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Just testing the new version of movable type here. The WYSIWYG editor works in Safari now. It has tags and more.

Server folks fixed the issue, too much stress yesterday suffered from it. Anyway, here is today's news.

Search Engine Roundtable Topics:

1. The Exchange Rate Google Uses for International AdWords Advertisers Unfair? - is it ever fair?
   
2. All Of Google's 500 Plus Domain Names - not all are correct
   
3. Scrapers Reborn & MFAs Take a Hit With New Google AdWords Quality Score? - one down and two more to go
   
4. Yahoo! Warns Publishers: Remove Images Near Ads - good
   
5. India Blocks Google's Blogspot & Yahoo!'s Geocities - ok
   
6. Google Mini Fridges Up For Sale at eBay - too funny
   

Search Engine Watch Topics:

1. The Google Idiots Are Damn Smart - duhhhh
   
2. Malware Search Engine Powered By Google - nice way to find things you rather not find
   
3. Click Pirates Making A Mockery Of The Text Ad Space - ohoy
   
4. Mom's Googling: Be Careful! - or else!
   
5. Keyword Prices Continue To Fall: Down 8.6 Percent - seems a bit strange to me, wonder if that will change with the new quality score?
   

Network issues sporadically throughout the day today, after moving to a new hosting farm. No fun, not fun at all. Anyway, here is the search new coverage for the day.

Search Engine Roundtable Forums:

1. Google Maps Results Displayed on Google Search Results - a bit too much?
   
2. Hackers Changing Google AdSense Publisher IDs? - I hope this was a typo, but I don't think so
   
3. Related Search Command Changes at Google.com - weirdness again
   
4. SES San Jose 2006 Coming - excited?
   
5. Google Down in the UK - and at this time, it is still down, and I thought I was having a bad day!
   
6. Search Engine Roundtable On The Air Soon: Reader Feedback Requested - looks like Search Pulse will win.
   

Search Engine Watch Topics:

1. Yahoo Officially Launches New Home Page Design - nice
   
2. Report: Click Fraud Rises in Q2 & High-Priced Keywords Click Fraud Rate At 20.2% - don't cry
   
3. Google Hiring Television Engineers & Wireless Software Engineer - TV here, TV there
   
4. Google Maps Added As OneBox Result - see above
   
5. AdWords Adds Category Site Selection Feature - nice feature or more prone to issues?
   
6. Yahoo Finance Upgrades Features & Charts - and badges
   

Continuing on the monitor chain, which was originally from Philipp.

I had a new idea today for a new site/blog thing, I hope to get it live soon. More on that later... For the search topics today, Friday, July 14th, here ya go.

Search Engine Roundtable Topics:

1. Google Page Rank Update 07-13-06 - whop peee ;-)
   
2. Google's AdSense Product Caused Major Headache for Small Consulting Firm - sorry man, so sorry
   
3. Someone Stealing Your Content? Play With Them - this is kinda funny and also kinda scary
   
4. Google Asks For Feedback on AdWords Ads - flash from the past
   
5. DigitalPoint's Co-Op Network Supports No Follow & More - good or bad?
   
6. Follow Up on NOODP Tag: Both Titles & Descriptions Are Included - just clarifying things...
   
7. Yahoo! Redirects Link Command Requests to Site Explorer - seems to be just a test, asked Yahoo for confirmation
   
8. Yahoo! Updates, Not To Be Out-Done by Google - the fight continues
   

Search Engine Watch Topics:

1. Specialty Search Roundup #7 - bit technical
   
2. Newspapers To Team Up With Yahoo To Create An Online Classifieds Network - print goes web, web goes print
   
3. Many Advertisers Are Frustrated With Google's New Quality Score & Pricing - I actually like the way this post came out
   
4. Caffeine and Tin Foil At Windows Live Search - this is really funny
   
5. Yahoo Tests Redirecting Some Searches To Site Explorer & Yahoo Search Update - got a confirmation from Yahoo! on both
   

Feeling like I am getting back into the swing of things, after the conference and all. Today is a hungry day, but what can you do. We are beta launching a huge site today and a big launch for it tomorrow. Then we launch some customer e-commerce sites Monday, and then do a full release of a large site the end of next week. We are also still interviewing PHPers, so that always takes some time out of the day.

Ok, let's get back to search news.

