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• Google Accused Of Profiting On Film Piracy: Discussions Continue
  Media Firms Say Google Benefited From Film Piracy [paid sub. required] by the Wall Street Journal reports that Google has been accused of profiting from pirated movies. Specifically, there are two web sites that allegedly offered pirated movies. Google is said to have supported them in part by an ad...
• dMarc Founders Tuneout Of Google AdSense For Audio Plans
  dMarc Founders No Longer At Google at paidContent.org reports that the founders of dMarc have left Google due to differences of opinion and remuneration. Chad and Ryan Steelberg bios), the founders of dMarc Broadcasting, sold the company to Google on January 17, 2006 for $102 million in cash and with...
• Ask.com Chooses Central Washington For New Data Center Ask.com, Intuit bringing new data centers to state reports that Ask.com has selected Washington State for the location of a new data center, designed to help save Ask.com money on power. Although Ask.com did not mention which building they have selected, we know they "signed a lease in an existing...
• Google's Agent Rank Patent Application Google returns results based upon content appearing upon individual pages, or at specific URLs. But that content could come from different authors, who have different levels of control over it. For example, a blog page may have posts written by more than one author, comments penned by others, and advertisements...
• 3 Ranking Survival Tips For Google's New Personalized Results The effects were subtle. The average person searching on Google probably didn't notice. For most, the results of last Friday's rollout of the long-tested, debated and awaited personalized search results for the masses was an entirely unremarkable event. For the search marketing industry, it was cataclysmic. In short, it's a...
• 22 Links To Coverage About The SEO Is Bull Debate Over the past two days, there has been a ton of debate over Jason Calacanis's post calling SEO "bull." Since then, Danny's done a long response, Jason's been challenged (and accepted) to have his site SEOed and much more. Here's a rundown and a rough timeline of developments:...
• Diggers Can't Handle The Truth (About SEO) It's been a busy day, with me trying to provide some more balance and education about search engine optimization in today's Why The SEO Folks Were Mad At You, Jason article. About two hours ago, I noticed it drew the attention of those on Digg. It jumped to the Tech...
• The Long List Of Linkbait Articles Lyndon Antcliff posted The Enormous Linkbait List that contains well over 65 links to articles on the topic of linkbaiting. The articles are grouped by blogs such as: Problogger, SEO Book, SEOmoz, Matt Cutts, Search Engine Journal, Link Building Blog, Tropical SEO, Performancing, Stuntdubl, Copyblogger, Modern Life is Rubbish, Jim...
• George Bush - Great President Or Greatest President Ever?, Shoemoney
• Link Building Webcast Next Week You're invited to join Search Engine Land columnist Eric Ward when he presents Online Publicity and Link-Building 2007, a free webcast from our sister site Search Marketing Now. The webcast is Thursday, February 15 at1:00 PM Eastern (6:00 PM GMT), and will last 45-50 minutes including a live Q+A session...
• Powerset Licenses Xerox PARC Natural Language Tech Both VentureBeat and the New York Times are out today with an update on Powerset, which has won the rights to natural language search technology from Xerox PARC that it hopes will make it into the new Google, when Powerset finally launches. VentureBeat also gives us news of at least...
• What Are Google Sitelinks? Many more people are reporting seeing Google Sitelinks update, so I thought it would be a good time to revisit what Google Sitelinks are....
• Microsoft, Google & Others To Build New Wireless Device? Both the Seattle PI and the Seattle Times have details about a group of technology companies -- including Microsoft and Google -- seeking permission from the US Federal Communications Commission to test a prototype device that uses "white space" radio spectrum freed up as TV stations go digital. Could it...
• Yahoo Signs Mobile Advertisers; Google Partners With Vodafone On Maps, Live Search Mobile Leaving Beta The 3GSM World Congress is happening this week, so expect a variety of mobile announcements. Here's a rundown on some that have caught my eye:...
• Ironically, You Need A Map To Find Google & Microsoft's Windows Mobile Map Apps I was thrilled to hear Google was offering Google Maps For Windows Mobile recently. I'm a big Windows Mobile user, and I've often felt abandoned by Google on my device. But actually finding that app using my Windows Mobile device turned out to be an incredible challenge. The same was...