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…
Tracking
All The Official Google Blogs
It can seem like Google adds a new official blog every week, which is a pain
if you want to keep up with the official statements. Who wants to manually
subscribe to each one? Well, you don’t have to. Google tells me there’s a feed
they generate out of Google Reader that you can try here. An OPML file that
shows all the blogs that are part of that combined feed can be found here.
Unfortunately, you still can’t go to a single page from Google itself and read
all the latest posts from the various Google blogs. That…
Web
Increasingly Used For Local Service Business Searches
Local online marketing firm WebVisible conducted an online survey this past
August regarding Internet usage to find a local service business. The survey
used Nielsen//NetRatings’ online panel and asked about behavior within the
past 90 days. Among more than 2,800 consumer responses, 70% had used the
Internet to search for a local service business in the past three months.
(Roughly 78% of the US adult population is online.) Almost 90% found search to
be “somewhat effective” or “very effective” in finding local services in their
area. And 68% said they would most likely use the phone number on the
website…
New
Sitemaps For Google News
Is your site included in Google News? Is your site in English? If so, you just
got new support from Google Sitemaps. You can submit your news articles for
inclusion and also monitor crawling stats. More from Google in Introducing
Sitemaps for Google News….
Google
Breaks $500 Per Share
For fun, my MSN Direct watch is set to show the stock prices of all the major
search engines. It only works in the US, and I wish I were there now to
capture a screen from it showing Google having broken the $500 per share mark.
AP has a longer story on it here. It’s around $503 when I looked just now. No
doubt Safa Rashtchy at Piper Jaffray is keeping his fingers crossed (along
with thousands of Googlers) that it will keep going. Earlier this year, Safa
predicted a $600 price point by the end of 2006….
Answers.com Integrates Yahoo Answers Into Content
Answers.com announced that they have integrated Yahoo Answers directly into
their content. So if you do a search at Answers.com, you should see at the
bottom right portion of the page, a box for Yahoo Answers results that match
on those keywords. Gary Price has more sample searches and expert opinion on
this integration….
Google
Beats Microsoft, Yahoo As College Grad Choice
Online Recruitment reports on a CollegeGrad.com poll showing Google is the
most desired place for technology students to work for. The poll asked 1,600
respondents in October “Who would you rather work for?” The results: Google –
49% Microsoft – 29% Yahoo – 12% IBM – 10%…
Can
Developers & API Save Yahoo From Its Peanut Butter Crisis
Danny reported yesterday on the internal Yahoo memo that called for Yahoo to
make cut backs due to them spreading out the Yahoo resources like peanut
butter. In reaction to that Jeremy Zawodny of Yahoo wrote Yahoo’s Peanut
Butter APIs which is strongly supported by News.com’s Yahoo seeks geek
credibility. Jeremy argues that APIs are part of the solution to the problem
of being “everything to everyone.” The News.com article explains that this is
part of Yahoo’s appeal. I tend to agree with Jeremy’s argument, but as he
said, “Brad is very right about some things and terribly wrong about…
Norway
Upset With Google News Over Copyright Laws
Pandia reports that Google News is in trouble again over copyright laws
overseas. Google News Norway was launched and publishers are upset that Google
is placing copyrighted images in the Google News home page. Mediebedriftenes
Landsforening, an association of Norwegian media companies, claims Google
“cannot make use of photographs without a proper agreement.” This form of
syndication is in “violation with Norwegian copyright law,” says Dagens
NÊringsliv….
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