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May 2, 2006

Daily SearchCast, May 2, 2006: Google Double Standards On Microsoft's IE7 Search Plans; Amazon Dumps Google For Microsoft; Topographical Maps At Ask & More!

Today's search podcast covers Google wanting Microsoft to give searchers more choice in choosing their Internet Explorer 7 search engine but not already doing the same for deals Google has to be the default in Firefox and Opera; Amazon switches to Microsoft for its paid and unpaid web search listings; Ask gets topographical maps; searching for local events at SideStep and more!

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May 3, 2006

Daily SearchCast, May 3, 2006: Would Microsoft Marry Yahoo?; The Flow Of Visitors From Amazon To Google; Class Action Suit Against Yahoo Over Adware Distribution & More!

Today's search podcast covers news that Microsoft and Yahoo have talked partnering; stats on how much traffic was going from Amazon to Google; a class action suit filed against Yahoo alleging fraud over adware and other paid listing distribution points; Google's new Chinese name not winning everyone over and more!

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May 4, 2006

Daily SearchCast, May 4, 2006: Microsoft adCenter Goes Public; Google Health On The Way? Yahoo's TrustRank Patent; BMW Mixes Google Into Motorcycle Ad & More!

Today's search podcast covers Microsoft adCenter going live for everyone; Google Health looking likely to come next week; is Google out of index space?; Yahoo's TrustRank patent; BMW & Google meet again in motorcycle ad and more!

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May 5, 2006

Daily SearchCast, May 5, 2006: Google To Send Click Fraud Notices Out Soon; Microsoft Says (Again) More Work To Do In Search; Microsoft Celebrity Guide To Local Places & More!

Today's search podcast covers Google sending notices to advertisers about a proposed click fraud settlement later this month; Microsoft saying there's more work to be done in search; Microsoft's planned step into personalized search; Microsoft's new celebrity guide to local places and more!

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May 10, 2006

Daily SearchCast, May 9, 2006: Yahoo's New Panama Ad System; Getting Real Time Date; Microsoft's New Moves In Maps; Googlers Fuel California Tax Revenues & More!

Yesterday's search podcast is now online Sorry for the delay! It covers details about Yahoo's new ad system; Microsoft's mapping moves; how to get real time data; fighting search spam; Googlers make California richer -- but have they been downgraded from Captain Crunch to Lt. Crunch and more!

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Daily SearchCast, May 10, 2006: Yahoo Livesearch: Answers Before You Finish Typing!; Yahoo & Google Seek IE7 Users; Will It Be Google Rather Than Vegemite Sandwich? & More! (Corrected File)

Today's search podcast covers Yahoo's new Livesearch feature, which gives you results before you even finish typing in a query; Yahoo & Telemundo merge web sites; Yahoo and Google try to woo IE7 users; will Google be more popular than Vegemite Down Under? and more!

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May 11, 2006

Daily SearchCast, May 11, 2006: Google Trends For Researching What's Hot & What's Not; Google Co-op, Google's Big Time Tagging Experiment; Complaints Over Commission Cuts & More!

Today's search podcast covers new Google products unveiled during yesterday's Press Day, including the hot research tool Google Trends, the "freaky weird" mass tagging system of Google Co-op, Google Gadgets for your desktop and a coming Google Notebook. Also a look at Google issues with a click fraud settlement, pushback on cutting commissions and more!

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May 12, 2006

Daily SearchCast, May 12, 2006: Microsoft Pushes Back On Google IE7 Complaint; Yahoo's Semel Says Microsoft Has "No Chance" In Search & More!

Today's search podcast covers Microsoft pushing back on Google's Internet Explorer 7 favoritism complaints; Yahoo's Terry Semel Saying Microsoft has "no chance" in search; Google New Co-op Subscriber Links in action and more!

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May 17, 2006

Daily SearchCast, May 16, 2006: New Yahoo Home Page Available; Google Notebook Launches; Google Hires Webmaster Relations Help; Google Loses A Chef & More!

Today's search podcast covers Yahoo allowing people to try a new home page; Google's new note taking web service launches; Google hires a search marketer to help work with search marketers; soon after finally hiring new chief chefs, Google loses one of them and more! SearchReturn editor Detlev Johnson sat in for Danny Sullivan, who is away this week.

