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December 2006

1. 29 DecDowntime
2. 29 DecGoogle Blog Search Tops Technorati
3. 28 DecSearchmob Roundup
4. 28 DecHas Google Pulled a Florida on Blogs?
5. 28 DecYahoo and Pageviews
6. 28 DecInterview with AfterTV
7. 28 DecGoogle Invests in Chinese P2P Video Company
8. 28 DecGoogle’s Video Ads
9. 27 DecReader Dr. Pete Writes:
10. 27 DecGoogle Inner Space
11. 26 DecThe Wikipedia Search Engine
12. 26 DecGoogle Bigger Than Yahoo?
13. 26 DecGovt Study Funds Click Fraud Detection
14. 22 DecSearchmob Roundup
15. 21 DecIs Google Treating Their Employees Like Kids?
16. 21 Dec2006 Predictions: How Did I Do?
17. 21 DecSpock Closes $7 Million in Angel Round
18. 21 DecReal Time Weather on Top Of Google Maps
19. 21 DecJust In Case You’re Not Paying Attention, eBay Is…
20. 20 DecGoogle Search API, Dropped
21. 20 DecWashing Out The SOAP
22. 20 DecGoogle and the Entertainment Industry – a Snapshot
23. 20 DecSearchmob Roundup
24. 20 DecA Few More Thoughts on Zeitgeist
25. 20 DecSkrenta: Google Already Has 70% Market Share
26. 19 DecHow Google’s Philosophy Has Changed
27. 19 DecYear End Zeitgeist Up
28. 19 DecPS – On The Road
29. 19 Dec“Cingular to Let…”
30. 19 DecNASA-Google, Flying High Again
31. 18 DecSearchmob Roundup
32. 18 DecPackaged Goods Media v. Conversational Media: Part Two
33. 15 DecFlyin’ Blind
34. 15 DecSearchmob Roundup
35. 14 DecGooglers to Auction Stock Options
36. 14 DecIBM’s Omni Yahoo Edition
37. 14 DecSearchmob Roundup
38. 14 DecSearch Innovations Roundup
39. 14 DecIBM and Yahoo Hook Up For Enterprise Search
40. 14 DecGoogle’s Approach to a Potentially Flat Stock Price
41. 14 DecWhat’s Up?
42. 12 DecPanama Ho
43. 12 DecNow We Have a Real Contest on Our Hands!
44. 12 DecGoogle Finance Pushes New Features
45. 12 DecLazy or Stupid?
46. 12 DecAnother Visual Search Launch
47. 12 DecWait Till They Start Using Court Orders….
48. 11 DecSearchmob Roundup
49. 11 DecBook Search Don’t Work
50. 11 DecGoogle Promotes Firefox, This Time, the Ad Is Bigger
51. 11 Dec“lipitor levitra single malt scotch cheeseburger dizziness”
52. 11 DecAnts and Dophins Aid Search
53. 10 DecGoogle Might Own Our Distribution!
54. 10 DecThis Was Inevitable
55. 10 Dec“I don’t know if Live is the right name”
56. 10 DecThe Best Search Blogs
57. 8 DecSearchmob Roundup
58. 8 DecNovember Search Flux
59. 8 DecYour Help: Comment Posting
60. 7 DecNYT On Decker: They Likey
61. 7 DecGoogle Audio Ads
62. 7 DecOutage Today
63. 6 DecSearchmob Roundup
64. 6 DecGoogle Checkout: Hard to Beat Free
65. 6 DecSemel Blogs
66. 6 DecDenise Caruso Launches Intervention
67. 6 DecUpdated: Yahoo Reorg, Dan Rosensweig, Braun Out At Yahoo
68. 6 DecSearchmob Roundup
69. 5 DecPackaged Goods Media vs. Conversational Media, Part One (Updated)
70. 5 DecSpam, but What Kind?
71. 5 Dec“Frienemy” – Bleccchh
72. 5 DecYahoo’s Top Searches
73. 5 DecOm Starts NewTeeVee
74. 5 DecGoogle $600, No Bubble
75. 4 DecResearchers Wonder: Where’s Google’s Contribution
76. 4 DecAsk CEO on AskCity
77. 4 DecAskCity Goes Live
78. 4 DecOh – That Web OS Thing? Amazon Thinks It’s a Pretty Good Idea
79. 4 DecOh To Be A Fly …
80. 1 DecAbuse of Your Privacy And Online Info: Don’t Worry About the Govt…
81. 1 DecGoogle’s Bosworth
82. 1 DecHitWise’s Take on top Google Properties
83. 1 DecWhat’s Up With MSN Search?
84. 1 DecRandom Friday Fun
85. 1 DecVideo, A Big Deal
86. 1 DecIt’s Almost Friday…

