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[...] Hat-tip to Matt McGee for the discovery. [...]

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101 Biggest Stories in Search 2006 » 10e20 - Search, Design & Social — Wed, 27 Dec 2006 21:12:03 +0000

[...] 92. Google Reader users can share their feeds (3/24) 91. Google Base Accepts Payments (2/27), and eBay Express follows 90. Google shows off new toys: Google Page Creator and Google Notebook 89. CarPhone Warehouse purchases AOL UK (10/11) 88. Google and Dell create personalized homepage (1/7) 87. Amazon launches their own CPC program ClickRiver Ads (11/5) 86. Yahoo & IBM team up on corporate search (12/13) 85. Adam Lasnik is hired by Google as Search Evangelist (5/12) which was predicted over a year ago 84. Yahoo! and Ask embark on huge traditional ad campaigns but still remain at 2 & 4 respectively in searchers 83. RH Donnelley buys Local Launch (9/7), MediaWhiz acquires Text Link Ads (11/7) 82. Lycos Teams with Ask for Ads (11/1) 81. DMOZ editor corruption exposed (publicly) (8/18) 80. Google Buys dMarc Radio Advertising (1/17), then launches Partnership Initiative with Newspapers (11/6) and Radio (11/7) 79. Yahoo partners with newspapers to offer job marketing content (11/20) 78. UTube sues YouTube (11/1) and then begins selling ringtone, poker and sex ads (12/13) 77. SEO is put down by Jason Calacanis, Ted Leonsis and Bill Pasternak/Kevin Lee - leading to some interesting contests and fact-based retorts about the Half-Truths of Talking Frogs 76. Web reaches 100,000,000 site milestone (11/1) 75. Start-ups score big names: Robert Scoble Leaves Microsoft for PodTech (6/10) and Tim Converse leaves Yahoo for Powerset (12/18) 74. Orkut’s Brazilian Popularity Soars (4/10) 73. The revolving door at SearchEngineWatch - Gary Price leaves SearchEngineWatch for Ask (2/9) and Barry Schwartz takes his place (2/9) but then leaves with Danny to SearchEngineLand (11/20) 72. Corporate search engine personnel moves - Steve Berkowitz leaves Ask for MSN (4/22), Udi Manber Leaves Amazon for Google (2/8) and the Microsoft “Brain Drain” has Managers Leaving to Google (7/1) 71. Corporate moves in the SEO world - Todd Malicoat leaves WeBuildPages (3/30), Andy Beal leaves Fortune Interactive (8/4), Mike Grehan leaves MarketSmart (8/3) followed by Garrett French (10/30) and Jake Baillie Leaves TrueLocal (12/22) 70. Florida spammer is fined $11 billion dollars 69. Google launches Book Search (8/30) 68. Google acquires Writely (3/6) and then JotSpot (10/31) 67. Microsoft launches Live Spaces social network (8/3) 66. Yahoo! launches new Video site (5/31) 65. Microsoft announces plans for July 2008 transitioning out of Bill Gates (6/15) 64. Google Sitemaps becomes Webmaster Central (8/8) 63. Conde Nast acquires Reddit 62. Wal-Mart (10/9) and Sony (12/12) learn that the blogosphere is very transparent 61. Google acquires Measure Map blog analytics software (2/15) 60. Microsoft acquires web analytics firm DeepMetrix (5/3) 59. Google opens Online Video Store (1/7) 58. Tracking Memes - led by Techmeme, Tailrank & Megite 57. Though Shall Not Google - Google is declared a verb (7/6) but Google doesn’t like it (12/26) 56. Yahoo acquires Bix.com (11/16) 55. Google announces Google Checkout (6/29), competes with eBay-owned Paypal (7/6) 54. Yahoo settles click fraud suit (6/28) 53. Google launches Docs & Spreadsheets (10/10) 52. Sponsored blog posting services ReviewMe, PayPerPost & Blogvertise make a splash and lead to the FTC ‘encouraging’ disclosures from bloggers (12/20) 51. Google agrees to censor results in China (1/24) 50. Microsoft Small Business Directory stops accepting new submissions (11/15) 49. Australia suggests that permission be granted to index web pages (11/2) 48. Google Bombing as a political tactic (7/19) 47. Foreign search engines threaten Google’s international presence: Baidu in China and Japan (12/4), Quaero in France and Theseus in Germany (12/21) 46. Wikipedia founder announces plans to launch search engine (12/23) 45. Google launches Google Trends (5/10) 44. Google News