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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…
- Daily
SearchCast, June 16, 2006: Bill Gates Stepping Back At Microsoft; Eric Schmidt
Speaks On Google Issues; Google Gets Dayparting & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Microsoft chairman Bill Gates giving up his
chief software architect role and going part time in two years; Google CEO
Eric Schmidt talking on big issues; Yahoo damned over censorship in China (but
were six queries a fair test?); Riya shifts focus to web image search; Big.com
makes it easier to see your search results and more!
Sébastien Billard Asks Danica Brinton Questions About Ask
I’ve been using the Bloglines blog search a lot lately, and if you haven’t
tried it out, you may want to give it a spin. Danica Brinton, head of
International Product Management and Localization for Ask.com, was interviewed
about the blog search by Sébastien Billard very recently. When I first saw the
interview, it was in French only, but Sébastien let me know that it was also
available in English (see the pdf file in the first paragraph of the
interview). If you would like to discuss the interview, or some of the topics
relating to it, such as Ask’s…- Most
Searched For Famous Dads
Father’s Day is coming up this Sunday and AOL has compiled a list of the most
searched for famous dads. Here is a list on the most popular dads on AOL
Search based on searches from May 21 through June 10: 1 Brad Pitt 2 Chris
Daughtry 3 Howard Stern 4 Allen Iverson 5 Eminem 6 50 Cent 7 Daddy Yankee 8
Paul McCartney 9 Elvis Presley 10 George Bush…
- Schmidt
Talks On Staying In China, GBuy & More
Conde Nast Portfolio, a new business magazine out next year, landed a nice
coup of having Eric Schmidt speak yesterday at its launch party (Schmidt’s
also apparently set to be one of the first profiles in the new magazine). The
video of the interview is online here, covering mostly stuff you’ve already
heard Schmidt say before in other interviews (the LA Times had one last week)
over the past years. But here are some things worth highlighting to me….
- Yahoo To
Reduce Search Ad Minimum Bid In UK To 5p?
I reported this morning at the Search Engine Roundtable that Yahoo may be
reducing the minimum bid price from 10p to 5p. A WebmasterWorld member claimed
to read the news in Interactive magazine that Yahoo will be reducing the
minimum bid due to competition from Microsoft….
- Riya To
Expand Into Web Image Search
SiliconBeat reports that Riya will expand to a web image search service.
Currently, Riya allows you to upload a photo, define the photo as matching a
particular person and then it tries to scan other photos to figure out if
other photos in your collecton match that person, using face recognition. Riya
is expanding that to match images of almost anything on the web. In other
words, if I am looking to buy a big blue pineapple chair (love that chair) and
I have an image of the one I like, Riya will scan the web for similar images
of…
- Yahoo
China Highest Censorship Enforcing
Wired News reports that Yahoo China is the strictest at censoring out
politically sensitive results when compared to Google China and MSN China.
Reporters Without Borders, an advocacy group, conducted tests by querying ten
“politically-sensitive keywords” including ?press freedom? or ?human rights.”
Editors & Publisher adds the group found Yahoo’s censorship was shocking, for
example, as when a keyword search on “subversive” brought back 97% pro-Beijing
results. More from Reporters Without Borders is here, explaining how six
keywords were tested and the first ten results analyzed….
- Google
Adds Support For Greek & Bulgarian To AdSense For Search
The Inside AdSense blog announced that they have added support for Greek and
Bulgarian languages in AdSense for search. So if you have a site in those
languages, you can add the Google search box from your AdSense control panel
and earn some euros or some Bulgarian lev. More details at Greek AdSense and
Bulgarian AdSense….
- Bill
Gates To Work Part Time at Microsoft in 2008
Tons and tons of news coverage on Bill Gates’s announcement he has given up
his “chief software architect” role now and will be stepping down to be a part
time employee and chairman in July 2008. Gates would like to spend more time
working on his charitable foundation the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The
BBC has a nice Q&A on the changes here….
- SEO
Roadshow Copenhagen Sept. 23rd
Dave Naylor just announced the dates for the next SEO Roadshow. The event is
to take place on Saturday 23rd of September 2006 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The
hotel is called First Hotel Vesterbro, and the start time of the event is at
1PM until the crowd breaks down. These events are always nice, even though I
can never make it to them. I believe Danny has attended some in the past and
he enjoyed them :)…
- Google
Analytics Launches Blog
Google Analytics has launched the Google Analytics Blog to provide product
update news, bug fixes, and probably some how to posts….
- Search
Forums Roundup: June 16, 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: Marshall
Simmonds, the NYTimes & Acceptable Cloaking – What Are The 200 Signals Google
Uses To Rank Pages? – CMS and SEO – An Unhappy Relation – Strategy for Domains
In Multiple Languages – Is There Really a Google Sandbox? and more….
- More
Real Estate Search Engines & Sites
There were many interesting responses to the Real Estate Roundups that
appeared in Search Day earlier this week (part II) and last week (part I).
Most of the feedback called attention to other sites or features that had not
been mentioned in those two articles. Of course, there are far more real
estate sites than can be discussed in 1,100 words, so I had to leave out many
interesting sites. (Some were excluded because I simply was unaware of
them.)…
- AdWords
Ad Scheduling Officially Launches
Google AdWords officially launched their new ad scheduling, enabling
advertisers the ability to schedule the appearance of their ads based on both
time of day and day of the week. This new feature, which competes with
dayparting that Microsoft AdCenter has had since their beta launch, was
released worldwide to all advertisers across 40+ languages….
- Big.com
Gets Ask Results, Toolbar
I mentioned how useful Big.com was back in October, making it easy for those
with low vision to see things more clearly thanks to its big fonts. Brad
Haugaard, the project manager over there, dropped a note to say there’s been
some changes to improve the service. What’s new? Results now come from Ask,
rather than LookSmart. There’s been a general facelift all around. And there’s
a new Big Toolbar for Internet Explorer to let you make any page look bigger
— perhaps even those from the major search engines. When I looked at Big last
time, I found none…
Other Things We Read, Didn’t Blog But You Might Want To Read…