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Microsoft Wednesday Search Announcement 2008-05-19 10:17:03 Looking forward to Wednesday
when Microsoft
makes a big announcement about their Search
initiatives. A recent note to Microsoft staff: “On Wednesday, we will be announcing a major new initiative that our search teams have been driving. We are getting better and better with our core algorithmic search, and at the same time, we are [...] Read more:Announcement
Google Axes AdSense Account 2008-05-19 10:05:13 Thanks for the link John Battelle… Evil is Subjective:
Heres a little sneak peak: “Google
did not respond to our requests for comment. But it should be noted that the company’s new AdSense policies say that partner sites may not include “advocacy against any individual, group, or organization.”
Your thoughts? Read more:Account
Its Laser Day!!! 2008-05-16 11:22:51 Yes its that time of the year again…its Laser
Day!! Today marks the day when the first working laser was demonstrated on May 16, 1960 by Theodore Maiman at Hughes Research Laboratories. Since then, lasers have become a multi-billion dollar industry. The most widespread use of lasers is in optical storage devices such as compact [...]
ComScore Puts Google Above Yahoo (USA) 2008-05-16 10:56:35 For the first time Google
has overtaken Yahoo
to become the most visited web site in the USA, according to comScores rankings by the number of unique monthly visitors.
Google have been the leaders in search for a long time now, but its audience has always been behind Yahoo’s when counting in their other services such [...]
SEO Rap Part 2: Design & Coding 2008-05-15 04:28:08 The Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO
Rapper) is back with another marketing rap. This time he describes how web standards and proper design can affect the ranking and conversion of pages on your site. Read more:Coding
Blyk Launch New UK Media Website 2008-05-14 05:55:13 Blyk have just launched their new Media website, in which advertisers can read up on Blyks exclusive offerings in the moblie advertising world aswell as signup for their very own campaigns. So if you’ve ever wanted to advertise to the 16-24 audience its definataley worth a look. Read the original press release Here. Read more:Launch
Do you Twitter? 2008-05-13 10:30:47 A New Blog post over at SearchEngineWatch has informed of a brand new Social Interaction website, called “Twitter
”.
Twitter is a new website in which you create a large network of friends and update them on your status, for example “i’m eating a sandwich.” Twitter will then track what you’ve entered and keep a history of [...]
Yahoo Not Accepting Abassador Signups 2008-05-12 10:30:48 Yahoo Ambassador seems to be no longer accepting applications on their programme. Ambassador is Yahoo’s answer to the Google Professional qualification. If you go onto the signup page you will see:
Yahoo will no longer be accepting new Ambassador applications until further notice.
Your Thoughts?? Read more:Yahoo
Go3 Helping Heart Disease Patients 2008-05-07 10:50:24 An article over at the LA Times has revealed that Go3s Omega 3 Fish Oil supplements are helping patients with heart disease. Read more about how Go3 are helping to heal heart disease here.
Go3 are a new client of Tug, we are helping to manage their new PPC campaigns along with a comprehensive SEO campaign. Read more:Heart
, Helping
Feeling Ill? Ask Google Health! 2008-05-20 11:57:03 Today marks the launch day of GoogleHealth
, read below for Google’s explanation of their brand new service.
Google Health puts you in charge of your health information. It’s safe, secure, and free.
Organize your health information all in one place
Gather your medical records from doctors, hospitals, and pharmacies
Keep your doctors up to date about your health
Be [...] Read more:Feeling
Alternative Search Engines 2008-05-22 06:30:58 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, Quint Read more:Alternative
The Microsoft Search Announcement: Cashback! 2008-05-21 09:50:02 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 back balance [...] Read more:Announcement
, Cashback
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Teletext Holidays goes to Court 2008-05-23 11:50:24 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. Read more:Court
MSN Expanding Mobile Ad Offering 2008-05-28 11:11:45 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 [...]
Yahoo May 2008 Search Update 2008-05-27 12:02:56 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 completed [...] Read more:Search
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Ever Wondered… 2008-05-26 10:55:46 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.
Google To Permit Third Party Ads On AdSense 2008-05-26 10:50:29 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. Read more:Party
Search 4.0: Putting Humans Back In Search? 2008-05-29 10:25:18 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 [...] Read more:Putting
New Google US Favicon 2008-05-30 09:36:20 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 [...]
Belgian Newspaper Publisher To Sue Google 2008-05-30 09:31:30 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. Read more:Newspaper
, Publisher
Google Launch SMS Search Service 2008-06-02 10:04:56 Google recently launched a new SMS
search service, in which you text your search query to a phone number. Google will then reply to your phone with search results for your query. Below is what Google has to say about it’s new service:
” Text message your search query to 466453 (’GOOGLE’ on most devices) and [...] Read more:Google
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, Search
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It’s Balloon Day!!!! 2008-06-04 11:57:51 Today marks the day when the first Hot Air Balloon
that can carry passengers was invented. To celebrate this occasion Google have kindly reminded us of this prestigious day with a special Google Logo!
Buying Websites for SEO Purposes 2008-06-03 07:01:54 Tamar Weinberg of Seroundtable has posted a great article about purchasing websites for the purpose of SEO
. The following is a sneak peak: ” Buying
Sites For SEO - Forget the debate over buying links. How about buying entire web sites to gain success in search. This session looks at how to find the gems [...] Read more:Websites
Google Launches Site Search 2008-06-05 10:58:59 A few days ago Google
relaunched Custom Search
as Site Search. This is a new service Google is offering to anyone with a website, Site Search is a search box which you can place on your website. This will then allow users to search your site for that hard to find content. Please watch the [...] Read more:Google Launches
87% of UK Searches by Google (May) 2008-06-10 11:31:56 According to new stats by Hitwise, Google
provided 87.30% of the searches in the UK during the month of May. Yahoo came second with 4.09% of UK searches, followed by MSN with just 3.72% whom were closely followed by Ask.co.uk with 3.07%. Read the original article here.
Google Adwords Editor 6.0 Update 2008-06-10 09:12:20 Last week Google
released an update to one of the Internet marketers favorite tools, AdwordsEditor
. In-case you don’t know what Adwords Editor is, its a programme developed by Google for use with Adwords which gives you both different views to your campaigns and also allows for ease of big updates. Below is what Google [...] Read more:Google Adwords
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The Google Favicon Design Process 2008-06-09 06:02:47 You may remember a few weeks ago we posted about the new Google
Favicon design, well Google have posted a followup post on their blog outlining their design process and reasoning behind the new Google Favicon. Below is a little sneak peak:
“Some people have wondered why we changed our favicon — after all, we hadn’t [...] Read more:Process
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