Search Engine Roundtable Topics:

1. NOODP Tag "Should" Have No Effect on Search Engine Rankings - good, because, see what comes later.
   
2. Quick Spam Reporting Tool & SEOMoz's Page Strength Tool - sweet tool, deserves two days of mentions
   
3. Yahoo! Publisher Network to Hold Focus Group in California - Focus on this, huh?
   
4. Yahoo! Ranking Banned Sites for Select "Hand Placed" Queries? - not good Yahoo!
   
5. 301 Redirect From Non-WWW to WWW Hurts One Webmaster - not good Google
   

Search Engine Watch Topics:

1. Counting Links At The Search Engines - 1 + 1 is not always 2
   
2. Yahoo Reaches Out To U.S. Hispanics Via Deal With Hispanic Digital Network - Latam
   
3. More Details On Google Sitemaps Query Stats - Go Vanessa!
   
4. AdSense Consulting Group Fed Up With Google AdSense - ouch!
   
5. Speculation: Google To Begin Selling Radio Ads Through AdWords Soon - Should be interesting, to say the least!
   
6. Google Adds Supports For NOODP Tag To Opt Out Of ODP Titles - seriously, Vanessa rocks!
   

I was at a conference Monday and Tuesday and then my flight was delayed where I didn't land in Newark until after 1am, which means I didn't get home until after 2am. So I wasn't able to really update you here on the SEO/SEM news and topics I wrote about. So here is a three day summary in one post. Plus I am going to have Cartoon Barry read it to you.

Search Engine Roundtable Topics:

1. MFAs (Made for AdSense Sites) Targeted by Google? - good, no?
   
2. Do You SEO for Google Anymore? - I don't
   
3. Yahoo! Publisher Network Payment Schedule & Password Management Updates - sweet
   
4. WebmasterWorld Upgrades Forum Software - features? i guess behind the scenes...
   
5. MSN Search Updates Algorithm on Weekend - too funny
   
6. Google AdWords Editor Ad Quota? - give me a big yard to play in and then chain me to a pole!
   
7. Google AdWords's Hidden Inactive Keywords - I can see your hiding!
   
8. MSN Not Listening To Robots.txt Files? Or? - We are not listening to MSN
   
9. Google Drive, GDrive, Platypus Coming Soon? - drive Google, Drive!
   
10. Google Pack Referrals Not Captured For At Least 24 Hours - embarrassing
    
11. SES Latino 2006 Roundup - good stuff
    
12. Windows Live More Strict on Adult Content When Compared with MSN Search - go to msn search for better porn
    
13. Google Goes to Michigan; 1,000 Call Center Googlers? - complaints? you now know where to go
    
14. Cartoon Barry Interactive by SitePal - cute, no?
    

Search Engine Watch Topics:

1. Eric Schmidt Claims The PPC Model is "Self-Correcting" In Terms Of Click Fraud - lol
   
2. Google Binary Search Not Only Finds Malware But Also Shows Signs Of More - Get a Mac
   
3. Matt Cutts Of Google Comments On Recent Listings Issues - nice
   
4. Judge Orders Google To Disclose Advertiser's Information - not nice
   
5. Yahoo Buys Land In Santa Clara - running out of room
   
6. Search Engine Strategies Latino, Miami, Florida - Day One - fingers hurt
   
7. Google Drive Revealed? - Platypus, where?
   
8. Google To Set Up Offices In Michigan - blah
   
9. Windows Live Adds Search/Personalized Toggle & 34 New Markets - more more
   
10. Google Jet Plane Security Threat? And Testing A Sofa In Mountain View - sooo dumb!
    
11. Search Engine Strategies Latino, Miami, Florida - Day Two - fingers hurt again
    
12. MySpace More Popular Than Google Or Yahoo - or not, says Yahoo
    
13. Martin Child, VP Of Sales & Marketing Leaves Yahoo Search Marketing - stop leaving me!, says yahoo
    
14. Google Pages & Yahoo Geocities Phishing Attacks - here phishy phisy, here...
    
15. Interactive Review of SEOMoz's Page Strength Tool - youtube + snapz x
    
16. Google Video Launches In UK & Other Countries - more more more
    
17. Yahoo's Livesearch Added To Firefox - so what
    

Well, that is three days of news in one. Make sure to check out the SES Latino 2006 Roundup.

Bit of a busy day outside of the search area for me. All in all, all is good.

Search Engine Roundtable Topics:

1. First Feedback on Google AdWords Video Ads - need more feedback!
   
2. Google Showing Q&A Results but Same Site Not Indexed - this is kind of interesting...
   
3. Yahoo! Search Indexing Issues - or not?
   
4. eBay Forbids Use of Google Checkout on eBay - tisk tisk!
   
