Search In Pictures: Disposable Cups, Google's Great Firewall, & Yahoo's Bird Problems

In this week's Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more.

Yahoo! SearchMonkey Now Open For Everyone

Today, Yahoo! is making its SearchMonkey developer platform publicly available and is kicking things off with a launch party and a developer challenge. As we noted a few weeks ago when SearchMonkey launched in private beta, Yahoo! is encouraging the use of microformats and semantic web standards by providing an infrastructure that developers can use to build applications (using

SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 15, 2008

Below is what happened in search today, as reported on Search Engine Land and from other places across the web.

From Search Engine Land:

Carl Icahn Makes His Move To Oust Yahoo Board, Which Has "Completely Botched" Microsoft Merger Talks
As Danny reported earlier, Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is making a proxy move to oust the Yahoo board in an effort

Carl Icahn Makes His Move To Oust Yahoo Board, Which Has "Completely Botched" Microsoft Merger Talks

As Danny reported earlier, Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is making a proxy move to oust the Yahoo board in an effort to reignite takeover talks with Microsoft. Just a few minutes ago a press release was issued by Icahn explaining his intentions and rationale.

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In The Trenches is a weekly spotlight of tips, tricks, and news about the tools search engine marketing professionals use to give them a leg up on the competition. Today: Search engine accreditation programs, today's in-depth look, "Google Tools, Part 2" and this week's free tips and tools.

Google Logo: First Laser Logo

Google has a special logo up on the home page today, a laser logo.

The logo links to a search results for first laser, which shows image res

Human Hardware: The Illusion of Conscious Searching

You know what you’re doing, right? We are all rational beings. We are all blessed with huge neocortexes and use them on a regular basis. This is especially so when we do something as thoughtful as use a search engine. Our rational loop is kicked into high gear. Right?

got your letter telling us how much we suck. We think you suck more And let us tell you why. That's the short summary of Yahoo's response to Carl Icahn's letter yesterday telling Yahoo he will fight to oust their board and do a deal with Microsoft, assuming Microsoft is still willing. Plus, Yahoo does a deal with WPP on ad exchanges.

reported noticing that Google is showing a green user interface within the Google Directory search results and also, in some occasions, for main Google web search results.

The most shocking green interface is when you look compare the typical blue bar to a green bar, when Google is showing yellow ads. Here are screen captures I posted at the Search Engine Roundtable, comp

Google Adds Real Estate Pull-Down Filter To Maps

Google has offered the capacity to search real estate listings for a long time. For example, when entering queries such as "homes for sale in San Francisco," a "one box" result used to show pull-down menus for "location" and "listing type." Activating these boxes would then lead into a specialized "Google Base" screen that allowed for further refinement. I found those screens as recently as earlier this week

Tool of the Week: Pingdom

Posted by Fluxx

SEOmoz isn't perfect. We, like a lot of other websites, do occasionally experience down time. It's part of the the uglier side of running a server. A lot of your time is spent maintaining things that break, keeping tabs on tool scripts that can get rowdy and knock over furniture and handling the sudden influx of traffic that happens with a Digging. The "is the site up?" question can fly around a lot. Yet thankfully, there is a si

How Newsworthy Are Your Newsletters?

Posted by rebecca

Lately I've been thinking about newsletters because I have no life and this job occupies my time 24/7. Just kidding...kind of. Actually, SEOmoz has been sending out monthly newsletters to PRO members for a few months now, and it's made me start to look differently at the newsletters I receive. What do I pay attention to, and what do I instantly delete, and why? I thought I'd share some newsletters that I've scrounged up from my inbox from the past year and analyze their successes and failures.

What Is Acceptable For "People Search Engines?"

Posted by Jane Copland

I don't often get indignant about websites. Even bad ones. Sometimes I complain about what passes for Web 2.0 genius, but I have a problem with one particular site I've come across lately. I find Spock.com vaguely appalling.