November 2006

1. 30 NovDanny Goes Solo
2. 30 NovFeeling Feisty, Are We Yahoo?
3. 30 NovThe Buzz at AOL: It’s All Over Save the Price Tag
4. 30 NovStrictly Business
5. 30 NovExsqueeze Me While I Crow…
6. 29 NovGoogle Closes Answers, A People Driven Service
7. 29 NovUpdated: Google Display Advertising Network
8. 29 NovSearchmob Roundup
9. 28 NovPardon the Dust…
10. 27 NovBrewster On Google Library/Book Search
11. 27 NovGoogle Has My Credit Card Number Now
12. 27 NovGoogle Pushing Google Checkout
13. 27 NovI know, It’s Too Political
14. 25 NovConfidential Sources
15. 25 NovMore Europe: Settlement in Belgium
16. 25 NovGoogle Italy Video Case
17. 24 NovWe Already Have A Google OS
18. 23 NovCongrats to Dooce, Om, and FM…
19. 23 NovThanks
20. 23 NovFun Stats for The Holiday
21. 22 NovWeb 2 Podcasts Up
22. 21 NovGoogle Hits $500
23. 20 NovMusic Labels Lose Copyright Suit Against Baidu
24. 20 NovB2 Does Dabble
25. 20 NovSearchmob Roundup
26. 20 NovEr…Not to Split Hairs But…
27. 20 NovYahoo To Announce Deal with Newspapers Monday
28. 18 NovYahOUCH!
29. 17 NovGood God, Must It To Come To This? It Must.
30. 17 Nov…and MyBlogLog (NOT)
31. 17 NovYahoo Buys Bix
32. 17 NovThe Consolidation Continues
33. 17 NovWas this (Google Search Result) link useful?
34. 16 NovSearchmob Roundup
35. 16 NovMSFT Goes Wifi
36. 16 NovMajor Search Engines Support Sitemaps Protocol
37. 16 NovAOL Shakeup
38. 15 NovAt WebmasterWorld Today
39. 15 NovSnap Preview Anywhere
40. 14 NovInternet Revenue Breaks $4 Billion
41. 14 NovGoogle’s YouTube Acquisition Closes
42. 14 NovZoo – A Safe Search for Kids
43. 14 NovNow This Is Different For a Major Label
44. 14 NovWeb X.whatever
45. 14 NovWhat’s Up with Google, Video, and Ads?
46. 14 NovSearch Thoughts from O’Reilly
47. 14 NovThe Database of Intentions.com
48. 14 NovAcquisitions Timeline
49. 13 NovSearchmob Roundup
50. 13 NovWant to Be Like Ted?
51. 12 NovGoogle: Angel or Devil?
52. 12 NovJim and Steve, Sitting On A Sofa…
53. 12 NovGoogle Video Suit
54. 11 NovJeremy Finds Irony
55. 11 NovQuick Notes On Schmidt Interview
56. 11 NovGoogle as Ad OS? Sure, If You’re A Programmer
57. 11 NovBack 2
58. 9 NovMarissa Mayer on Googley Lessons
59. 9 NovSEC Chair Suggests Blogs for Financial Disclosure
60. 8 NovAOL Acquires News Search Company
61. 8 NovCollarity Launches Personalized Results Engine
62. 8 NovLike.com Unveils a Visual Search Engine
63. 8 NovHappy Election Day
64. 7 NovSearchmob Roundup
65. 7 NovOn Googler’s Fear: Getting Big, In The Worst Way
66. 7 NovTaking a stab at (groking) Google Book Search
67. 6 NovTurn News Breaks Early
68. 6 NovGoing Into Web 2.0 ….
69. 6 NovState of the Blogosphere
70. 6 NovOn Google Selling Newspaper Ads
71. 6 NovWhose Data?
72. 4 NovY! Slurp Digests Some Feedback from SES
73. 3 NovUpdate On Google and The Spooks
74. 3 NovYahSues Chinese Competitor
75. 3 NovSearchmob Roundup
76. 3 NovRant: The Comcast HD DVR Is Simply, Terribly Awful
77. 3 NovThe Searchblog Human Detector
78. 2 NovGoogle On CIA: Untrue
79. 2 NovReader Bryan Writes…
80. 2 NovAmazon’s ClickRiver
81. 2 NovYouTube Was Going To Use FAST Technology, But Will It Now?
82. 1 NovYahoo’s FailOver Strategy: AdSense?
83. 1 NovSpock, Find My Lost Love
84. 1 NovNo Surprise: Viacom Puts Clips Back On YouTube
85. 1 NovCompete – Can Bill Gross and Co. Answer My Last Question?

October 2006

1. 31 OctGoogle Acquisitions Mashup
2. 31 OctCongrats Joe: Google Acquires JotSpot
3. 31 OctTrans Gender Shiny Fetish!
4. 31 OctBetween the Sheets
5. 31 OctSearchmob Roundup
6. 30 OctYou Want Some Love, Yahoo (or AOL, or Google, or…)? Please, Please Give Us An Alexa We Can Trust
7. 30 OctYahoo and AOL (Or Anyone Else, for That Matter)
8. 30 OctHabeas, Cont…
9. 30 OctJust In Case…
10. 28 OctSearch Mashup: Young, Hot, Flirty Woman + MS Live
11. 28 OctGooTube, “We Take It Down”
12. 28 OctSearchmob Roundup
13. 28 OctPlaying Around With Google CSE
14. 28 OctIs Google Reconfiguring Its Model?
15. 27 OctMore Notably– Live Search Released
16. 27 OctMicrosoft Live Release (CN)
17. 27 OctGoogle Lowers Its GPA
18. 27 OctGoogle Please
19. 27 OctBlog Business Summit
20. 26 OctInternal Google Docs From Philipp
21. 26 OctFile under, strange but true
22. 25 OctSearchmob Roundup
23. 25 OctHey Thanks Guys!
24. 25 OctYahoo, Google Do the American Mag Conference
25. 25 OctSteven Johnson Launches Outside.in
26. 24 OctHabeas Corpus redux
27. 24 OctTrue Sharing vs Fake Sharing, A Case Study
28. 24 OctBattelle And Anderson Talk At ecomexpo Today
29. 24 OctNew Comparison Feature in Google Finance
30. 24 OctIBM Sues Amazon for Infringement
31. 24 OctI Gets On Them Internets, then I Use The Google
32. 24 OctWhoa. 3000 Posts.
33. 24 OctYouTube: Not A Good Start, BB Reports
34. 24 OctGoogle Copies RollyO, Amazon
35. 24 OctWhat The F*ck Is With the Spam Lately
36. 23 OctSearchmob Roundup
37. 23 OctWaPo Does the Click Fraud Piece, I Scratch My Head…
38. 23 OctWhat TechDirt Said
39. 23 OctGoogle Copies SpaceShipOne
40. 23 OctGeek Out: Link From Domain Search At MSFT
41. 20 OctFinance News
42. 20 OctFinding Murphy and Quayle
43. 20 OctData Switzerland?
44. 20 OctThe CC effect: 22m searchable, sharable, photos
45. 20 OctAdWords Website Optimizer Tool
46. 19 OctGoogle Crushes Earnings Again
47. 19 OctSlow Week
48. 18 OctSearchmob Roundup
49. 17 OctGive Me Back My Google
50. 17 OctGoogle Goes Solar
51. 16 OctInside the GDrive Platypus –Almost
52. 16 OctMeanwhile, Yahoo Does A Lot of Video
53. 16 OctHow To Win in China
54. 16 OctWhy Web 2.0 Is About to Shift the Enterprise
55. 16 OctSearchmob Roundup
56. 16 OctWeb 2: What Would You Ask The Majors?
57. 15 OctOh For $30 million in Google Stock, Circa 2003
58. 15 OctIs Yahoo Up For Grabs? Fred Speculates
59. 13 OctSour Grapes: Time To SueTube?
60. 12 OctSearchmob Roundup
61. 12 Oct“Google is the dominating chip stack”
62. 11 OctIt’s Not Friday But…
63. 11 OctGoogle Docs & Spreadsheets
64. 11 OctThe Google – YouTube Deal- coverage roundup
65. 11 OctA Brief Interview with EFF’s Fred von Lohmann on YouTube, Copyright, Google, and More
66. 11 OctNexidia: Cool Video Search Stuff
67. 11 OctTwo Kings: YouTube’s Chad and Steve Talk On YouTube
68. 10 OctHyping The Hype Machine (And No, It’s Not YouTube)
69. 9 OctFirst Blush on GooTube – Conference Call
70. 9 OctSearchmob Roundup
71. 9 OctAnd It’s Done – Google YouTube
72. 9 OctGoogle Continues Distribution Play: Music Videos
73. 9 OctAnother Reason YouTube Is Like Google….
74. 8 OctToo Much Money, Not Enough (Good) Companies
75. 8 OctThe GooTube Rumours Get Another Round
76. 8 OctIs Google Axing Click to Call? Nope, But Whoever Runs Blog Security Might Have His Head On The Block…
77. 7 OctReader Greg Says…
78. 7 OctWhat If The Government Regulated Data Collection Practices?
79. 7 OctForbes Rounds Up Zeitgeist, YouTube Implications
80. 6 OctWho’s Saving The Web?
81. 6 OctBrin: Stop the Madness!
82. 6 OctGoogle YouTube
83. 6 OctPredictions….
84. 6 OctSearchMob Roundup
85. 5 OctFriedman, Oil, Google, Dow Jones….
86. 5 OctSearchmob Roundup
87. 4 OctQihoo
88. 4 OctGoogle Literacy Project
89. 4 OctI Knew I Was Reading My Stuff Too Much
90. 4 OctComscore/Bear Stearns: Google Gains Again
91. 4 OctSearchmob Roundup
92. 3 OctAdios, A9, and Let’s Hope Alexa Doesn’t Follow
93. 3 OctThe Information Factories
94. 3 OctSearchmob Roundup
95. 2 OctConversational Ads
96. 1 OctInvesting in the First Google Lab

