Yahoo is updating it search listings. Europe is still looking hard at DoubleClick-Google, with the help of a US FTC commissioner opposed to the deal. Recession an issue for search or not? Google haute couture and more, in today's show!
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Update: First Update Of 2008
Yahoo has announced the first Yahoo Search update of 2008. Sharad Verma said Yahoo has been rolling out updates to their "crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms" over the past couple days. Yahoo tells us the update will be done soon, but you may notice "some ranking changes and page shuffling... - Comparing
Mobile Search Surveys: Early Adopters Vs. Mainstream Users
I conducted a very informal, online Search Engine Land reader survey several weeks ago on a range of high-level topics pertaining to mobile search. The ultimate number of responses from SEL readers was a small sample of 77. Mike Blumethal, a contributor to SEL who writes the Understanding Google Maps... - Google-DoubleClick
Drama Moves To European Stage
Much of the discussion and debate in the U.S. over Google's proposed acquisition of DoubleClick was about the impact of the deal on consumer privacy, even though that wasn't technically part of the anti-trust analysis before the FTC. Accordingly, the FTC approved the acquisition with one commissioner dissenting largely on... - Recession-Ho! (The Search Ecosystem Enters its First Economic Downturn), MediaPost
- Does Economic Recession Spell SEO Meltdown? American Election, Search Engine Optimisation, Sphinn
- The Google
Webmaster Tools Quick Start Guide
Google has created the Google Webmaster Tools Quick Start Guide to help webmasters learn the features and reasons to use the tool. The ten step guide displays details on the dashboard, the overview section, the diagnostics section, the top search queries screen, crawl stats page, the "What the Googlebot Sees"... - After A Month,
Google Fails The One Hour Guaranteed Press Response Test
Last December, Vint Cerf -- Google's Chief Internet Evangelist -- said Google CEO Eric Schmidt provide official statements to the press, if needed, within an hour. Philipp Lenssen of Google Blogoscoped decided to test that claim. He generated a list of questions from readers and sent them in. A month... - Chinese
Kissing Couple Sues Subway Operator For Uploading Video to YouTube
China couple to sue subway over leaked kiss video from Reuters reports a Chinese couple is suing a Chinese subway operator for uploading a video of the two kissing while on a subway platform to YouTube. The video reportedly drew over 15,000 hits in just two days and has apparently... - Google Walks
Down Fashion Avenue: The Oogle Sari
Saptarshi Roy Chaudhury wrote about a design in Satya Paul's latest collection named "Oogle sari." As you can see above, it looks like a sari made up of the Google web search results....
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