Spock is a social networking / people search site which allows anyone to edit anybody el

When Duplicate Content Really Hurts

Posted by Eric Enge

Intro from Rebecca: Eric Enge is a guest blogger for SEOmoz. His posts primarily focus on link building, but he has tackled other topics as well. He has previously written about the role of outbound links, various ways to pursue links, the Danny Dover

About two weeks ago Rand and Scott posted a Whiteboard Friday explaining how to get an SEO job. I think it is a great resource for SEOs who already have a lot of experience, but what about those who don’t? How are the inexperienced supposed to get their first job at an internet technology company? The following is how I did it.

randfish

Yes, whiny title writer, you most certainly do. Check out this piece from the AP on PapaJohns.com:

The nation's third-largest pizza delivery chain trumpeted the $1 billion milestone Wednesday, noting that its U.S. online sales have been growing at an average clip of more than 50 percent per year. In 2001, the chain's online sales totaled $20.4 million. Last ye

Whiteboard Friday - Blogging for Higher Rankings

Posted by great scott!

This week, Rand discusses a few essential strategies to consider when adding a blog to your site. If you want your blog to be readable, enjoyable, and able to generate links and traffic, give this installment of Whiteboard Friday a look.

rebecca

Stories, news, and other notable items from the past week:

Two star links:

The Industry Standard provides us with the 25 top B to Z-list blogs. Why am I giving the link 2-star status? Bec

A Few Bad Votes Too Many?

Posted by Nick Gerner

I've been reading some of the papers from AIRWeb '08, the recent web spam conference, and I came across one called, "A Few Bad Votes Too Many? Towards Robust Ranking in Social Media<

BIGLIST Update Search Marketing Blogs 050208

Going by the last month of updates, we’re now updating the BIGLIST of SEO blogs every second Friday. That should give us more time to filter out the better sites for inclusion. Read on at the bottom as there are several reminders on how to get on the list as well as stay on. The ...]

Top 10 Uses of Twitter and Tools

The results of our poll on how Online Marketing Blog readers use Twitter are in. We had over 220 responses, which isn’t a bad sample considering this blog is fairly niche with a modest sized (and very smart) audience. Below I’ve listed the poll results and a few comments on each. Follow us on Twitter ...]

Top 10 Reasons for Monitoring Brands in Social Media

Editor's note: We're excited to share this next guest post from David Alston of Radian6. A fast emerging leader in the field of social media measurement, Radian6 (a TopRank client) provides social media monitoring tools to hundreds of leading PR firms, ad agencies and brand marketers.] David is VP Marketing at Radian6 in New Brunswick, Canada ...]

BIGLIST SEO Blogs Update 050908

What a week! Spring is officially here in Minnesota. Don’t laugh, it snowed just 2 weeks ago. This week’s BIGLIST of SEO and SEM blogs includes a nice mix of search, social and online PR content. When I co-hosted the Daily Searchcast on Thursday it was great to have Danny Sullivan mention the ...]

Five New Twitter Tools You Should Know

Right along with Facebook, YouTube and blogging, Twitter is one of the most often written about social media communication tools. (Follow me @leeodden) We’ve run polls about how people use Twitter as well as aggregated tips from the Twitter community on how to get the most productivity out of it. This post shares a few ...]

Tips on Content Centered Link Building

Yesterday, Junta 42 announced their latest list of top content marketing focused blogs (Online Marketing Blog came in at #2 in between Copyblogger and PR 2.0) and it reminded me yet again of how important content is for SEO. It used to be when discussing search engine optimization services 5-6 years ago, we’d focus ...]

Enterprise Social Media Interview with Jim Cuene and Douglas Pollei

Tonight interactive gurus from General Mills, Best Buy, Target, Fingerhut and Gage will convene at an event hosted by MIMA to discuss: Duality Reality: Who Controls Social Media in the Enterprise? As a preview, I reached out to Douglas Pollei (left) of Social Media Club Minneapolis and VP of Internet Strategy and Corporate Development for IKANO ...]

Agency Client = Superhero Link Building Team

Two heads are better than one. How many times have we all heard that in our lives? When having a brainstorming session, it helps to bounce ideas off of one another to generate the best possible solution. Even when saving the world, is it always important to have a sidekick. Or a team of sidekicks. ...]

