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Archived blogs for the week of July 11, 2005

938 - July 16, 2005 - 10.32 AM EST

The final results to our survey are in

Our three-week survey is finally completed and all the results are in and they are very REVEALING. Some of the numbers will surprise some of you. I know they surprised me a bit.

Click here to read the results of the Rank for $ales survey on "Where do you Think the SEO and SEM Industry is Headed" for the next 12 months.

I promise you it is good reading.

Posted on Businessblog™

937 - July 15, 2005 - 11.29 AM EST

The Wayback Machine is sued!

Just when you thought you've seen it all, you haven't! There's more...

For many years, the Wayback Machine has been used by many people and for many different reasons, but could this lawsuit change things?

Want to see what a Web site looked like a couple of years ago? You can use the wayback machine at www.archive.org and have a glimpse in time.

But the Wayback Machine can also used as a legal tool “to turn up old Web pages” that can be used in a legal case. Due to this, one law firm wanted to prevent this from happening and decided to bring in the Wayback Machine into a lawsuit.

This lawsuit has an incredible number of implications; to name a few:

(1) The aspect of bringing up old versions of Web sites
(2) A sure fire way to prove copyright infringement
(3) Many search engines have “caching” functionality

There is a definite search-related impact on this case for all of us. The forums are already buzzing on this topic. There are major threads at WebmasterWorld, the SEO Help Forum and Search Engine Watch Forums.

Posted on Businessblog™

936 - July 14, 2005 - 7.52 PM EST

Google just started a new PR update!

Remember you read it here first! Just a few minutes ago, Google just initiated a new PR update in all of its North American data centers.

Some new sites we just launched less than 2 to 3 months ago already have a strong PR 6, with a few at PR 7.

So far, this looks to be a great PR update. (More information on how Google's Page Rank™ Algorithm works).

Posted on Businessblog™

935 - July 14, 2005 - 1.19 PM EST

Yahoo to translate German search terms to English

Today, Yahoo is to launch a new service that takes German search queries and translates them into English and French, and returns results in German from around the globe.

Currently, less than 10 percent of all Web pages are in German, so when German speakers search the Internet for information they are missing out on the huge amount of content that may be useful to them but is in a different language, said Eckart Walther, vice president of product management at Yahoo Search.

As it is now, Web searchers must know the exact word or phrase in a foreign language to get search results that are applicable beyond what is available in their own language.

The beta, or test version, of Yahoo Suche (Search) Translator, available at Yahoo's German search site, will make it possible for people to search knowing only their own language.

Posted on Businessblog™

934 - July 14, 2005 - 10.55 AM EST

Lehman raises Google's price target to $350

Lehman Brothers has raised its price target on Google's stock to $350. In a note to its clients, Lehman also raised its second-quarter earnings and revenue estimates for the search company.

The earnings forecast was raised to $1.28 per share from $1.22. The revenue estimate was raised to $861 million from $844 million. In premarket trading on the Inet electronic brokerage network, the stock was up $4.59, or 1.5 percent, at $303.45.

It closed Wednesday at $298.86.

Posted on Businessblog™

933 - July 13, 2005 - 2.51 PM EST

ChannelAdvisor acquires SearchMarketing

ChannelAdvisor has acquired SearchMarketing, a company involved in natural and paid search optimization for online merchants. The acquisition will allow ChannelAdvisor to enhance its channel management solutions by adding a comprehensive natural and paid search suite.

Founded in 1999 by Kevin McCarthy, SearchMarketing manages over 1.5 million keywords for over thirty retail clients. SearchMarketing's technology is directly integrated with the Google and Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO) Search Marketing web service APIs. SearchMarketing works with 24 of the top 400 Internet retailers.

"After talking to our customers the overwhelming feedback was a lack of satisfaction with existing search engine optimization advertising-based tools such as rules-based and portfolio-based approaches," said Scot Wingo, Chief Executive Officer and President of ChannelAdvisor.

"The ChannelAdvisor/SearchMarketing combination allows us to offer our customers from eBay's largest sellers to top online merchants a next generation ability to utilize search as a powerful new sales channel."

Posted on Businessblog™

932 - July 13, 2005 - 8.10 AM EST

Google most trusted to deliver applications

According to new research done by market analyst firm IDC, large businesses rank Google as the most likely candidate they trust to deliver certain on demand applications.

Hosted applications are delivered to the user's computer through the internet. They are deployed through a browser window.

The most common examples of such software are Salesforce.com and hosted email accounts from Hotmail, Gmail.

The IDC survey asked 30 companies with revenues between $500m and $80b about their preferences for online applications.

Posted on Businessblog™

931 - July 12, 2005 - 1.47 PM EST

Google and Yahoo to overtake cell phone market

According to Bank of America's advertising conference, "Internet games are a growing entertainment outlet for the 18-34 male demographic", and advertisers are paying attention.

This year, the gaming advertising industry is expected to be about $100 million, but is expected to grow to over $1 billion over the next several years," noted the research firm.

Posted on Businessblog™

930 - July 12, 2005 - 1.18 PM EST

New features added to the FeedPlex search engine

FyberSearch ads eleven new features to FeedPlex, its XML search engine that it acquired in 2004 and that it re-launched this spring.

FeedPlex is a search engine for Internet users who are interested in finding XML and RSS files located on blogs and other websites.

FeedPlex’s additions include several useful features including “Keyword Density", “Words Per Page” and “Category". They are described in more detail below.

The “Keyword Density” feature will require that each web page found in a user’s search results contain his/her search query at least X times.

The “Words Per Page” feature will require that each web page found in a user’s search results contain more/less than X total words. With the “Category” setting a user can restrict his/her search query to web pages relating to a certain topic.

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929 - July 12, 2005 - 7.26 AM EST

Google rumoured to acquire Baidu

Sources say Google is rumoured to have an interest in acquiring Baidu, a Chinese Internet search engine. According to published reports in China, Google CEO Eric Schmidt was in Beijing last week meeting with Baidu officials.

Mountain View, Calif.-based Google has a 4% stake in the company, and it is unclear whether Schmidt's visit was connected to that investment or other business.

A Google spokeswoman confirmed Schmidt was in China visiting the Internet company's office and that he met with some of its business partners.

She declined to say whether he met with Baidu officials or whether the company is interested in acquiring its Chinese rival. In addition to its investment in Baidu, Google also has business relationships with Internet games and wireless content provider Netease.com Inc. of Beijing and instant messaging software maker Tencent Holdings Ltd. of Shenzhen.

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928 - July 11, 2005 - 2.16 PM EST

Yahoo uses Flickr to test advertising ads

Yahoo uses Flickr to verify contextual advertising as part of Yahoo Search Marketing’s plans to unveil their own Yahoo Publisher’s advertising.

Rumors have been circulating around the Internet since last February that Yahoo Search Marketing would soon be unveiling their own contextual advertising network which would compete with Google AdSense.

Posted on Businessblog™

927 - July 11, 2005 - 1.15 PM EST

Google wins domain typosquatting ruling

Google filed a complaint against Sergey Gridasov on May 11, saying the mistyped domain names are "confusingly similar" to Google's marks. Gridasov and Computer Services did not respond to the complaint. As a result, the NAF awards Google the legal rights to the domain names.

The NAF said that Computer Services is engaging in "typosquatting," taking advantage of a potential typographical error made by Internet users seeking to reach Google's site.

"Typosquatting is itself evidence of bad faith registration and use of the disputed domain name," the NAF wrote in its decision.

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