Search Engine Forums Spotlight (Search Engine Watch)

Search Engine Forums Spotlight (Search Engine Watch)

Links to the week's topics from search engine forums across the web: TrueLocal Launches Canadian Local Search Engine - The Video Void: Where Are All The AdSense Video Ads? - Here Comes Social Media Optimization? - Google Apps for Your Domain, and more. read more

B2B: Getting Search Engine Marketing in Sync (TechNewsWorld.com)

B2B: Getting Search Engine Marketing in Sync (TechNewsWorld.com)

When a searcher types a word into Google or Yahoo, organic and paid results populate the return screen. Because competition for top rankings in search results is steadily increasing, business-to-business marketers are challenged to develop ever more sophisticated search strategies. read more

Website Owners Applaud as Google Delists or Bans Garbage Sites (PR Web)

Website Owners Applaud as Google Delists or Bans Garbage Sites (PR Web)

AdSense expert and New York Times bestselling author Joel Comm says the proliferation of “garbage” Adsense sites is behind the timely and appropriate move. (PRWEB Aug 30, 2006) Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/chachingpr.php/RW1wdC1UaGlyLUNvdXAtTG92ZS1JbnNlLVplcm8= more here

Website Owners Applaud as Google Delists or Bans Garbage Sites (PR Web)

Website Owners Applaud as Google Delists or Bans Garbage Sites (PR Web)

AdSense expert and New York Times bestselling author Joel Comm says the proliferation of “garbage” Adsense sites is behind the timely and appropriate move. (PRWEB Aug 30, 2006) Trackback URL: http://www.prweb.com/chachingpr.php/RW1wdC1UaGlyLUNvdXAtTG92ZS1JbnNlLVplcm8= read more

Master of Your Domains (The Motley Fool)

Master of Your Domains (The Motley Fool)

If you're Microsoft (Nasdaq: MSFT) , that warm breath you're feeling on the back of your neck isn't a surprise anymore. You don't even need to peek over your shoulder. read more

Lycos in video search venture (Financial Times)

Lycos in video search venture (Financial Times)

Lycos, the online web portal, is launching a broadband video search service on Tuesday powered by technology supplied by Blinkx, a fast growing online video search pioneer. continue

Google and Advertising: Perfect Together (Yeald)

Google and Advertising: Perfect Together (Yeald)

While Mr. van Leeuwen questions Google's ability to take on all companies on the Internet, Google politely continues to advance its strength in advertising, the core of Internet company revenues and whistle past its competitors. more here

Tuning search for enterprise use (CNETAsia)

Tuning search for enterprise use (CNETAsia)

For Norwegian player Fast Search & Transfer, the money is in enterprise search applications which the vendor says, will enhance information retrieval and even monitor transactions. read more

Google aims to befriend TV industry (Tiscali)

Google aims to befriend TV industry (Tiscali)

EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Google is approaching British broadcasters to quell any fears that it plans to compete with them as it rapidly expands a Web-based video delivery system. more here

A happy Google user (Addict 3D)

A happy Google user (Addict 3D)

Sometimes we get emails from Google users who have found great ways to use Google Base along with other Google tools and services. Ryan, from TropicalYarns.com has taken advantage of AdSense, Google Base, Checkout, Analytics, AdWords, and more to turn his small business around. more here

Google aims to befriend TV industry (Reuters.co.uk)

Google aims to befriend TV industry (Reuters.co.uk)

EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Google GOOG.O is approaching British broadcasters to quell any fears that it plans to compete with them as it rapidly expands a Web-based video delivery system. read more

Flixya Partners with HubTV to Deliver a Broadband Action Sports TV Video Portal (PR Web)

Flixya Partners with HubTV to Deliver a Broadband Action Sports TV Video Portal (PR Web)

Broadband Action Sports TV - HubTV is aiming to dominate the online action sports video community with the Flixya video sharing platform. (PRWEB Aug 25, 2006) Trackback URI: http://www.prweb.com/zingpr.php/UHJvZi1Mb3ZlLVN1bW0tVGhpci1JbnNlLVplcm8= more here

Ricardo-Developed Engines Perform Flawlessly as JCB DIESELMAX Sets New 350 mph Speed Record (The Auto Channel)

