Archive for June 30th, 2006

New Players in Travel Search

Travel search engines, which allow you to book directly with suppliers, have the potential to completely disrupt the status-quo. Here’s a look at two new highly disruptive services that offer great advice for travelers. more here

Links to the week’s topics from search engine forums across the web: Google AdWords Scheduling/Day Parting Now Live - SEO Training- Is It Worthwhile? - Age of Links - Quality and Authority: Relevance Alone Is Not Enough, and more. more here

People go online to surf the Internet at a gaming expo in Beijing in October 2005. China's Internet minders have vowed to step up controls of Internet content, especially in the most active areas of blogs, bulletin boards and search engines, state media have said.(AFP/File/Frederic J. Brown)AP - China's Internet regulators are stepping up controls on blogs and search engines to block material it considers unlawful or immoral, the government said Friday.

Searching for Critical Acclaim

Want to know what the critics say before watching that movie, buying that book or downloading that music? Here’s how to find treasure-troves of reviews, quickly and easily. more here

Highlights from the SEW Blog: June 19, 2006

Featured posts from the Search Engine Watch blog, as well as our customary search headlines from around the web. continue

You can do a lot more with Yahoo’s popular photo sharing site Flickr than simply upload your own photos and browse images created by other users. A new book in O’Reilly’s popular ‘Hacks’ series shows you how. continue

Google Inc is already part of the e-commerce plumbing with its AdWords and AdSense programs, but is now trying dramatically expand that role with the launches of Google Checkout and Authentication Proxy services. continue

The Basics of Blogging and Web Site Creation - Part Two: Introduction To Keywords

Okay so now we know content is king. And of course since we are creating our own blogs, (remember blogs is short slang for Weblogs - which is what their “formal and official” name is), most of our information is going to be “unique” and “Original”. Yet every now and then, since we are only human, and since we simply cannot “create” more and more information, we will copy … more here