5. Google Using HEAD as Opposed to GET Requests More Frequently? - good tidbit
   
6. MSN Search Won't Call a Hyphenated Domain Spam or Will They? - no comment
   
7. Google AdWords Missing Content Network Conversions Data - Boo Boo
   

Search Engine Watch Topics:

1. Business.com Adds Nofollow To Many Links - oh why why why
   
2. AOL Podcast Search Beta Live - snore
   
3. Google's Q&A Database Different From Web Search Database - slightly different take
   
4. W3C Selling PageRank Or Thanking Supporters? - too funny
   
5. Google Health Scrapbook: Google's Health Portal - OMG
   
6. Conference Coverage: SES Latino 2006 - looking forward
   

Not such an exciting day today, kinda had to fish for news and topics today. Here they are...

Search Engine Roundtable Topics:

1. Image Ads & Yahoo! Publisher Network Revisited - so you can't really.
   
2. SES Latino Coverage Coming Monday & Tuesday - Ill be there, will you?
   
3. Google To Charge For AdWords Features? No - not yet, at least
   
4. Link Building Versus Link Development - here, fishy, fish, here...
   
5. Image Hotlink Protection & Image Search Engines Like Google Images - how to...
   
6. The New Ego Search: "Did You Mean" Results in Google Search - trump, trump, trump
   

Search Engine Watch Topics:

1. Google's Ranking Algorithm Too Dependent On Trust Factors? - that was a fun post
   
2. Google Fixes XSS Security Holes - huh? :)
   
3. Google Posts First Quarter '06 Quarterly Report 10-Q - huh? ;-)
   
4. Kinderstart Transcript Available - again, huh?
   
5. Search For "Therapy Products" On Google Suggests Yahoo As Alternative Results - you kidding me?
   
6. eBay Disallows Google Checkout - too funny
   
7. Myanmar Enables Access To Google After Blocking Gmail & GTalk - big bully!
   
8. Google In Another Dictionary: Merriam-Webster - nice, good for them.
   

Yesterday was a lot of driving for me. Went to two different weddings, on both sides of lower NY. I also got myself a a pair of those awesome Bose Noise Cancelling Earphones, something that will help me for all those conferences and trips I take on planes. Looking forward to testing them out Sunday, for when I fly to Miami for the SES Latino show to cover it. Ok, on to search topics for today.

Search Engine Roundtable Topics:

1. Google AdSense Ad Asks To Be Clicked - interesting find, just shows you...
   
2. Google Fixes Google News in New Zealand - they are listening...
   
3. Poor Rankings? Sue Google! KindertStart Case To Possibly Go To Court - amazing!
   
4. When Spam Reports Fail at Google or Yahoo, MSN & Ask.com - nice ideas
   
5. Stealing Content Direct From Source; Beware - there are some folks you just don't want to mess with.
   
6. Google Reveals Spam Scores Accidently? - very interesting. :)
   

Search Engine Watch Topics:

1. Google Warns U.S. Legislators On Anti-Trust Complaints Over Net Neutrality - honestly, this stuff bores me.
   
2. Google To Launch Book Search Service In China - seems not like Google to make money this way.
   
3. Yahoo Launches New Home Page Design In UK & Ireland - i like it
   
4. SEOMoz's Keyword Difficulty Tool - more to come
   
5. Google's Spam Score Details Shown? - yea, posted above
   
6. Microsoft Running Out Of Room In Redmond - too fat?
   
7. Interactive Review Of SEOBook's SEO Firefox Extension - take way too long to do this uploads
   
8. Report: Advertisers Lost $800 Million To Click Fraud Last Year - says advertisers without any real metrics!
   

That is a wrap!

Lots of posts in the AM for the day before July 4th. I am taking off tomorrow, I think. Anyway, I am also leaving early today, but I have scheduled this post to go live later today.

Search Engine Roundtable Topics:

1. Google Has No News for New Zealand - Bug or getting personal?
   
2. Microsoft adCenter Keyword Max Limits - good to know
   
3. Google Book Search Promotion a Usability Mistake? - honestly, I do not like pineapples.
   
4. Respected Forum Member, Dave Bellis (aka DaveAtIFG), Passes Away - very very sad news.
   
5. Link Spam & Search Spam Hits Front Page of BBC News - what, Google can be gamed?
   
6. Ask.com & MSN Search Caught Crawling Non Existant Pages - hmm, bad bad robot!
   

Search Engine Watch Topics:

1. KinderStart.com Case May Proceed To Court? - You're kidding me!
   
2. Google's Non Search Products A Flop - old stuff, but true
   
3. Google Page Creator Now Supporting AdSense - errr...
   
4. BBC News Features Article On Google Search Spam - hey world!
   
5. Matt Cutts Is Back From Vacation - welcome back!
   
6. New York Times Looks At Google's Hardware & Infrastructure - nice article
   
7. Yahoo China To Be Sued For Linking To Sites Selling Pirated Music - links can hurt you! ;-)