Comes out of Beta (1/23) 43. Netscape launches Digg-like site (6/14), Jason Calacanis lures users with money (7/18) but leaves Netscape shortly thereafter (11/17) for a position at Sequoia Capital (12/5) 42. Yahoo and eBay join to fight the Google and Microsoft giants (5/26) 41. Yahoo launches Search Builder (8/7) 40. Google CSE (Custom Search Engine) announced (10/23) 39. Google begins notifying webmasters of penalties (4/26) 38. Socially-governed video search sites launched: StumbleVideo (12/13), Digg (12/18), Megite (12/26), and Tailrank (12/26) 37. Microsoft launches Internet Explorer 7 (10/18) and Mozilla launches Firefox 2 (10/24) 36. Yahoo focuses on integrating social components in brand websites (12/1) 35. Time Magazine names YOU ‘Person of the Year‘ 34. AskCity Launches (12/4) 33. The rise of Internet Celebrities: LonelyGirl15, Christine Dolce, and Ze Frank proving that sometimes you don’t have to even be real to be famous online 32. Microsoft signs ad deal with Facebook (8/23) but perhaps the bigger story is the non-acquisition of Facebook by Yahoo! (9/21) 31. The Arbitrage Debate Rages 30. KinderStart sues Google over PageRank and traffic (3/18) but the lawsuit is dismissed (7/13) 29. Google will not give in to the DOJ’s search request out of privacy concerns (2/18) but the DOJ says it is not a privacy issue (2/27). Google is forced to give up data (3/14), but not all of it (3/17) 28. AOL leaks user search data (8/7) and an AOL Searcher No. 4417749 (8/9) 27. 90% of all email now spam 26. Microsoft launches adCenter and drops Yahoo! Search Marketing ads (5/4) 25. Yahoo announces Panama Search Advertising System (4/6), which is delayed and results in profit dips for Yahoo but it then launches in October (10/19) 24. MySpace auctions off search business (6/14) and Google wins a 3-year $1-billion dollar deal (8/7) 23. Widgets take off - led by YouTube and MyBlogLog 22. AOL goes free (8/2) and begins to focus on SEO (11/3) 21. Google shuts down Answers (11/28) while Yahoo! integrates their own Answers into the SERPs (a rare up moment in Yahoo’s year) 20. Yahoo announces Panama Search Advertising System (4/6), which is delayed and results in profit dips for Yahoo but it then launches in October (10/19) 19. Google tops $500 a share (11/21) 18. Local search continues to gain momentum (9/28) 17. Click fraud findings are addressed (7/21) and online giants join the fight (8/4) but does click fraud threaten the foundation of online ads? (10/21) 16. Google says click fraud worries are overblown (8/9) despite the $90 million click fraud settlement (7/28) and Google’s claim that their click fraud rate is less than 2% (12/11) 15. Microsoft introduces new search engine (3/8) and then redirects search.msn.com to Live.com (9/14) 14. MySpace traffic tops Yahoo’s in November (12/19) 13. The Butler is Dead - AskJeeves rebrands itself to Ask.com (2/20) 12. Link Baiting and what Paris Hilton can teach us 11. Two Words - Quality Score 10. nofollow concerns (7/7) leads to some high profile sites changing their no-follow policies 9. Digg updates their algorithm (9/8), changes their look (12/18) and bans lots of legit sites in the process (12/21) 8. Google’s ‘minus thirty’ penalty 7. Congress bans Internet gambling (10/2) 6. The Peanut Butter Manifesto (11/18) and Yahoo reorganizing its operations (12/5) 5. Google, Yahoo and Microsoft support Universal Sitemaps Standard (11/16) 4. Google rolls out BigDaddy (1/4) 3. Social Media Optimization and its dark side 2. Danny Sullivan leaves Search Engine Watch (8/29) launches SearchEngineLand (12/11) and the Search Marketing Expo conference and Search Marketing Now webcasts (12/5) [...]

By: Microsoft bCentral Directory Closes | Marketing Pilgrim

Microsoft bCentral Directory Closes | Marketing Pilgrim — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 17:00:35 +0000

[...] Hat-tip to Matt McGee for the discovery. [...]

By: MrPenn

MrPenn — Sun, 26 Nov 2006 17:33:35 +0000

I just assume we will see it re-branded into the microsoft live! family.

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