Archive for May, 2008

Belgian Publishers Demand $77.5 Million of Damages from Google

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

PC World has an article about how Belgian publishers are looking to sue Google for $77.5 million in damages for "for violating copyright law by publishing their articles on Google News and caching their web pages." This has been going...

Embedding Related YouTube Videos May Increase Your Ranking in Google?

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Talk about theories! A WebmasterWorld thread has a theory that was posted by senior member, travelin cat, who noticed that his top ranking pages tend to have related YouTube video's embedded on them. The YouTube videos are not his videos,...

Google Does Not Recommend Keyword Insertion in Display URL

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

A Google Groups thread, an advertiser is asking for advice on if Google supports the keyword insertion technique within the display URL. Keyword inserting is a method of dynamically inserting the searchers query in your search ad. For example, if...

Early Wired Images

Thursday, May 29th, 2008

Ah, nostalgia. That's me bent over the work of editing Wired back in the day. Thanks Pesco...

Initial Web 2 Summit Lineup Up, Registration Is Open

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

My partners at Web 2 told me today that the new website is live, the initial theme is up and posted (I am very excited about this year's theme) and if you haven't gone before, you can request an invitation to come here. Last year we had nearly 10,000 requests ...

Liveblogging: Yahoo’s Decker and Yang

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

After a funny film featuring nearly every luminary under the sun giving Yang and Decker advice (Buffet, Stringer, Zuckerberg, etc) Yang and Decker took the stage and Walt immediately asked them about the MSFT deal. Yang agreed that they could not get to a price, but that there were other ...

SMX Advanced 2008 Conference Coverage Schedule

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Can you believe it, it is almost a year since the first ever SMX Advanced show hit the stage. Next week is the second SMX Advanced show, following several successful SMX presentations, hosted by Danny Sullivan. Like always, we at...

Daily Search Forum Recap: May 28, 2008

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....

Is Google AdSense Safe on a Government Website?

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Let's say you hosted a government website with over 1 million visitors monthly. You'd probably want to monetize it. What about considering Google AdSense? It's a possibility; the contextual ads are likely to be well-targeted. Thousands of websites employ Google...

How Does Google Handle Hacked Sites?

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008

Matt Cutts blogged about how Google keeps its index clean by deindexing hacked sites. In his post, he explains that hacked sites can be detrimental to the search experience especially if malware is hosted there and is installed on a...