Perfect 10 adds Microsoft to the list of search engines it's suing over image search? Add New Scientist to the list of site selling links. Apple's got AdSense in iLife. Yahoo launches a center on click fraud info, while Google launches a video on privacy issues. Google's launching a new way to award the top ad spot and more, in today's episode! PROGRAMMING NOTE: This is the last Daily SearchCast until it resumes on August 27.
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Out With Google, Perfect 10 Bats Against Microsoft Over Image Search
Perfect 10 Sues Microsoft for Copyright Infringement off the news wire reports that Perfect 10 is now going after Microsoft for copyright infringement over including Perfect 10's copyrighted images in Live Image Search. Norm Zada, Perfect 10's president said: Microsoft is showing tens of thousands of extremely valuable celebrity images,... -
JupiterResearch: Google And Yahoo Are Top Online Brands
Following the Harris and BusinessWeek/Interbrand brand surveys, which put Coca-Cola at the top of the list, JupiterResearch asked Internet users about their favorite brands and dissected the audiences.... - The Right Way
To Think About Site Maps
If you asked one hundred search engine optimization professionals to explain a site map and show you what an effective one looks like, chances are you will get 100 different answers. To many SEO professionals, a site map is an XML site map that one submits to Google containing... - Hitwise
Launches 2008 Election Metrics Tracking
Hitwise has launched a new data center that will track a range of metrics associated with the upcoming 2008 US election. It will reportedly update those metrics every Tuesday. The categories that will be tracked include the top websites from both parties, top political search terms and the fastest moving... - Google Deletes
Custom Search Blog After Marking It As Spam
Google Custom Search Blog Hacked? from Google Blogoscoped quickly reported what appeared to be a hack of Google's official Custom Search Blog. But what really happened was that Google marked their own blog as a spam blog and ultimately removed the blog from Blogger, allowing someone else to claim the... - And Now, New Scientist Sells Paid Links
- Apple
Continues To Integrate Google (& AdSense) Into Software
Apple and Google alliance just got stronger from Last100 discusses how Apple's latest software release with iLife and iWork have enhanced integration into Google Maps, Google AdSense and YouTube.... - Don't Obsess
Over Superficial Details
Ever see one of those movies that show some super-secret government agency with plush high-tech interior offices that belie the exterior location? You know the ones I'm talking about. The secret spy base in headquartered in a rundown part of town in a dilapidated building that nobody but a... - Supplemental
Results and Google's Extended Databases
Until very recently, you might have seen a label next to a search result in Google that indicated it was a "supplemental" result. A couple of patents from Google, one of which was granted this week and one from earlier this year, discuss how a search query might return results... - Yahoo's New
Traffic Quality Center
Today, Yahoo launched a new Traffic Quality Center for advertisers and consumers. The center will provide information on: Procedure on submitting a click investigation request Announcements on new product enhancements regarding ad quality Advice and tips on how to monitoring your traffic Featured questions regarding traffic quality, with answers from... - Now Showing:
Google Video On Privacy
Some webmasters may know of Google's Maile Ohye through her work in Google Webmaster Central, but now she plays a new role explaining issues about search privacy, in a new video from Google. It's the first of several videos on the subject that Google has announced that it will be... - Q&A On The New
Google News Comments
Google News To Newsmakers: Send Us Your Comments from me earlier covers the new system that Google unveiled today allowing for comments on news stories. I've now had a chance to talk briefly with Google News business product manager Josh Cohen about the system, to better understand its goals and... - Want That Top
Ad Position On Google? The Rules Are About To Change
In the upcoming weeks, Google will be releasing an updated algorithm to determine the ads that are displayed in the top ad spot, above the organic search results. The updated algorithm will continue to use the quality and cost-per-click (CPC) figure but will be slightly tweaked for that top ad... - Get ready for a new Live.com, LiveSide
- Ask Goes Green
With Help From Dell
Ask and Dell have joined forces on a green initiative. According to the release: Ask.com and Dell’s Data Center Solutions (DCS) team have worked closely together on an environmentally friendly plan that includes a combination of hardware and services to further Ask.com’s data center efficiencies. Specifically, the DCS team collaborated... - Official Google Blog: Is black the new green?, Official Google Blog