Ricardo-Developed Engines Perform Flawlessly as JCB DIESELMAX Sets New 350 mph Speed Record (The Auto Channel)

VAN BUREN TWP., Mich., Aug. 24 -- The third speed record achieved by the JCB DIESELMAX in only six days, yesterday's success demonstrates the power and reliability of its Ricardo-developed engines. read more

Online Advertising Agency Automatically Auctions Best Paying Ads For You: Rightmedia RMX Direct - Video Interview (MasterNewMedia.org)

Online Advertising Agency Automatically Auctions Best Paying Ads For You: Rightmedia RMX Direct - Video Interview (MasterNewMedia.org)

Online advertising service RMX Direct aims to unite advertisers, ad networks and independent publishers in working together towards greater profits. If your site features ad content, or if it doesn't yet, you owe it to yourself to see how RMX can help you to monetize your efforts. RMX Direct uses an accessible web based application that makes it as easy as possible for bloggers and other niche more here

Microsoft, Facebook Ink Ad Deal (Red Herring)

Microsoft, Facebook Ink Ad Deal (Red Herring)

Pact is a significant milestone for Redmond’s fledgling adCenter portal. read more

CEO Schmidt: Many People are Very Happy with Google Search (Search Engine Watch)

CEO Schmidt: Many People are Very Happy with Google Search (Search Engine Watch)

Part two of Andrew Goodman's coverage of Danny Sullivan's SES keynote conversation with Google chief executive Eric Schmidt. read more

Creating Complimentary Google AdSense & Contextual Ads (Search Engine Roundtable)

Creating Complimentary Google AdSense & Contextual Ads (Search Engine Roundtable)

A WebmasterWorld thread asks if I have a page on strawberries, how do I get ads for "cream"? People tend to like eating strawberries with cream and the same deal with any product/service that is complimentary to an other. The... continue

AOL Moves to Increase Privacy on Search Queries (New York Times)

AOL Moves to Increase Privacy on Search Queries (New York Times)

AOL?s chief technology officer departed after the company released hundreds of thousands of its customers? search queries. more here

IxReveal and Planet Technologies Partner to Deliver Enhanced Search Experience (SYS-CON Media)

IxReveal and Planet Technologies Partner to Deliver Enhanced Search Experience (SYS-CON Media)

IxReveal, a leader in text analytics for unstructured data, and Planet Technologies, an international IT consulting and services company, announced a partnership today that will deliver IxReveal's Desktop Edition as an integrated component of Planet's PROSPECTOR search appliance. read more

RateItAll.com Introduces Revenue Sharing for Consumer Reviews (PR Web)

RateItAll.com Introduces Revenue Sharing for Consumer Reviews (PR Web)

Online social network RateItAll.com extends its AdSense powered revenue sharing program to include the submission of reviews. (PRWEB Aug 21, 2006) more here

Yahoo! Sites Register a Moderate Share Gain for the Second Consecutive Month (SYS-CON Media)

Yahoo! Sites Register a Moderate Share Gain for the Second Consecutive Month (SYS-CON Media)

comScore Networks today released its monthly qSearch analysis of activity across competitive search engines. In July 2006, Yahoo! Sites posted modest market share gains for the second consecutive month to reach 28.8 percent of U.S. searches, trailing Google Sites, which registered a 43.7 percent share. Google's share declined 1 percent from the previous month, ending its impressive 11-month run read more

Surf the Web safely (Provo Daily Herald)

Surf the Web safely (Provo Daily Herald)

Q: Are my searches being tracked when I use engines like Google or Yahoo!? How do I attain as much privacy as possible when I conduct my research? -- L.B., Reading, Mass. A: Almost every search you conduct on the Internet is being tracked. read more

Is Google sending traffic to other search engines? (About.com)

Is Google sending traffic to other search engines? (About.com)

I was doing a Google search this morning, and lo and behold, if I wasn't asked if I wanted to also do my search - as in go to OTHER... more here

Google AdSense Tries to Auto-Install Software (Addict 3D)

Google AdSense Tries to Auto-Install Software (Addict 3D)

Users viewing AdSense ads in Internet Explorer 6 or 7 over the last few days were prompted to install third-party software, according to forum posts on WebmasterWorld. The applications included QuickTime, Acrobat, Flash and Windows Media Player. more here

