As expected, the US Department Of Justice today has filed a list of objections and modifications it would like seen made in the proposed settlement to the Google Book Search lawsuit. It’s not saying that the settlement should go back to square one. In fact, it suggests that “momentum” potentially could be lost to improve access to books if that happened. But it does want the settlement modified, in particular to protect absent rights holders of “orphan works” and to solve anti-trust concerns. You’ll find a copy here (PDF) at the Public ...

Click Forensics has noticed a new spike in click fraud traffic coming from they’ve dubbed the “Bahama botnet.” The codename came about because the botnet was first detected redirecting traffic through 200,000 parked domains located in the Bahamas. Click Forensics has tracked instances where the Bahama botnet has affected up to 30% of an advertiser’s monthly search marketing budget. “During the past four years we’ve monitored billions of clicks for top search engines, ad networks, publishers and advertisers. This ...

Matt Cutts from Google has a poll on his blog about who got the better of the Yahoo Microsoft deal.  The stats are below and 80% of people are saying MSN did and Iwould agree. Yet there are many good comments about Google being the winner or better yet the end user. I would think that MSN is now in the position to challenge Google and they are in much better shape now then they have been in awhile, at least in the search engine game. Plus they have a lot of money and maybe they aren’t done spending it.   Yahoo didn’t do that bad ...

Yahoo and Microsoft have finally announced their search deal, after years of negotiation. In short, if the deal is approved by regulators, Yahoo Search will be powered by Microsoft Bing and Yahoo Search Marketing (aka Panama) will be powered by Microsoft adCenter. BACKGROUND ON DEAL *  The term of the agreement is 10 years * Microsoft will acquire an exclusive 10 year license to Yahoo!’s core search technologies, and Microsoft will have the ability to integrate Yahoo! search technologies into its existing web search platforms * Yahoo! ...

Twitter has unveiled the updated design of their homepage and it’s clear they’re dedicated to search. (You’ll have to sign out to view it.) They now serve up a central search box as the main feature with trending topics below in almost a tag cloud style. The top row, with the biggest font features current hot topics. The second row with slightly smaller font features hot topics from the past day and finally the third row with topics from the past week. Learning By Experience Defining a “tweet” for the uninitiated and ...

The IPHONE has always been awesome and Ive had it from day one. I now have the new 3Gs model and its been nothing but spectacular until today when I got the dreaded “WHITE SCREEN OF DEATH”. The Iphone just turned off and wouldn’t turn on no matter what I did. I tried rebooting it, recharging it and nothing seemed to work. Then I did some research and found some depressing articles about how it was just broke and how I needed to just get a new one.   YET after doing some experiments I finally found the solution to get it back working. IPHONE ...

Want to share your new Google number with family, friends and co-workers? To help spread the word (or should we say, the number), get your Google number printed on cards that you can hand out. There are three design options to choose from, so you can decide whether you want to show business info, personal info, or just your name and number. We are giving away 50,000 free sets of 25 cards (no shipping or any other fees) over the next week. Keep an eye open for an image and link to appear in your Google Voice inbox, on the left side below the account ...

The big issue lately has been Googles “new” treatment of the nofollow tag and how it creates a massive reservoir of lost link juice. SEOMOZ did a good video about the whole subject the other day and everyone seems to be talking about it, including Googles own Matt Cutts. People think about PageRank in lots of different ways. People have compared PageRank to a “random surfer” model in which PageRank is the probability that a random surfer clicking on links lands on a page. Other people think of the web as an link matrix in which ...

Microsoft’s Bing search engine has just become publicly available, allowing you to decide whether Microsoft’s latest effort has the goods to take on Google. Bing is available at www.bing.com and replaces Live Search. When you do a search at MSN it redirects you to Bing.com. Microsoft is expected to spend $80 million to $100 million on Bing marketing which would be a nice hedge against Yahoo! because Bing will most likely take market share from Yahoo!. Whether Bing ultimately succeeds or not, it will push Google to keep innovating search, ...

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