1. Google Wants to Suck Your Blood! 1 hour ago   permalink

Frank Reed / Andy Beal

It looks like more people want to join the anti-Google chorus because it is the cool thing to do. Of course, if you want to be unique you can’t just use regular old curse words because Steve Jobs took that one. Rupert Murdoch doesn’t really call Google names but he does think that their business [...]

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Barry / Search Engine Roundtable A Week Later, Google Fixes Webmaster Tools iGoogle Gadgets   —  A week ago, we reported that the iGoogle Webmaster Tools gadgets were broken. Google confirmed the issue then and said they would be working on fixing them. Yesterday, Jonathan Simon of Google said it was fixed. He said: Good news...the...

Jordan McCollum / Andy Beal AP & Yahoo Reach Deal; AP & Google Next?   —  The Associated Press has long had a rocky relationship with the Internet. Two years ago, they were suing people for linking to their stories. Then they sent C&Ds to people using short quotes. After much deliberation, they decided that you could quote them for free—if you used less than five words. After that, prices started [...] A Googler / The Official Google Blog Announcing Google's Focused Research Awards   —  (Cross-posted with the Google Research Blog ) It is said that Google is like a university — and not just because everyone eats their lunch off trays in the cafeteria. Like a university, we devote significant energy to research across a wide array of subjects — from semantics to help improve search, to ways we can improve the efficiency of ... Blogoscoped.com An App Store for Google Docs, Gmail?   —  Google Inc. is preparing to launch a store selling online business software that integrates with its Web services, according to people briefed by the company, enlisting software developers in its battle against Microsoft Corp. Googlemobile.blogspot.com Take your places and searches to go with Google Maps for mobile   —  If you often use both a computer and a mobile phone in your daily routine, it can seem like a hassle when they don't stay in sync. You might spend time on your computer looking for a great used bookstore, only to forget the name of the place when you are ready to get directions from your phone. Sure, you could print directions in advance, but we ... Frank Reed / Andy Beal :    Google Searches Follow To Your Mobile Life – If It’s An Android

2. Vorhang auf f�r das Anti-iPad 1 hour ago   permalink

Www.spiegel.de

Plant Google einen Tablet-Computer? Seit auf einer offiziellen Google-Seite entsprechende Bilder aufgetaucht sind, wird in der Blogosphäre heftig gestritten, ob und wie der Suchmaschinenkonzern dem Apple-iPad Konkurrenz machen könnte. SPIEGEL ONLINE erklärt, was an den Gerüchten dran ist.

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3. Zip Line and Rappelling Adventure in Puerto Vallarta 3 hours ago   permalink

Jeremy / Jeremy Zawodny

A few weeks ago, Kathleen and I went on our first cruise together. It was her fifth and my first, so I got to experience a lot of new things. If time allows, I'll try to write about that in the future. But for now, I want to talk about one of our shore excursions. Our first day in port was in Puerto Vallarta. The weather was absolutely perfect: ...

4. Harvard Law School Library Releases Internment Camp Papers Archive 7 hours ago   permalink

Admin / ResearchBuzz

The Harvard Law School Library announced earlier this week the release of the Maurice Ettinghausen collection of Ruhleben civilian internment camp papers, 1914-1937. An overview of the collection is available at . The papers were produced when the German ...

5. A recent improvement for Arabic searches 13 hours ago   permalink

A Googler / The Official Google Blog

This post is the latest in an ongoing series about how we harness the data we collect to improve our products and services for our users. - Ed. We've learned that when performing a search on Google, people sometimes forget to separate words with spaces. Moreover, people often mistakenly repeat a letter within a single word. For instance, when ...

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6. Daily Search Forum Recap: 12 hours ago   permalink

Barry / Search Engine Roundtable

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....

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Admin / ResearchBuzz A Search Engine With Ergonomics Aimed at Older Adults   —  Sunmee Huh took a Google Custom Search engine and tweaked it to make it more ergonomic for older users and a little less confusing to novice searchers. The result is called Good50 and it’s available at . While it’s not quite perfect — some of the functionality doesn’t work for me — it’s a ...

Search Engine Watch Blog And the Best Search Engine for Oscar Nominees Goes to.....   —  Which search engine is the best for info on Oscar nominations? Click to read the rest of this post...

7. NRC Launches User-Friendly Web Tool for Searching Agency Documents 10 hours ago   permalink

ResourceShelf / ResourceShelf

NRC Launches User-Friendly Web Tool for Searching Agency Documents The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has added a search interface to its online Agencywide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) to improve the public’s ability to find and obtain NRC documents. “This is another example of the efforts the agency has underway to be as ...