Testing Search Engines with W3C HTML Validator (Search Engine Journal)

Testing Search Engines with W3C HTML Validator (Search Engine Journal)

Testing Search Engines with W3C HTML Validator Google Blogoscoped reader Jake took the initiative of running the major search engines through the W3C HTML Validator to find out which search engine has the least HTML syntax errors. As simple as the task may seem, sometimes it takes someone to think a bit outside of the box, [...] continue

Google AdSense Ads Prompting 3rd Party Downloads (Search Engine Roundtable)

Google AdSense Ads Prompting 3rd Party Downloads (Search Engine Roundtable)

There is an exhausting long thread at WebmasterWorld that I have been tracking since it started. The thread discusses that some Google AdSense ads, specifically the new video ads, may be prompting 3rd party software, like Windows Media player or... more here

AdSense Placement Optimization: User Behavior (MasterNewMedia.org)

AdSense Placement Optimization: User Behavior (MasterNewMedia.org)

You build a site to attract visitors, but the more visitors you get, the more expensive it becomes to maintain the site. So, like many other publishers, you turn to online advertisements for revenue. Photo credit: The Google AdSense guy - (c) Google But if your visitors don't find the ads useful (or worse, find them obtrusive), you could potentially end up losing both users and your revenue continue

Web Searches Go Low Tech (Washington Post)

Web Searches Go Low Tech (Washington Post)

Firms are launching search engines that rely on human information sharing instead of algorithms. more here

Boeing Selects Honeywell Engines for CSAR-X Program (Rotorhub)

Boeing Selects Honeywell Engines for CSAR-X Program (Rotorhub)

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 14, 2006 -- The Boeing Company [NYSE: BA] has selected Honeywell T55-GA-714A turbo shaft engines to power the HH-47 helicopter proposed for the U.S. Air Force Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR-X) program. more here

Search Engine Forums Spotlight (Search Engine Watch)

Search Engine Forums Spotlight (Search Engine Watch)

Links to the week's topics from search engine forums across the web: The Official SES San Jose 2006 Conference Thread - Would You Tell Just One Secret? - AdSense Bad For Your Business - Yahoo! Launches A New Slurp Crawler, and more. more here

Ads offer new model for getting rich online (Miami Herald)

Ads offer new model for getting rich online (Miami Herald)

For hundreds of thousands of people, the dream of making an Internet fortune works like this: Earn pennies at a time in exchange for allowing Google or Yahoo to place advertisements on a personal or small-business Web page. continue

Site offers more to see than a typical Podunk (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)

Site offers more to see than a typical Podunk (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)

If huge search engines such as Yahoo and Google are the eight-lane interstates on the information superhighway, then Rochester's ePodunk Inc. is the Route 66 or New York 17, the roads you take on a Sunday drive so you can wander into that intriguing antique shop or barbecue joint up ahead. more here

Getting rich -- 5 cents at a time (San Jose Mercury News)

Getting rich -- 5 cents at a time (San Jose Mercury News)

For hundreds of thousands of people, the dream of making an Internet fortune works like this: Earn pennies at a time in exchange for allowing Google or Yahoo to place advertisements on a personal or small-business Web page. continue

Look Ma, My Own Search Engine! (LinuxElectrons)

Look Ma, My Own Search Engine! (LinuxElectrons)

It’s always great to help a friend. A friend of mine who is a diver wanted a specialized search engine for his website focused on diving. At around the same time, an engineer at Yahoo! built a prototype that made building specialized search engines a snap. continue

Improving Your Search Engine Rank (Web Host Directory)

Improving Your Search Engine Rank (Web Host Directory)

Working on improving your rank within the different search engines – especially Google – can feel like a very complicated puzzle sometimes. continue

Can't anyone keep a secret? (USA Today)

Can't anyone keep a secret? (USA Today)

Internet search engines are a marvel of the 21st century. "Google" has become a verb. An astonishing array of information is available with a few keystrokes. more here

SES: Search Engines Practice What They Preach: SEM/SEO (dmnews.com)

SES: Search Engines Practice What They Preach: SEM/SEO (dmnews.com)

SAN JOSE, CA – Search engines also do search engine marketing, panelists said Aug. 9 at the Search Engine Strategies Conference and Expo. more here

Pheedo Helps Publishers Optimize Search Engine Performance Via New RSS Offering (PR Web via Yahoo! News)