September 2006

1. 29 SepCal Lectures with Google
2. 29 SepThe Search In Paperback, With New Chapter
3. 28 SepGoogle Reverses on Releasing Orkut to Brazil
4. 28 SepcomScore Revvs Local Search Data
5. 28 SepSearchmob Roundup
6. 28 SepTravelin’…
7. 28 SepSearchmob Roundup
8. 28 SepShit Howdy.
9. 28 Sep8 Years Old
10. 28 SepMerchant Full Circle
11. 27 SepNing. I Likey The Idea
12. 27 SepGoogle Clarifies Philosophy Re: Content
13. 27 SepGoogle Plugs In
14. 27 SepReader John Writes…
15. 27 SepA Brief Interview with Google’s Matt Cutts
16. 26 SepClass Action Against AOL Search History
17. 26 SepThe Internet Ad Market Is, Well, Healthy to Be Sure
18. 26 SepNews: Froogle Ain’t Dead, Google Says
19. 25 SepReader Salman Writes…
20. 25 SepBB: NSA Legislation Is Nigh
21. 25 SepRelevancy Vs. Targeting
22. 25 SepGoogle: What Are The Interesting Questions These Days?
23. 25 SepWeekend SearchMob
24. 24 SepBusinessWeek Covers Click Fraud
25. 24 SepClickPrints
26. 23 SepSterling Riff In New Scientist
27. 23 SepLooking for Short Videos
28. 22 SepNYT Integrates Answers.com Content
29. 21 SepGoogle Registers Political Action
30. 21 SepTiVo’s captivated research audience
31. 21 SepNow, If We Buy You, Can We Lose the Deal with Microsoft?
32. 20 SepSearchmob Top Stories
33. 20 SepMostly Offline for Next Few Days
34. 20 SepSearchMob Top Stories
35. 19 SepJG Writes…
36. 19 SepMeanwhile, Over at Yahoo…
37. 19 SepCalla Lilies Choking a Silt-shallowed Lake
38. 19 SepGoogle Search Share: Back Up
39. 18 SepSearchmob Top Stories
40. 18 SepCuban: YouTube Be Doomed
41. 18 SepGoogle Not Showing Ads at Top For Those Who Don’t Click
42. 18 SepReading Byrne? Worth the Journey
43. 18 SepInnaresting: A Google BD Fellow Invests in PhotoBucket
44. 18 SepSearch, Search, Search….Mail
45. 17 SepThe Times (via Cnet) Does the Big Baidu Story
46. 16 SepGoogle NetPAC
47. 16 SepSearchMob Top Stories
48. 15 SepGoogle Hosting Services?
49. 15 SepHitTail: An Interesting Service
50. 15 SepYahoo To Craigslist (Oh, and the Entire Newspaper Industry): List This!
51. 14 SepTop Stories on SearchMob Right Now…
52. 14 SepChina Is One Tough Nut To Crack
53. 14 SepIn Software, It’s All About Distribution – And Inventory
54. 13 SepGoogle Earth Adds Featured Content
55. 13 SepTop SearchMob Stories This Morning
56. 13 SepTop Sites, August
57. 12 SepSearchMob Top Stories
58. 12 Sepround up
59. 12 SepSite News: SearchMob Is Live!
60. 11 SepNote to Brands: Mind Your Wikipedia Entries…
61. 11 SepFuture of Web Apps
62. 11 SepAsk To Open German R&D Center
63. 6 SepDetails on New MSFT Live Search
64. 6 SepAdWords On Your Phone
65. 6 SepGoogle News News
66. 5 SepChaCha: Guided Search
67. 5 SepGigaOm Expands
68. 5 SepMohr Calls Out The Newspapers
69. 4 SepGoogle’s Brazilian Test
70. 4 SepShameless Promotion: Searchblog Classifieds
71. 4 SepThe Fat Belly
72. 4 SepRandom Idea/Question: Flickr News?
73. 3 SepReader Narendra Writes….
74. 3 SepGoogle Image Disambiguator
75. 1 SepGoogle Personalized Search: Who Owns the Profiles?
76. 1 SepTrackMeNot – I wonder…
77. 1 SepQuick, Name the #1 Video Site
78. 1 SepWelcome VentureBeat
79. 1 SepOne Last Travel Complaint