Book Review: Achieving The OPEN Brand by Way Of An Open Worldview

TopRank's Mike Yanke reviews the new book, "The Open Brand: When Push Comes to Pull in a Web-Made World by Kelly Mooney and Dr. Nita Rollins with advice both for marketing agencies and in-house marketers looking to make sense of branding in a Web 2.0 World.

How Many Conferences Can You Attend in 30 Days?

Conferences are a big part of TopRank’s marketing and content promotion strategy and it looks like a busy summer is ahead of us. Numerous events are coming up quickly - enough to make your head spin. Here is a summary of our involvement with PRSA, DMA, PUSH, SIS, SES and SMX events over the next ...]

Google Explains The Processes & Thoughts Behind an Update

Google updates their search algorithms and indexes fairly often. Results change all the time. The goal for Google is to make this transparent for searchers by providing relevant results. But when a change happens, typically the webmaster will notice and...

Google Celebrates the Anniversary of the First Laser

If you've ventured to Google today, you may be wondering what in the world that logo resembles. Fortunately, all you need to do is click on the logo for the answer. Today, Google is celebrating the anniversary of the first...

Daily Search Forum Recap: May 15, 2008

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....

Competitors Use Long Tail Keywords To Hurt Yahoo Search Advertisers

An interesting phenomenon is occurring within Yahoo Search Marketing that has been expressed pretty intensely by affected advertisers at WebmasterWorld. According to the impacted advertisers, the quality of their campaigns have gone down because of false impressions that have been...

Review: Google Apps Hacks

Last week at the Web 2.0 Expo I decided to walk the exhibition floor. Niall Kennedy and I checked out the inflatable Google booth, we gave feedback to the WordPress folks, and we came to rest in the Yahoo booth, where it was nice to see Jeremy Zawodny and catch up a little bit. After a ...]

Google Hacks: Pacman graph with Google Charts

This link was cool, but it generates a graph like this: With a little modification, I made this graph: I like my picture a little better. It was quite simple to make this diagram, and Google provides a free graph-drawing tool that you can use on your own site with a single url — no account or ...]

Trip report: Domain Roundtable Conference

This weekend I did a Q&A session at the Domain Roundtable Conference. It was an hour and a half of answering various questions. Rand Fishkin and John Andrews both did write-ups of the session. Rand and John were both on an SEO panel after me, which I enjoyed. This was my first domain-related conference, and the ...]

Maker Faire!

I’m heading to Maker Faire today. It’s a fun event if you like robots, crafts, art cars, flame throwers, Coke ‘n’ Mentos shows, building your own electronics kits, knitting weird hats, Lego creations, plush monsters, power tool racing, or walking around outdoors in the California sunshine. Highly recommended if you’re in the Bay Area today.

New WordPress version 2.5.1 includes security fix

Read about WordPress 2.5.1 and download the new version here. It includes a security fix, so you’re going to want to upgrade. It’s well-known that older versions of WordPress get attacked by malicious bad guys, so I absolutely recommend upgrading as soon as you can to be safe. By the way, if you subscribed to the ...]

Back from Maker Faire

Man, I love Maker Faire. It’s almost as if Burning Man mated with Slashdot. Here are afew of the fun things I saw today. In the Craft area someone showed the credit cards that they accepted, but the credit card sign was hand-made: Also in the Craft zone was a “postcard machine.” It was a person sitting ...]

Custom Search Engine adds new features

Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) just announced that they now power AdSense for Search. Another nice new change is that if you provide a Sitemap, Google will use that to improve the coverage of the custom search engine. Now let me nip one idea in the bud, because I can already feel a few people thinking ...]

Stupid Google Tricks: How often do you cut your hair?

The other day I realized that I enter my haircut appointments into Google Calendar, so I can search for “haircut OR (the place I get my hair cut)” and see when I’ve gotten my hair cut: Then I was reading Google Apps Hacks and Hack 25 caught my eye: “Show the difference between two dates”. A ...]

Follow me on Twitter, FriendFeed, or RSS

I changed it so that anyone can follow me on Twitter or FriendFeed. The links to follow me are http://twitter.com/mattcutts and http://friendfeed.com/mattcutts . And of course you can subscribe to my RSS feed if you want. You can subscribe by clicking any of the buttons below: If aren’t a subscriber ...]

