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  • Microsoft directors consider increasing bid for Yahoo

    Microsoft Corp.’s directors met yesterday to consider raising the software maker’s $41.9 billion bid for Yahoo Inc. instead of pursuing a hostile takeover attempt, according to a published report. (May 1 2008)

  • Microsoft weighs options on Yahoo

    Microsoft has yet to decide if it will up its $41.8bn (£21bn) bid for Yahoo, go hostile or walk away from the deal. (BBC May 1 2008)

  • How-to track Google using Twitter

    I set up a couple Twitter accounts that automatically send tweets that include Google focused news items, blog posts, bookmarks, and even Digg items that just hit the frontpage! (Google Tutor April 28 2008)

  • Audiobaba Music Search

    Audiobaba Music Search is a next generation music search engine that allows you to find songs by acoustic similarity. (Phil Bradley April 29 2008)

  • An Interview with Exalead’s François Bourdoncle

    On the connection between AltaVista and French Exalead and much more (AltSearchEngines April 29 2008)

  • Yahoo Integrating Facebook Style Social Map & Unified Profile Pages Across Network

    Yahoo is finally taking the social route in fully connecting its Yahoo Network users across multiple Yahoo platforms in a Facebook meets Yahoo type setting, where users will be able to view the doings of their friends over a central Yahoo social map. (SE

  • Yahoo! Launches SearchMonkey!

    This open source tool known as SearchMonkey will give the publishers the possibility of enhancing their search results on Yahoo! through the inclusion of links, images and name-value pairs in the search results. (PageTraffic April 25 2008)

  • Yahoo Starts SearchMonkey Rollout

    Back in February, Yahoo announced SearchMonkey, a project that would allow site owners and developers to customize their search engine listings’ appearance and information. (SE Land April 25 2008)

  • Google’s Vision of the Future of Image Search

    Can Google’s technology automatically analyze what’s inside an image? (SE Journal April 28 2008)

  • Social Media Marketing Beginner’s Guide

    What is the hottest social media tool to emerge on the scene this year? It’s ‘Twitter’, and you may get hooked too… (April 28 2008)

  • How to Analyze Page Keyword Prominence

    While keyword density is really something SEOs should really stop paying attention to, keyword prominence is a concept that still should be analyzed and evaluated. (SE Journal April 29 2008)

  • Google unveils new prototype image search system “VisualRank”

    VisualRank works using image recognition software, which groups images together that seem most similar to each other. (Dave Naylor April 29 2008)

  • Wikipedia is Still Useful for SEO

    Wikipedia is believed to be the most heavily scraped site in the history of the Internet. Bigoak explains why a Wikipedia link may help you (April 29 2008)

  • Google Toolbar PageRank Update Creates Major Webmaster Buzz

    Usually PageRank updates aren’t that noteworthy, but it seems something is different about this PageRank update, Barry Scwartz says (SE Land April 30 2008)

  • Google Analytics for Bloggers - Google Relaunches Measure Map

    Email invitations went out this week to alpha users of the blog tracking software. (Search Engine Watch April 30 2008)

  • Microsoft’s $1.5 Billion Plan to Retain Yahoo Employees

    Search Engine Watch quotes the Wall Street Journal (April 30 2008)

  • Google Ocean?

    Google is planning to map not only the sky and land masses (Google Mars, Moon, Earth, Google Maps and so on), but – according to a report by News.com – also aims to map the oceans. (Google Blogoscoped April 30 2008)

  • Artist Themes for iGoogle

    Google in the US is currently promoting a new “artist themes” section for iGoogle via a special logo and text below the search box. (Google Blogoscoped April 30 2008)

  • Search Conference Controversy Sparks Up Again

    Kevin Ryan of Search Engine Strategies spoke with Daron Babin and discussed the current state of the conference circuit with regards to individuals believing that they have been banned from either SMX or SES events. (SE Roundtable April 30 2008)

  • Microsoft Live Search Adds More Images, Multimap, Find My Location, & Celebrity Rank

    The enhancements include an expanded image search index, a new integrated mapping experience with Multimap, a location based mobile search feature to “find me,” and more content for the celebrities and books sections. (SE Land April 30 2008)

  • How to Use Headline Tags To Boost Page Performance

    Aside from the title tag, which isn’t really a part of the visual page, the heading tags can provide both visitors and the search engines significant cues to the importance of your on-page content. (SE Guide April 30 2008)

  • Encyclopedia Britannica Now Free For Bloggers

    You can get access to the online version for free through a new program called Britannica Webshare - provided that you are a “web publisher.” (TechCrunch April 18 2008)

  • Finding Google custom search engines

    Browsing around today I found Guide To Custom Search Engines (CSEs). (Phil Bradley April 15 2008)

  • Arnold’s New Study “Beyond Search” Now Available

    Stephen E. Arnold’s most recent study–Beyond Search: What to Do When Your Enterprise Search System Doesn’t Work–is now available from the Gilbane Group. (Beyond Search April 15 2008)