August 2006

1. 31 AugMSFT In The Search News….
2. 31 AugThe Power of Search
3. 31 Auground up
4. 30 AugThe Web 2.0 Expo
5. 30 AugSchmidt Joins Apple Board
6. 29 AugDanny leaves SEW
7. 28 AugWe Don’t Make Content
8. 28 AugGoogle and eBay
9. 28 AugNews: Google Apps Targeting the Enterprise
10. 26 AugDamn, Too Much Liquidity, Google
11. 25 Auground up
12. 25 AugThe Theme Here Is Humans, Editorial Opinion Parameters Be Damned
13. 24 AugFanpop!
14. 24 AugGoogle search market share: up, side, down?
15. 23 AugSearch/Ad Landgrab:MSFT gets Facebook
16. 23 Auground up
17. 21 AugFailure to Fail
18. 21 AugHelp Us Find The Companies That Will Launch at Web 2.0 2006
19. 21 AugFarecast Goes National
20. 21 AugIs Google Today’s Microsoft?
21. 21 AugAdvertising Is Content
22. 21 AugSeven Point Four Billion
23. 21 AugInnaresting. Yahoo Aims at Google’s Cultural Grammar
24. 17 AugReader JG Writes…
25. 17 AugWSJ Hosts Search History/Privacy Debate
26. 17 Auground up
27. 16 AugGoogle Wifi Nationwide? Nope
28. 16 AugMove Over, Online Giants, Here Comes…Comcast?
29. 16 AugEFF: How to Avoid the Database of Intentions
30. 15 AugIAC Buys Into Content
31. 14 AugGoogle’s New Video Tab – What Does It All mean?
32. 13 AugGoogle As Napoleon
33. 11 AugSlow
34. 10 Auground up
35. 9 AugBlogging for the search engines
36. 9 AugTopix
37. 9 AugNYT Finds An AOL Searcher
38. 9 AugDenise Caruso Blogs
39. 8 AugGoogle Video distribution, MTV deal
40. 8 Auground up
41. 8 AugGoogle Looks to Avoid Becoming a Xerox of Kleenex
42. 8 Aug(Non-Ficticious) News: Google Publishes Paper On Click Fraud
43. 7 AugNews: Google To Pay $900 Million to Float Fox Interactive (MySpace et al) Search
44. 7 AugAOL: Dooooooh!
45. 7 AugSES Starts Today
46. 7 AugMy my, How Time Flies: The Seach Now In Paperback (With New Chapter!)
47. 7 Aug60%
48. 7 AugMTV, Google Focus on Leader YouTube
49. 6 AugGoogle Shares Some Data
50. 4 AugScoble: Hey Microsoft, Optimize This!
51. 4 AugFinding your search buddies
52. 3 AugBizWeek Covers Digg (Literally)
53. 3 AugAmr: Google Is Slowing Down
54. 3 AugOverly Sensitive?
55. 3 AugMitch Does Search
56. 3 AugTriumvirate against click-fraud
57. 2 Auground up
58. 2 AugKnow Search? Get a Job!
59. 2 AugAOL Free At Last
60. 2 Auground up
61. 1 AugIs Google Paying Syndication Fees For Google News?
62. 1 Auground up

July 2006

1. 31 JulCutts’ instruction video
2. 31 JulThoughtful Discussion
3. 31 JulRandom Googler Writes
4. 30 JulThe Net of R&D
5. 28 JulLess Than Two Weeks Old, and This Kid’s A Black Hat
6. 28 JulDig into Sandbox.Google.com
7. 28 Julprivacy protection in search
8. 28 JulIf You’re A Parent…
9. 28 JulInterview: BIll Gross
10. 28 JulAnother Database of Intentions Story
11. 28 JulGoogle Radio Finally Coming
12. 27 JulRe-Aggregating: What I Missed Last Week
13. 26 JulWarms Your Heart, Don’t It
14. 26 JulGoogle News: What Responsibility?
15. 26 Julround up
16. 25 JulFamous Corporate Logos, Web 2.0 Style
17. 25 JulGoogle In The Culture, Yet Another Example
18. 25 JulNewAssignment.Net (the concept) Launches
19. 25 JulTechnorati’s New Groove
20. 25 JulDabbling in Video
21. 24 JulYouTube Worth $1 BIllion? But Who Will Buy It?
22. 22 Julto play a part, pretend
23. 22 Julround up
24. 21 JulYouTube, your tube?
25. 21 JulNot from our plate
26. 21 JulAdding at the margin
27. 21 Julround up
28. 19 Juldealspl.us
29. 19 Juldisagreeing over more than semantics
30. 18 Julround up
31. 18 JulAdmitting mistakes, Schmidt
32. 17 JulGoogling worms
33. 17 JulSearch that sounds good
34. 15 JulGoing On Vacation
35. 15 JulIn Mumbai, Following the Pirates
36. 14 JulRound Up
37. 14 JulGdata
38. 14 JulJG Writes….
39. 14 JulCerf, Part 1: Excuse me, but we don’t get a free ride at all
40. 14 JulTubes, Updated By Jon Stewart
41. 14 JulGoogle: Uh, No
42. 14 JulKinderStart: Case Not Quite Closed
43. 13 JulInterview: Jonathan Miller, AOL
44. 13 JulTed Stevens, Remixed by The Internets
45. 12 JulNat Does the Valley
46. 12 JulIt’s Summer, So It Must Be Time for “Mine Is Bigger Than Yours”
47. 12 JulAbout Time, And Congrats, Wired
48. 12 JulWill AOL Follow The Free?
49. 12 JulRound Up
50. 10 JulToo Clever By 14%
51. 10 JulYahoo Trip Planner launches
52. 10 JulOy.
53. 10 JulSafa: Google and Yahoo Poised for Good Quarter
54. 10 JulMore GDrive Tantalizers
55. 10 JulFail Fast, Scale Fast
56. 8 JulKrugle Goes Public Beta This Week
57. 8 JulSergey, you can have any size index you want!
58. 7 Julround up
59. 6 JulClickfraud cost an est. $800m last year
60. 6 JuleBay Bans Google Checkout
61. 6 JulDear Warner: Don’t Shoot Yourself in the Foot – Free Bugs (Again!)!
62. 5 JulWow
63. 5 JulIt’s Hard to Sue China….
64. 3 JulNow, This Reads Wrong to Me
65. 3 JulNYT on Google Infrastructure
66. 2 JulSearchBlog Terms of Service, Privacy Policy
67. 2 JulLeFetz On YouTube
68. 1 JulDigital Divining Rods
69. 1 JulReader Brian Writes…

