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Archive for July 2006

July 30th, 2006

Dress Up Matt Cutts

Matt Cutts had become Google’s frontline fighter against spam and evil. He travels to the different conferences, speaks, helps (?), and is essentially the unofficial Google spokesperson.
CartoonDollEmporium had recently created a cool page where you get to see Matt Cutts in Speedos and have a chance to dress him up…
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July 27th, 2006

Yahoo’s Buzzbox, a Good Source for Search Market Trends

These days, search engines show the fastest market trends and buildups. What once used to take months and a thorough market analisys can be seen over one day of search terms.
As a web marketer and publisher, I find it interesting how fast people react to news and changes, and a quick idea of what the […]

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July 25th, 2006

Google’s Take on Click Fraud

Google had posted on their official blog last week about Findings on invalid clicks, which comes to summerize their recent case with Lane’s Gifts.
For that purpose Google had agreed with the plaintiffs to have an independent expert examine our detection methods, policies, practices, and procedures and make a determination of whether or not they had […]

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July 19th, 2006

Boo Hoo Yahoo!

Yahoo stock hit a 52 week low in today’s trading, losing 25% off it’s value and an estimated $10 billion.
Yahoo stock was a seller-only for the past 24 hours since announcing delay of an additional 3 months in their new search platform.
Pros suggest that there may not be a future for this stock in the […]

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July 19th, 2006

Is Google Setting the Ground for their Own Affiliate Program?

A lot of talking have been taking place in the past week since Google rolled in their new “mystery quality factor” for landing pages promoted through their Adwords program.
Many have been complaining of minimum bid going as high as 2000% making many ads not profitable and eventually cancelled.
One webmaster took the initiative and called Google […]

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July 18th, 2006

Google Owned Domain List

Have you ever wondered how many domains Google ownes? It appears that they own as much as 520 domains (if not more).
A recent post from PronetAdvertising lists all 520 domain names which include:
howtobuyaweddingring.com
richardsbrain.com
talageo.com
and about 500 other random names…
One has to wonder if that what happens when you are a registrar, everytime you have a bad […]

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July 14th, 2006

Yahoo Weather Report & Site Explorer Experiments

Yahoo is updating it’s index again and changes in SERP’s are expected:
We rolled out an index update last night. As usual, you may see some changes in ranking as well as some shuffling of the pages that are included in the index.
Along with that, there are reports that some people who attempt to view backlinks […]

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July 12th, 2006

Google to Open a Call Center in Michigan

Google announced Monday night that they plan on opening a new office and research center in Michigan, and hire as much as 1000 new employees.
The center will be opened in downtown Ann Arbor, only miles away from the Univerisity of Michigan, where Google’s founder Larry Page acquired his undergraduate degree in engineering.
The NYTimes reports that […]

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July 6th, 2006

At Google The Lights Are On, But No One’s Home

Google is having hard time these days. Something went really wrong with their search and I am not sure they know what it was.
The most recent mistake started appearing earlier today as they started presenting referrals to Yahoo on bad SERPs. Whether they admit that their SERPs suck or it is a mere mistake, it […]

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July 6th, 2006

Google Gets the Oxford Stamp

According to OED’s Latest New Entries, Google is now an official verb, joining a respectful crew such as Xerox, Fedex and TiVo. The official definition is:
intr. To use the Google search engine to find information on the Internet.
trans. To search for information about (a person or thing) using the Google search engine.
InsideGoogle calls Microsoft to […]

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