Hurting Google Rankings? - 2007-06-25 14:27:19-04
   The Red Cardinal blog tells the tale of a Wordpress Plugin killing the rankings of a site in Google as the Mobile Wordpress Plugin is apparently redirecting the Googlebot from the blog homepage to a non-existant error page. The plugin is redirecting both the Googlebot and Yahoo Slurp, but is not damaging the MSNbot's page crawling. What's [...]
   
6. Domain Names Market Remains Hot…A Bubble Waiting To Burst? - 2007-06-25 14:52:19-04
   In April, I wrote a blog post, "Domain Names Have Become True Commodities". It's now June and the market for Domain names is still rising in prices. It's much like the housing market two years ago, not quite as hot and profitable yet, but there are a lot of people making serious money from domain [...]
   
7. Google Now a Phone Company : Acquiring GrandCentral - 2007-06-25 15:45:24-04
   TechCrunch is reporting a rumor — and it's often correct in these — that the telephony "management" startup GrandCentral has been acquired by Google for $50 million. This is not Google as phone company per se, it's Google as a system to manage calls on top of the existing telephony infrastructure. Google Talk is an IP [...]
   
8. Google Blogs Updates - 2007-06-25 21:47:52-04
   Some cool updates are happening at Google land. Here's some of them: Dictionary Translations through Google Translate The single-word version of Google's automatic translations of paragraphs, text or documents. Works like your ordinary bilingual dictionary that gives you multiple meanings of a word depending on its usage and context. IMAP Email Migration for Google Apps Users For Google [...]
   
9. Flickr Photos Integrated into Yahoo Image Search - 2007-06-26 09:23:06-04
   Yahoo Image Search has added Flickr images into its image index. Now, Yahoo Image Search is serving over 300 million Flickr photos in its query results via a live feed from Flickr; so once an image is uploaded to a Flickr account, it's available via Yahoo Image Search too. The Flickr photos in Yahoo Search will [...]
   
10. Practical Guide to Vertical Search Advertising - 2007-06-26 10:20:38-04
    Vertical search engines (VSEs), or specialized search engines, are becoming increasingly popular, and e-marketing reporters and search engine industry analysts have deemed vertical the "hottest trend in search." But just because vertical is trendy now does not mean it will be short-lived. In fact, as VSEs continue to diversify they will likely become more attractive [...]
    
11. Plaxo 3 Beta Review - 2007-06-26 12:02:05-04
    Robert Scoble broke the news on Sunday night first as far as I can tell. The address book, calendar and task management and synchronization platform Plaxo opened their new version 3.0 beta to the public. As a user and fan of Plaxo, did I go and tested it out right away of course. I had a [...]
    
12. Google News Image Version Launches with Ajax Scrolling - 2007-06-26 12:36:58-04
    Google News has added a new degree of online news search aggregation & navigation with its new Google News Image Version. Users can sift through Google News stories by mousing over the images taken from each article. Adding a new respect for photo journalism in the news search arena, Google News is also using Ajax technology [...]
    
13. LinkedIn API Announced - 2007-06-26 12:38:04-04
    The major business networking sites LinkedIn and Xing are quick in providing one feature after another to out-do each other in the struggle for increasing their member bases and market share. Less than two weeks ago did Xing announce the partnership with ZoomInfo, which has the goal to expand the reach of Xing and the information [...]
    
14. New Kosmix Topical Search & Social Networking Project Focuses on Health & Medical Information - 2007-06-26 15:07:01-04
    Kosmix, the topical and categorical search engine, is powering the search application on RevolutionHealth.com, the health and medical website that marries expert health content and resources with social networking. The end result is comprehensive and up-to-date information on millions of medical conditions and treatments using Kosmix search. Here's an example of a Kosmix search [...]
    
15. Adsense Introduces New Ad Units Format - 2007-06-26 19:53:36-04
    I started noticing some changes in the layout of Adsense unit running in my other blog as early as last week, but its only now that the Inside Adsense blog issued an official announcement. Adsense publishers now have the option to further customize the look of their Adsense units by specifying the shapes as [...]
    
16. Google Further Explains Why It Is Buying DoubleClick - 2007-06-26 20:50:33-04
    Today in Google's Public Policy Blog, Alex Kinnear, Group Product Manager traces the history why Google decided on buying out ad serving company, Double Click. The controversial buyout plan got Google receiving some flak from search engine competitors. Microsoft for one was not happy about the deal. After tracing back the history of ad serving and [...]
    
17. Chris Tolles Named New Topix CEO - 2007-06-26 21:32:44-04
    Topix, the community driven local news search experience, has a new CEO with a familiar face. Chris Tolles, the long time VP of Marketing for Topix has stepped into the role of CEO of the company. Rich Skrenta, the former CEO of Topix, has stepped down from the role, but is still with the company. [...]
    
18. Science of Relevancy : Lifeblood of Search & Contextual Advertising - 2007-06-26 22:21:30-04
    Relevancy is the key to contextual advertising. And online contextual advertising is big business. That's a no-brainer. And all web and software heavyweights are vying to make the most of it. How is relevancy measured? And how is that used to shoot the most relevant of ads based on what you do online. Microsoft, Google [...]
    
19. Google Docs & Spreadsheet Gets More Useful - 2007-06-27 02:54:07-04
    Google Docs & Spreadsheets as it is right now is a powerful and useful tool for creating, organizing and sharing various types of documents. Now, it gets more even useful with three new features that would improve the way we organize our online documents. New document list interface - a complete overhaul that is so in [...]
    
20. Google Earth Goes Socially Relevant, Reaches Out to Non-Profit Organizations - 2007-06-27 05:03:02-04
    Showing that it is not only a profit-oriented company, Google launches its own socially relevant program called Google Earth Outreach. Utilizing the power of its mapping technology,Google Earth Outreach aims to leverage the power of Google Earth to illustrate and advocate for the kind of work they do and where exactly they do their work. [...]