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September 1, 2005

Daily SearchCast, Sept. 1, 2005: SEO Book To Fight Traffic Power, Google Advertises To Consumers, Yahoo Accused Of Funding Spyware, Getting Info On The Move With Google, Testing Your SEM Knowledge & More

Today's search podcast covers SEO Book's Aaron Wall deciding to fight allegations he revealed trade secrets of SEO firm Traffic Power on his blog, Yahoo accused of helping fund spyware, Google Print seeking Europe-based publishers, ways to get movie, weather and stock info while on the move via Google, Google reaching out to consumers with ads, ways to read RSS and feeds, a new test of your SEM knowledge and more.

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September 2, 2005

Daily SearchCast, Sept. 2, 2005: Katrina Resources, Google On Link Selling, Microsoft Into Pay Per Call?, New Technorati Blog Directory, Teaching Students To Be Search Savvy & More

Today's search podcast covers Hurricane Katrina resource and a call by the Red Cross for banner space, is Microsoft getting into pay-per-call, Google on the ethics of selling links, more debate on Google's book scanning program, a new blog directory from Technorati, getting students to search better and more!

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September 6, 2005

Daily SearchCast, Sept. 6, 2005: Microsoft Temper Tantrums, Google Size Increase?, Getting Listed In Technorati's Blog Finder, Post-Katrina People Finding Effort & Images On Google Plus More

Today's search podcast covers allegations that Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer had a temper tantrum involving cursing and chair throwing over an employee defection to Google, Google launching local search for China, Google perhaps about to increase its index and moving ahead with an electronic payment system, a new bid management tool, when you should buy your brand name, spyware messing with search results, submitting to Technorati's new Blog Finder, Google winning graduates through free pizza, before-and-after photos of Hurricane Katrina plus a people finding effort and more!

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September 7, 2005

Daily SearchCast, Sept. 7, 2005: Google Turns 7, Issues On Google House Ads, Praise For Pay-Per-Call, The Chinese Search Landscape, Likely Legal OK On Google Libraries, New Tools To Find Missing People Post-Katrina & More

Today's search podcast covers issues raised over Google running house ads for its own product and also letting employees advertise, a postive article about pay-per-call, a new report outlining how people search in China, a new look at the legality of Google's book scanning program, tips on doing redirection, Google's 7th birthday, two new tools to help those seeking missing people in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and more!

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September 8, 2005

Daily SearchCast, Sept. 8, 2005: Will Anti-Slapp Stop Traffic Power Suit? Are Larry & Sergey Most Powerful? Is Google Getting Bigger? Are You An Algoholic? How Can You Tunnel The Earth Via Google Maps? & More!

Today's search podcast covers whether an anti-Slapp motion could quash the Traffic Power suit against SEO Book, a ruling to come next week in the Microsoft-Google dispute over Kai-Fu Lee, yet more signs that Google has a larger index that it hasn't yet revealed by changing figures on its home page, search ads making up 1/3 of all ad impressions, Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin dubbed most powerful, being an algoholic, digging through the earth via Google Maps and more!

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September 9, 2005

Daily SearchCast, Sept. 9, 2005: Google Hires Internet Pioneer Vint Cert; Google Dance Vs. Google Update; New Way To Count All Pages In Google; MSN Releasing Developer APIs; Checking Up On Charities & More!

Today's search podcast covers Google hiring internet pioneer Vint Cerf as its chief internet evangelist, defining what a Google "update" is if it's not when the results "dance" around, a new way to count all the pages in Google, MSN releasing APIs for search and other services, Ask Jeeves getting smart with Katrina resources, ways to check on the quality of a charity and more!

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September 13, 2005

Daily SearchCast, Sept. 13, 2005: Microsoft Challenges, Yahoo's Own Media Content, Fight Over Gmail, New Blog Search Tool, Katrina Missing Persons Search From Google, An API Search Tool, Google Force One & More!

Today's search podcast cover Ask Jeeves's CEO on future growth, Microsoft's growth issues, Yahoo doing its own media, Geico telling competitors not to buy its name, a possible court fight over the term "Gmail," a interesting new blog scanning tool, a Katrina missing persons search from Google, some new SEM tools, a new way to find APIs, the Google Guys buying a Boeing 767 and more!

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September 14, 2005

Daily SearchCast, Sept. 14, 2005: New Google Blog Search, Gates On Google's "Honeymoon," AOL Getting Podcast Search, New Video Search Tool, Cool College Course On Search & More!

Today's search podcast covers the new Google Blog Search, Gates on the Google "honeymoon," Kai-Fu Lee getting to work for Google, sort of, Yahoo's trademark app for Y.com, AOL adding podcast search support, a new video search tool, a great course on search for UC Berkeley students and more!

