Looks like Google’s gained a new direct answer service, whois information for
domains. Enter a query like
whois
searchengineland.com, and you’ll be told when the domain was registered and
expires, along with a link to more information from the
Domain Tools site. Here’s a
screenshot:
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Below is what happened in search today, as reported on
Search Engine Land and from other
places across the web.
From Search Engine Land:
In the Trenches, April 18, 2008 In The Trenches is a weekly spotlight of tips, tricks, and news about the tools search engine marketing professionals use to give them a leg up on the competition. […]
In The Trenches is a weekly spotlight of tips, tricks, and news about the tools search engine marketing professionals use to give them a leg up on the competition. Today: News from the search engines, today’s in-depth look, “Two Tweak Tools That Work” and this week’s free tips and tools.
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In this week’s Search In Pictures, here are the latest images culled from the web, showing what people eat at the search engine companies, how they play, who they meet, where they speak, what toys they have, and more.
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So the Midwest of the US was rocked by an unusual 5.2 earthquake. Looking at
Google Trends, which shows popular
recent queries, I can see people immediately hit the search engines with queries
like
illinois earthquake,
chicago earthquake and
midwest earthquake. So how did the search engines do? Especially when search
engines are supposed to be providing better direct answers for queries […]
In its Q1 earnings report yesterday, Google announced that UK revenues were $803 million (£407 million), which was part of overall revenues from outside the US of $2.65 billion or 51% of Q1 total revenues for Google.
These figures prompted an item on a BBC blog to project that Google would overtake the UK’s “biggest […]
As expected, Yahoo announced that the new minimum bids for advertisers may no longer be the $0.10, they once were. Yahoo said that your new “minimum bids can be lower or higher than $.10.” Note, the content network’s minimum bids will remain at $0.10, at least for the time being, so this only […]
Google Video has undergone yet another redesign. Both Google Blogoscoped and Google Operating System have detailed coverage with screen shots of the new design and how it compared to the old design.
Tools For Your Video Career by Duncan at TechCrunch has an outstanding rundown on tools you can use to make your video producing, […]
In the last column, I introduced British evolutionary psychologist Robin Dunbar’s theory that we have cognitive limits to the number of social relationships we can maintain, and the importance of social grooming in all primates, including humans. Just as a quick recap, based on the relative size of our neocortex, Dunbar calculated that the upper […]