Archive for June, 2008
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Seero.com allows users to mash and sync videos with a Google map. One user mapped a car chase scene from the movie Bullitt with Steve McQueen: to the left you'll see the video, and to the right the related San Francisco locations. (If you're wondering why there's no jet fighters or transforming robots in this car chase, note the movie's from 1968.) [Via Boing Boing .
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by Jennifer Laycock A round up of what Jennifer thought was worth sharing today. From her first "Plurkshop" to social media espionage to a couple different viewpoints of creating online content, Jen offers up half a dozen articles worth your time. If you've taken the time to work on optimizing your site, or have hired a firm to do it, you need to read Lee Odden's article from last week's AllBusiness.com .
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Leading June's fastest moving searches, newsman Tim Russert's unexpected death triggered an astonishing outpouring online. His passing was followed by comedian and cultural commentator George Carlin. The international soccer tournament besieged Search, while Tiger Woods bogged down Internet traffic?during his knee-buckling win. Meanwhile, Gina Gershon moved from entertainer to newsmaker with the stroke of one Vanity Fair article and much political buzz .
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Posted by randfish A quote from Google's Guidelines on Cloaking : Serving up different results based on user agent may cause your site to be perceived as deceptive and removed from the Google index. There are two critical pieces in that sentence - "may" and "user agent." Now, it's true that f you cloak in the wrong ways, with the wrong intent, Google (and the other search engines) "may" remove you from their index. But, in many cases, it's the right thing to do,
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AdWeek today has an interesting article by Brian Morrissey examining how big agencies use or don't use Search Marketing to market themselves. The thrust was that few of them do - which seems to me like a real wasted opportunity. I was almost done with the piece when I got to this quote from Bartle Bogle Hegarty (BBH) Chairman Steve Harty: "We're not convinced that the people we are marketing to are using that as a channel'We have a more targeted strategy than,
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The last linky goodness of the month. But don't worrywe'll be back next month with more goodness for your linky enjoyment! Search Insider takes a look at yummy data . I heart data. Speaking of data, Matt Cutts posts on the Official Google Blog about Using data to fight webspam . Danny Sullivan points out in the comments on SERoundtable that the reason this article came out now was probably because Google's facing criticism from the EU for storing data,
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Unless you consider "Watch Episodes of Your Favorite TV Shows Now. Fast & Easy!" to be 'content,' Google AdSense is making a bold move, according to today's New York Times . In a deal with Family Guy creator Seth McFarlane, Google AdSense will be distributing McFarlane's latest project, the Internet-only animated series,
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Giving birth is a miracle unlike any other. Alas, for the woman performing the miracle, it's also a bit painful. Women in labor need all the comfort they can get, so it's no surprise that many expectant moms want to choose the music they'll hear in the delivery room. Nicole Kidman 's selection of tunes recently hit the Web and caused a stir in the Buzz. Nicole's musician husband, Keith Urban , will get plenty of airplay during her upcoming hospital stay. However,
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We'll be rolling out some changes to our crawling, indexing and ranking algorithms over the next few days, but expect the update will be completed soon. As you know, throughout this process you may see some ranking changes and page shuffling in the index. To share your thoughts or check in with other Yahoo! Search users, please visit the Site Explorer Suggestion Board . Sharad Verma Yahoo!
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by Paul Jahn It was just over a year ago when I chatted with Hanan Lifshitz of Palore for the first time. We've spoken a number of times since then, and he and the Palore team have done some great things in providing local business data. I'm very happy that Hanan has agreed to do an online interview. Paul: First of all Hanan, thanks for taking the time. It's been awhile since we have spoken. In a nutshell,