June 2006

1. 29 JunV.3 Dugg
2. 29 JunThe Seventh Circle…
3. 29 JunNet Neutrality loses vote
4. 29 JunMore On Google Checkout
5. 29 JunGoogle Not Buying MySpace Was Not A Strategic Blunder
6. 29 JunMelanie’s Round Up
7. 28 JunFarecast Now Open To All…
8. 28 JunMelanie’s Round Up
9. 28 JunAh, The Greasy Feel of Newsprint on My Hands
10. 27 JunCable Dreams
11. 26 JunTest the Jelly
12. 26 JunAsk Filtering
13. 26 JunUpdated: Odd – Why Is Google Not Returning Results for “Amazon.com”?
14. 26 JunTips On Ads That Work
15. 23 JunMelanie’s Round Up
16. 23 JunPremium Google Videos free in trial sponsorship
17. 22 JunMpire
18. 22 JunMelanie’s Round Up
19. 21 JunUpdated – News: Google Pay Per Action Network Test
20. 20 JunDuping search engines, even the big-G
21. 20 JunMelanie’s Round Up
22. 19 JunA Light Week
23. 19 JunUpdated: In Google, What Words Bring Up Censors Results in China?
24. 16 JunSked By Time, Now At Google AdSense
25. 15 JunEepybird Search
26. 15 JunMemo to the RIAA: Don’t Screw This One Up Too..
27. 15 JunIf This is A Real Google Employee, It’s Fascinating
28. 15 JunOh No, Not Japan Too?!
29. 15 JunMelanie’s Round Up
30. 15 JunSuper Secret Weapon?
31. 15 JunSometimes, It’s the Obvious Shit
32. 14 JunSearchDot, Er, SearchDigg?
33. 14 JunOnward, Upward
34. 13 JunIt’s MySpace, so How Much You Gonna Pay Me For It?
35. 13 JunNet Net: Net Neutrality Takes A Blow
36. 13 JunWho Do You Want to See Interviewed on Searchblog?
37. 12 JunTake That, Google: EBay Getting Into Contextual Ads
38. 12 JunEric Schmidt Still Sees Google as A Technology Company; But We Know It’s More…
39. 12 JunReader Tom Writes:
40. 12 JunGBuy: Killer App, or Wake Up Call?
41. 11 JunThe Search in Hungarian
42. 10 JunMelanie’s Friday Roundup (On Sat!)
43. 9 JunGoogle And EBay: The MBA Analysis
44. 8 JunTalk of the Blogosphere: Google’s AJAX Search Widget
45. 8 JunMerchantCircle
46. 8 JunDave Morgan: Good Points
47. 8 JunThis Just Sounds…Odd
48. 8 JunLaLa: Used CDs For A Buck, And the Artist Gets Paid
49. 8 JunCox and Craigslist: A Cautionary Tale?
50. 7 JunA Melanie RoundUp
51. 7 JunYow. Brin Waffles on China
52. 6 JunUpdated: On FareCast: Rip Me Off No More
53. 6 JunReader Phillip Writes…
54. 5 JunGoogle: FU, MSFT
55. 5 JunJPM Analysis: More Third Links
56. 3 Jun500-hour review of Windows Vista
57. 3 JunPing-o-rati
58. 2 JunMark Cuban on Clickfraud
59. 2 JunReader RBA Writes
60. 2 JunOn Searchblog, and Trying to Do Too Much
61. 2 JunPhilipp Presents…How to Have Fun With Google…
62. 1 JunThe DOJ Wants All Your Data Saved For Two Years
63. 1 JunNotes from Analyst Call
64. 1 JunYahoo Bows New Video Search
65. 1 JunMelanie’s Round Up