8. Dallas Cowboys Beat Colts, Saints for Most Searched NFL Team on Bing 10 hours ago   permalink

Search Engine Watch Blog

Team Manning and Team Brees, eat your hearts out. It's Team Romo that won the search bowl - at least on Bing. That's right, the Dallas Cowboys were the most searched NFL team on Bing this season. They beat out both teams that will play in the Superbowl this coming Sunday - the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints. If you're wondering ...

9. The National Academies Collection: Reports funded by National Institutes of Health 11 hours ago   permalink

Www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

The National Academies perform an unparalleled public service by bringing together committees of experts in all areas of scientific and technological endeavor. These experts serve pro bono to address critical national issues and give advice to the federal government and the public.

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10. What I Want in a Windows 7 Tablet 11 hours ago   permalink

DaveN / Dave Naylor a leading UK SEO

When I think of the uses for a Tablet I keep coming back to the same thing over and over again.. Email – Communication – Browsing Email that’s a no brainer, I need access to my Webmail and Office mail so something like the push email features that make Blackberry very strong. Communication another no brainer, Bluetooth and [...] ...

11. Social Media Case Study: Piper Aircraft Launches PiperSport Light Sport Aircraft on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter 12 hours ago   permalink

Search Engine Watch Blog

Can you use social media to sell a $140,000 product? Click to read the rest of this post...

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12. So Long ClickZ News Blog 13 hours ago   permalink

ClickZ News Blog

A quick note, readers, to let you know that this blog will soon be shuttered and its content merged with ClickZ's regular news and features coverage. The news and commentary you're used to seeing here will soon begin to appear over in ClickZ's regular news section . To subscribe to all our news content, please see our e-mail newsletter and RSS ...

13. Local.com Reports Q4 2009 Earnings 16 hours ago   permalink

Search Engine Watch Blog

Local search site Local.com reported their Q4 2009 earnings today. Revenues of $16.4 million an increase of 8% over the Q3 2009 revenue of $15.1 million. Adjusted Net Income was $2.0 million, an increase of 49% over Q3 which came in at $1.3 million. Traffic for owned and operated sites in Q4 was 45 million uniques per month, up 4% from Q3 2009 ...

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14. Digging Deeper Into Ask.com's New 'Question of the Day' Feature 15 hours ago   permalink

Search Engine Watch Blog

Yesterday, I had the opportunity to chat with Ask.com U.S. President Doug Leeds about the new "Question of the Day" feature that debuted this week. Leeds championed the new feature internally at Ask.com and is quite passionate about how it reflects the brand's larger search strategy. Leeds informed me that the Question of the Day feature first ...

15. Google Is Wrecking DoubleClick, Says Unhappy Client 17 hours ago   permalink

Www.businessinsider.com

I myself worked for firms that were acquired by Yahoo (YHOO) and AOL (AOL) for preposterous sums before management at the respective companies killed off all the value.

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16. An important @robinsloan update 17 hours ago   permalink

Robinsloan.com

So, there are at least three things to cover. First: doing what, exactly? Sec­ond: what of all this around us—what of the vast robinsloan​.com empire? Third: whoah, let’s talk about how cool Twit­ter is! We’ll take it, as always, bird by bird:

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17. Find out more about who we are 18 hours ago   permalink

Www.bronco.co.uk

Bronco's success is attributed to the collective performance of its team. Effective, open communication in our workplace keeps us focused and driven towards providing you with an outstanding service.

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18. Google AdWords Disapproved For "Artificial Ad Traffic" 19 hours ago   permalink

Barry / Search Engine Roundtable

Some Google AdWords advertisers are reporting that their ads are being disapproved due to what is called "Artificial Ad Traffic." There are two thread at Google AdWords Help on the topic. At this point, no one really fully understands the...

19. SEO 101 - Part 5: Everything You Need to Know Domain Names 20 hours ago   permalink

Search Engine Guide

by Stoney deGeyter The following series is pulled from a presentation I gave to a group of beauty bloggers hosted by L'Oreal in New York. Most of the presentation is geared toward how to make a blog more search engine and user-friendly, however I will expand many of the concepts here to include tips and strategies for sites selling products or ...

20. Old Time Forum Personality, MakeMeTop, Acquired Partially 20 hours ago   permalink

Barry / Search Engine Roundtable

Possibly the first "Barry" in the SEO industry, Barry Lloyd, aka MakeMeTop, has sold the MakeMeTop brand, software and analytics business to Unica. Barry Lloyd has been in the industry for a really long time and he has been somewhat...