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My 2 featured articles for the week ending October 1st:

Blog archives, week of October 4th, 2004

552 - October 9, 2004 - 10.45 AM EST

The Rank for $ales Weekly Newsletter

Today's edition of our weekly SEO newsletter just hit the 'Web newstands' and, as always, it's filled with 'How To' information, news on the search engines, gossip, Questions & Answers and my own views on this industry. I guess by tomorrow we will have 19,000 subscribers reading it every week, since we are already up to 18,957 loyal subscribers.

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551 - October 8, 2004 - 10.35 AM EST

Google SMS, a new wireless service

Google just launched Google SMS, a beta version of a new service that lets users of wireless devices query the Google search engine for specific information.

Examples of the information that can be found are: business or residential listings, specific product prices on items and word definitions. Google SMS also can be used to solve mathematical calculations, to look up area codes and postal codes and to receive snippets of Google search engine results.

Posted on Businessblog™

550 - October 8, 2004 - 9.43 AM EST

IceRocket adds blog search

Recently, IceRocket added two new tools that help to position it more as an alternative search engine.

IceRocket’s Blog Search marks IceRocket as one of the first top to mid tier search engines that has opened its doors to blog searching and an interesting live time search reporter called IceSpy.

Posted on Businessblog™

549 - October 7, 2004 - 1.41 PM EST

Ask Jeeves' UK search serves porn to schools

Students at a secondary school in Bradford, UK saw more than they expected when an innocent classroom search returned them to a porn site. The school children were using the Ask Jeeves' UK-based search engine to look for information on the heart during a biology lesson.

The links to hardcore pornography appeared because of a matching error between the keyword and the results, said Ask Jeeves.

Posted on Businessblog™

548 - October 7, 2004 - 11.36 AM EST

Google won't produce any Web browser after all

Google investor and board executive John Doerr said despite a lot of speculation, Google will not enter the Web browser market.

But Doerr did say others probably would. "Browsers are going to come back. We'll see a lot of innovation," said Doerr, speaking to a roomful of attendees at the Web 2.0 conference in San Francisco.

Posted on Businessblog™

547 - October 6, 2004 - 8.44 PM EST

Google finally updates its PR database

Most of the sites we have optimized in the past two to three months just got a hefty increase in their PageRank™ and their rankings, since Google just updated its PR (Page Rank™) database.

Remember-- You saw it first on Serge Thibodeau, Live.

Posted on Businessblog™

546 - October 6, 2004 - 5.05 PM EST

Web Hosting

Google to help publishers sell books online

Today, Google quietly launched a new search technology designed to help book publishers sell online.

Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page will host a press conference on Thursday to demonstrate the technology at the Frankfurt Book Fair in Germany, an important showcase if the Internet search engine is to recruit the heavyweights of the book publishing industry.

Posted on Businessblog™

545 - October 6, 2004 - 9.12 AM EST

Kanoodle launches BrightAds

Kanoodle launches BrightAds, a self-service tool for small to medium-sized content publishers that will enable them to run Kanoodle's content-targeted sponsored links on their sites.

With the launch of BrightAds, it is now easy for independent Web publishers to add highly relevant sponsored links advertisements to their sites and generate immediate revenue.

Posted on Businessblog™

544 - October 5, 2004 - 2.10 PM EST

Yahoo offers personalized search

On the Yahoo Search blog, the company discussed the transition between static and personalized search.

Before Yahoo, Google has been testing its lab version of personalied search. Even Eurekester and AskJeeves brought personalized search into the open by getting the jump on the other large search engines.

Posted on Businessblog™

543 - October 5, 2004 - 8.21 AM EST

Infomercials

Early investors in Google rake in large profits

Venture capitalist Michael Moritz made a large profit from the Google IPO. But, Moritz says you're only as good as your next investment.

On the homepage of Google, the world's most popular internet search engine, there is a button marked "I'm feeling lucky". It could almost have been created especially for Michael Moritz. Michael Moritz received a gigantic return on the $12.5 million he invested in 1999.

Posted on Businessblog™

542 - October 5, 2004 - 7.33 AM EST

Idealab launches Insider Pages

The driving force behind search pioneer Overture, Bill Gross, is once again battling in Web search. The founder and CEO of famed venture capitalist Idealab plans to unveil a new search venture Tuesday at the first annual Web 2.0 Conference being held in San Francisco.

Meanwhile, his venture fund has bankrolled a new localized service that ties online yellow pages with social networking.

Posted on Businessblog™

541 - October 4, 2004 - 7.58 PM EST

Network news anchors criticize bloggers

I personally don't agree one bit with this post. Blogging is all about freedom of speech and if network news anchors or journalists cannot cope with it, then I think they should resign, or, better still, join the growing blogging community.

"What I think is highly inappropriate is what's going on across the Internet, a kind of political jihad," Tom Brokaw said during a panel on which he appeared with Dan Rather and Peter Jennings.

"It is certainly an attempt to demonize CBS News, and it goes well beyond any factual information a lot of them has, the kind of demagoguery that is unleashed out there."

Posted on Businessblog™

Paid Inclusion

540 - October 4, 2004 - 5.37 PM EST

Paid search exploding in the legal field

Paid search is really driving new business in certain areas, such as the legal profession. A day after Merck recalled its arthritis and painkiller Vioxx drug last week, many class-action lawyers started bidding for the term "Vioxx" on paid-search engines.

A search for that term on Google (GOOG) will bring up three law firms advertising their services to represent anyone who's been injured by taking Vioxx. The top paying law firm, Brown & Crouppe, said the advertisement just went up.

Posted on Businessblog™

539 - October 4, 2004 - 2.09 PM EST

Canadian version of Google Local launched

Google launched its new Canadian version of Google Local earlier this month. It's a sub-site of the popular Google Canadian search engine (www.google.ca) that lets you search for services and products in your own city.

Having tried it out, I can't say it's going to blow anybody away. It's not new technology. But it works. Sure, if you're looking for a shop in Regina that sells, say, oatmeal soap, you can just plug some search terms into any search engine and see what pops up.

Posted on Businessblog™

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