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Upcoming Seminars: Search Marketing 2008: What We’ve Learned, Where We’re Headed Paid Search for Big Sites, Big Brands

Stories Discussed In The Show

• Living Out Of A Suitcase (Sort Of) & Loving It
• As Expected, Yahoo Announces "10 Year" Google Paid Search Deal
  This afternoon Yahoo confirmed that it had entered into a paid search deal with Google. That deal is described by Yahoo in its press release and by Google in a related blog post. Google takes pains in the post to insulate the deal against anti-trust claims....
• Yahoo's Google & Microsoft Deals, Side-By-Side
  I was off most of Friday when the Google-Yahoo deal was announced -- and then details of Microsoft's last proposal to Yahoo also came out. Today was catch-up, and I wanted to put the deals next to each other in chart form. Google-Yahoo doesn't seem as bad as some...
• Yahoo-Google Deal: Shrewd Move Or Screw Up?
  When the highly anticipated Yahoo-Google paid search deal was announced on Thursday the fallout and speculation began immediately: would it help Yahoo or was it an act of capitulation to Google? Coming as it did with the formal end of talks with Microsoft, was it a betrayal of Yahoo shareholders?...
• The first great battle of the Internet is over, and I'm delighted to announce that we've finished in second place, Fake Steve Jobs / Fake Jerry Yang
• Yahoo Loses Jeff Weiner But Probably Won't Replace Him
  Consistent with earlier speculation, Jeff Weiner formally left Yahoo yesterday and immediately became an "executive in residence" for both Accel Partners and Greylock Partners. Yahoo President Sue Decker informed the rank and file and tried to maintain confidence in the company (her email via TechCrunch) after the news came out....
• New Purple Yahoo Logo To Demonstrate Its New Start?
  TechCrunch reports that Yahoo is testing out a new purple logo. The new logo, as shown in the picture from TechCrunch, shows Yahoo changed the font to a more curvy look and went from red to a purple color. Danny and I wonder if the new logo, if it happens,...
• Google Local Business Center Undergoes Redesign
  The Google Local Business Center is undergoing a redesign from within, as Mike Blumenthal reports. The main differences that I see are on the add and edit listing screens. The add listing screen seems to have consolidated much of the information retrieval process onto less screens. You can see a...
• More Than 40 Speakers Will Present On Local Search And Mobile Marketing At SMX Local & Mobile
  Speakers for this year’s Search Marketing Expo – SMX Local & Mobile are now posted. In all, more than 40 thought leaders and internet marketing pioneers will be presenting at the event, which will be held July 24-25 in San Francisco. Register by next Friday, June 20, and get an...
• SEOmoz Pro Training
• For Google, Add .0 To .EXE As File Extensions To Avoid
  SEOmoz discovered that ending your URLs with a .0 will prevent your pages from being found in the Google index. That means we need to add the .0 to the list of file extensions you should avoid using. Stephen Spencer's News.com article said, "According to Matt, the file extension in...
• Live Search Tests Home Page Skins
  The LiveSide Blog reports that Live Search is testing out a new feature that allows users to customize the skin or background of the Live.com home page. The LiveSide Blog has a screen capture of one of the skins, a couple in a lake. If you look at the right-bottom...
• License, Insurance, Registration & Google ID: Cop Tickets Google StreetView Car
  Valleywag reported that the driver of a Google StreetView car was captured on Flickr being ticketed by a police officer. The picture was taken in San Francisco by Damian Spain. I just can't stop laughing about the "privacy" violation here. StreetView has come under fire for capturing images that some...
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