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September 1, 2006

Daily SearchCast, September 1, 2006: Social Media Optimization; Yahoo Gets More Mobile; Google's Image Labeler Game; Ask's Emoticon Search & More!

Today's search podcast covers optimizing content for social media traffic; Yahoo Go coming to Microsoft Smartphones; getting listed locally; contract tips for small SEMs; Google's image labeling game as a way to improve Google image search; looking for emoticons on Ask.com & more.

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September 5, 2006

Daily SearchCast, September 5, 2006: ChaCha, Yahoo Answers In The UK & Searching With Humans; Foiling The Phone Tree, New Netscape Search & More!

Today's search podcast covers a new search engine ChaCha hoping that human power will make the difference; Yahoo Answers getting a UK launch and promotion to cover its own people power; a search engine to foil voice response systems; Netscape Search gets community news power & more.

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September 6, 2006

Daily SearchCast, September 6, 2006: Google News Archive's 200 Years Of News; Avoiding Mistakes Selling SEM; Microsoft Offers Behavioral Targeting & More!

Google's news archives allowing for searching back 200 years worth of news; mistakes SEM firms should avoid; Microsoft's behavioral search ads targeting feature; Google's cached dates and more in today's show.

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September 7, 2006

Daily SearchCast, September 7, 2006: Digg's Anti-Gaming Moves Upset Some Top Diggers; Google Minimum CPCs Change A Bit; Matt Cutts Gets New Clothes & More!

Discord over Digg's planned anti-gaming moves; Google's minimum CPCs change a bit, and folks take notice; ESPN says thanks, Yahoo, but we'll run our own paid text ads; the Matt Cutts doll gets a new wardrobe and more in today's show.

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September 8, 2006

Daily SearchCast, September 8, 2006: Google Gets Sitelinks; Yahoo Loses Google; Google & Anonymous Proxies Plus More!

Google finally names those funny links under the top result to be "Sitelinks;" Google becomes a gemologist site on Yahoo; Google accidentally blocks those seeking privacy through anonymous proxy servers and motorcycle jumping the Google home page -- really -- along with more in today's show.

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September 12, 2006

Daily SearchCast, September 12, 2006: Bye MSN Search, Hello Windows Live Search; The Search Diggs Grow; Shakespeare On Clusters & More!

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So long MSN Search, it's all Windows Live Search now, as Microsoft's new search product leaves beta. Meanwhile, SearchMob becomes the latest "search Digg" to emerge. Is Wikipedia helping or hurting your brand on Google? Shakespeare's works get clustered, and did Google really pull Pepsi from the Googleplex to keep Coke visitors sweet? These stories and more in today's show.

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September 13, 2006

Daily SearchCast, September 13, 2006: Google Earth Gains Featured Layers; Google Hypocrisy Over Book Banning? Site Search Is Important! Plus More!

Google Earth & Featured Layers

Google Earth gets featured content that pinpoints city tours, National Geographic articles and more; Yahoo gives eBay's paid listings Google Checkout-like icons -- weird! Google backs anti-book banning campaign, but what about China censorship? Site search deserves a second look and more.

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September 14, 2006

Daily SearchCast, September 14, 2006: Do Business Queries Beat Sex? Yahoo Ties Up With Acer; Google Fights Over Gmail; Worship Google? Plus More!

The Church Of Google

Do more people search for business and commerce info than sex and porn? Yahoo partners to be the default on Acer computers; Google's giving away money for good causes; Google's buying up companies; German fight over who is the real Gmail; are search ads too low rent for big brands? A wicked way to check links to your site from Wikipedia & more!

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September 19, 2006

Daily SearchCast, September 19, 2006: Google News Told To Drop Belgian News Sites; Google & Apple To Partner?; Yahoo Tries To Keep Talent Happy & More!

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A Brussels court orders Google to remove Belgian news sites; Google gets more politically active; Google & Apple to partner on video and ads?; Yahoo working to keep good talent from leaving; Baidu growing in China; URL searching changes on Google; are those Wikipedia ads on Google? And more!

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September 20, 2006

Daily SearchCast, September 20, 2006: Is The Search Bubble Popping? Where's The Search Box Gone On Google Base? Will Search Ever Change? And More!

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Yahoo warns that some ad spending is down and its stock plunges, along with Google's. Google Base loses the search box -- a further sign it was never designed for searchers. Speaking of design, Danny talks about why search interfaces haven't changed. Host Todd Friesen tries to get a word in edgewise, unsuccessfully -- and yep, much more!

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September 21, 2006

Daily SearchCast, September 21, 2006: Bush Gone, Then Back, For Miserable Failure Search; Google's Indexing Fight In Belgium & More!

Bush Bio

The miserable failure search bringing up President George W. Bush's biography on major search engines finally changes after a White House restructuring; more on Google's fight in Belgium over listing news sites; the Chicago Tribune's big look at search; an exploding laptop at Yahoo and more!

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September 22, 2006

Daily SearchCast, September 22, 2006: BusinessWeek Cover Story On Click Fraud; Publishers Push For New Robots.txt System; Got SEO On The Brain? And More!

BusinessWeek takes a detailed look at click fraud; Google and Saturn partner up to push cars; publishers propose a super robots.txt file model; people learning to hack ATMs through docs they find online; ways to tell if you're too much into SEO and more!

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September 25, 2006

Daily SearchCast, September 25, 2006: Google Belgium Posts Legal Ruling On Home Page; The End Of Froogle?; Does Google Have A Second Act? Plus More!

Google Belgium With Legal Ruling

Google complies with a Belgian legal ruling, generating the most amount of text you're likely to ever to see on the Google home page. Froogle looks to disappear as Google works to integrate product results directly into regular search. Will Google have a "second act" hit? How can you get .edu links? Plus more!

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September 26, 2006

Daily SearchCast, September 26, 2006: AOL Hit With $658 Million+ Lawsuit Over Search Privacy; Certifying Search Marketers; Calling Google From Space & More!

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AOL is hit with a class action lawsuit over alleged search privacy violations, to the tune of $658 million or more; the DMA steps into the touchy subject of search marketing certification; yet another brand from Microsoft, this time for advertising; Google's long-distance call from the International Space Station and more!

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September 27, 2006

Daily SearchCast, September 27, 2006: Google Talks Copyright, Turns Eight; Predicting Search Revenues; Evil Matt Cutts & More!

Google Birthday Logo

Google posts on its official blog about how it deals with copyright and protecting the rights of content owners; Google Matt Cutts talks with John Battelle on paid links and other issues; Matt Cutts gains an evil twin; online ad spend continues to grow, with search the biggest slice; Google celebrates its eight birthday and more!

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September 28, 2006

Daily SearchCast, September 28, 2006: Who's Tops In Local Search? Dueling Click Fraud Committees? A Giant Bug Eating Germany In Google Maps! Und Mehr!

Giant Earwig In Germany, From Google Maps

New stats put Google and Yahoo on tops in terms of local search in the United States; a second group to examine click fraud is formed; Google says no to Brazil's Orkut data request again; a giant earwig is spotted devouring Germany in Google Maps and more!

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