What Google Knows About Spam

If you didn’t attend Web 2.0, you can watch my ten-minute keynote about “What Google Knows About Spam” (and several other keynotes) on blip.tv. I’ll embed the keynote below as well. The only thing I don’t like about conference speaking is preparing slides. When I use slides at a talk, I almost always make a custom ...]

CBS Acquiring CNET for $1.8 Billion : Includes Search.com

CBS is making a major Internet and news powerplay, acquiring CNET for $11.50 per share (44% more than CNET is trading at) for a total of $1.8 Billion. Acquiring CNET and its $406 million per year in revenue is a big and bold move by CBS, which was the original parent company of iWon Search ...]

Yahoo responds to Icahn’s Letter

There you have it, Yahoo Board’s Chairman Roy Bostock responding to Icahn’s letter to the Yahoo board nominating 10 members of the Icahn’s proposed Yahoo Board Members. In the said letter Bostock reiterated Yahoo Board’s stand that the current members of the Board remain the best and most qualified group to maximize value for all ...]

Icahn Wants to Take Over Yahoo

Microsoft may have walked away from the table in negotiations with Yahoo for a takeover deal, but just because they’ve pulled their bid, that doesn’t mean the takeover talks have ended. Billionaire investor Carl Icahn lauched a proxy war to unseat Yahoo’s current board of directors, and unveiled an alternate board of directors for the ...]

Worth $299 Per Year to Join Yahoo Directory?

Yahoo Directory is considered the creme de la creme in the human edited directory and search field, and is one of the major authority listings I (and many other SEO’s) routinely tell clients and readers to join. A link from the Yahoo Directory is usually of high value because it : May assist with Yahoo Search ...]

SecondBrain - The First Complete Social Aggregator

Sometimes we look at great innovation and are compelled to compare like creations in evaluating them. More often than not it is the differences between websites that appeals to us. All these startups of the last two years have so much in common, but useful aspects outside commonality are sometimes the reasons we choose ...]

Yahoo Launches Site Explorer for Yahoo Japan

Yahoo Japan & Yahoo have just launched Yahoo Site Explorer for the Japanese market, which Yahoo search & services dominate. Using Yahoo Japan Site Explorer, Japanese webmasters or companies targeting the Japanese market can track their URLs and incoming links and also upload sitemap files into Yahoo. Unlike the US version of Site Explorer, Yahoo Japan ...]

Ask.com Buying Dictionary.com’s Lexico Publishing Group

Ask.com has announced that it will be purchasing the online reference network of Lexico Publishing Group, which owns and operates Dictionary.com, Thesaurus.com, and Reference.com. The move marks one of the first by the new IAC homegrown Safka regime of Ask.com, and Ask.com CEO Jim Safka says that the Lexico properties are an excellent fit into the ...]

Google Now #1 Web Destination, Beats Yahoo

For the longest time, Yahoo was the U.S.’s most-visited website and Google was the most popular search engine. That has, however, changed. Google is now both the country’s top-visited website as well as the most popular search engine. Losing the title surely is a disappointment to Yahoo, who are currently trying to turn around their company ...]

Yahoo.com Redirecting to UK.Yahoo.com for UK Users

Yahoo has started to automatically serve the local version of their Yahoo homepage to users from the UK (and perhaps other global destinations) in what may be an effort to become more cozy with their international users. So if you type www.yahoo.com into your UK based browser, you should be redirected to uk.yahoo.com Yahoo has recently become ...]

Yahoo’s Monkey Opens Up, I Mean SearchMonkey

Three weeks after announcing SearchMonkey and opening it up for a limited preview, Yahoo has finally made the Yahoo search results development platform open to all. To refresh our memories, Yahoo search monkey as an open ecosystem has three components: Site owners share structured data with Yahoo!, using semantic markup (microformats, RDF), standardized XML feeds, ...]

Yahoo, WPP Partner To Sell Ad Inventory

Yahoo just announced they will be partnering with WPP to provide access to their advertising inventory to the clients and agencies associated with WPP. The agreement involves the use of WPP's recent acquisition, 24/7 Real Media.

