Microsoft chairman Bill Gates says his remaining time at the company will be in part focused on search. Yahoo shutters its auctions service. Yahoo Travel gets new features. Google Analytics gets a redesign. Is that the New York Times spamming Google or not? And more in today's episode!
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Remaining Time Aimed At "Search, Buyers & Sellers"
PaidContent has a nice roundup of Microsoft's eighth annual Strategic Account Summit. In the Strategic Account Summit, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates said that he plans on spending the last remaining months of his Microsoft tenure focusing on "search, buyers and sellers." Gates will be working full-time at Microsoft through mid-2008.... - eBay May Buy
StumbleUpon For $75 Million
EBay Seeks to Add StumbleUpon to Portfolio from the Wall Street Journal brings back the rumors that eBay will be purchasing StumbleUpon. The Wall Street Journal reports that the potential asking price is $75 million. However, when Chris Sherman interviewed Garrett Camp, one of the founders of StumbleUpon, he said... - Yahoo To
Close Yahoo Auctions
Yahoo has announced that they will be closing Yahoo Auctions in the United States and Canada as of June 16, 2007. Yahoo Auctions will continue in Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan. Clearly, Yahoo has thrown in the towel when it comes to fighting eBay in the auction space, Instead, the... - Yahoo Travel
Adds Personalization, New Maps
Yahoo Travel has redesigned and added a range of features, including personalization and new mapping tools to the site. It's also seeking to more deeply integrate travel properties FareChase (its fares and rates "meta search" engine) and Trip Planner (its user-generated content site) into Travel. Flickr is also well represented... - Yahoo
Redesigns Yahoo Video Home Page
The Yahoo Video Team Blog announced that they have redesigned and cleaned up the Yahoo Video home page. The new page now sports a large search box at the top, plus the relocation of navigational elements.... - Netscape
Compared To Digg, A Marketer's Perspective
Netscape. You often hear it mentioned alongside Digg as a social media site, but how many of us actually use the service? Some say it is worthless, while others say it is very useful. From being on Netscape a dozen or so times, here's what I've learned.... - Google
Analytics Launches New Version With New UI & Features
Google Analytics today has released a new version of their web analytics tool. I spoke with Brett Crosby, Senior Manager of Google Analytics about the release, which he explained was a completely "new platform" to enable "non-experts" to use sophisticated web analytics without expert intervention.... - Search
Illustrated: Google PageRank Explained
One of the most commonly discussed concepts among search marketers is Google's PageRank algorithm. Google explains PageRank in the following way: "PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets... - Newspapers
Amok! New York Times Spamming Google? LA Times Hijacking Cars.com?
Back in March, Google warned that allowing your internal search results to be listed in Google might be considered spamming. Today, there's some buzz that one of the top listings for a search for sex on Google turns out to be an internal search results page from the New York... - SMX
Conferences Expand To Europe, Three-Day "SMX West" Show
Search Engine Land's conference series, Search Marketing Expo, has now announced dates for new shows in Europe and our "big" SMX West event to be held in Santa Clara next February 26-28. Back when I wrote 9 Reasons To Attend SMX Advanced, I explained that our SMX Advanced show that... - Feed Your Television, Google Reader Blog
