Search Engine Land launches a new social networking site for search and internet marketers, Sphinn -- and Danny explains how it works and why you should pronounce it "spin." Google is to release a meta tag allowing site owners to say when a document expires; Yahoo adds a cool search suggestion tool; Google faces a lawsuit in Australia that its sponsored listings might not be clearly marked enough as ads and more in today's episode! Programming note: this is the last Daily SearchCast until July 23, when Danny returns from vacation.
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Social Site For Search & Internet Marketing Professionals
When Search Engine Land launched last December, I talked about liking the name in part because it sounded like "a community, where people can meet, talk, discuss and network." I promised to upgrade the site to help a community thrive. It took much longer than the original "month or so"... - Google To Add
"Unavailable After" META Tag
Getting Into Google by Jill Whalen reports Dan Crow, director of crawl systems at Google, saying that Google is releasing a new META tag named "unavailable_after." The "unavailable_after" tag will allow you to tell Google when Googlebot should no longer crawl that page. Jill explains that this tag comes in... - Hijacking
Google Image Search Results
Google Blogoscoped discusses an issue with Google Images where Google will not always show the original source of the image in their results. In short, Google may display an image that is hotlinked via a third-party site, in a higher position within Google Images than the original image. One of... - Yahoo.com Adds
Search Suggestions
The Yahoo Search Blog announced that the search box on Yahoo.com now offers search suggestions as you type. For example, as I started typing "danny s", Yahoo offered suggestions, including "danny sullivan."... - Australian
Watchdog Sues Google Over Deceptive Search Ads
Watchdog takes Google to court from News.com reports that the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is taking Google to court for allegedly listing misleading and deceptive sponsored results. Allegedly, in 2005, the Trading Post had ads in Google for “Kloster Ford” and “Charlestown Toyota" that directed traffic to the... - Old-School Defamation Lawsuit Filed Against Google--Phillips v. Google, Eric Goldman
- Google leases former historic HP site, San Jose Mercury News
- Yahoo! Announces Completion of Right Media Acquisition, Yahoo - Press Release
- My time at Google, by the numbers, shellen dot com
- FeedBurner Integration for Blogspot Blogs, FeedBurner Blog
- Why Google is the service of choice for sploggers, Guardian Unlimited
- Yahoo! Allows Banned Sites in Search Submit Program, Search Engine Roundtable
- Yahoo
Celebrates "Ultimate Connection" Search Marketing Awards
Yesterday, the Yahoo Search Marketing team honored three small business owners at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ as part of the Yahoo! Ultimate Connection Contest. Of over 10,000 applicants, five finalists were chosen, and of those five, three special individuals, Glen Halliday of Kids Crooked House, Mike Willner...