The press release (below) suggests Yahoo will give direct access to available inventory to the clients and agencies partnered with WPP.

The real question is if the inventory will be strategically grouped remanent traffic or direct access to all traffic in some type of bidding mechanism.

Beyond t

Dear Google: Facebook Is Just Not That Into You

Google FriendConnect friended Facebook. It looked as if Facebook (stocked with former Google executives) might become BFFs (best friends forever).

Then Facebook blocked Google FriendConnect.

Yahoo's Search Syndicate Gets Harsh Review By SEOBook

Aaron Wall has written a thorough and unflattering overview of Yahoo search traffic following the release of search numbers that show Yahoo gets well over half its search volume from its partners.

Aaron discusses how this impacts arbitrage and motivates poor quality. Though possibly just a little harsh, it is worth reading and keeping in mind.

Recent numbers from Efficient Frontier show that Yahoo has nearly three times more search partners than Google - funny given Googl

SEW Experts: Training Your Search Marketing Employees - Part 2

Advanced practitioners come to an agency with the skills in place to help grow the business. That's why we hire them. In today's Business of Search column, "Training Your Search Marketing Employees - Part 2," Fionn Downhill notes that because they're skilled in relation to their job, the priority is to train them to flourish in the agency.

2006. The data comes from internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers 2007 Internet Advertising Revenue Report. Keyword search leads the field when it comes to types of internet advertising. Here's the breakdown of ad types:

Inside the Googleplex: Google to Webcast Google Factory Tour of Search

All those media pundits who said Google is a publisher are wrong.

Google isn't a publisher. Google is a broadcaster. The 4th Network.

Or maybe just a search factory. We'll know for s

SEW Experts: Google Sitelinks - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

The addition of sitelinks to the top listing in certain Google searches can be a boon to site owner. Unfortunately, as with all tests of new technology, this feature has some pretty serious bugs. In today's SEM Crossfire column, "Google Sitelinks - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly," Chris Boggs shows you how to fix the ones that are a fault of your site structure, and deal with the ones that are Google's fault.

data released by Efficient Frontier. The search engine enjoyed 85% of the market. Click-Through Rates (CTR) actually saw a slight decline for Google over Q4 2007, but the ROI increased by 14%.

The same couldn't be said for Yahoo. Yahoo's search advertising market share was 11.9%, down 0.5% from Q4 2007. CTR declined 38% quarter-over-quarter and ROI declined 6%.

MSN inc

More Updates for Mobile Live Search

After receiving feedback from the recent updates to Mobile Live Search, the team over at Microsoft has made even more updates. Here's what to expect:

-- Weather
-- Traffic coverage for more cities through Live Maps
-- Map a Contact
-- Speech recognition via Bluetooth (available only on select devices)
-- Co

Ten Reasons I Won’t Use Social Media Sites
In spite of the fact that I have always been an early adopter of new technology - or communications-based tools, social media turns me off. When I think about why, at least 10 reasons come to mind. (I really enjoy the linkbait title, btw.) ;)

35 Vote(s)

Linkbait at any Cost?
Does online marketing need a code of conduct to protect the integrity of online information?

37 Vote(s)

Top 10 Uses of Twitter and Tools
Lee | Online Marketing Blog - One Twitter use that is definitely missing from this poll is, "Crowdsourcing your network" much like Stephen Baker did in this story on Twitter from yesterday's BusinessWeek. Outside of sharing links to interesting thin

30 Vote(s)

BEFORE Your Reputation Needs Cleaning Up
Lately there's been a hell of a lot of talk and drama about blogging smack-downs, reputation management in the event that someone wants to make you look a bit less favorable than you'd like, who's right who's wrong shoulda / coulda's, and how we can

29 Vote(s)

If Content is King, You Must be the Court Jester
Remember boys and girls.."content is king." Just because the page was promoted through social media doesn't mean it it doesn't convert. Conversions happen. Conversations at the least will happen, and you'll hear what people really think of you.

28 Vote(s)

Digg Comments: Fix or Failure?
Digg launched it's third attempt at a comments system in the last year. Did they finally fix the problems and provide a good comments system or ...

