Archive for October, 2004

In the notes I posted after the Google conference call last week, I mentioned that the company doesn’t plan to go the portal route. Of course, the 2004 definition of what a portal is might be different than it was a few years ago, but we can talk about that another time.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - Google Inc. finds almost anything on the Internet within seconds, but finding the sharp.m.inded computer engineers who program the company’s lightning-quick search engine takes more time - and a quirky bit of ingenuity.
As its rapidly growing business creates hundreds of new jobs, Google is trying to lure premier programming talent with [...]

Uk To Have Its Own Search Engine Marketing Association
London - 21st October 2004 - A working group of search engine marketing professionals in the UK has come together to plan the formulation of a UK based trade association.
The proposed Search Marketing Association UK (SMA-UK) will provide a platform to inform and educate the marketplace of [...]

Vancouver, BC:- The Ultra Advanced Symposium is a meeting of select masters of the SEO marketing industry who will be openly revealing and sharing their very best and hottest information in a new educational symposium taking place in Vancouver on November 15 and 16, 2004.

AFFINI SEARCH ENGINE EXECUTIVES LAUNCH NEW SERVICE TO PROTECT IDENTITY AND PRIVACY ON THE INTERNET
Affini: A Network of Trust to Combine the Best of Spam-Free Email,
Search and Targeted Online Advertising
Saratoga, CA — October 20, 2004 — Affini: A Network of Trust(TM) today launched its initial phase of service as the first easy-to-use, complete [...]

Rocketinfo Inc. (OTCBB:RKTI), a leading international
supplier of real-time news and competitive intelligence software to
corporations, governments and professional service firms has added
powerful new tools for searching weblogs to its popular RocketNews
search engine.

Google today released Froogle U.K, a beta version of their product search service that enables users to easily find products for sale online. Froogle U.K., available at http://froogle.google.co.uk, applies the power of Google’s search technology to locate product information and direct users to online stores where they can make a purchase.

An Internet marketing slip-up in the presidential candidates” websites was uncovered by Atlanta search engine optimization company (SEO) Prominent Placement. Regardless which of the presidential candidates any voter supports for the impending election, they are apt to have a difficult time searching their positions online, according to a recent observation by the Atlanta [...]

Today, KaZaZZ! is pleased to announce that “Maria Sharapova” was the top searched term on the KaZaZZ! Personalized Search Engine for the week ending October 10, 2004.
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Google is so mainstream now and used so much that even the terrorists are using it on a regular basis.
“An Australian journalist kidnapped in Iraq was freed after his captors checked the popular internet search engine Google to confirm his identity. ”
Says BBC
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3755154.stm

Google has introduced a local hard disk drive search tool, hooked to the online search engine, that will enable users to choose between local and online searches. The company promises that this tool will enable you to find your email.

JobsInSearch.com officially launched today as a specialist job site for the Search Engine Industry. The site features job vacancies with companies who provide Search Engine related Products and Services.

Google is expanding is shopping service, Froogle, to the United Kingdom. The price-comparison shopping site operates under an advertising-supported business model similar to Google’s main site. It is just one of several Google initiatives to build traffic.

Internet giant Yahoo Inc.’s third-quarter profit nearly quadrupled, reflecting a continued boom in online advertising.
The Sunnyvale-based company said Tuesday that it earned $253.3 million, or 17 cents per share, for the three months ended in September, up from net income of $65.3 million, or 5 cents per share, at the same time last year. More

Search Engine Friendly Design
So you have a beautiful website that you paid a pretty penny for and you are completely happy with it … except no one can find it. Many web designers do not understand search engine positioning so when they design your website little or no thought is given to the elements of [...]

Sergey Brin and Larry Page’s search engine trawls 4.2 billion web pages to find just about anything in cyberspace. But the founders of Google—on a short trip to India—were not quite so diligent with their home work before coming to Hyderabad. “I was wanting to see some monkeys here but couldn’t find one. I think [...]

On November 16th, 2003, Google commenced an update (the Florida update) which had a catastrophic effect for a very large number of websites and, in the process, turned search engine optimization upside down. It is common to give alphabetical names to Google’s updates in the very same way that names are given to hurricanes, and [...]

Leading Internet search engine Google Inc. said it was planning a big expansion of its India operations which are run from the two southern cities of Hyderabad and Bangalore.
“We are committed to substantial growth in terms of both manpower and infrastructure at both these offices,” Sergey Brin, co-founder of the search engine, told [...]

BrightAds, Kanoodle’s sponsored links product for search engines and content sites, generates maximum revenue with unsurpassed relevancy.

On Monday, American Technology Research analyst Mark Mahaney downgraded Google to sell from hold, citing a variety of concerns about valuation and competition.
But rather than give up on the large-cap Internet advertising business going into third-quarter earnings season, Mahaney is proposing a short-term strategy of going long Yahoo!’s (YHOO:Nasdaq - news - research) shares [...]


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