Daily Search Forum Recap: May 16, 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....
Weekly Search Buzz Roundup - 05/16/08: Google Dresses in Green, Yahoo Gets Local & Laser Games Are Played
Another Friday, another rainy day. For what it's worth, though, today is a special day, as we are celebrating the first laser. I don't know if lasers are viewable through cloudy skies, though. Do you? Mother's Day First things first....
Yahoo Opens SearchMonkey Doors to Everyone
Are you a developer? You may be interested in SearchMonkey, Yahoo's new open developer platform, which was released to all developers yesterday. The concept behind SearchMonkey is to empower developers to build applications that increase relevancy of search results. Developers...
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...
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...
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's Malware Review Form Now Working Again
Google's Malware Review form, which was added back in August of last year had some technical issues this week. First reports came via Google Groups at about 1am on May 15th. Webmasters trying to utilize the form received a "oops,...
Google Testing Green Backgrounds & Turns Directory Ads Green
The iCrossing Blog posted screen captures of Google experimenting with green in the Google user interface. In addition, Google has changed from the yellow background color for their ads to green, within the Google Directory. iCrossing actually reported this two...
Google AdWords Traffic Estimator Figures From The API Wrong?
A Google Groups thread reports that the numbers reported from the traffic estimator tool within Google's AdWords API interface is reporting different numbers based on the IP calling the data. The AdWords advertiser said that depending on which IP is...
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....
ISP to Spy on User Activity to Deliver Targeted Ads
United States ISP Charter Communications announced that it will start looking at your surfing behavior to find you relevant ads. While continuing to deliver the same fast and reliable Internet service you’ve always received, innovative new technology in the field...
Quick Bookmark URL for Google AdWords Live Chat
Need help with Google AdWords? If you're afraid of picking up the phone and find email to take too long, you have another alternative: live chat. This URL may be specific to the UK (or may fit both UK and...
UK Based Yahoo Users Redirected to Yahoo UK
David Eaves reports that UK based users who go to yahoo.com are now being redirected from the .com version to the Yahoo UK domain. David said this is brand new behavior from Yahoo. 24 hours earlier, if a UK internet...
Yahoo Site Explorer Mishandling HTTPS Vs. HTTP Protocols?
A WebmasterWorld thread is reporting a possible bug with the Yahoo Site Explorer tool. The webmaster reports that when trying to delete the https URLs of his site from the Yahoo index via Yahoo Site Explorer, it tries to delete...
Should Google Not Index Robots.txt Files in Search Results?
An interesting discussion is taking place at WebmasterWorld on the topic of the robots.txt file. One webmaster did not want his robots.txt file to be indexed by Google, but has no way of delisting in in Google. The only ways...