Pheedo Helps Publishers Optimize Search Engine Performance Via New RSS Offering (PR Web via Yahoo! News)

San Jose, Calif. (PRWEB) August 10, 2006 -- Pheedo, the RSS marketing experts, today announced a new natural search engine optimization (SEO) product for RSS feeds that helps publishers achieve greater visibility and relevance in all major search engines via creative linking strategies, keyword placement and more. more here

When Search Engines Do Search Marketing (AOL, Business.com, Yahoo! & Local.com) (Search Engine Roundtable)

When Search Engines Do Search Marketing (AOL, Business.com, Yahoo! & Local.com) (Search Engine Roundtable)

Detlev modded up this sessions. AOL was up first, The old was in the business of sending out CDs. AOL is giving everything away for free. They are going from being an ISP to a portal. They changed their entire... continue

Search engines cleared of bias favouring big sites (Personal Computer World)

Search engines cleared of bias favouring big sites (Personal Computer World)

Search engines are not biased towards popular websites, and may even be egalitarian in the way they direct traffic, computer scientists claimed today. read more

Making Money with Adsense Using Free Tools The

Making Money with Adsense Using Free Tools The

Making Money with Adsense Using Free Tools The internet provided people a way to make extra money. You may choose to make money by selling products, services or you can also make money online by being an affiliate website. Another way to make extra income in the internet is through Adsense. There are many opportunities [...] continue

Health Web Sites Treat Search Stress (RedNova)

Health Web Sites Treat Search Stress (RedNova)

By Allison Bruce, Ventura County Star, Calif. Aug. 7--Almost three-fourths of people online have used search engines to find health information, but only 16 percent of those people actually find the information they want. more here

Making Money with Adsense Using Free Tools The

Making Money with Adsense Using Free Tools The

Making Money with Adsense Using Free Tools The internet provided people a way to make extra money. You may choose to make money by selling products, services or you can also make money online by being an affiliate website. Another way to make extra income in the internet is through Adsense. There are many opportunities [...] continue

Google amps up AdSense with MTV deal (CNET)

Google amps up AdSense with MTV deal (CNET)

Blog: Google's agreement to distribute clips from MTV Networks over its AdSense advertising network is expected to be the first syndication... read more

Microsoft Focuses on User Behavior With New Search Research (Microsoft Watch)

Microsoft Focuses on User Behavior With New Search Research (Microsoft Watch)

At the SIGIR information retrieval conference in Seattle this week, Microsoft Research will present some of the analysis techniques it is developing to help improve search-result quality. more here

A NICHE BLOG ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP (Manila Bulletin)

A NICHE BLOG ON ENTREPRENEURSHIP (Manila Bulletin)

Leo Torres is a thirtysomething Overseas Filipino Worker based in Saudi Arabia. Last month, it was reported that he earned 0 from Google AdSense for his entrepreneur-oriented site, really not bad for somebody who just got into the blogging bandwagon a little more than four months ago. continue

Although Google Adsense Is Top Contender, Email Marketing Remains The Champion Profit Generator (PR Web)

Although Google Adsense Is Top Contender, Email Marketing Remains The Champion Profit Generator (PR Web)

Glen Hopkins is poised to hit the International best sellerlist on August 8th 2006 with his new book, Lucrative ListBuilding. The book reveals how everyday people with noexperience can build huge, highly profitable opt-in emaillists from scratch to make millions online. (PRWEB Aug 6, 2006) more here

Using Overture Keywords to Highlight your Website Are

Using Overture Keywords to Highlight your Website Are

Using Overture Keywords to Highlight your Website Are you looking for the best keywords? When you are running a pay-per-click campaign to your site, you can use overture keywords into your site. Overture keywords have been commonly used by people who are looking for good keywords. Although you can make your keyword search [...] read more

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 64 (MasterNewMedia.org)

New Media Picks Of The Week: Sharewood Picnic 64 (MasterNewMedia.org)

Photo credit: Dave Le Video sharing community offers a revenue sharing program through Google AdSense Personal file transfer program that works by directly connecting you to your recipients Web-based spreadsheet editor that enables instantaneous online collaboration with anyone Online drawing tool that provides an environment for diagramming, creating flow charts and free hand drawing more here

