May 15, 2007

From the SEW Blog:

• ChaCha Partners with blinkx for Video Search
  ChaCha, a search engine that search engine that uses human guides to enhance its search results, has announced a partnership with video search engine blinkx for multimedia content.
• Google Webmaster Group Calls for Backup
  Google's Webmaster Help group is getting some much-needed backup in the form of additional Google Search Quality team members.
• Google Audio Ads See Broad Release
  Google is in the process of making Audio Ads available to U.S. AdWords advertisers.
• It's Raining Search Engines
  It looks like 2007 will be the year of the niche search engines.
• Internet Search Engine Database launches ISEdb SCOOP
  It presents search engine industry news in such a way that user-appreciated information is pushed to the top of the overflowing pile.
• Autobytel Selects Kosmix as Vertical Search Partner
  Autobytel has selected Kosmix to power an auto-focused vertical search engine on their "next generation consumer automotive Web site," MyRide.com.
• Yahoo Names New CFO
  Yahoo announced today it will appoint Blake Jorgensen, the co-founder of Thomas Weisel Partners, as their new Chief Financial Officer.

Headlines & News from Elsewhere:

• adCenter Feature Review: Bulk Keyword Edits and Ad Preview, adCenter Blog
• Handing Over the Keys to Your Google AdWords Account, Search Engine Roundtable
• Things Sure Are Quiet At MySpace News, TechCrunch
• Why does Google retain data? Because nonexistent laws tell it to, ars technica
• Forty-Eight Hours With Ask Mobile, Search Engine Land
• IAC to spend $100 mln on Ask brand in 2007: Diller, Reuters
• Your Paid Search Performance Is Relative, Search Engine Land
• Forrester Prediction: Paid Video Downloads are Dead, SearchViews
• Why You Need a "Chief Listening Officer", Marketing Pilgrim
• The Misguided Hype Of Transparency, Search Insider
• Bad SEO article - about SEO and articles no less, The Online Marketing Guy
• AOL Acquires Mobile Ad Firm Third Screen Media, ClickZ
• How many search engines are in your SEO world?, SEO Theory
• Being There for Your Customers, Yahoo Search Marketing Blog
• ChaCha and blinkx Announce Partnership, Read/Write Web
• 65 Headlines to Jump Start your Linkbait, Cornwall SEO
• Does Google Frown On Links From Paid Directories?, SearchRank
• Study Concludes Robots.txt Files Should be Replaced, SEO by the Sea
• ASK Mobile GPS Provides a Glimpse of What is to Come, Stepforth SEO
• Geo Targeting Ranking Factors, Venture Skills
• In/Outbound Link Management for the In-House Crowd, cshel