Monthly archive for May 2008

New Google US Favicon

Friday, den 30. May 2008

The lucky users over in America have a new Google Favicon! They’ve decided to use the 2nd “g” in the Google Logo as the new Favicon. If you don’t know what a favicon is, its the little icon that comes up in most browsers next to the website address in the address bar. It may [...]

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Belgian Newspaper Publisher To Sue Google

Friday, den 30. May 2008

A group of Belgian newspaper publishers wants Google to pay up to €49.2 million (US$77.5 million) in damages for violating copyright law by publishing their articles on Google News and caching their web pages. Read more here.

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Search 4.0: Putting Humans Back In Search?

Thursday, den 29. May 2008

Interesting article by Danny Sullivan over at Search Engine Land about Search and our input. Heres a little sneak peak: ” Search engines already make use of some human data. All the major search engines, for example, monitor what we click on within the search results. This helps them determine if a particular listing is [...]

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MSN Expanding Mobile Ad Offering

Wednesday, den 28. May 2008

Microsoft have announced that they will start placing Mobile Ads on their Windows Live Hotmail Service, and Windows Live Messenger Application. Users in France, United Kingdom, Spain and USA will all start to see these ads start to appear, let us know if you happen to use MSN Mobile and see them for yourself. Orginal [...]

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Yahoo May 2008 Search Update

Tuesday, den 27. May 2008

Today Yahoo announced that they will be updating their search index, feel free to let us know how it affects you by commenting. Below is taken from the Yahoo Blog: ” 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 [...]

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Ever Wondered…

Monday, den 26. May 2008

Have you ever wondered what sites your Ads appear on the Google Content network? Well Google have put together a nice new list of Websites in each vertical for each country, of websites currently on their network. Take a look here.

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Google To Permit Third Party Ads On AdSense

Monday, den 26. May 2008

For the first time Google have announced that they will allow third parties such as Mediaplex and Eyeblaster to serve Ads on Google’s Content network named AdSense. Read more over at NMA.

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Teletext Holidays goes to Court

Friday, den 23. May 2008

Teletext Holidays is going to court in an attempt to stop Directline Holidays bidding on its trademarks and brand name as Google keywords. Read more Here.

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Alternative Search Engines

Thursday, den 22. May 2008

With MSN trying to lure consumers to their engine with cold hard cash, we thought we should remind people of the Search Engine alternatives out there: Social Search: Digg, del.icio.us, Eurekster, FriendFeed, Mahalo, Mechanical Zoo, StumbleUpon Metasearch Engines: Clusty, Dogpile, Mamma, Metacrawler, Vivisimo Open Source Search: Grub, Lucene, Nutch, Sph Visual Search Enines: Kartoo, Searchme, [...]

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The Microsoft Search Announcement: Cashback!

Wednesday, den 21. May 2008

Microsoft announced today that they have started a cash back scheme, in which you: 1. Search for a product on Microsoft Live Search 2. You find your product on Live Search and go through to their website 3. You buy the product after finding it on Microsoft Live Search 4. Once you reach a cash [...]

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