Daily Search Forum Recap: September 29, 2008
Monday, September 29th, 2008Here 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....
Archive for September, 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....
The Web 2 Launch Pad: Deadline Is This Week, Submit Your Company!
Monday, September 29th, 2008It may seem like a long way off, but the Web 2 Summit is in less than six weeks - right after the general election. And this year's Launch Pad, where we honor six of the best companies in the space, will close its application process this Friday. (The original ...
Google AdSense Login Goes Down For Many Publishers
Monday, September 29th, 2008Hundreds of Google AdSense publishers cannot login to their AdSense accounts right now. Derek Chew showed me that when he tried, he ends up at a URL that looks like this https://www.google.com/adsense/legacylogincallback. The error when you land at that page...
Yahoo! Search Marketing Raises Minimum Credit Card Amount to $250
Monday, September 29th, 2008A WebmasterWorld member is a bit disappointed at an email he received from Yahoo which says that Yahoo will be raising the price of the minimum credit card amount to $250, up 10x from the previous amount of $25. Here's...
Google Officially Turns 10: Reflections of the Past
Monday, September 29th, 2008Google has finally acknowledged its 10th birthday with a logo that celebrates the beginning of Google and where it is today. In case you didn't notice, Google had two birthday logos, the one pictured and another one with the old...
Microsoft Extends Invitations to adCenter Desktop Beta
Monday, September 29th, 2008Numerous WebmasterWorld members are reporting that they have been invited to the Microsoft adCenter Desktop Beta. If you need any help with the Microsoft adCenter Desktop beta, adCenterRep has announced that there is a community forum for assistance. If you...
Google Toolbar 5 Released for Firefox
Monday, September 29th, 2008The Official Google Blog has announced that the Google Toolbar 5 is now available for Firefox and has many cool new features. One such feature is Autofill, which acts as a password manager and can auto-fill forms with credit card...
Google Testing Snippet Size Controls in Search Results
Monday, September 29th, 2008A WebmasterWorld thread reports Google is testing giving the users the ability to set the size of the search results snippets. Google is showing at the upper left of the search results page "Web: Result details: S M L" The...
eBay Increases Ad Spend with Google AdWords
Monday, September 29th, 2008A WebmasterWorld thread reports that eBay is back at it again, bidding on every possible search term under the sky or rather under the Internet. This is upsetting to many advertisers, who can feel a big hurt from eBay taking...
Yahoo Search Rosh Hashanah 5769 Update
Monday, September 29th, 2008There are reports from WebmasterWorld that Yahoo Search is shuffling their search results. This is interesting, because we normally do not have a Yahoo Search update until the first week of the month. The last update was on September 6th...