1. ALA : National Gaming Day Final Numbers 12 minutes ago   permalink

Resourceshelf / ResourceShelf

Congrats to ResourceShelf friend and colleague, Jenny Levine, on the big time (understatement) success of National Gaming Day, 2009. On Tuesday, final numbers for the event were released. Some specific numbers: + Number of libraries registered to participate: 1,365 + Number of libraries that submitted # of players [...]

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Ngd.ala.org
ALA : National Gaming Day Final Numbers Double the Fun – Final NGD2009 Numbers   —  A big thank you to all of the libraries that responded to our feedback survey about your National Gaming Day activities for 2009. The big news is that we more than doubled participation all the way around!

2. TechJournalContents Now Included in TechXtra cross-search 13 minutes ago   permalink

Resourceshelf / ResourceShelf

Roddy MacLeod writes: TechJournalContents, the current awareness service that searches across the most recent issues of nearly 4,000 technology journals to bring you details of the latest scholarly journals in technology subjects, can now be searched, along with over 30 other top sources, from the main TechXtra website: TechXtra is a free service ...

3. Product extensions available to all U.S. advertisers 12 hours ago   permalink

Product extensions available to all U.S. advertisers
Inside AdWords crew / Inside AdWords

Beginning today, all U.S. advertisers can get started with a new feature of AdWords called product extensions. Like Ad Sitelinks , which we introduced earlier this month, product extensions are a way for you to enrich your existing AdWords ads with more relevant and specific information. Product extensions allow you to use your existing Google ...

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4. Yahoo Will Continue Teracent Relationship 9 hours ago   permalink

Yahoo Will Continue Teracent Relationship
ClickZ News Blog

When reporting Google's acquisition of dynamic ad firm Teracent yesterday, one of my primary questions was, will Yahoo continue to work with Teracent? In May, Yahoo announced partnerships with Teracent and another dynamic ad firm -- Tumri -- to expand the capabilities of the Yahoo Smart Ads dynamic ad platform. Yahoo later extended its deal with ...

5. Daily Search Forum Recap: 10 hours ago   permalink

Barry / Search Engine Roundtable

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web....

6. LA Times Twitter Guidelines Announced 14 hours ago   permalink

LA Times Twitter Guidelines Announced
Www.huffingtonpost.com

Read More: LA Times, La Times Twitter, La Times Twitter Guidelines, Lat, Lat Twitter, Latimes Twitter, Los Angeles Times, Media, Newspapers, Twitter, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Media News

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LA Times Social Media Guidelines Lead to Much More Twitter, IPO and Advertising   —  Biz Stone, Twitter co-founder of Twitter was holding court for reporters in the UK and started to talk about all the things that Twitter followers obsess over including the big one: revenue. Stone said that an IPO is not OOTQ (out of the question) but it’s also not on the front burner. In fact, he said [...]

7. News Corp. - If You de-Index Will They Still Come? 15 hours ago   permalink

News Corp. - If You de-Index Will They Still Come?
Weblogs.hitwise.com

Two weeks ago we posted on Rupert Murdoch's threat to block Google from Indexing News Corp. content. While at first it seemed as though Murdoch was merely posturing with hypotheticals, reports continue to indicate that News Corp. is seriously considering choosing Bing as the exclusive "indexer" of their news content.

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Barry / Search Engine Roundtable
News Corp May De-List Themselves From Google & Partner With Microsoft Bing   —  Let me summarize some of the news around News Corp, Google and Microsoft Bing over the past couple weeks. Rupert Murdoch of News Corp is upset that Google indexes his news sites content without paying a fee for doing so....

8. Bing Mobile App Now Available for BlackBerry Curve 15 hours ago   permalink

Search Engine Watch Blog

A few weeks ago, Bing made its mobile application available for BlackBerry Storm devices. Now, the BlackBerry Curve is getting the mobile app treatment from Bing. If you buy the new BlackBerry Curve 2 (8530) from Verizon, the app will come pre-installed in the device. If you have a different model Curve or carrier, then you can download the app ...

9. Datenschützer wollen Einsatz von Analytics verhindern 15 hours ago   permalink

Datenschützer wollen Einsatz von Analytics verhindern
Www.zeit.de

Google hilft Websitebetreibern, mehr über ihre Nutzer zu erfahren. Datenschützer aber fürchten Sammelwut und fordern Aufklärung. Im Zweifel mit Androhung von Bußgeldern.

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Frank Reed / Andy Beal :   Ich bin ein Googler!

10. New Local Listing Ad Layout & Whatever Happened to the 7-Pack for Web Designers? | Understanding Google Maps ... 17 hours ago   permalink

Blumenthals.com

New Local Listing Ad Layout & Whatever Happened to the 7-Pack for Web Designers? « Regurgitation on Is Google Showing the Authoritative OneBox More Often?

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Google Bug Removes Web Designers in Local Pack Google Tweaks Product Search Just in Time for the Holidays   —  Days before masses bust down the doors of brick and mortar stores and burden e-commerce servers, Google has released updates to its Product Search . Recent tweaks include: New gallery view Instead of viewing in a vertical list, view products horizontally in rows. Click the gallery icon at the top right corner just above the results. Here's what ...

11. Buy a Banned Domain? Should You Ask Google for Forgiveness? 18 hours ago   permalink

Buy a Banned Domain? Should You Ask Google for Forgiveness?
Barry / Search Engine Roundtable

A WebmasterWorld thread has one webmaster who allegedly purchased a domain name that was banned by Google. He basically asked, how does he get this domain to be clean and start over. In the past, I would have said, just...

12. Your SEO Kung-Fu is Strong! 18 hours ago   permalink

Your SEO Kung-Fu is Strong!
Search Engine Guide

by Stoney deGeyter Once a site has been fully optimized, there is still a lot work still to be done. The first pass at keyword optimization isn't always the best, making further edits necessary. After making the big, site-wide optimization edits to your site its often beneficial to go back and review things on a more granular level. You can find ...

13. Compare ADSL Plans 21 hours ago   permalink

Compare ADSL Plans
DaveN / Dave Naylor a leading UK SEO

Added : Ok I know why we get AU results it’s because more people search for “Compare ADSL PLANS” over “Compare ADSL packages” au v uk term, what pisses me off is google is changing our searching patterns : What seemed like a very simple and I mean a very simple conversation ended up taking 1 [...]

14. Bingo, Dave, Social Circle, Weirdness 21 hours ago   permalink

Bingo, Dave, Social Circle, Weirdness
Paul carpenter / Dave Naylor a leading UK SEO

Google still catches me off guard sometimes. Looking at ‘online bingo’ results today, I was surprised to see this result and mistook it for Google News (cut me some slack – it was 8:30 and I’d had no coffee). Had we written about bingo anytime recently? I didn’t recall and it seemed like a mentalist subject [...]

15. Hunch Tests New Question Flow; Asks for Feedback 1 day ago   permalink

Search Engine Watch Blog

If you've used Hunch, you know that you can go through several questions in order to "teach" Hunch about you. Now, Hunch is attempting to improve the process of answering those questions with a new test. And they want your feedback. They test involves non-yes or no questions - and you'll have to accept a cookie to participate. But you can turn ...

16. Aol. 1 day ago   permalink

Aol.
Frank Reed / Andy Beal

I wanted to put the new rendering of the once iconic brand of America Online (AOL) as the headline just to see how it looks. It looks….weird. Below are some of the pictures from All Things Digital of how this new look will happen for the Aol. once it is officially cast overboard by the [...]