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November 1, 2006

Daily SearchCast, November 01, 2006: Yahoo's Tim Converse Colors SEOs; New adCenter Lab Features; Google Click Fraud Settlement Payments Received & More!

Yahoo's Tim Converse Colors SEOs, and the show spends time talking about the shades of Gray Tim's Post Covers Plus New Microsoft adCenter Lab Features With A New Blog; Google Click Fraud Settlement Payments Are Coming In and much more!

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November 2, 2006

Daily SearchCast, November 02, 2006: Ask.com To Power Lycos Search & Search Ads; CNN Reports 100 Million Sites; Gmail Mobile Client Released & More!

Ask.com to power Lycos Search, and the show spends time talking about how in the UK, Google may surpass channel 4's ad dollars plus the new Gmail Mobile Client; ClickRiver New Pay Per Click program from Amazon and much more!

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November 6, 2006

Daily SearchCast, Nov. 6, 2006: Google Tries Yet Again To Sell Print Ads; Buying Off Copyright Threats; Yahoo Expands Robots.txt Support; Ask's New Flashy Demo & More!

Gesturing In Ask's Flash Demo

Google, having experimented several times with selling print ads, jumps back into the space again with a new program involving newspapers. Meanwhile, Google looks to stem video copyright lawsuits through content deals. Yahoo gives expanded support to robots.txt; Ask gets a neat Flash demo explaining how it works -- and much more!

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November 7, 2006

Daily SearchCast, Nov. 7, 2006: 3-D Virtual Earth Cities Come To Live Search; Will Australian Copyright Law Send Search Engines Back To The Stone Age? & More!

Virtual San Francisco In Windows Live Local

Microsoft's Windows Live Local service gets cool new 3-D virtual cities you can fly through; Google warns a proposed Australian copyright law may make search engines impossible to run; YouTube is named Time's "invention" of the year; Google make ad quality changes based on landing pages and much more!

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November 8, 2006

Daily SearchCast, Nov. 8, 2006: Yahoo Wins Election Results Race; YouTube Buy Doesn't Involve Big Legal Payoffs Says Schmidt; Microsoft's Sexy Ms. Dewey Search & More!

Ms Dewey

Who won the election? Yahoo, at least in terms of giving the most relevant election results information. Meanwhile, Google's Eric Schmidt says no, a big chunk of the YouTube purchase isn't for legal settlements; Google Audio Ads are coming later this year; Like.com lets you search for what celebrities wear; revisiting Microsoft's sexy search engine and more!

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November 9, 2006

Daily SearchCast, Nov. 9, 2006: Microsoft And Ask Talk Taking On Google; Search Acquisitions Charted; Does Digg Beat Google For Breaking News & More!

Steve Berkowitz & Jim Lanzone At Web 2.0
Photo from kennejima at Flickr

Microsoft, Ask and Fox talk about taking on and dealing with Google at the Web 2.0 Summit. What's in Google's new SEC filing? Can't keep up with the search acquisitions? A new chart might help! Google emails a virus to 50,000. Is Digg better than Google for news? Check out a new place for famous video clips and more!

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November 13, 2006

Daily SearchCast, Nov. 13, 2006: Who Sends More Traffic, Google News or Digg? Groowe Toolbar Gets Bookmarking Support; Worry Over Live Search Listings Bug & More!

Who sends more traffic, Google News or Digg? A rare event of being tops with both at the same time let Danny do a case study. Groowe's fantastic search toolbar gets Digg and Delicious support. Should you worry a bug on Microsoft's Windows Live Search might let someone dump your site? Did Google change AdWords ranking to make more money for the holidays? And more!

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November 15, 2006

Daily SearchCast, Nov. 14, 2006: Google & Copyright Issues; Google Earth Gets Historic Maps; Iran's Upset Over Google Listing; Doctors, Call Google & More!

Google Booth At Frankfurth Book Fair

Are Google and other search engines copyright violators? It's more that the laws need to catch up, though changes by Google might win the company more support; Google Earth lets you mix today's world with historic maps; Iran's ticked over a Google listing for its city of Tabriz; Yahoo Publishing Network loses two top execs; doctors are told to use Google and more.

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November 20, 2006

Daily SearchCast, Nov. 20, 2006: Danny's Search Engine Land Site Opens In December; Search Engines Unite On Sitemaps; Yahoo Exec Calls For Cuts & More!

Danny announces his new Search Engine Land site is opening next month; search engines unite on URL sitemaps submission standards; Yahoo exec calls for reform and staff cuts; Yahoo cuts deal with newspapers; Google makes calling local businesses free and much more!

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November 21, 2006

Daily SearchCast, Nov. 21, 2006: Google Passes $500 Per Share Mark; Yahoo's API Peanut Butter; Google News Adapting To Publisher Concerns In Scandinavia & More!

Google Breaks $500 Per Share

Google breaks the $500 per share mark! Can developers use Yahoo's peanut butter to make it stronger? Is Microsoft jelly to go with a Yahoo peanut butter sandwich? Is Google News caving or adapting in Scandinavia? College grads say Google's a top choice and more!

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November 22, 2006

Daily SearchCast, Nov. 22, 2006: Google Keeps Rising In Search Popularity Figures & More!

comScore Search Popularity, Oct 2005-Oct 2006

Revisiting Google's record stock price; Why doesn't Google Finance trust its own news links? Which search engines are popular and not? Social search manipulation, search conference parties and more!

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November 27, 2006

Daily SearchCast, Nov. 27, 2006: Google Makes Agreement With Some Belgian News Publishers; Digg Encounters Old School Spam Issues; Holiday Catchup & More!

Google reaches an agreement over copyright issues with some Belgian news publishers, but a court case involving others still happens, awaiting a ruling; Google Video causes Google Problems in France & Italy; Digg as Google 2.0, having to react to old-school spam worries; search marketing conference parties past and future; blog listings hit Google web search and and more!

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November 28, 2006

Daily SearchCast, Nov. 28, 2006: Microsoft's Search Challenge; The Google Monster; SEO Not Rocket Science?; Ask.com's Stripping For Search Campaign & More!

Stop Sam Challenge & Ask UK

Microsoft can win in search, but it won't be easy or fast, says one rank-and-file employee. Will the Google Monster consume Europe? A link bombing campaign aims to help the king, Martin Luther King Jr., that is. Are SEOs a waste of money? Danny rants a big no! Over at Ask.com, a fat man is stripping to build search search. That and more!

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November 29, 2006

Daily SearchCast, Nov. 29, 2006: No More Google Answers; Does Alexa Deserve A Break?; Yahoo's Alerts Patent; A SuperBowl TV Wedding Proposal? & More!

Google Answers Logo

Google closes Google Answers; maybe Alexa stats aren't so bad; Yahoo gets a patent on alerts; 20 Matt Cutts facts; spot the search marketer game; a SuperBowl TV commercial wedding proposal plan and more!

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November 30, 2006

Daily SearchCast, Nov. 30, 2006: Danny's Last Day At Search Engine Watch; Victorian Plagiarists; Searching When Visually Impaired & More!

Search Engine Watch Launch, June 9, 1997

It's Danny's last day at Search Engine Watch before heading to Search Engine Land, and he leaves best wishes behind for SEW; Google has a second North Carolina court order it to remove pages; catching Victorian plagiarists with Google Book Search; c'mon Sergey, buy Googlers a bigger pool! Matt Cutts becomes an uncle and more!

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