29 Vote(s)

There Is No Penalty In Getting Many Links Quickly
Kind of tricky since I was going to disagree right away, until I read the whole story. Makes perfect sense.

30 Vote(s)

SEO Bullshit Bingo
Don't let Calacanis and Shoemoney have all the fun, do some SEO Bullshit Bingo yourself!

31 Vote(s)
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SEO Class Troy NY April 11th - Free to IM Ninjas.
In a few weeks (April 11th) we’re having the first SEO Class of the year. It will be held at the Franklin Square Inn in Troy New York (just north of Albany). The presenters that day will be: Chris Winfield (10e20) Michael Gray (Graywolf) Kim Krause Berg (Cre8pc) Ted Ulle (Tedster) Barry Schwartz (Rustybrick) Greg Niland (GoodROI) Jim Boykin (We Build Pages) On April ...]

Support Charities and Chance to win IM Ninjas Subscription.
Since Donna let the cat out of the bag, I thought I’d follow suit. A handful of SEO’s are in a contest to lose weight, and to help charities. You can help us as well. The Women: DazzlinDonna from SEO Scoop playing for Hospice Foundation from America Jennifer Laycock from Search Engine Guide playing for HMBANA Milk Banks Nathania ...]

Link Buying: Reviewed and not Guaranteed is the line in the sand.
In Google’s Webmaster Guidelines, they say you should: Submit your site to relevant directories such as the Open Directory Project and Yahoo!, as well as to other industry-specific expert sites. I know a lot of webmasters have questioned what is the difference between paying Yahoo for a Directory link, and paying any other web entity for ...]

Lessons Learned from Positon 6 Filter and New Video for IM Ninjas
Position 6 Filter - Confirmed, and told "Glitch" and "being fixed". Some laughed, some cried, any many analyzed and made "guesses". We had 6 sites that we clearly saw this happen to, so I was analzying for countless hours since just before Christmas in an attempt to figure out what could have happened to ...]

YahooMSN.com, YahooLive.com, LiveYahoo.com - Who ownes them?
So I can’t help but wonder how the cards will be played this year with the search engines. Will Microsoft buy Yahoo. Will Google buy Yahoo, Will Google buy Ask? Will Microsoft buy Yahoo and Ask, and maybe grab AOL along the way? Who Knows….here’s some interesting URL combinations, and who owns them. MicrosoftYahoo.comRegistrant:� zhou lupingCreated:� ...]

If you build links, this paper is worth reading.
Sugarrae put together 11 SEO’s to get 12000 words on link development ideas. Here’s the SEO’s who state their ideas on link building:�Rae Hoffman�- Rand Fishkin - Roger Montti�- Todd Malicoat�- Eric Ward�- Justilien Gaspard�- Aaron Wall�- Debra Mastaler�- Michael Gray�- Andy Hagans�- & Me. I like how this interview was put together. All of us wrote ...]

WBP buys SEOClass.com, and offers 4 Live Training Dates.
So this is just my leaking the news that We Build Pages has acquired SEOClass.com. SEO Class has been a leading Internet Marketing training program providing live SEO Training classes. We’re going to take SEO Class to the next level, and offer 4 classes from New York, to San Francisco, to Dallas, to Edinburgh, Scotland. These ...]

Ninjas in Amsterdam, Jamaica, & Scotland.
Next Tuesday (the 29th) a few ninjas and I are going to Amsterdam (going to visit with a client). I’ll also try to catch Martijn while I’m there.� We’ll be there during the Queen’s Day celebration…which looks pretty crazy. Then�from�June 6-10 there’s about 19 Ninjas going to Jamaica. We should be booking everything probably tomorrow. If ...]

What’s Jim up to? I’m Feeling Lucky.
I haven’t been blogging much….sorry……ya know, I’m totally down with staying under the radar. There’s enough other people keeping each other in check that I’m fine with sitting back and watching the games being played. I’m fine with reacting internally to what goes on out there, and not being a part of the conversation these ...]