May 2006

1. 31 MayFour Billion Last Quarter
2. 31 MayUpdate: AdSense Beta API Is Official
3. 31 MayD Conference: I’m Not There…
4. 31 MayMelanie’s Round Up
5. 30 MayWeb 2 Conference TM Issue: Tim Responds
6. 30 MayNew Google AdSense API: User Gen Monetization Ho!
7. 30 MayWhen You’re Worth More Than Ten Billion…
8. 30 MayGoogle Checkout
9. 30 MayJason Spanks The Hand That Feeds Him
10. 28 MayFiling
11. 26 MayMemo To Murdoch: Buy Bebo
12. 26 MayWeb 2 Trademark Issue
13. 26 MayBrilliant Video On The Difference Between Apple and MSFT
14. 26 MayScore One For Net Neutrality…
15. 26 MayDell: Paid Inclusion, Of A Stripe
16. 25 MayEBay, Yahoo: Now It’s Interesting
17. 25 MayMemo to Chicago O’Hare: Heal Thyself
18. 24 MayMelanie’s Round Up
19. 24 MayAgain, On the Road
20. 23 MayMelanie’s Round Up
21. 23 MayThe Future Is Here, Just Unevenly Distributed
22. 23 MayWired News: Will the US Sue?
23. 23 MayVeterans Database of Intentions
24. 22 MayI Forgot My Password
25. 22 MayWho Knows a Great SEO/SEM Consultant?
26. 21 MayMelanie Rounds It Up
27. 20 MayUsing The Database For Murder
28. 18 MayWeb 2 Conference, Version 3.0 Is Open For Registration
29. 18 MayYahoo Analyst Day Roundup
30. 17 MayOn The Road
31. 16 MayQwest: Capitalizing on NSA Backlash
32. 16 MayDilbert Does Google
33. 16 MayYahoo Redesigns Homepage
34. 16 MayAdWords Update #3: Inactive Keywords Puzzle
35. 16 MayMelanie’s RoundUp
36. 15 MayPricey AdWord Poems
37. 15 MayThe NSA’s Domestic Call Database
38. 15 MaySnap Rethinks Search
39. 15 MayLoeb
40. 15 MayScan This Book
41. 13 MayMelanie’s RoundUp
42. 12 MayAnother Hitwise: MySpace Sends 8.2% of Traffic to Google, Implications
43. 12 MayDaGoogle Spike: HitWise Data on the Google – Sony Partnership
44. 12 MayComscore April Numbers
45. 11 MayThoughts On Google Press Day
46. 11 MayGoogle Press Day: The Overview
47. 11 MayGoogle Press Day
48. 9 MayEBay V. Google For the Heart of the Media Industry
49. 9 MayMy Ray Ozzie Interview On Biz 2
50. 9 MayMelanie’s Monday RoundUp
51. 9 MayReader Chris Says…
52. 9 MayYour Help: Vint Cerf and Jonathan Miller
53. 9 MayOK, But How Do I Make A Word Bold?
54. 9 MayMy First Day As An AdWords Advertiser
55. 8 MayNews: Yahoo Launches Major Update to Ad Platform
56. 6 MayMelanie RoundUp – Brief Weekend Edition
57. 5 MayFriday Wondering: How Much Is New?
58. 5 MayIt’s My LAST Public Book Gig: Pasadena, CA Tonight
59. 4 MayMelanie’s RoundUp
60. 4 MayGates Pushes Ads
61. 4 MayFM Platform Launches
62. 3 MayMicrosoft Says: We Can Build a Friggin’ Grid Too
63. 3 MayYahoo and MSFT: No Way
64. 2 MayMSN Most Relevant For Insurance Companies In Cincinnati
65. 2 MayThe Melanie RoundUp
66. 2 MayKamal Writes…
67. 1 MayGoogle Worried? Yes.
68. 1 MayNews: Yahoo Launches Tech News Channel

April 2006

1. 30 AprUpdated: Alexa Now and Then
2. 28 AprYahoo And The Yellow Pages: Co-opt, or Co-opetition?
3. 27 AprMelanie’s Round Up
4. 27 AprThe Intention Cloud
5. 27 AprQuaeroless? Exalead CEO Says There’ll Be No Quaero Site
6. 26 AprAt ad:tech Today
7. 26 AprGoogle Promotes First Non Google Product on Homepage
8. 26 AprThe Melanie Round Up
9. 25 AprChina Rediscovers Porn, Bans It
10. 24 AprUpdated with Interview: Lanzone Now CEO Of Ask
11. 24 AprTravelin’
12. 22 AprNews: Berkowitz to Microsoft
13. 21 AprYahoo Research Video Mashup Tool
14. 21 AprYahoo, Google Earnings Casts
15. 21 AprWelcome, Melanie!
16. 21 AprEBay to MSFT, Yahoo: Let’s Circle the Wagons Against dem Google Injuns
17. 20 AprThe Long Tail
18. 20 AprGoogle Q1
19. 20 AprGoogle News
20. 20 AprFathom Update
21. 20 AprDinner with Elliot Schrage
22. 19 AprInteresting New Google Results Test
23. 19 AprAnother Q&A: Toni Schneider of OddPost, Yahoo, and Now Automattic
24. 19 AprEt Al
25. 19 AprYahoo and China: More Bad News
26. 18 AprA Frank Interview With Jim Lanzone
27. 17 AprThe Keyword Index Is Out: $1.39, On Avg.
28. 17 AprGoogle, Sony And Da Sponsorship Code
29. 15 AprLinden on MSFT and Killing Google
30. 14 AprWho’s Afraid of the Big Bad Engine?
31. 14 AprReader Joe Writes…
32. 14 AprAkismet For MT: Death to Spam
33. 13 AprWebmetrics Guru writes…
34. 13 AprGoogle Voice Patent
35. 13 AprWhen WIll MyYahoo RSS Go Full Text?
36. 13 AprAnd We Thought It Would Never Come
37. 12 AprYahoo Says: Map This
38. 12 AprAll Good
39. 11 AprSearch This Blog
40. 11 AprThe Business Model for All Those Exploding TVs
41. 11 AprIs Orion Important? Ask Ask!
42. 11 AprUpdated: Set Bugs Free 2: YouTube v Google Video
43. 11 AprDisney: Business Model on Its Head…
44. 11 AprThe Search: Portugues
45. 11 AprThis Boring Headline Is Written for Google
46. 10 AprCnet Says: Click Fraud Won’t Go Away
47. 8 AprSET BUGS FREE!!
48. 8 AprThe Friday Update
49. 7 AprGoogle Wins SF WiFi Contract with Earthlink
50. 5 AprA Frank Interview with Gary Flake
51. 5 AprReader Mahlon Writes…
52. 5 AprThe Rebirth of Google Scout
53. 5 AprThe Best of 25 Tech Voices In One Feed
54. 4 AprGoogle Real Estate
55. 4 AprWho Knew?
56. 4 AprOld School: Interview With Greg Hartnett of BOTW
57. 4 AprThe Last Name Test
58. 3 AprAnd The Search Goes On…A Year of Coverage In One Post

