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August 29, 2003

From the "where-do-they-find-the-time" department: the spam police have got themselves organised and formed a club called engine-spam.com. A joke, surely.

Obviously I can't provide a link, as that may well be considered a blatant attempt to boost their PR from what may well be a link farm, however you might want to have a look at www.engine-spam.com. Trainspotters may be interested to note a potential trademark violation in relation to a certain canned meat product. Tsk, tsk (Thanks legal-eagle Bill for the tip)

Cre8asite celebrate one year in existence. I'll drink to that.

Overture and Google play the "mine is bigger" game.

Part 3 of the "behind the scenes at DayPop.com" interview on SEW.

Highlights of day two at SES.

Dubbed rather modestly as "...(what) could be literally the most important event of its kind that you've ever attended", Mike Grehan and Jim Sterne offer a search engine marketing masterclass on October 1st. It goes without saying that there is a bar session afterwards.

August 25, 2003

Pictures of the Google Dance 2003

I wanted to steal this one from my dear friends at Traffick (put that lawyer away, Mr Goodman ;).....then decided just to send you there instead. Traffick is great. A round-up of the SES conference. Funniest bit: someone is hoping mad when he discovers that some results are paid advertisments. Kinda like those new fangled newspaper things, really. PS: Rumours that this guy was simply trying to de-ramp Overture's share price are completely baseless.

Testing, testing. Inktomi appears then disappears from the Yahoo serps.

Can anyone say vapourware? More on the MSN search engine. Yes, yes, believe it when we see it etc....

Seth Goldin has a few ideas for Google. Now if only he was a programmer....

August 22, 2003

SEMPO launches. And what is their mission statement? "Working to increase awareness and promote the value of Search Engine Marketing worldwide". I note they've included something called searchengineblog.com in the resources section - isn't that nice :) That man Sullivan bravely tackles the often controversial "glossary of terms".

"We have every intention of deploying Inktomi...globally", says Yahoo. OK, so it didn't happen this week, as was rumoured. Let's all place bets on when.

August 21, 2003

Yahoo give the clearest indication yet that the Inktomi thing is not just a rumour (thanks news-hound Sophie for the tip)

Most know it already. The dance is dead.

Ranking drops. Webmaster complains. Creates debate on social responsibility. Googleguy steps in. No conclusions reached. No surprises there, really.

August 20, 2003

SES kicks off. Yahoo not mentioning Google once. It's fair to say they didn't mention Inktomi either. There's some photos floating about (behind closed doors) including snaps from the latest Google Dance.

More on SES and an overview on the state of the industry. It's all PPC, baby.

August 18, 2003

Overture move to broad and phrase matching, and thus go head to head with AdWords. Looks like one of the rumours was true. Let's see if "the big one" happens....

Related news: Yahoo stalked Overture for over a year prior to aquisition. "Microsoft has indicated it will reassess its relationship with Overture after the Yahoo deal is done".

August 15, 2003

For those new to webmastery and feeling overwhelmed by the requirements of building search engine friendly sites, web designer Sophie Wegat provides an easy-to-follow check list in her article: How to build search engine friendly web sites.

News just in! (I've always wanted to say that): Blackouts?

Yahoo too might be jumping on the blogging bandwagon.

More breaking news: (gosh) - I'm an uncle! So welcome to the world, and happy birthday, Ms Stewart.

August 14, 2003

There are many rumours flying about at the moment. But we can't repeat a word of it. Yet. So we won't. Until next week. Perhaps.

Google Toolbar 2.0 is out of beta.

Andrew Orlowski wonders why anyone would pay $500 to spend a weekend talking about blogging. Agreed. About as stimulating as spending a weekend dancing about architecture.

Nutch aims to build an unbiased, open source search engine. Erm...unbiased? Can any editorial ever be unbiased? An interesting experiment, but the search engine wars are really all about market share, not technology.

August 13, 2003

Overture to open down under (thanks Shak).

Hadn't noticed this before: Google has a calculator function.

I've jumped on the Google AdSense band-wagon, let's see how it goes. Sure beats a "donate" button.

Google says this: "Web pages may not include incentives of any kind for users to click on ads. This includes labeling the ads as sponsors as well as asking users to click on the ads or to please visit the sites". So I won't <laughs>

What am I babbling on about? Lord knows. Perhaps it's because I saw surrealist comedian Eddie Izzard last night. Funniest man in the known universe. Great dress sense. I mean that quite literally.