We’re famous find us on Google – offline advertising

Google seems to be quite serious about local search. They seem to be doing some new offline advertising in London lately.

We’re famous, find us on Google Maps

Have to admit that’s a clever idea and a pretty relevant type of advertising …

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A belated christmas present – from MeineStadt

That’s a funny story. This year we had a lottery of all the presents we got from our partners. It took place last Friday while I was in the London office … being back in the office on Monday Uwe a German colleague told me, there is a present waiting for you and guess what it’s a yellow toaster from MeineStadt.

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Why did WordPress remove the incoming links monitoring?

Just realized that WordPress seems to have removed the incoming links monitoring they have provided working with Technorati.

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It has bee in the Dashboard but disappeared since yesterday. That’s sad cause I liked this feature… Or is this the first sign of the new 2.1 Release that is about to be launched next week?

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Eye tracking: Investigating snippet length, target position and task types

Just found this on the Blog Searchtank of Marina Garrison Research Manager & Project Manager at Enquiro Search Solutions Inc. Where she does a summary on the findings of the MSN study and points to a interesting question:
“should the URL be  placed above the snippet right below the listing title?”

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Search Engines: Technology, Society and Business – University of Berkeley

Stumbled again… this time into some fantastic resources for people like me “living” search.
The University of Berkeley had a 2005 Fall course called “Search Engines: Technology, Society and Business” with a large variety of great lectures by people like John Battelle: Visiting Professor, UC Berkeley School of Journalism and author of “the search” , Sergey Brin, Co-Founder, Google , Bradley Horowitz VP of Product Strategy at Yahoo!

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