Google Celebrates India’s 60th
Time zones aside, India achieved its independence exactly 60 years ago, and the country is now in the midst of numerous celebrations. So is Google, for that matter; Orkut, YouTube, and various branches of the central company have all given their congratulations to India.
Oodle Shakes Its BandTracker
Online classifieds site Oodle has launched a concert listings service called BandTracker out of beta. If a favorite band plays near you, BandTracker will let you know.
Wikiscanner Shows Whodunnit
If you want anonymity online, you might as well just turn off the computer. Not only is not happening, but it’s getting easier to track things. In this case, it’s used for good, but like most purer things, it’s ripe for some corruption.
ClipBlast To Index Metacafe Video
Video search platform ClipBlast has partnered with video sharing site Metacafe to automatically index new video posted to Metacafe.
Gloob Fights The Glob
They may not have meant for the association, but globs, lube, gunk and goo came to mind, which, if you stretch the metaphor, seem to be the yin to Gloob.tv’s yang. The operators (well, spin-meisters) of the site assert that searching for video on YouTube "doesn’t have to be like digging through a trash heap…"
To the Heart of Full-Content RSS Feeds
If you offer an RSS feed from your website or blog that isn’t the full content, here’s something for you to think about.
Like many people, I’m an RSS creative-consumer. That means I read almost everything of interest to me via RSS as well as publish content that you can get via RSS. I don’t visit many websites including blogs unless I’m googling in search mode or if I want to leave a comment.
Search Marketing, Not Metrics
Most of you know that I do a lot of teaching and speaking on the subject of search marketing, and that my approach is not what people expect. Yes, I know all the dials to turn and levers to pull. I can talk about robots.txt and Max CPC and latent semantic indexing and blah blah blah. But, honestly, it’s not what most people need to know. The problem I sometimes find is that when you tell people what they need to know, they think it’s not what they need.
Reciprocal Linking vs. Triangular Linking
When emails like this come from amateurs it’s one thing, but when they come from so-called SEO professionals…
User Generated Content Goes Prime Time
The CW – the other network you probably don’t watch – is giving us a new reason to check them out this fall. Not that it’s original, just that it’s primetime and that means something, right?
U.S. Endorses Music Search Project
We all know that Google can help us find MP3 files, but the leading search engine just works off of words and phrases. Another engine would actually listen to and analyze music, and it just received a small amount of funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation.