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• Yahoo Acquires MyBlogLog & More On How It Works
  After several weeks of rumors, Yahoo has officially announced it has agreed to purchase the MyBlogLog service. I've used the service for several weeks on my personal blog Daggle and the Daily SearchCast and found it pretty compelling. I've just added it now to Search Engine Land. It allows you to easily let anyone join and see your "blog community." You'll find some discussion of the sale via Techmeme here and here. Below, I'll cover more on the basics of how it works from blog surfer and blog owner perspective. MyBlogLog works by having you insert JavaScript tracking code on...
• Las Vegas is hot but Google is hotter, The Guardian
• Google Named Fortune's Best Place To Work, But Rich Early Employees Checking Out
  Google -- officially the best place to work. So says the latest survey from Fortune. But then again, Google's got to keep the standards high as pre-IPO employees leave. A San Francisco Chronicle article also out covers how one-third of Google's first 300 employees have gone, along with some comments on the culture getting more conservative. And to cap things off, those rich Googlers once again mean tax dollars for California....
• Jimmy Wales Interviewed Live On BBC Radio Five Live
  Jimmy Wales was interviewed live on the BBC Simon Mayo programme this afternoon. It was an interesting conversation, mainly centred on the Wikipedia obviously, and geared towards an audience who wouldn't be expected to know much about the subject. The interview started about 30 minutes into the programme and you should be able to catch it for a couple of days in the archive (linked from the webpage) before it disappears. I have done a quick attempted verbatim report on it in my weblog though cannot entirely vouch for its accuracy 100%, but it might be of some interest....
• Open Letter To Wikipedia Editors: Yes, Matt Cutts Is Notable
  Dear Wikipedia Editors: I came back from vacation today to discover that in (some of) your infinite crowd wisdom, apparently the page at Wikipedia about Google's Matt Cutts might get deleted. Wow. It's inept things like this that can instantly reduce any respect I have for Wikipedia that builds up over time....
• An Open Letter to Paid Search Networks
  Search marketer and "recovering attorney" Jeff Rohrs has published The Sausage Manifesto, an open letter to paid search providers asking critical questions about billing practices, transparency, click fraud and other issues. He asks a number of pointed questions, then lists eleven requests that he says failure to respond to could damage the industry. His requests: 1. Talk, Don’t Lecture 2. Appreciate Our Unique Circumstances 3. Invest in Proportion to the Problem 4. Acknowledge that Tracking Alone Is Not the Answer 5. Improve Click Quality Customer Service 6. Build a Click Quality Education Resource Center 7. Light a Fire Under the...
• Fraudwall, an anti-click fraud company, raises millions, VentureBeat
  Advertisers Cutting Google AdWords Spending With Surge of Keyword Prices
  Most Google AdWords advertisers have been facing the problem of rising pay per click prices. But while in the past many advertisers have gone with the increased prices as the cost of doing business on AdWords, recently more advertisers have decided to significantly cut their AdWords spending because many of the keyword prices have resulted in advertisers being priced out of profitability. Marketwatch recently spoke with six advertisers who all spent between $4 million and $10 million in 2006 who plan to spend less in 2007....
• LinkedIn Answers Launched
  Now joining the questions answering game is LinkedIn, with its new LinkedIn Answers service, just two days old. Jason Calacanis pinged me about it just via instant message, saying he loves it. Sequoia Capital is an investor in LinkedIn -- and Jason now works for Sequoia -- so you can easily assume some interest in giving me a heads-up. But then again, I don't disbelieve him saying he loves it. Jason pointed over to Who's are the top 10 web designer in the world today? that he posted a day ago and says he got great answers. I couldn't judge,...
• Search Engine ChaCha Announces $6 Million Round
  Led by Amazon's Jeff Bezos' Bezos Expeditions, social search engine ChaCha announced that it had secured a $6 million funding round. ChaCha launched in Q3 last year and employs a network of live guides (college students, stay at home parents, retirees) to help answer user queries in real time in addition to providing traditional algorithmic search. Here's my most recent write up on the engine from November. Given its network of distributed guides, ChaCha is one of the more interesting recent search launches. While it started out quite slowly, the service and functionality have been getting much better....
• Yahoo China Morphing into a Business Portal
  Yahoo China is transforming itself into a business-oriented search engine, in part to deal with crushing competition from Baidu.com and portal Sina.com. "If Yahoo is going to win, it has to do so in a new way," said Jack Ma, CEO of e-commerce company Alibaba Group, which runs Yahoo's China operations in an interview with The Associated Press in China. Baidu is the search king in China, with nearly 64% market share, according to a recent Wall Street Journal article. Yahoo China has just an 8% share, after Google China's 19% share. The move comes little more than a year...
• MarketSmart Interactive Closes Doors, Marketing Pilgrim
• Yahoo Introduces Yahoo Go 2.0, Mobile Search & Other Apps
  Last year at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES), Yahoo Chairman Terry Semel introduced Yahoo Go, an initiative seeking to push and integrate Yahoo content beyond the desktop on mobile devices and TV. According to the Wall Street Journal (subscription required) the company is going to introduce an upgraded version of Go for mobile today at this year's CES (Postscript: Yahoo Go 2.0 is now up):...
• Let’s Review: A Busy Day for Mobile Search, News from Yahoo & Google, Review of What Others Offer, ResourceShelf.com
• Samsung Phones, Bundled with Google Apps, Google Operating System
• Search Engine Land: December 2006 Statistics Review
  As promised, here's the first in regular monthly updates on how Search Engine Land is growing. I hope the traffic statistics look will be both interesting to the curious and informative about how various places can turn into traffic generators. For December 2006, we had about 93,000 page views, or about 4,400 page views per day. Actually, those are "AdViews," the number of times ads were shown as reported by our ad serving software. We only began showing ads from December 11 onward, so I have to turn to our Google Analytics statistics to talk about the entire month. Let's...
• Measuring Search Success 2007 – January 11 Webcast, Search Marketing Now
• Earthlink, San Francisco Reach MuniFi Agreement, GigaOm
• The Most Asked Google Questions, Google Blogoscoped
• Google Moon, Google Mars, Now Google Universe? Google Partnership With Space Telescope Project May Make UniTube Possible
  Google to help build telescope from the Associated Press covers Google looking again to space as a new frontier. This time, the company is getting involved with the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope. To be built in Chile, the LSST is planned to scan the sky on a continuous basis, which should allow "movie-like" looks at the universe. It's expected to open in 2013, with a price tag of $350 million from public and private funds. And Google's putting up how much? That's not said. Apparently exactly what Google is to do remains undefined. From the press release, we only...