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Daily SearchCast, May 16, 2006: Special Edition, Live From The Googleplex With Matt Cutts

This special edition of the Daily SearchCast covers Danny Sullivan talking with Google's Matt Cutts during a visit to the Googleplex. Tune-in by listening to this MP3 file. Below are links to items discussed:

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Daily SearchCast, May 17, 2006: Making Subscribed Links For Google; Flickr Improves; Google Hiring More Than Yahoo & More! (Corrected Link)

Today's search podcast covers how to make and get the new subscribe links listed with Google; changes as Flickr upgrades and improves; Google said to be hiring more than Yahoo and more! SearchReturn editor Detlev Johnson sat in for Danny Sullivan, who is away this week.

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May 19, 2006

Daily SearchCast, May 18, 2006: Yahoo Analyst Day; Google's New Ad Budget Options & More!

Today's search podcast covers Yahoo execs talking about current and future moves at Yahoo analyst day, Google getting a new budget option, Vint Cerf on book search more! SearchReturn editor Detlev Johnson sat in for Danny Sullivan, who is away this week.

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Daily SearchCast, May 19, 2006: What Parts Of Google Get The Most Traffic, Get Your Google Collector Cards & More!

Today's search podcast covers how Google web search remains what generates most of Google's traffic, new unofficial Google collector cards spotlighting prominent employees and more! SearchReturn editor Detlev Johnson sat in for Danny Sullivan, who is away this week.

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May 23, 2006

Daily SearchCast, May 23, 2006: Google Removes Sites Over Hate Speech From News; Google Bug Makes Your Site Seem To Disappear; MSN Gives ODP Description Opt-Out (Hurray!) & More!

Today's search podcast covers Google removing some sites from Google News over hate speech issues; a bug that causes Google to report fewer pages indexed than it actually has for your site; MSN goes where other search engines have yet to go, offering an opt-out for Open Directory titles and descriptions being forced upon your listings and more!

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May 24, 2006

Daily SearchCast, May 24, 2006: Windows Live Local Gets UK Images & Easier Map Sharing; Is That Site In Your Search Results Safe?; A Spam Detection Tool; A Search Marketing Magazine Arrives & More!

Today's search podcast covers Windows Live Local getting new UK images and easier ability to share mapped points, Microsoft's many shopping moves, a new tool to detect if a site in search results is "safe" or not, Ask's smart answers for stock searching; a tool to help tell if you are spamming search engines; a search magazine makes its debut and more!

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May 25, 2006

Daily SearchCast, May 25, 2006: Google To Get Dayparting; Affiliate Sites Have New Worries From Google; YahooBay? eBayhoo? Not Quite, But The Two Are Partnering & More!

Today's search podcast covers Google getting dayparting of ads; Google saying no to low-quality affiliate sites; eBay and Yahoo get chummy; Ask's aerial maps and more!

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May 26, 2006

Daily SearchCast, May 26, 2006: Dell's Doing Google, Dude; Google Does 50% Of US Searches; Don't Be Evil? Don't Make Ballmer Laugh & More!

Today's search podcast covers Google and Dell sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g. Well, Dell agreeing that for an undisclosed sum, putting Google software on its new computers is a good thing, dude. Meanwhile, Google does half the US's searches and is sending a new spider after your landing pages, to see if you're running a quality ad campaign. YouTube grows and grows in video search, plus Ballmer laughs and laughs over Don't Be Evil (ok, just one laugh) and more! Warning, this episode contains occasional off-the-cuff singing, which might be harmful to your ears. Sorry, it was a holiday weekend coming up, so I was feelin' kind of funky.

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May 30, 2006

Daily SearchCast, May 30, 2006: Ask's Memorial Day Link, About Links From Google, WikiMapia, Political Google, Google Powered TV Guide & More!

Today's search podcast covers Ask, the only major search engine that had a special Memorial Day homepage, a quick heads up on the new Yahoo! Weather report and a reasoned breakdown about links as confusing messages appear from Google company blogs. Meanwhile, the rumors about Google Payments start to swarm and build up to the tempest that hit the likes of CNet. So, we ride the tempest wind and rain to tell you all about what we hear might be happening. Check out the new Mashup WikiMapia!. We tell you how to find a UK PacMan crop-circle gobbling up dots and much much more!

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May 31, 2006

Daily SearchCast, May 31, 2006: Travelin' Green With Google, Microsoft Waiting To Advertise , Language Specific SEO, Pay-Per-Call & More!

Today's search podcast covers Travelin' green with advice from The Earthday Network and Google, Bill Gates talking about Microsoft's 5-year battle plan to get users to navigate to them for search (instead of Google) and some nice SEO tips about optimizing using languages outside English. Listen to Daron Babin and Detlev Johnson discuss Google supporting Mozilla Firefox 2.0 with Anti-Phishing technology, and with such strong ties to the Firefox browser, shouldn't Google just buy Mozilla Corporation? Hear all these stories and much more!

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