May 30, 2007

From the SEW Blog:

• eBay Acquires StumbleUpon
  As rumored last month, eBay has acquired social media service StumbleUpon for $75 million in cash.
• Mobile SEO Presents Challenges
  Mobile search engine optimization shares some common methods and problems with its Web-based counterpart, but there is a whole set of other issues unique to mobile sites.
• Google Picks Up Geo-locating Photo Service
  Google will acquire Panoramio, a Spanish community site that links photos with the geographic location at which they were taken.
• News from SES China
  Several intrepid travelers made the trip to Xiamen for SES China last week.
• Google is a Data Company
  Google's core expertise is not as a search engine company, or an advertising company. Google is a data company.
• Web Is 'Force for Democracy': Schmidt
  "Politicians will be forced to be more transparent," Schmidt said.
• Yahoo CTO Retires
  Farzad Nazem has decided it’s time to take a breather and has announced his retirement.
• Google Map Directions Have Sense of Humor
  When you do a New York City to London request the results tell you to swim the Atlantic.
• SEW Experts: A Look at Latency In Search Engine Ranking
  Eric Enge presents a case study of a niche content site that reveals differences in latency involved in each search engine's index, and in how each search engine responds to removed pages.

Headlines & News from Elsewhere:

• SEO Challenges for Three Business Types, ClickZ
• Companies warned over internet data, Information World Review
• Can You Make a Living Blogging, Graywolf SEO
• Client SEO is Harder Than Ever, John Andrews
• You Are Better Than You Think, Tropical SEO
• Googlenoping, SearchViews
• 8 Tips To Create A Landing Page, 15 Digital Marketing
• Search Engine Marketing Results Tracking, Think About Search
• Should you NOINDEX your RSS feed?, Ramblings About SEO
• Death of Journalism - Blame Google? No. Ask Google to Lead? Yes., Battelle's Searchblog
• Idea: Improve Local Search Business Data, Small Business SEM
• Web Strategy: How to evolve your irrelevant corporate website, Web Strategy by Jeremiah
• Annoying Differences Between Yahoo Panama and Google AdWords, Got Ads?
• Universally and Gainfully Google: The Personalities Test, Metamend SEO Blog
• How to Win Sales and Influence Spiders Review, Cat Seda
• Designed to Sell, The SEM Zone
• How to Choose a Brandable Domain Name, QuickSprout
• Guide to Keyword Researching Tools, Search Engine Journal
• 13 Tips For Getting Page One Search Rankings, Search Engine Guide
• If Your “Baby Is Ugly,” Fix It, Practical eCommerce
• In-house Spotlight : AllRecipes.com’s SEO Dustin Woodard, Search Engine Journal
• Modeling Search and User Behavior to Measure Campaign Performance, SEO'Brien
• How Bloggers Can Adapt To Universal Search, Performancing
• Talking PPC With Microsoft Adcenter, Shoemoney