March 2006

1. 31 MarWalt Likes Ask
2. 31 MarDon’t Forget….April 1st Is Coming
3. 31 MarGoogle Launches Biz Local AdWords: It’s Just the Start….
4. 31 MarCorpDevDude writes….
5. 30 MarThanks for The FOIA, InfoWeek
6. 30 MarHey S&P, Thanks for the Secondary!
7. 29 MarOh, To Be A Fly On The Wall In A Facebook Board Meeting
8. 29 MarThis Time, It’s Serious
9. 29 MarAsh Writes…
10. 28 MarSearch Share
11. 27 MarWhy Read The Newsweek Piece on Tagging…
12. 27 MarLooking For A Job At Google?
13. 27 MarIf You’re Ever In Montana…
14. 27 MarLocal Matters Going IPO
15. 27 MarCME – The GOOG of Chicago
16. 27 MarHigest Paying AdWords
17. 24 MarGOOG Loves the S&P
18. 23 MarTVRank: Tell Me What People Are Watching
19. 22 MarCloudy Vista, and More News of Note
20. 22 MarJonathan Says…
21. 21 MarAbout Sun’s Grid…
22. 21 MarAbortion, Adoption, Amazon
23. 21 MarNews: Google.Portal.Finance Launches
24. 20 MarOn the Road Again…
25. 18 MarAn Interesting Note in Google’s 10K: No Favored Nation Status for AOL
26. 18 MarGoogle Wins (For The Most Part) Against DOJ
27. 17 MarThe GOOG Annual
28. 17 MarThese guys…
29. 17 MarCenSEARCHip
30. 16 MarPlease, Give me LiveSoft (Or…Please Split Up Microsoft!)
31. 15 MarFM News
32. 15 MarHackoff.com Is Out
33. 15 MarAdWords As Political Weapon
34. 15 MarAmazon S3
35. 15 MarDanny Loves, Danny Hates
36. 14 MarWhat’s Vast? The Number of Plays in This Market
37. 14 MarUpdated: Judge in Google v DOJ: Likely Force Google to Turn Over Info
38. 14 MarDanny Hillis Has A Company…
39. 14 MarWho’da Thunk
40. 14 MarSketchUp
41. 14 MarWhat’s Up?
42. 13 MarThe Monday Cheat Sheet
43. 13 MarMeanwhile, Mars
44. 13 MarGoogle Is Selling Books
45. 11 MarKK Groks “Consensus Filters”
46. 10 MarToo Good Not To Note
47. 10 MarDowntime
48. 9 MarGoogle Buys Writely
49. 9 MarNews: AdWords Now Using Demographics
50. 8 MarUpdated: Google About to Settle Click Fraud Class Action Suit
51. 8 MarThe Search, Audio Version
52. 8 MarPlum: Pulling It Together
53. 8 MarMartin Writes..
54. 8 MarHump Day Roundup
55. 8 MarYou Ain’t Firefox…But Where’s Ask, MSFT, and Yahoo?
56. 7 MarAnother Oops. Yikes.
57. 7 MarLight Day: Etech, Ho!
58. 7 MarStudy: Yahoo and Google Tied
59. 6 MarStore 100%: No Thanks
60. 6 MarAT&T Again
61. 6 MarNYT on BB’s “Nudity” Classification
62. 3 MarNeil and MSN Clarify
63. 3 MarNet Neutrality Bill Unveiled
64. 3 MarWhen A Visual Search Engine Is No Longer “Proof of Concept…”
65. 3 MarIt’s a Guessing Game!
66. 3 MarAnother Week
67. 3 MarWonder How the PRC Will Respond To This
68. 3 MarGeorge Is No Rookie…
69. 3 MarGoogle Analyst Day Roundup
70. 1 MarGoogle = Napoleon?
71. 1 MarOnce Again, MSFT Says It Will Be Better, Just You Wait
72. 1 MarMicrosoft Live Local’s Street Side
73. 1 MarDOJ: We’re All Good, Really
74. 1 MarMatt Gives Up Acquisition For Lent
75. 1 MarGoogle Tries to Stop The Bleeding (er, Clarifies)

February 2006

1. 28 FebGoogle and the Law Of Very Large Numbers
2. 28 FebMore Catching Up
3. 28 FebJG Wrote…
4. 27 FebUpdated: Dumb Filter
5. 27 FebThe Week That Was, and Monday Catch Up
6. 27 FebWhen One Company Gets Visits From Google
7. 27 FebAsk Makes Its Play
8. 19 FebDowntime
9. 17 FebScoble’s brreeeport test
10. 17 FebMSFT Office Dead
11. 17 FebFree The Internet Through Regulation
12. 17 FebI Don’t Buy It
13. 17 FebFriday Link Love
14. 16 FebAnd You Thought It Was Sci Fi
15. 15 FebOK, Uncle, I Need Help!
16. 15 FebLinks to Love
17. 15 FebGates On Information: You Can’t Stop It
18. 15 FebVia Scoble: GooglePark
19. 15 FebMore Search History In The Courts
20. 15 FebChina Net Hearings
21. 15 FebOh Sh*t, Folks Care About This, What to Do?
22. 15 FebI Was Wondering When This Would Happen
23. 14 FebTechnorati, New State O’ Blogosphere and “Filter by Authority”
24. 14 FebThe Fonz Said…
25. 14 FebNever Poke a Dragon While It’s Eating
26. 13 FebMSFT Acquires MotionBridge
27. 13 FebOn China and Yahoo
28. 13 FebADVISE Me, Baby, Is This Just TIA In New Clothes?
29. 13 FebHey, Wall St., Give Us A Break…
30. 12 FebWhen You Make the Cover of Time
31. 12 FebComment Spam
32. 12 FebTarget: Google
33. 11 FebThis Is A Sponsored Video Deal
34. 9 FebAsk Gary
35. 9 FebYahoo Updates MyWeb 2.0
36. 9 FebMore Anecdotal Evidence of A Closing CPC Price Gap?
37. 9 FebGoogle Desktop
38. 9 FebScoble: Just Wait
39. 9 FebNow *That’s* Convenient.
40. 9 FebVignette: Google’s Sales Call and the (New?) Fifty Percent Rule
41. 9 FebI Just…
42. 9 FebOops, They Did It Again: Yahoo Helped to Jail Dissident
43. 8 FebBuy A Print Ad Here
44. 8 FebThe Day’s News
45. 7 FebUpdated: Udi Manber to Leave Amazon’s A9 For Google
46. 7 FebGoogle Talking to Dell: It’s All About Distribution
47. 7 FebMore on Net Neutrality: A GigaOm Op Ed
48. 7 FebCraig
49. 7 FebTurn’s Been Outed
50. 7 FebSkrenta on the Craigslist Hullabaloo
51. 7 FebAT&T/SBC Plays Hardball
52. 7 FebUniversity of Michigan President Defends Google Book Search
53. 7 FebHey BMW: You Ain’t Street Legal, Google Says
54. 6 FebAmazonSense?
55. 6 FebExalead Goes to 4 Billion Pages
56. 6 FebKrugle Launches
57. 6 FebPayPal v Google(Buy), WSJ Reports
58. 6 FebGossip…
59. 6 FebTwo Sources: Lycos May Have Laid Off Search Team
60. 6 FebGoogle, et al, Funds Fon
61. 5 FebUdpated: Google To Take on Navteq?
62. 5 FebHehehehehehe
63. 4 FebThe Four Major Search Engines on Privacy
64. 3 FebLight Day
65. 3 FebAs one…
66. 2 FebGoogle’s Submission to the Congressional Human Rights Caucus
67. 2 FebYou Don’t Need To Understand How We Work, Just Trust Us
68. 2 FebClick Fraud Raises Its Cyclical Head
69. 1 FebSo…This Mean Quaero Is a No Go?
70. 1 FebWall Street..
71. 1 FebGoogle and The “Miss”
72. 1 FebACLU: Great Movie. Bad Splash

