Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search
Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged
separately:
From The SEW Blog…
Where
Are The Mobile Search Marketers?
I’m generally swamped when I do a call for speakers for any SES event. There’s
no end of people who want to talk about paid listings, conversion tracking and
so on. But man — no one is biting for my Mobile SEO panel as SES Multimedia &
Mobile this October. I’ve seen this occasionally before — a panel simply
might be too ahead of the market. Maybe everyone’s talking the mobile search
talk but no one’s doing the walk. If you are, prove me wrong and make a pitch.
Details here, and I’m taking them through next Wednesday….
Google
News Archive Search Creep
Earlier this week Google released Google News Archive Search, and I just
spotted that database being integrated into Google Search results. I did an
ego search on my name, Barry Schwartz and saw at the bottom this:…
More On
Google & Blocking Privacy Proxies
Yesterday I wrote about how several proxy servers used by those wishing to
search and surf anonymously had apparently been blocked by Google, including
the popular Tor service. Google’s since explained why these were blocked and
how human users can get around the barrier….
Google’s
Title & Description Hijacked In Yahoo Results Due To Glitch
I reported at the Roundtable that Yahoo! Shows Different Site’s Title &
Description For Google.com. Apparently, this is visible in the US, and if you
conduct search on [google] at Yahoo Search you may notice that the top result
for www.google.com has the title, “Elisha Morgan Gemologists.” That title
comes from a site listed in the Yahoo Directory, that happens to 302 redirect
to google.com. So now, Yahoo lists that site’s title and description for
Google.com. Go figure?…
Google
Sitelinks: New Name For Those Links Under The Top Listings
Last year, people started to notice that Google began showing “subtopic” or
“subcategory” links below their listing, if they were the first in a Google
search. Now, Google’s finally confirmed the change as a permanent feature and
given it a name: sitelinks. Here’s an example of sitelinks in action, which I
tapped into doing a search for HP: Notice how under the first result, there
are a number of sub-listings, such as:…
Search
Forums Roundup: Sept. 8, 2006
Today’s SearchDay, Search Engine Forums Spotlight, features our weekly links
to this week’s hot topics from search engine forums across the web: Local
Search Advertising Spend Will Double – Content Is King – Do I Need Adwords? –
Organic Search Vs. Paid Advertisement – SEO Rates – Moving to
Pay-For-Performance, and more….
Search
Headlines & Links: September 7, 2006
Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along
with other items we’ve spotted but not blogged separately:…
RH
Donnelley Buys LocalLaunch
The press release has yet to come out but it’s official that RH Donnelley, the
third largest US yellow pages publisher, has acquired local SEO/SEM firm
LocalLaunch. That means YellowPages.com/AT&T is the only remaining major US
yellow pages publisher that has not acquired an SEM firm. SuperPages recently
bought Inceptor and Yellow Book purchased ClickForward previously. I’ll do a
more elaborate post on my blog later. Postscript Barry: Just a quick note that
ClickZ has more details on this, and the Search Engine Roundtable has the
community reaction to the sale. Congrats Justin and Brad!…
Google
Protecting Itself Or Harming The “Innocent”
Google blocking privacy technology over at Boing Boing has Cory Doctrow
writing up how Google is blocking some proxy servers from making requests. An
attempt by Google to stop those trying to protect themselves from prying eyes?
Many have told him that it’s Google likely stopping automated request from
proxies. That doesn’t let Google off the hook. Cory writes: But that doesn’t
change the essential point: Google is fighting bots by compromising its users’
privacy — the countermeasure is a form of punishing the innocent to get at
the guilty. OK, Cory, let’s spin it around. Let’s say that…
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