Buying Websites for SEO - Who me?
- I was�just asked if I’d speak on�"Buying Sites for SEO" at SMX Advanced in Seattle (June 3-4)… wasn’t planning on attending any SEO conferences in 2008….but man…that’s a prett interesting topic! ….. but I’m not sure if, like link building, I’d feel comfortable talking about the finer points of this….. I wrote about it once ...]

social blog roll

Search In Pictures: Disposable Cups, Google's Great Firewall, & Yahoo's Bird Problems

Yahoo! SearchMonkey Now Open For Everyone

SearchCap: The Day In Search, May 15, 2008

Carl Icahn Makes His Move To Oust Yahoo Board, Which Has "Completely Botched" Microsoft Merger Talks

Google Logo: First Laser Logo

Human Hardware: The Illusion of Conscious Searching

Google Adds Real Estate Pull-Down Filter To Maps

Tool of the Week: Pingdom

How Newsworthy Are Your Newsletters?

What Is Acceptable For "People Search Engines?"

When Duplicate Content Really Hurts

Whiteboard Friday - Blogging for Higher Rankings

A Few Bad Votes Too Many?

BIGLIST Update Search Marketing Blogs 050208

Top 10 Uses of Twitter and Tools

Top 10 Reasons for Monitoring Brands in Social Media

BIGLIST SEO Blogs Update 050908

Five New Twitter Tools You Should Know

Tips on Content Centered Link Building

Enterprise Social Media Interview with Jim Cuene and Douglas Pollei

Agency Client = Superhero Link Building Team

Book Review: Achieving The OPEN Brand by Way Of An Open Worldview

How Many Conferences Can You Attend in 30 Days?

Google Explains The Processes & Thoughts Behind an Update

Google Celebrates the Anniversary of the First Laser

Daily Search Forum Recap: May 15, 2008

Competitors Use Long Tail Keywords To Hurt Yahoo Search Advertisers

Review: Google Apps Hacks

Google Hacks: Pacman graph with Google Charts

Trip report: Domain Roundtable Conference

Maker Faire!

New WordPress version 2.5.1 includes security fix

Back from Maker Faire

Custom Search Engine adds new features

Stupid Google Tricks: How often do you cut your hair?

Follow me on Twitter, FriendFeed, or RSS

What Google Knows About Spam

CBS Acquiring CNET for $1.8 Billion : Includes Search.com

Yahoo responds to Icahn’s Letter

Icahn Wants to Take Over Yahoo

Worth $299 Per Year to Join Yahoo Directory?

SecondBrain - The First Complete Social Aggregator

Yahoo Launches Site Explorer for Yahoo Japan

Ask.com Buying Dictionary.com’s Lexico Publishing Group

Google Now #1 Web Destination, Beats Yahoo

Yahoo.com Redirecting to UK.Yahoo.com for UK Users

Yahoo’s Monkey Opens Up, I Mean SearchMonkey

Yahoo, WPP Partner To Sell Ad Inventory

Dear Google: Facebook Is Just Not That Into You

Yahoo's Search Syndicate Gets Harsh Review By SEOBook

SEW Experts: Training Your Search Marketing Employees - Part 2

Inside the Googleplex: Google to Webcast Google Factory Tour of Search

SEW Experts: Google Sitelinks - The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

More Updates for Mobile Live Search

Ten Reasons I Won’t Use Social Media Sites

Linkbait at any Cost?

Top 10 Uses of Twitter and Tools

BEFORE Your Reputation Needs Cleaning Up

If Content is King, You Must be the Court Jester

Digg Comments: Fix or Failure?

There Is No Penalty In Getting Many Links Quickly

SEO Bullshit Bingo

SEO Class Troy NY April 11th - Free to IM Ninjas.

Support Charities and Chance to win IM Ninjas Subscription.

Link Buying: Reviewed and not Guaranteed is the line in the sand.

Lessons Learned from Positon 6 Filter and New Video for IM Ninjas

YahooMSN.com, YahooLive.com, LiveYahoo.com - Who ownes them?

If you build links, this paper is worth reading.

WBP buys SEOClass.com, and offers 4 Live Training Dates.

Ninjas in Amsterdam, Jamaica, & Scotland.

What’s Jim up to? I’m Feeling Lucky.

Buying Websites for SEO - Who me?