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September 27, 2006

Search Headlines & Links: September 27, 2006

Below, a recap of stories posted today to the Search Engine Watch Blog, along with other items we've spotted but not blogged separately:

From The SEW Blog...

  • Evil Matt Cutts: Matt's Evil Twin Brother
    Spotted via SEO Home, it appears someone launched an alter ego to Matt Cutts's blog at evilmattcutts.com. You got to admit, this is funny. The picture, the reworded blog posts, and the concept. One example blog post is named How to Verify Google Bot, then Kill and cook him. Who owns the site? Well, I know who owns the domain, http://whois.domaintools.com/evilmattcutts.com. Matt, what happened to your front tooth?...
  • Indeed Launches Salary Search Beta
    Indeed, the job search engine, announced the launch of a Salary Search tool. It basically allows you to enter in a job title description and a location (optional) to find "objective" and "current" salaries for jobs offered based on your search. It pulls the data from "millions of current job listings." Below is a screen cast I performed on my computer while testing it out, you will need to boost up your speaker volume to hear it (sorry)....
  • OneSky Jet Travel Search Engine For Private Jet Flights
    Can't afford your own private jet, like the 767 the Google cofounders own, but like the idea of flying privately? OneSky is a new search engine allowing you to book room on private jets between destinations within the United States. They tell me:...
  • 2006 Online Ad Spend: 37% Increase in '06 & Search Remains Hot
    The Internet Advertising Bureau (IAB) in conjunction with PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) released online ad revenue figures for the first two quarters of 2006, showing a 37% increase year-over-year for the same period. The first half of 2006, revenues from online ads were $7.9 billion. Search counted for approximately 40 percent of those figures, at $3,164 million. Like in the past, they do not break out contextual ads from search ads....
  • Google's 8th Birthday
    Google put up a special birthday logo for themselves today, since today is Google's 8th birthday. Or is it? In last years post, we asked Didn't Google Just Have A Birthday? We quoted the When is Google's birthday? from Google's support page, which said back then;...
  • Google Talks On Its Approach To Content & Copyright
    Our approach to content at the Official Google Blog has Google explaining to the world how it works with content owners and its desire to respect their rights. In terms of copyright, Google stresses that it generally sticks to what's known as fair use, though the post doesn't use those words. The idea is that it shows very short summaries of stories, pages, thumbnails of images but doesn't reprint this material, requiring people to clickthrough to the actual material from places like Google News....
  • John Battelle Talks With Matt Cutts & Nofollow Attribute The Same As Meta Robots Nofollow?
    John Battelle has a short interview with Google spam fighter Matt Cutts. The most interesting part I found was news that the W3C has added a meta nofollow tag to their page with paid links, which Matt seems to say is the same as the completely different nofollow attribute and thus something acceptable for to do by those selling links who fear the wrath of Google....
  • What's Cooking in Search Engine Labs
    Many of the major search engines showcase the projects they are working on in their respective research labs. Want a peek behind the scenes? Read on in today's SearchDay article, Behind the Scenes in the Search Engine Labs....
  • The Internet, 'Family 2.0' And The 43-Hour Day
    Yahoo and OMD issued the findings from the latest round of their ongoing global research project in 16 contries that involves online surveys and in-person interviews. What they found is that through technology and multitasking families are cramming the equivalent of 43 hours of activity into a 24 hour day. They also found that the Internet (and mobile phones) are a significant part of the fabric of daily family life. There's a lot of interesting material in the findings. The top level data can be found in this release....

Headlines & News From Elsewhere

Posted by Danny Sullivan at September 27, 2006 1:05 PM