Search Pulse 3: Live.com, AdWords Test, Intuit & Google, Yahoo! Ads, Supplementals, Belgian Cache, OneBox Spam, Adam Lasnik on Links

The third edition of the Search Pulse has now been archived. In this show we covered the Live.com launch, AdWords tests, Yahoo!'s marketing blitz, Google & Intuit's partnership, Google's supplemental command, the Belgian court ruling, OneBox spam, Adam Lasnik on links and much more. The topics we covered are listed below, in order of priority (based on search community buzz). You can download the MP3 file here, hope you enjoy it, it was much fun.

Topics we covered:

1. Live.com Is Not Passing Referer Information
2. MSN Search Redirects to Live.com
3. MSN Search to Switch to Live.com: What Is The Difference?
4. MSN Says Live.com Referral Bug "Not By Design"
5. Is Live.com A New Threat To Google?
6. Google Testing Removing Top Blue Ads Based on User Behavior
7. Intuit & Google Partnership :: Huge For Google
8. Checking a Site's Supplemental Results in Google
9. Yahoo! to Spend Big to Compete
10. Google Cache & Google News Not Allowed in Belgium
11. Google Search Update
12. Another Meaningless Google Backlink Update
13. Google OneBox Q&A Adult Spam
14. Google Personalized Home Page Adds Custom Tabs
15. Google's Adam Lasnik Knocks on Paid Links

The topics we did not get to, include;

1. Yahoo! Fixes YPN Balance Reporting Error
2. Rotating Ad Blocks To Reduce Ad Blindness
3. Some AdSense Publishers Can Place Ads in Emails
4. Google's "AdWords Seminars for Success"
5. Cre8asite Forums Creates Danny Sullivan Emoticons
6. Google's Blogger Blogspot Down For More Than One Hour
7. Google Coming To Manhattan

This show was much more fun for me personally. Enjoy!

The topic list is in order of how I wanted the conversation to go. I felt that these were the most talked about and discussed topics in the search community.

I wanted to again thank Ben and Chris for co-hosting the show with me. We will be live next week, with this weeks search news and debates on Tuesday 5pm (EST).

Past Shows: - September 12, 2006: Second Edition of Search Pulse Live: Google News Archive, Sitelinks, AdWords Preview, Sullivan PubCon, ChaCha & More... - September 6, 2006: First Edition of Search Pulse Live: Sullivan Leaves SEW, AdSense Lawsuit, Yahoo Blog Search, Keywords in URLs, New URLs, Navigational Search, Google Apps & More