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October 2005

Monday, 31 October 2005

Google - enter the letters...M I N G E

The Register have just run the funniest article I've seen since their spot the black helicopter gaff (although beging able to look down at a nuclear missile base via Google Earth played more on my Peter Sellers / DR NO...

Friday, 28 October 2005

New Adwords Tool

Adwords has a new enhanced keyword tool: Similar to previous tools you have the standard option to enter keywords and generate further related keywords (with some poor degrees of relevancy) But it can also take into account adgroup history and...

Google Travel Ads?

Google is serving flight booking boxes in the Onebox (this is the area beneath the PPC ads but above the organic results). Check out: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=dublin+london (UK users, your browser may default to our local datacentre. When it does go to...

Miike Grehan drinks round dinner brouhaha

A bit of a brouhaha has started over an Inquirer journalists coverage of Mike Grehans presentation at the Netimperative Directors dinner the other evening. Opening his article with a title like "Google days over and done with" indicates the evening...

Wednesday, 26 October 2005

Update Jagger

Jagger is going to be one of the “longer” updates, or set of cumulative updates we have seen in a while, with up to 3 stages predicted by some. Updates happened last week, including PageRank updates. Reports over at Webmaster...

Google Base Preview

Google Base http://base.google.com briefly made a public preview, but has now been changed to 403 – Forbidden rights so it cannot be accessed. Some newspapers are suggesting that Google Base will put Google into direct competition with Ebay, other auction...

Yahoo has acquired UK geolocation company Whereonearth

Yahoo! has acquired UK geolocation company Whereonearth to help improve its local search and mobile phone services. See my other article on local search and its importance, estimates cite the number of searches containing or pertaining to a location to...

Saturday, 22 October 2005

How Microsoft won the desktop but lost the war.

A report released by Cherry Hill Research that I have finally had time to sit down and read concludes that for Microsoft the Search Engine War was over before it even started. There will be no great war between Microsoft...

Friday, 21 October 2005

Adwords Reporting - unable to input a date range

Adwords user friendly? We all know it has its ups and downs but lately (the past month) we have been experiencing an annoying reporting glitch. When trying to create any standard or custom report you are unable to input a...

Thursday, 20 October 2005

Frapper plots SEM locations on Google maps

Frapper a cool new hack of the Google maps service, which allows you to create groups and add your location and some other details on to the map have had a big uptake from the SEM community. To view the...
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