January 2006

1. 31 JanGOOG Earnings: After Market No Likey
2. 31 JanDid Anyone Notice…
3. 31 JanNew Site Feature
4. 31 JanMore G Rumors: Napster
5. 31 JanGoogle Going P2P?
6. 31 JanWe Asked Microsoft…
7. 31 JanGrokking Nexidia
8. 31 JanNYT v. Blogs, Prelim Report
9. 31 JanMSN and Kanoodle, Well…Kanoodle
10. 31 JanMore On What Google (and Probably A Lot of Others) Know
11. 31 JanGo Sit In the Hot Seat? No Thanks!
12. 31 JanShow Me The Data
13. 31 JanRemove Results
14. 30 JanGoogle Gets Social
15. 30 JanCan’t Keep Up On China?
16. 29 Janfraught with clickfraud
17. 28 JanMazda Says: Thanks for the Idea
18. 28 JanThe Real Irony Here…
19. 28 JanSo Much News
20. 28 JanKosmix
21. 27 JanWhat Info Does Google Keep?
22. 27 JanUgh. This Just Doesn’t Feel Good, Does It?
23. 27 JanBut There’s Always Music….
24. 26 JanVideo Store: Yeah, We Blew It
25. 26 JanGoogle China: Congress Wakes Up
26. 26 JanYahoo: All About My?
27. 26 JanHumpDay
28. 26 JanPontiac Says: Google Proves It
29. 25 JanHere Comes Google China
30. 24 JanHead Fake?
31. 24 JanYahoo’s Jeremy Is Disappointed, I’m Bewildered
32. 24 JanAsk Bows New Image Search
33. 24 JanBBC On Google
34. 24 JanGoogle News Outta Beta
35. 23 JanEarnings Whispers
36. 23 JanMSN: What We Gave the Govt.
37. 22 JanMore On The Slippery Slope
38. 20 JanFelten on Google and Privacy
39. 20 JanABC News Tonight
40. 20 JanWhat’s the Big Deal?
41. 20 JanSalton, Evslin, and Punch Card Search
42. 19 JanHey, Your Content Chocolate Is In My Portal Peanut Butter!
43. 19 JanGuess How Many Videos Google Has Sold…
44. 19 JanDon’t Look Now, But It’s Happening
45. 19 Jan29,000 Emails
46. 18 JanGoogle’s Radio Play
47. 18 JanMSFT Adds 1 Million More Facts
48. 18 JanYahoo Numbers: Good, Even Arguably Great, But…
49. 18 JanCongratulations, Chris!
50. 17 JanNews of the Day
51. 17 JanGoogle Plans to Swallow Radio
52. 17 JanQuick Survey
53. 16 JanQuaero News
54. 16 JanNoted: The New York Times Tech Desk Discovers AdSense
55. 16 JanBook Search Grok
56. 15 JanGood Point: Google’s Not so Good at “Selling.” Yet.
57. 14 JanHelp Us With a Web 2 Tagline
58. 14 JanOn FAST
59. 14 JanLinks
60. 14 JanWhat Is that Guy On About?
61. 13 JanMSFT Is Also In Local Ad Game
62. 12 JanThe Politics Of A Search War
63. 12 JanAnd More Goog: Mobile Personal Homepage
64. 12 JanTwo Goog Notes
65. 12 JanAre You Seeing This?
66. 12 JanStreamlined Site
67. 12 Jan“I am very interested this theme, with attention I will read following informations.”
68. 11 JanBlodget: A Google Bear Scenario
69. 11 JanA PPC Primer
70. 11 JanWhat’s Up?
71. 10 JanOh Yeah, Baby. Google Earth For Mac
72. 10 JanAOL Acquires Truveo
73. 10 JanMiva For Sale?
74. 9 JanYahoo Snags Webjay
75. 9 JanJakob: Search Engines Are Leeches. Danny: Not Exactly
76. 9 JanHuh. Google Video Store Still Not Up…
77. 9 JanSEMPO on the State of the Search Industry
78. 9 JanPortals Are So 1990s
79. 9 JanThe Times, Blodget, Safa
80. 9 JanHeilemann on MSFT
81. 7 JanWow! Time Inc. Gets a Clue
82. 7 JanGoogle’s Waterloo
83. 7 JanThoughts on Google Video Store, and Google Pack
84. 6 JanYahoo Go
85. 6 JanGoogle and Monster: A Dumb Idea
86. 6 JanGoogle Video and Pack
87. 6 JanRecommendation Systems Gone Bad
88. 6 JanUpdated: Net Neutrality: In Peril?
89. 6 JanWhen Might the PPC Gap Close?
90. 5 JanNews Tags
91. 5 JanFederated Is Hiring
92. 5 JanCes
93. 5 JanOh No, Don’t Cut Off My Xoogle Fix
94. 5 JanIs The Database of Intentions Just a Concept?
95. 4 JanOm Says: Watch Google Video Announcement
96. 4 JanGoogle Braille
97. 4 JanStock Market Predicting That Yahoo and MSFT Will Hook UP
98. 4 JanPodzinger
99. 4 JanThe Google Cube/PC/Big Iron/Digital Fantasy Train
100. 4 JanChina, It’s Sticky
101. 3 JanAnd The Emmy Goes To…
102. 3 JanUpdated: The Future of Google’s Homepage?
103. 3 JanSafa: Google 600
104. 3 JanCare About Internet Stocks?
105. 2 JanOooo, I like this Idea