October 8, 2007

From the SEW Blog:

• Matt Cutts Interview
  Eric Enge recently sat down with Matt Cutts, Google spam-fighter extraordinaire.
• Yahoo's Sale Of Overture Japan Questioned
  The price of $13 million seems low, and the decision to sell the PPC engine of the largest search engine in Japan seems interesting.
• GPhone a Linux-based Mobile OS?
  While rumors of a mobile device in the works by Google pop up every few weeks, those speculators may be off the mark.
• AP Examines Growth Directions Of Major Search Engines
  The AP sees the retention times of the engines to be declining - with the exception of Google - and that all of them are reaching out to vertical portals and other means of grabbing larger audience share.
• Ask.com Providing Celebrity Search Info For Entertainment Tonight
  Ask.com are sponsoring "celebrity search" on the Entertainment Tonight TV show.
• SEW Experts: Getting a Jump on the Business Intelligence Imperative
  There's gold in all that business intelligence you possess, and it's the key to besting your competitors.
• SEW Experts: Machines in Translation: Do MT Engineers Dream of Selectric Sheep?
  The battle for search engine supremacy in machine translation rages on.

Headlines & News from Elsewhere:

• Mastering Yahoo's Panama, ClickZ
• RIP, PPC, ClickZ
• Google raises temperature of health information market, Information World Review
• Breaking Up Is Too Hard for Yahoo to Do, NYT Bits
• Intel Launches Digg Clone For Software, TechCrunch
• A Way to Find Your Corner of the Internet Sky, NY Times
• Official: Selling Paid Links Can Hurt Your PageRank Or Rankings On Google, Search Engine Land
• Improving Your Conversion Rate is FAR More Important Than Driving More Traffic, PPC Think
• Social media frenzy may kill high quality content. Somebody fix this!, Joe Duck
• Google Determining Search Authority Pages and Propagating Authority to Related Pages, SEO by the Sea
• A Comprehensive Guide to Hidden Text & Search Engines, SEOmoz
• SEO has a bad reputation - So What?, Exposure Online
• Choosing Keywords for Local SEO, LocalPoint
• MSN Video Boosts Features; Sets Sight on Local, The Kelsey Group
• Some Interesting and Useful Yelp Features, Screenwerk