A New Island for Internet Marketers (PR Web via Yahoo! News)

A New Island for Internet Marketers (PR Web via Yahoo! News)

Adelaide, SA (PRWEB) August 5, 2006 -- The online travel market has a new entrant, taking on competitors like never before. read more

Know if You Are Making Money through Keyword

Know if You Are Making Money through Keyword

Know if You Are Making Money through Keyword Tracking Website owners know that their site is making a sale through keyword tracking. The information of the most searched keywords is recorded into the database and from there it is presented to the owner s site in a significant format. The database is the one giving [...] read more

Overture Keyword Suggestion Tool: Things you Need to

Overture Keyword Suggestion Tool: Things you Need to

Overture Keyword Suggestion Tool: Things you Need to Consider Keywords are very significant in a website. Many Internet users that are in pursuit of different genres of information use keywords or phrases to locate sites bearing related information. It is not only important for Internet users but also for website publishers as well. It [...] read more

Contextual Advertising Now Available To Amazon Associates: The Omakase Links Program (MasterNewMedia.org)

Contextual Advertising Now Available To Amazon Associates: The Omakase Links Program (MasterNewMedia.org)

Contextual advertising is now available from the Amazon Associates program too and the possibility of its use next to Google AdSense contextual ads may reserve you some interesting surprise. Amazon has recently introduced a new beta program, labelled Omakase Links, where Amazon associates can automatically display products that visitors to their pages would be most interested in buying. Just like continue

Uses of a Good Keyword Tool Looking for

Uses of a Good Keyword Tool Looking for

Uses of a Good Keyword Tool Looking for the right keyword that will aid in promoting your website is very essential. It is the key for you to get on the top when it comes to the rankings of the best search engines. Making on the top will bring you more money and fame! Basically, [...] more here

Fortunes of online search firms rooted in advertising (AFP via Yahoo! News)

Fortunes of online search firms rooted in advertising (AFP via Yahoo! News)

AOL's decision to stop charging broadband Internet users for access to its services confirmed that the money-making model for online search engines is rooted in advertising, analysts say. continue

Uses of a Good Keyword Tool Looking for

Uses of a Good Keyword Tool Looking for

Uses of a Good Keyword Tool Looking for the right keyword that will aid in promoting your website is very essential. It is the key for you to get on the top when it comes to the rankings of the best search engines. Making on the top will bring you more money and fame! Basically, [...] more here

Attractive SEO Software Deals: Avoid being taken in!

Attractive SEO Software Deals: Avoid being taken in!

Attractive SEO Software Deals: Avoid being taken in! You ought to know better. There will always be many advertisements raining down on you that entice you in purchasing that premium SEO software to double, no triple your site s optimization in a matter of a few minutes or a few seconds, even. Getting SEO software [...] more here

ValueClick Kicks (The Motley Fool)

ValueClick Kicks (The Motley Fool)

There's more to online advertising than Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) and Yahoo! (Nasdaq: YHOO) . Last night, ValueClick (Nasdaq: VCLK) posted better-than-expected results from an interactive marketing niche that many investors have been neglecting to notice. continue

Of Mac and Tux (Manila Bulletin)

Of Mac and Tux (Manila Bulletin)

Firefox just released version 1.5.0.5 and version 2.0 beta, Opera is gearing up for version 10, Internet Exploder will shove down version 7 down the throats of its users and Safari will definitely get another update when Leopard ships. more here

Adsense: Tips on How to Make Your Adsense

Adsense: Tips on How to Make Your Adsense

Adsense: Tips on How to Make Your Adsense Work Better Most of you may have heard about Adsense and the income it generates. However, most people don t know how these thing work or how to make it work properly. Firstly, here is an explanation of what is Adsense all about. An Adsense is a [...] more here

eNom's Acquisition of BulkRegister Changes Domain Name Landscape (TechNewsWorld.com)

eNom's Acquisition of BulkRegister Changes Domain Name Landscape (TechNewsWorld.com)

BulkRegister, the original low-price commodifier of the domain name industry, announced that its business and assets are being acquired by eNom of Bellevue, Wash. In an e-mail sent to customers on July 26, BulkRegister said that its user interface would be integrated into eNom's main platform and that eNom would be doubling its office space in Bellevue to accommodate increases in development and more here