  • Google Releases Updates to Google Earth; Includes Street View

    The most anticipated update is the addition of Street View, previously available on Google Maps. (SE Watch April 16 2008)

  • 20 (Rare) Questions for Google Search Guru Udi Manber

    Previously a computer science professor at the University of Arizona, then a senior vice president at Amazon and Yahoo’s chief scientist, Manber is now vice president in charge of search quality for Google (Popular Mechanics April 16 2008)

  • Alexa Introduces New Ranking System : Beyond the Toolbar

    With web traffic and popularty measurement startups like Compete.com and Quantcast breathing down Alexa’s neck, the Amazon.com owned company has finally taken steps to rework their ranking system (SE Journal April 17 2008)

  • More On Microsoft Live Search News

    The new service automatically shows you top stories grouped into topic on the home page. (SE Land April 17 2008)

  • Google’s Q1 2008 Grows 31%; Sticks it to comScore

    While the research company had Wall Street in a panic, with its 1.8% paid click prediction for the quarter, Google tore that number to shreds with a whopping 20% growth in paid clicks! (Marketing Pilgrim April 17 2008)

  • Microsoft confirms purchase of Farecast travel site

    Microsoft bought Seattle-based airfare prediction and travel site Farecast earlier this month for around $115 million (The Seattle Times April 18 2008)

  • Another Google Video Redesign

    Google Video redesigned their US homepage again (Google Blogoscoped Aril 18 2008)

  • Bigreds Sues Yahoo Over Click-Fraud For $1 Million

    Bigreds, an internet retailer has decided to sue Yahoo for $1 million over click fraud starting back in 2002. (SE Roundtable April 17 2008)

  • Google Analytics out of Beta version

    The old Urchin web metrics software is finally out in a new version (PageTraffic April 17 2008)

  • Yahoo! & Google Test Successful. A Giant Leap for Y! Google Partnership?

    Google is delivering ads to Yahoo! search result pages (PageTraffic April 18 2008)

  • Why Mixx Hasn’t Gotten The Following It Deserves - Yet

    Mixx, a social media submission site, is a newcomer on the scene, so it understandably will take a while for it to catch up with older sites like Digg, Propeller, Reddit, and StumbleUpon. (SE Land April 9 2008)

  • Yahoo-Microsoft Battle Bolsters Google

    Microsoft Corp.’s attempt to take over Yahoo Inc. has become so tortured it may help Internet search and advertising leader Google Inc. grow stronger

  • Google Changes Local Ranking Algorithm

    Whereas once it was the center of the city that seemed to be one of the most important factors in ranking well for specific sets of local searches, now that may not be the case. (SE Roundtable April 11 2008)

  • Microsoft & Rupert Murdoch to Jointly Bid for Yahoo!?

    According to New York Times Microsoft Corp. is in talks with Rupert Murdoch about a joint bid towards the acquisition of Yahoo! (PageTraffic April 11 2008)

  • How Flash Can Be Search Engine Friendly

    Scalable Inman Flash Replacement (sIFR) sIFR is a technique that uses Javascript to read in HTML text and render it in Flash instead. (SE Land April 11 2008)

  • Speculating About The Visual Future Of Search Results

    I believe that the future of search will be considerably more visual than it is today. (Greg Sterling SE Land April 11 2008)

  • MixUp At Google? URLs And Page Titles Being Mixed Up

    t seems like Google is facing difficulties in mapping URLs and the pages associated to those URLs. (Searchnewz April 11 2008)

  • Yahoo’s Quality Score Change Effective Next Week

    At the end of February Yahoo! Search Marketing announced that minimum bid prices for PPC ads would not be set. (Marketing Pilgrim April 11 2008)

  • On the Menu at the Yahoo Top Managers Lunch Yesterday: Fear and AOL-oathing

    Yahoo-tops don’t like the idea of a Yahoo/AOL deal as an alternative to Microsoft (Boomtown April 11 2008)

  • Google, Yahoo and Live Expanding Their Maps

    In the last 24 or so hours, all of the big three search engines have had news about expanding their maps programs. (Marketing Pilgrim April 11 2008)

  • Do Domain Ages Affect Search Rankings?

    A new patent application from Microsoft ranks domains based upon the ages of domains which link to those domains. (SEO by the Sea April 11 2008)

  • Blog Search Engine Twingly Launches Private Beta

    Twingly recently launched their next-generation blog search engine at Twingly.com. (AltSearchEngines April 7 2008)

  • Flickr adds Video

    The photograph sharing website Flickr has added the option of uploading videos (Phil Bradley Apil 9 2008)

  • Enterprise Search: Disappointing and Annoying Users

    Users are dissatisfied and work in “information grave yards.” (Beyond Search April 11 2008)

  • Google Forms: A Data Snout for a Bigger Creature

    Google is testing how to search local search forms (Beyond Search April 11 2008)

  • Getting Top Stories at Alltop

    Alltop takes forty popular topics and offers “All the Top” stories from each of the topics. (Researchbuzz April 11 2008)

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