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November 7, 2006

Search Headlines & Links: Nov. 7, 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...

  • Text Link Ads Aquired By MediaWhiz
    Text Link Ads has been acquired by MediaWhiz as of yesterday. Text Link Ads (TLA) sells text advertisements on web sites and RSS feeds, they also have a publisher network where small publishers can earn money selling TLA ads on their own site. The dollar figures were not disclosed as part of the release. The Link Building Blog says notes that "the people you will be dealing with tomorrow at TLA will be the same people you have always dealt with since our doors opened in 2003." They will be moving from Cincinnati to New York in a few months...
  • Australia's Proposed Copyright Rules Would Make Search Engines Impossible, Warns Google
    AFP reports that Google has warned Australia that if they pass certain a new copyright law that it will set the country back to "the pre-Internet era." Google's senior counsel, Andrew McLaughlin, told the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee, "If such advanced permission was required [to index pages], the internet would promptly grind to a halt." I believe the issue here is that Australia wants Google to get copyright owners to opt in to having their content indexed, archived and cached, as opposed to opting out via a robots.txt file. Australia is not alone here; Belgium newspapers are fighting...
  • Google Recent FAQ List From WebmasterWorld
    I reported this morning that WebmasterWorldhas an excellent summary sticky thread with links to important and mostly recent topics that can be very useful to SEOs and Webmasters on Google optimization tips. Here is the rundown....
  • Use Of AdWords In US Senate Campaigns
    The Rimm-Kaufman Group conducted a small study on how the US Senate candidates and campaigns used Google AdWords this weekend to "swing Senate races" in the last minute hustle and bustle. Here is a quick punch list of 'take aways' they sent me from the study:...
  • YouTube, TIME's Best Invention Of 2006
    If you missed it, TIME released their best inventions of 2006 and the best invention at the top of the list was YouTube. Why did it win?...
  • Third Update On Google's 2nd Publication Ad Test
    In our continued coverage of an individual advertiser who has been invited to participate in the newspaper Google ad test, PPC Discussions has a 3rd update for us. On November 2nd he received an email from Google stating;...
  • AdWords Landing Page Quality Score Coming To AdSense Network
    Last night the Inside AdWords blog announced two main things. The first is that Google will be "improving the algorithm for evaluating landing page quality and incorporating landing page content retrieved by the AdWords system." The second is that some (I believe many) AdSense publishers will see the impact of the landing page quality score. We'll begin incorporating landing page quality into the Quality Score for your contextually-targeted ads, using the same evaluation process as we do for ads showing on Google.com and the search network. Advertisers who may be providing a poor experience on their site will notice that...
  • Google's Adam Lasnik Interviewed
    Lee Odden interviewed Adam Lasnik of Google the other day. Adam Lasnik is one of the folks at Google responsible for being the voice of the webmaster. His day job is to help webmasters with ranking and indexing issues either through communication or other means. I find the read interesting and helpful - it really shows that Google cares....
  • Windows Live Local Gets "Virtual Earth" 3-D Cities
    Tomorrow Microsoft will bring dramatic 3-D mapping to the browser window. Windows Live is set to launch photorealistic 3-D imagery for the "urban core" of 15 U.S. cities: San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Detroit, Phoenix, Houston, Baltimore, Atlanta, Denver, Dallas and Fort Worth. An image of virtual San Francisco, as provided by Microsoft, is above....

Headlines & News From Elsewhere

Posted by Danny Sullivan at November 7, 2006 2:25 PM