Stephen Colbert is no longer the greatest living American according to Google, thanks to a new Googlebomb update. Do the US presidential hopefuls need to think about SEO more? Google's Matt Cutts revisits advice and guidance on paid links. Two big names in the search world get married, Sergey Brin & Gary Price. No, not to each other. And more in today's episode!
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- Google Says
Stephen Colbert Is No Longer The Greatest Living American
Sadness, Colbert fans! Last month, I reported in Google Declares Stephen Colbert As Greatest Living American how Stephen Colbert had defied Google's link bombing defenses and rose to be the greatest living American, according to a search for those words at Google. Today, it is no longer so. Google... - From My
Inbox: More Defense Of SEO
I spent about a half-hour today defending SEO privately in an email to someone questioning it. Upon reflection, I thought those responses should go into a public post. After all, the discussion involved Stephen Colbert, the great Jason Calacanis mystery project that will kill SEO as well as those scumbag... - Searcharazzi:
Calacanis & The Case Of The Mystery Search Project
Sherlock, get out your magnifying glass. Clues have been scattered everywhere and there is a mystery to be solved. This is no Whodunnit; Jason Calacanis, founder of Weblogs, Inc., is clearly the mastermind. While there are no bodies on the ground yet, Calacanis has marked July 14, 2007 as... - Wildcard Subdomains, Wolf Howl
- Don't Sweat
the Small SEO Stuff
Among clients, forum members, newsletter subscribers, and seminar attendees, many hours of my day are spent answering questions about organic SEO. One thing I've noticed is that newbies and oldies alike are paralyzed when it comes to optimizing their websites because they have an irrational fear of doing something... - Political
Candidates Need Serious SEO Help
Whether DNC or RNC, Political Candidates need SEO from SEOmoz takes a look at the current political landscape in the search results. What we learned from this article is that the U.S. political candidates need some serious help with SEO and search marketing. For example, John McCain's web site currently... - Matt Cutts
Revisits Google Rankings & Paid Links
Matt Cutts of Google has updated his blog post How to report paid links this weekend. The update has a lot more detail on Google's view of paid links. Let me summarize for you the new additions to the post.... - Special
Sessions At SMX Advanced
This is a special message for our SearchCap newsletter readers and anyone who visits Search Engine Land, regarding Search Engine Land's first conference: Search Marketing Expo Advanced. It happens in Seattle this June 4th and 5th. In this post, I wanted to highlight some of the special sessions we're doing... - New Ask
Mobile Application Launched
Reuters and the Wall Street Journal have broken the story early. Ask has launched a new GPS-powered mobile application that contains content from Citysearch and Evite (and other IAC properties in the future). In my quick demo of the phone I was impressed with its many features and capabilities. But... - Real Estate
Search Engine Trulia Redesigns, Adds Community
Real estate search site Trulia has redesigned, creating a new presentation on search results pages with more advanced property filters. But beyond this it has added "Trulia Voices," a new community area for people to ask open-ended questions and discuss neighborhoods, schools, etc. Competitor Zillow recently also added community (Zillow... - Microsoft
Buys CareerBuilder; Google Interested In SimplyHired
Microsoft buys stake in CareerBuilder from News.com reports that Microsoft has purchased a minority equity stake in CareerBuilder.com, a job search site. In addition, CareerBuilder and MSN Careers have continued their partnership deal where CareerBuilder will be the exclusive job search engine for MSN Careers. Earlier this week, Google In... - "Live Drive" is almost here - Windows Live Folders beta, LiveSide
- Microsoft
Thinking Of Testing Mouse Over Image Ads In Live.com Search Results
John Battelle has posted a screen capture from a presentation given by Gary Flake of Microsoft showing a new approach to search ads. The search ads on the Live.com search results have a little icon next to them, when you mouse over those icons, up comes a larger image or... - Google Game
Ads Patent Sets Off Privacy Debate
Google may use games to analyse net users from The Guardian reports that Google is considering the idea of using gaming behavior to display targeted ads to that user. Privacy advocates are already voicing their distaste for the idea of gleaning information on users based on their gaming behaviors. To... - First Signs
Of YouTube Inline Ads
YouTube’s New Inline Ads: Screenshots from NewTeeVee has screen captures of the inline ads in YouTube that we have been anticipating for a while. The ads display at the bottom of the video, much like a text ad, but has a play button. When you click the play button on... - Google To
Continue To Censor Results, Shareholders Agree
Google Shareholders Vote Against Anti-Censorship Proposal from PC World reports that Google's shareholders sided with Google and voted down the anti-censorship proposal spearheaded by the New York City pension funds and the Office of the Comptroller of New York City. In short, a majority of shareholders sided with Google, which... - Google Gets
A Tag Line: "Search, Ads & Apps"
To my knowledge, Google never had a tag line. Yesterday, it announced it had gained one: "Search, Ads & Apps." But wasn't the tag line "Don't Be Evil?" Or wasn't it something about organizing the world's information? Come along, and I'll try to sort it out. Google has a mission... - MyBlogLog to Rebrand and Make Significant Changes, David Dalka
- Thailand
Changes Mind, Won't Sue Google Over Insulting King
Thailand Drops Plan to Sue Google from the Associated Press reports that Thailand has changed their mind on suing Google over the insulting videos of their king that were posted at YouTube. Vissanu Meeyoo, the Ministry of Information and Communications Technology spokesman said, "We decided not to sue Google because... - Google: 'We're not sexist', Chicago Tribune
- Yahoo puts marketing muscle into climate campaign, Reuters
- Search In
Pictures: Mazel Tov Gary, Psychedelic Google, Taylor Hicks At Yahoo
In this week's Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have and more.... - The Ringtones of Danny Sullivan
- Wedding
Congrats For Sergey & Gary
Last weekend was apparently a big weekend when it came to weddings and search. Both big names in search got hitched -- Gary Price and Sergey Brin. No, not to each other (not that there would be anything wrong with that, of course!). ResourceShelf editor and Ask.com search evangelist Gary...