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September 15, 2005

Daily SearchCast, Sept. 15, 2005: MSN Katrina Flyover, John Battelle's Book 'The Search,' Sneaking Kai-Fu Lee In The Backdoor, Elections For SMA-NA, Google Graduates Its Personal Home Page, Yahoo's New Instant Search & More!

Today's search podcast covers a new before-and-after aerial photo service from MSN, thumbs up for John Battelle's new book, a search marketing group holding its first officer elections, whether MSN's new search API really is "way better" than Google's, as Bill Gates says, Google encouraging people to make use of its personalized home page service, Yahoo Instant Search showing answers before you even push the search button and more!

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September 16, 2005

Daily SearchCast, Sept. 16, 2005: Baidu Sued Over Music Copyright; Microsoft Wants AOL?; Google Guys Do Lunch With Investors; Google Sends "You're Banned" Emails, & More!

Today's search podcast covers Chinese search leader Baidu sued over music copyright infringement claims, the Google Guys lunching with investors and analysts, another Katrina missing persons search tool, Google for the first time notifying webmasters if they've been banned, Microsoft maybe wanting a piece of AOL, a new gift chooser at Ask Jeeves and more!

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September 20, 2005

Daily SearchCast, Sept. 20, 2005: Google's Internet Access Plans, Yahoo Trust Questions, Google's Stealth Partner Event, "Miserable Failure" Result Just A "Prank," Getting Unbanned On Google & More!

Today's search podcast covers Google growing its own broadband network and offering secure wireless connections, Google's philosophical truisms being in need of change, Yahoo having trust issue, the Google event that bloggers and journalists can come to but can't blog or journal about, the famous "miserable failure" query downgraded by Google from "web's opinion" to "prank," what do do if banned on Google and more!

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September 21, 2005

Daily SearchCast, Sept. 21, 2005: Google Sued Over Library Scanning Project, Cool Tool For Web Research, Microsoft Reorganizes & More!

Today's search podcast covers Google being sued over the program that scans books for inclusion to Google Print, a cool utility helpful for net research, car buyers turning to search, Microsoft reorganizing and more!

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September 22, 2005

Daily SearchCast, Sept. 22, 2005: MSN Quashes Relevancy Report, Google TV Coming, Monitoring Hurricane Rita, Top Search Terms For The Past Decade, Goodbye To The Ask Jeeves Butler & More!

Today's search podcast covers MSN squelching the release of a search relevancy report where it doesn't shine, Google getting more into TV search, ways to monitor the movement of Hurricane Rita, most popular search terms over the past ten years at Lycos, Ask Jeeves getting rid of its butler mascot and more!

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September 23, 2005

Daily SearchCast, Sept. 23, 2005: Forbes And The Richest People In Search, Getting AdSense Into Your Blogger Blog, Time Warner Loves AOL, New Search Suggestion Feature For Google Toolbar & More!

Today's search podcast covers Forbes naming the richest people -- and lots of them are in search. Plus getting AdSense more easily on your Blogger blog, Time Warner staying with AOL, the Google Toolbar getting new query suggestion tools and more!

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September 27, 2005

Daily SearchCast, Sept. 27, 2005: Google Claim To Be Most Comprehensive But Backing Away From Counts, Searchers Loving The First Result, Detecting Phishing Sites, Search Spending On The Rise, Google's New Remove Feature & More!

Today's search podcast covers Google's claim to be most comprehensive but dropping index size as proof of that, plus Google's second birthday this month, Google talking to CNET again, searchers loving to click on the first result, ways to detect phishing sites, search spending continuing to rise, Google and Yahoo making programming moves, how to remove results you don't like from Google and Yahoo and more!

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September 28, 2005

Daily SearchCast, Sept. 28, 2005: Google Moving To NASA (Offices), Dropping Euro Commissions, Yahoo Preps Tools On Search Buzz, Releases Desktop Search From Beta, A Search Marketer On The Apprentice & More!

Today's search podcast covers Google expected to expand offices to the NASA Ames site, removing commissions for European advertisers and unifying logons, while Yahoo is prepping new tools to measure search buzz and releasing its desktop search tool. Plus, a search marketer on The Apprentice and more!

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September 29, 2005

Daily SearchCast, Sept. 29, 2005: Google Partners With NASA, Google Calendar Coming?, Who Pays For Google's House Ads, SEO Ranking Factors, Debunking Urban Myths, Roll Your Own Search Engine & More!

Today's search podcast covers more on Google's partnership with NASA for office space and data, more signs of a potential Google Calendar, whether site owners should get paid for carrying Google house ads, a list of nearly 100 factors to rank web pages, finding out the truth behind urban myths, a new way to create your own search engine and more!

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