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Friday, November 21st, 2008
For those Google AdWords API developers, you should be aware that currently any requests sent over the SOAP protocol to the API Sandbox will return an error. A Google Groups thread has one developer complaining and an official Google representative...
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Friday, November 21st, 2008
Sam from OhNuts informed me that Google is having some major issues with Google Base feeds. Google Base feeds are used to send data from your site to Google Product Search, amongst other places. A Google Groups announcement thread says...
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Friday, November 21st, 2008
Not really. But kinda.
Google have announced the release of SearchWiki, a way for you to customize search by re-ranking, deleting, adding, and commenting on search results. Don't like a result? You can vote it down. Likewise, you can vote links up if you think they deserve a higher rank. ...
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Thursday, November 20th, 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....
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
News from the IAB (caveat, I am on the Board)...
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB ) and PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) today announced that Internet advertising revenues reached almost $5.9 billion for the third quarter of 2008, representing an 11 percent increase over the same period in 2007. While double-digit annual growth ...
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
And the rumor is he's going to Microsoft.
Should that prove true, another reason to make that Yahoo/MSFT search deal happen. Details at All Things D:
Yahoo–which has stuck to its guns by staying in the search business, even though many think it is a losing game and should be sold ...
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
Ever wonder what a link on Google's homepage would bring in terms of traffic? Let's take this G1 link: The Compete blog gives some detail into the number of clicks that link had while it was extremely visible on Google.com....
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
Numerous (10) Google Maps users are complaining that they are reliant upon Google Maps but the "Saved Locations" is empty even though some have saved 50 locations or so. Addresses are hard to remember by the human mind, so why...
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
A WebmasterWorld thread is gathering the top 5 publisher requests to be shared with Google's AdSenseAdvisor. Forum member participation is building up, with the following requests being made thus far: Ability to block more than 200 sites in the Competitive...
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
Let's say you've geotargeted your Google AdWords ad for Florida. You'd be alarmed if you saw that the ad was being run in Oslo, Norway, wouldn't you? I suppose I would be. Is this a problem with Google? Well, in...
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