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Avatar Posted By: dannysullivan 34 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.rentvine.com)
Category: Yahoo
Dave does it again, takes Fake [Jerry Yang] Steve Jobs talking about Yahoo being Google's bitch into video. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: dannysullivan 56 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Google Other
OK, a post from our own Search Engine Land site, but Greg Sterling's got some great info from Google on how they're dealing with the exploding mapspam problem. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: dannysullivan 70 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Microsoft Other
In just three weeks, I'll be asking Microsoft president Kevin Johnson, who oversees the Windows and Online Services division, questions relating to search as part of his keynote at our SMX Advanced show in Seattle, June 3-4. I want your help! What q read more »
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Avatar Posted By: dannysullivan 161 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://yhoo.client.shareholder.com)
Category: Yahoo Other
Jerry Yang pens a letter to worried shareholders, pledging much Yahoo growth to come and that it will be a "must buy" advertising venue. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: dannysullivan 175 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.wired.com)
Category: Google Other
Interesting look with this key quote: "We looked at all the past recessions from 1950 on and we found that direct mail -- Google's most direct predecessor -- actually grew during six recessions," Cowen and Company's Friedland says. "Given the curren read more »
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Avatar Posted By: dannysullivan 206 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Water Cooler
After watching some search marketers in arcades, I thought it would be fun to ask what you're all particularly good at. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: dannysullivan 289 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Bookmarking
At SMX Social Media, we have a keynote Q&A session with founders of delicious and StumbleUpon, Joshua Schachter and Garrett Camp. I'm looking for help! We have lots of time for open Q&A, but I'm starting the session with some focused questions. What read more »
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Avatar Posted By: dannysullivan 324 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.searchenginewatch.com)
Category: Google Other
Greg Jarboe says Google messed up in announcing how it would host AP and other wire stories, saying it should have figured there'd be a big outcry and people should be around to deal with it. Me, I think the "outcry" was overblown. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: dannysullivan 330 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Mobile Search
Catching up on my SEL reading, I loved Greg's column that nicely explained how mobile search comes in four major varieties ranging from SMS search to voice search plus listing the major players in each segment. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: dannysullivan 357 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.gadood.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Searching for hydrogen peroxide? The Met (the police in the UK) have a little ad coming up asking you to report anything suspicious, since that's a chemical used in homemade bombs. So far, no ads for urea nitrate or triacetone triperoxide, other che read more »
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Avatar Posted By: dannysullivan 357 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Other Searching
In other words, I finally finished my Search Month recap of all the major news in search from July 2007, all nicely organized into categories. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: dannysullivan 357 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.techmeme.com)
Category: Networking
Club Penguin is a social network for the kids -- and I do mean kids, like my 6 and 8 year olds. They love it; meet friends there, build custom igloos, play games and more. Now Disney's picking up the popular site. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: dannysullivan 363 days ago
Topic Type: Discussion
Category: Sphinn Zone
We have a wishlist of new features for Sphinn. Now we're granting wishes, so I thought it would be useful to have a topic where we post news as each new feature is available. Just keep watching this page! read more »
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Avatar Posted By: dannysullivan 364 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.downloadsquad.com)
Category: Water Cooler
I think it's well established now there's a bit of a lolcats acceptance on Sphinn. Indeed, I feel we need more merging of lolcats and SEM to maybe make semcats or seocats or lolcatsem. I dunno, but you'd better learn to talk like a cat, and this art read more »
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Avatar Posted By: dannysullivan 365 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://sfgate.com)
Category: Water Cooler
Power outage in San Francisco wipes out Craigslist, Yelp, Six Apart and others. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: dannysullivan 365 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.mlive.com)
Category: Google Other
Google CEO Eric Schmidt visited Google's Ann Arbor, Michigan office. Ho hum, I thought, until I got to this quote:

"It's a very literate state," he said. "Michigan is a natural center for us."

No, no, no! I mean if Michigan is very literate, read more »
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Avatar Posted By: dannysullivan 365 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.captainsquartersblog.com)
Category: Google Other
Top headline on Google news earlier this week: "Bush butt probed, Cheney in charge." Sometimes when you leave it to the algorithm, it doesn't know whether something's in good taste. See the screenshot for a chuckle. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: dannysullivan 365 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Other Search Marketing
Google, Bloglines, Digg, Flickr and more all come to your iPhone -- if you've got one, that is. Barry Schwartz does a very visual look and the tools and tips to try. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: dannysullivan 365 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchenginewatch.com)
Category: Local & Maps
Carrie Hill does a nice, quick runthrough of how local business can (and should) seize control of their listings in Google and Yahoo. read more »
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Avatar Posted By: dannysullivan 366 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blogs.guardian.co.uk)
Category: Google Other
A minor debate has been going in the UK over whether it's time to free men from neckties (I completely endorse this move). Turns out Peter Fleischer, who oversees privacy issues for Google, isn't staying private on his views. In a letter to the Fina read more »
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Avatar Posted By: dannysullivan 366 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blog.compete.com)
Category: SEM
What are the top search terms for the travel industry this summer? Compete posts based on their data. Chuckle -- travelocity is the top term, but only 68 percent of those searching for it actually go to the site. Ouch. After navigational queries tha read more »
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Avatar Posted By: dannysullivan 366 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://blogoscoped.com)
Category: Google AdSense
Interesting from Google Blogoscope, how Google AdSense ads are now appearing in places without any type of disclosure that they are ads. Part of me thinks that's fine, as long as you could then entirely switch of disclosure from Google period. That read more »
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Avatar Posted By: dannysullivan 366 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.locallytype.com)
Category: Google AdWords
Small businesses still not getting local search? Google's solution in Hamburg was to send 120 Googlers each armed with a giant cutout figure with a search box on their chests to represent missing customers. Plus, there's an offer for a 30 euro vouch read more »
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Avatar Posted By: dannysullivan 366 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://searchengineland.com)
Category: Other Searching
Google announced it would anonymize log data in March. Ask followed last week, and now Microsoft says it will too -- plus got with Ask to call for an industry discussion and standards on the issues. This is my big write-up on the move and a timeline read more »
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Avatar Posted By: dannysullivan 369 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.downloadsquad.com)
Category: Google Other
Google always downplayed that the click to call someone feature in Google Maps would be abused by crank callers and pranksters. Now it's gone. No official announcement, just a mention in a support group. No particular reason blamed either, only that read more »
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