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…
IAC To
Launch AskCity; Local Info Services Site
Reuters reports that IAC and Ask.com are launching a new local information
services site named AskCity on December 4th. The site will combine IAC’s
portfolio of Ask.com, CitySearch, Evite and TicketMaster by providing
information and services such as Web search, city guides, maps and event
listings….
Name
That Search Marketer Game
David Wallace at SearchRank.com has a game; SEO/SEM Trivia – How Well Do You
Know It’s Stars? Basically, he took pictures of well-known SEMs and SEOs and
blacked out some features from the pictures. He then asked you to name the
person in each picture. I know all but one, I won’t say whom. I will give you
a hint, I am not in any of those pictures, but I did take one of those
pictures….
Alexa
Ain’t So Bad, Says Site Search Comparison
Alexa has come under plenty of fire recently as not being accurate (old hands
have known better for years), as more and more people are using it to “prove”
how hot their sites are. Sean Ryan at SLI Systems says lay off the Alexa
bashing! SLI provides search services for a variety of web sites. Sean plotted
the amount of searches he sees against the relative Alexa traffic rankings of
some sites and found there was a correspondence. If you were a high traffic
Alexa site, you also had a lot of site searches. Interesting, but I’m afraid
it won’t…
A
Superbowl Marriage Proposal?
Joe Morin thinks he’s got the next Million Dollar Home page mixed with romance
going. To wit: someone named JP (to stay secret from his girlfriend) wants to
make his wedding proposal in a TV commercial during next year’s SuperBowl.
Joe’s hoping that somehow, search and interactive marketers can make it
happen. Joe’s post with details is here; the proposal site itself is here.
Since the ads are all sold already, it’s not a matter of raising money now but
buzz to perhaps get JP linked up with an existing advertiser that might want
to feature him. Good luck, JP…
Goodbye
Google Answers
Wow. Google is shutting down its Google Answers service. The company has
announced that new questions won’t be accepted after the New Year, though the
site will continue to let people view the question archives. Killing off the
service, which never seemed to catch on much, certainly will help Google seem
like it is focusing efforts toward more needed areas. But it still feels like
an odd, almost surrendering move in the face of Yahoo Answers being such a
success….
Google
Audio Ads Sign-Up Page Live
Google Audio Ads now appears to be opening to sign-ups, sort of. Googlaxy.com
sent me a heads-up about three new URLS that are (somewhat) active:…
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