Search Engine Forums Spotlight

By Chris Sherman,
August 18, 2006

Links to the week's topics from search engine forums across the web.

Google Buys Neven Vision to Boost Photo Management
Webmaster World
"Google plans to strengthen its Picasa photo management software and service with the acquisition of Neven Vision, a Santa Monica, California, company specializing in mobile photo search."

Yahoo! Checkmate Lawsuit
Search Engine Watch Forums
"Details on how to request a settlement payment or opt-out have now gone out from Yahoo in the class action lawsuit over click fraud against it. What do you think?"

Google Talk Updated With New Features
Webmaster World
"At first I was sceptical of using GTalk through GMail. But I have found that the convenience of having IM and email all collected into one tab of my browser, PLUS the benefit of everything being indexed and searchable, makes GTalk a suprisingly viable IM solution."

What 5 Areas...
Search Engine Watch Forums
"...would you first examine if you were asked to perform SEO on a particular web site and/or 5 areas you think have the greatest influence in SEO?"

Biggest Misconceptions People Have About SEO
High Rankings Forum
"We recently contacted some 20 of my web hosting clients (my other company is an ISP) trying to get inside people' heads in regards to SEO. I could not believe what I'd discovered..."

Search Engine Bot Control
Cre8asite Forums
"...given how straining your database is on your server, I would put a captcha for every search. I know it's inconvenient, but a good explanation would go a long way to alleviating any pain your visitors might feel."

Hire A Blogger?
Small Business Ideas Forum
"If you have budget for advertising that includes a team to handle public relations (newspapers, radio, television) you might consider one more media called Internet that includes an expert on Blogging."

Why Google Might "Ignore" a robots.txt Disallow Rule
Webmaster World
"What appears to happen is that as soon as you add a User-agent: Googlebot section, then Google starts indexing all the URLs that are not mentioned in that section, even if they are mentioned in the User-agent: * section."

Importance of Fresh Links
V7N Forum
"I see a lot of older sites with awesome linkage dropping in the SERPs [search engine results pages], and I think it it has to do with fresh links. Of my own sites, I see older sites drop in the SERPs if they don't regularly get new, fresh links. Thoughts?"

Kanoodle & Moniker: What unique strengths and assets do they bring together?
Webmaster World
"With the kind of parking traffic Moniker has, this makes sense for Kanoodle so that they can make a more reasonable attempt at the PPC provider game. Yahoo and Google are already slugging it out for parking page traffic, because there is a LOT of it and it is pretty good quality with lower levels of fraud. The acquisition likely gives Kanoodle an entry point with decent traffic for once."

Search Engine Forums Spotlight courtesy Search Engine Guide.

Search Headlines

NOTE: Article links often change. In case of a bad link, use the publication's search facility, which most have, and search for the headline.

From The SEW Blog...

• So Long Daypop & Blogdex
• Seevast: It's Kanoodle & More
• Daily SearchCast, August 17, 2006: Hot Search Blogs; GoogleTalk Gets New Features; Filing Time For Yahoo Click Fraud Settlement; Beaming Up Google Engineers & More!
• Google AdSense Prompts Ad Viewers to Download Third Party Applications
• Human Rights Group & UK House of Commons Demand Google, Yahoo, & Microsoft To Stop Censorship
• Ask.com Adds DVD & TV Data To Movie Smart Answers
• Former Yahoo China Head Sues Yahoo For Defamation
• Aug. 17, 2006 Search News Forecast: Mostly Sunny
• Google Talk Gains Voicemail, Music Status, Photo & File Sharing Features
• Google Released Trends For Google Music

Headlines & News From Elsewhere

• Google Corrects Checkout Glitch, PC World
• Waging War Against Click Fraud, BusinessWeek Online
• Digg Adds Video Thumbnails, Google Blogoscoped
• Online Video Zeitgeist Debuts, Micro Persuasion
• Search Engine Validation Charts, Google Blogoscoped
• Yahoo! Photos to leave beta today, TechCrunch
• The Most-requested Google Features, Google Blogoscoped
• Del.icio.us Redesigns, Again. Plus Contextual Ads, Solution Watch
• Avoid Google Inline Revisions, Google Blogoscoped
• Matt Cutts on MySpace?, Search Engine Roundtable
• Google AdSense Ads Prompting 3rd Party Downloads, Search Engine Roundtable
• LinksManager Gets a Patent - Interview with Joel Lesser, Sugarrae
• Yahoo Photos out of beta, News.com
• China.com says to tie up with Google, Reuters
• YouTube gets its close-up Popular video site even leaves 'em sleepless near Seattle, San Francisco Chronicle
• Interactive Outdoor Ads Bring Yell.com's Virtual Biz Listings to Life, ClickZ
• Forbes on PubSub's business history, Niall Kennedy
• About.com Shapes Up for Health Content Expansion, ClickZ
• Amazon Releases Search Suggestion Tool Powered by User Recommendations, ResourceShelf
• Analytics Group Aims to Clear Cookies' Bad Name, ClickZ
• "Classic" SEO?, ClickZ
• Google's two-year IPO anniversary, Marketwatch
• How to use AJAX: 5 Real World Examples, SEOmoz
• Jill Whalen Interviewed at SES San Jose, Search Engine Guide
• Real Search Engine Optimization Linkbaiting, Search Engine Guide
• CEO: YouTube Is Generating "Significant Revenues", PaidContent.org
• What My Granny Thinks About Google Coupons, Google Watch
• Has the time finally come to stop using Google?, Guardian Unlimited Technology
• How To Keep Your Search History Private, EFF
• Microsoft Embeds Windows Live Links in New Vista Builds, Microsoft Watch
• Rollyo Rolls On, Powered by the Yahoo! Developer Network, Yahoo Search Blog